IN THIS ISSUE:
* MEMBERSHIP NEWS
* NOTES FROM TOM
* ALBUM OF THE MONTH
* HEADLINES FROM PUBLIC NEWSROOM
* REPLAY ROOM
* REMINDER, PODCASTS
* MARK YOU CALENDARS
* MEMBER DISCOUNT ORGANIZATIONS

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MEMBERSHIP NEWS

Thank you for your contributions.Now many of you are waiting for your thank you gifts and membercards. We are so sorry for the delay. Membercards are being mailed now. Other thank-you gifts (CDS and T-shirts) will be mailed before the end of July. We are just waiting for the CDs to be delivered to the station. Thank you for being patient. Call or email if you have any other questions or concerns.

Lisa Cureton
Membership Director
(732)224-2452
lcureton@brookdalecc.edu

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*NOTES FROM TOM

There are a lot of great things going on at the station. First off I’d like to thank anyone who made a pledge during our ?End of Fiscal Year? fundraising drive. It’s only through your support that we can continue to bring you great radio that is otherwise unheard on the dial today.
We’ve been posting lots of ideas and message through our MySpace.com blog. You can check out the station’s profile at http://myspace.com/wbjb. We actually gave away tickets to Nada Surf through the blog about 2 weeks ago. You never know what your going to read.
You may have heard some messages on the air mentioning our HD Radio broadcast as well. Everyone here is very excited with our HD Radio broadcast. There aren’t too many radios available out there but we encourage you to ask your electronics retailer about HD Radio so we can change that. The folks at HDRadio.com are also offering a $25 mail-in rebate if you buy a HD Radio on the rebate list before July 31st. You can download the .pdf using this URL (http://www.hdradio.com/i/hdradio_rebate_certificate.pdf).

Finally don’t forget to come down to Riverside Gardens Park in Red Bank on Fridays this summer for Brookdale’s Songwriters in the Park sponsored by K. Hovnanian. Check out ?Mark Your Calenders? for a listing of dates and performers. See you Friday.

Tom Brennan
Station Manager
Brookdale Public Radio

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* ALBUM OF THE MONTH

Gomez � How We Operate � ATO/BMG

British band Gomez has just released ?How We Operate,? it’s sixth album since 1998. Produced by Gil Norton (Pixies, Catherine Wheel, Belly, Del Amitri, Echo & The Bunnymen, China Crisis, Jimmy Eat World and many more) it’s full of ingenious little hooks, fine singing, poetics and to-the-point lyrics, and cool guitars. It’s not often easy to immediately identify a band that has three lead singers, but you know a Gomez track when you hear one. And for the last several weeks you have been hearing the title track of this album on 90.5 The NIGHT. After eight years and six albums maybe you can call it a ?Gomez Groove.? Live they can come off as a Beatles-inspired jam band…meaning that they can (and do) jam, but there’s always the base of a simple, classically crafted pop song. Other stand-out tracks would include ?See The World,? ?Hamoa Beach,? ?Girlshapedlovedrug,? ?Charlie Patton Songs,? ?All Too Much,? and ?Cry On Demand.?

June 21 they’ll be headlining at Webster Hall in NYC, and then June 27 & 28 at the Tweeter Center in Camden opening up for the Dave Matthews Band. www.gomeztheband.com

Jeff Raspe
Musical Director

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HEADLINES FROM PUBLIC NEWSROOM:

Medicare Overbilling

NEWARK, N.J. (2006-06-16) New Jersey’s largest health-care provider
will pay 265 million dollars to settle federal charges that it cheated Medicare out of more than half a billion dollars. Prosecutors announced their deal with Saint Barnabas Health Care System yesterday. It settles claims that Saint Barnabas — which operates nine hospitals and a behavioral treatment center in New
Jersey — inflated charges for seriously ill patients between October 1995 and August 2003. It involves a Medicare program designed to increase
reimbursements to hospitals that care for people with medical complications. Saint Barnabas didn’t admit any wrongdoing under the agreement. But it must accept an outside monitor who will supervise its
Medicare billings for the next six years.

Corzine-Poll

TRENTON, N.J. (2006-06-16) A new poll out this morning finds New
Jersey voters continue to oppose Governor Corzine’s plan to boost the state’s sales tax. Sixty percent of the respondents in the Quinnipiac University poll oppose the plan to increase the sales tax from six percent to seven percent to help close a projected budget deficit for next fiscal year. And 70 percent doubt he’ll reduce property taxes. But despite those findings, Corzine’s approval rating is inching up. It’s now 39 percent, slightly better than the 35 percent he
received in a previous Quinnipiac poll conduced in late April. And while 41 percent of respondents in the new poll disapprove of his performance, that’s down from 42 percent in the previous survey. The poll surveyed one-thousand and 99 registered voters from June seventh to 13th. It has a sampling error margin of plus or minus three percent.

(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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REPLAY ROOM

If you missed one of your favorite local weekend shows you can check them out throughout the week at our Replay Room on our website. We have direct links to “Altrok”, “Bluegrass Jam”, “Forward Into The Past”, and “Box of Blues” on the right side of 90.5TheNIGHT.org.
Please give us a few hours on Monday to post the shows up.

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REMINDER, PODCASTS:

Did you know that Brookdale Public Radio offers podcasts? You can subscribe to our Musicians Update Podcast and Local News Podcast using iTunes with these links:
Musicians Update
Local News Podcast
If you have HTML disabled in your e-mail program just copy these links into your web browser:
Musicians Update:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=82207421&s=143441
Local Music Podcast:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=86083999&s=143441

You can also check out the other podcasts offered by heading to our podcasting page at 90.5TheNIGHT.org/podcast

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MARK YOUR CALENDARS

BROOKDALE SUMMER ?06 ACTIVITIES & EVENTS

RED BANK JAZZ & BLUES FESTIVAL
@ Marine Park, Red Bank
Friday, June 2nd, 4-10pm
Saturday, June 3rd, 11am-10pm
Sunday, June 4th, 11am-6pm

COMCAST JAZZ IN THE PARK
@ Riverside Gardens Park, Red Bank
Thursdays, June 8th thru August 17th 7- 9:30pm

K. Hovnanian presents
BROOKDALE PUBLIC RADIO?S SONGWRITER?S IN THE PARK
@ Riverside Gardens Park, Red Bank
Fridays, June 9th thru July 28th 7-9:30pm

NEW JERSEY SEAFOOD FESTIVAL
@ Silver Lake Park, Belmar
Saturday, June 10th 11am ? 7pm
Sunday, June 11th 11am ? 7pm

Healthsouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Tinton Falls presents
PAC?s SUMMER SHAKESPEARE ENSEMBLE; Merry Wives of Windsor
Friday and Saturdays performances begin @ 7pm, Sundays @ 5pm
July 7, 8 & 9th @ Brookdale?s Lincroft campus
July 14, 15 & 16th @ Riverside Gardens Park in Red Bank
July 21, 22 & 23rd @ Michael J. Tighe Park in Freehold Twsp.

CLEARWATER FESTIVAL
@ Grand Park, Asbury Park
Saturday, August 19th 11am- 7pm
Sunday, August 20th 11am ? 7pm

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MEMBER DISCOUNT ORGANIZATIONS

If you are a member you could use your member card to get discounts at these great places:

RE/MAX Bay Point, Realtors
Offering a $100 donation upon the successful closing of a listing or sale transaction by a 90.5 The NIGHT member.
526 Bay Ave.
Pt. Pleasant, NJ 08742
jerseyshoreliving.comg or 732-899-8202

ROBERT GERBER SALON
20% discount on new spray tan service
100 West Front Street
Keyport,NJ
(732) 888-7575

Colts Neck Custom Shop
5% off purchase of sheet music, 50% off D’Addario Guitar strings, 35% off Dean guitars, banjos, mandolins, excluding USA models and limited editions
30 Highway 34 North Street
Colts Neck, NJ 07722
(732) 577-6993
www.coltsneckcustomshop.com

McKay Imaging
Discount to our members - $100 off on a wedding photography package.
30 Monmouth St.
Red Bank, NJ 07701
(732) 842-2272
www.mckayimaging.com

Green Planet Coffee Co
20% off their purchase when they present their member card
78 Main St.
Manasquan, NJ
(732) 722-8197

Red Bank Chocolate Shoppe
15% off (excluding select holidays)
17 White St
Red Bank, NJ 07701
732 219-0822

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