back then

Earlier, we told you about how New Jersey 101.5 found its focus and purpose in the media world by, as they say, "catching lightning in a bottle", back then, by focusing on some huge tax increases proposed by the administration of Governor Jim Florio.

Come Saturday morning...an old song from a long time ago. But a lot has happened on Saturday mornings at New Jersey 101.5 over the years. Just ask Big Joe, Bob Williams or Amy Wright.

So here we were, in 1990, back then,with this groundbreaking new idea. Let's run a radio station totally dedicated to New Jersey, its people, its politics, its idiosyncrasies. My good friend and longtime colleague Jim Gearhart, remembers that once we decided to talk to New Jersey about New Jersey back then, we were still thrashing around for something to catch a spark...

It was early 1990, and our keepers, Press Broadcasting, had just formed this new thing, New Jersey 101.5, out of the clay of Ewing Township.

This is an ongoing blog about the history of New Jersey 101.5 from a slightly different perspective.

This is an ongoing blog that I will share with you about the history of New Jersey 101.5 from this side of the radio.

This is an ongoing series that contains a lot of history of New Jersey 101.5 from this side of the mic.

This is an ongoing blog on the history of New Jersey 101.5 with me, Joe Cutter, a guy who has been here from the very start.

This is another installment in my ongoing blog, "back then," an effort to share with the many followers of New Jersey 101.5, little stories from this side of the signal. As I said before, you will not find any scandal in any of these little stories from our past. No trip to the darkside.

That's what I am going to call this. It will be ongoing, and I will share with all of you a lot of little stories about some of the "behind-the-scenes" stuff that's taken place at New Jersey 101.5 over more than two decades.