Should be interesting to see if the sky falls on Saturday in the Garden State.
(h/t: Lucianne)
State-owned television network New Jersey Network will permanently go dark Friday, after more than a year’s fight against Gov. Chris Christie and the N.J. Senate’s decision to get out of the television business.
At midnight on Friday NJN will turn into NJTV, controlled by WNET, a New York television station. WHYY will also have control of five of NJN’s radio transmitters, reports WHYY’s Newsworks.org.
Christie decided a year ago that state funds should not be used to run a television station, which has been reporting news to the area for the past 40 years. The New Jersey Assembly rejected the proposal, but the state senate let the resolution to privatize NJN go through.
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Many fear that with the loss of NJN’s hyper-local news coverage of the state of New Jersey, New Jerseyans will now have to depend on out-of-state news organizations to cover their state.
Somehow, I think they’ll manage.
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