MCA-I North Jersey Chapter

Mission and Vision
The Media Communications Association-International (MCA-I) reaffirms our commitment to increase awareness of mission critical functions of media communications professionals and to support - in every stage of their career - those engaged in the profession. MCA-I's Strategic Plan, focusing association efforts through 2010, comprises three key initiatives: cultivation of partnerships; establishment of an industry university and online library and building a voice for the industry.

These initiatives are underway with deliverables starting this year and a culmination to these efforts to come well before the end of the decade. They are works in progress, and we welcome your participation.

Next Meeting:
Join us at our "kick off" meeting
in September!

(Information will be posted here.)

Past Meeting:

Year-end Wrap Party
Tuesday, June 15

Our year-end wrap party was held at a unique and special place in communications history: InfoAge is the best-kept historical secret in New Jersey – but it shouldn’t be! A number of MCA-I members and friends came and discovered its many facets for themselves!

InfoAge encompasses a huge range of science and communications history: it began as the site of Marconi’s transatlantic wireless station in 1914 and later became home of the Signal Corps where historic advances in communications technology took place. Along the way, it served as the first campus of King’s College; as a cold-war technology research center and was the birthplace of radar and of satellite weather-tracking among many other things.

In its current incarnation as the Information Age Science and Learning Center it’s the home of multiple museums including the New Jersey Antique Radio Club’s Radio Technology Museum and the National Broadcasters’ Hall of Fame. Come browse through historic broadcasting and receiving equipment; see original documents and period photos in many areas of interest; discover history in some of the very buildings in which it was made. InfoAge has applied for status as a World War II Living Memorial. This is a one-of-a-kind place in our state, national and technological history.

Our meeting began, as usual, at 6:30 PM. But InfoAge can keep you fascinated for hours, so we extended the invitation for those who would like, to arrive early (and miss the traffic!) Doors opened early at 4 PM with “early arrival” tours of the InfoAge campus; our regular meeting began with light food and sodas at 6:30, installation of new chapter officers followed at 7:30, followed by tours of the Radio Technology Museum and other areas of the museum complex including the Vintage Computer Museum. It was an enjoyable and unique window into history, an evening of meeting with fellow moving image professionals, and a chance to discover this hidden piece of technological history.

InfoAge is located at 2201 Marconi Road, Wall, NJ 07719. It’s just off exit 7 or Route 18 and only a few miles from the Garden State Parkway. Directions