This happens almost every time it snows. Fox 5 seems to include school closings for places in New Jersey that are outside its viewing area. A year or two ago we saw closings for schools in Cape May County which is over 100 miles away from New York. The one pictured above isn’t so bad, since it was one of about three or four listings for Camden County. Given that Lindenwold is about 95 miles away from midtown Manhattan and in another television market it seems like they were either padding their school closing listings or have no idea where things are in New Jersey.
We should also mention that Fox, through some backroom dealings to get around little things like the law, owns the only VHF television station licensed to New Jersey - WWOR which is licensed to Secaucus in Hudson County and has upped their New Jersey coverage in a half arsed attempt at appeasement and stuck a picture of the George Washington Bridge on its website and subway ads.
Of the New York TV stations, WNBC, seems to have the best New Jersey coverage with two reporters on the New Jersey beat - Brian Thompson, and the great Pat Battle. They have actually broken some big New Jersey stories, they cover things other than fires or crime, plus their colleague Jonathan Dienst was the one who broke the Fort Dix plot story, despite it being in the back yard of the Philadelphia stations.
Still, getting shafted when it comes to important news coverage from most of the big TV stations is par for the course for viewers in the Garden State. We are guessing the Philadelphia stations are even worse, since they have some horrid unwatchable excuses for newscasts down there.
