What people in NJ heard on 9/11 as they listened to 101.5 Townsquare Staff Updated: September 11, 2025

It's the question everyone will ask and answer: Where were you when the planes hit? Where were you on 9/11?

Jim Gearhart remembers well. The veteran broadcaster was on New Jersey 101.5's airwaves, discussing school fundraisers with a caller. Alongside him were News Director Eric Scott and the rest of the morning crew. Opinions and news and laughs. It was a regular, routine day.

And then it wasn't.

"I could see by (Eric Scott's) face there was something not usual here," Jim remembers.

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But even when the first plane hit, there was no sense of the enormity — no sense we were under attack in a way never before seen on the American ho

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