Final thoughts

Ken Rosato fills in for Larry Mendte and gives his final thoughts of the day on the controversy in NJ with the lowering of funds for NJ PBS and why its not a big deal.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
In for Minty in the morning. Some final thoughts from
Ken Rosato. I had a good morning to you. So listen,
I live in New Jersey and there's a big story
that's been out about New Jersey's PBS not getting funded anymore.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Because Donald Trump's a meani. So you have, of course
all the left wing senators and congress members screaming that
will deprive New Jersey of having a voice. We don't
have a voice. Okay, everybody, stop clutching your pearls. The
way it works is this. You know, there's only New
York is the northern half of New Jersey, if you will,
for the television market, and Philadelphia is the southern half.

(00:36):
So if you live from Trenton South, you watch Philly
TV stations. If you live from Trenton North, you watch
New York TV stations. That's the way it's always been.
In New York we have Channel thirteen WNET, which is
actually licensed to Newark, not even New York. And then
in Philly you have WHYY Channel twelve. Those are the
two giant PBS stations. Well, guess what, they're not going anywhere.

(00:57):
What will be impacted is this club luster of low power,
poor frequency poor signal seven UACHF or formerly UACHF PBS
stations that are just duplicitous. They all broadcast the same programming,
all of which, by the way, or at least the
one New Jersey focused newscast is going to still be

(01:19):
on Channel thirteen. But these seven TV stations that nobody will.
I guarantee you've never watched Channel fifty in Montclair. Have
you no Channel fifty two in Trenton, No offense, but
I promise you you couldn't even find it Channel twenty
three in Camden. Promise you've never been watched. Okay, in fact, I,

(01:39):
with all due respect to the people who do this,
there's a nightly newscast called New Jersey Spotlight News that
I promise you not more than three of you have
ever seen. Yet we're spending millions of our taxpayer dollars
for this. President Trump came in, you know, in the
last nine months and said, got to cut wherever we can.
That's a waste of government money. If it was in

(01:59):
such high demand, they would make money from donations. They're not.
The fact that they're closing potentially it just tells you
that there's nobody watching. That's the direction the television's going
in general, specifically PBS. You will still have Channel thirteen
though for PBS, so it's not like you're going to
lose PBS overall. And for those in the southern part
of the state, you'll still have channel twelve. Oh and

(02:21):
by the way, if New Jersey were to sell those stations,
because the state owns them, you'd probably make about a
quarter of a billion dollars and that would help dephrase
some of our taxes. Those are my final thoughts.