Annual EEO Public File Report

 Millennium Radio Shore (WJLK-FM/WADB-AM/WOBM-FM/AM/WCHR-FM)

The purpose of this EEO Public File Report (“Report”) is to comply with Section 73.2080(c) (6) of the FCC’s EEO Rule.  This Report has been prepared on behalf of the Station Employment Unit that is comprised of the following Millennium Radio Shore stations:

WBUD (AM), Asbury Park, WJLK (FM), Asbury Park, WOBM (AM), Lakewood Township,WOBM-FM, Toms River and WCHR-FM, Manahawkin and is required to be placed in the public inspection files of these stations, and posted on their websites. The information contained in this Report covers the time period beginning January 27, 2008 to January 26, 2009 (the “Applicable Period”).

The FCC’s EEO Rule requires that this Report contain the following information:

• A list of all full-time vacancies filled by the Station(s) comprising the Station Employment Unit during the Applicable Period;
• For each such vacancy, the recruitment source(s) utilized to fill the vacancy (including, if applicable, organizations entitled to notification pursuant to Section 73.2080(c)(1)(ii) of the new EEO Rule, which should be separately identified), identified by name, address, contact person and telephone number;
• The recruitment source that referred the hiree for each full-time vacancy during the Applicable Period;
• Data reflecting the total number of persons interviewed for full-time vacancies during the Applicable Period and the total number of interviewees referred by each recruitment source utilized in connection with such vacancies; and
• A list and brief description of the initiatives undertaken pursuant to Section 73.2080(c) (2) of the FCC rules.

Appendices 1, 2 and 3 which follow have been designed, in the aggregate, to provide the required information.  Please note that the numbers listed on Appendix 2 under the column entitled “Full-time Positions for Which This Source Was Utilized” refer to the number of the full-time job positions listed on Appendix 1.

Appendix 1 to Annual EEO Public File Report

Section 1: Vacancy Information

Total Number of Persons Interviewed During Applicable Period:  56

Internal Posting: This refers to an employee seeing the internal posting and responding himself or herself.

Internal Referral: This refers to an employee seeing the posting and urging someone outside the company to respond to it.

NJBA [EEO1Source]: We often use the services of the New Jersey Broadcaster Association’s ("NJBA’s") EEO1Source to send notices of job openings to many referral organizations. Linked are the listings provided to us by the NJBA’s EEO1Source illustrating the referral organizations/sources to which the NJBA’s EEO1Source sent notices on our behalf for some of our full-time openings.NJBA has informed us that the linked list is substantially the same, but may not be precisely the same, as the lists used by NJBA’s EEO1 Source when it notified organizations/sources of those full-time positions for which we sought their help.  Since no organization, to our knowledge, notified us that they wanted to be notified of our full-time openings, no organization has been designated as such, either in this Report or in the attached list(s) of organizations/sources contacted.

Appendix 2 to Annual EEO Public File Report
 
Section 2: Recruitment Source Information

Appendix 3 to Annual EEO Public File Report

Section 3: Supplemental (Non-Vacancy Specific) Recruitment Activities Undertaken by Millennium Radio Shore:   (WJLK-FM/WADB-AM/WOBM-FM/AM
WCHR-FM)
  
2008 Supplemental (Non-Vacancy Specific) Recruitment Activities Undertaken

1. In 2008 the stations established an internship program which offers local college students a chance to explore marketing, promotions and newsroom opportunities within the radio broadcasting industry while earning college credits.  Responsibilities include prize fulfillment, database marketing, and set-up and breakdown for promotional events.  The stations advertise and recruit participants throughout the year and generally host two to six interns per semester. 

2. The stations’ staff participated in the following programs, which were
sponsored by local educational institutions, which pertained to career
opportunities in the broadcasting industry. 

February 13, 2008 - Berkeley Twp. Elementary - (Celebrity Reader, 5th grade)

March 7, 2008 - Manchester Township Middle School

April 9, 2008 - Monmouth University Broadcast Communications Class (speaker)
           
April 24, 2008 - Washington Street Elementary School (Toms River)

May 9, 2008 - Forked River Elementary School Career Day

May 16, 2008 - East Dover Career Day

3. The stations, in conjunction with the Ocean County Community College, co-sponsored the Millennium Radio Job Fair in March 2008.  John Furno, a station staff member with hiring authority, attended the job fair.  

4.  The stations, in conjunction with the Ocean County Community College, co-sponsored the Millennium Radio Job Fair in October 2008.  Tom Mongelli, a station staff member with hiring authority, attended the job fair.  

5. Elise Perrine, a station staff member with hiring authority, attended the Jersey Job Guide Job Fair on June 12, 2008.

6. Sponsored The Erik Van Ness Scholarship Award in Recognition of Outstanding
Creativity.  In 2002, Erik Van Ness lost his life long battle with cystic fibrosis.  In Erik’s memory, Millennium Radio is proud to sponsor this memorial scholarship in the hope of fostering the kind of creativity and passion he inspired in us.  The yearly scholarship is in the amount of $2,500.00 and will be awarded to a New Jersey resident enrolled in an accredited college or university students majoring in broadcasting production or related courses.