WVEW 107.7 on your FM dial needs your help. We are running out of funds to continue our diverse programming to the Brattleboro area. It costs us about $20,000 a year to run the station on a shoestring all volunteer basis and our checkbook is down below $500. If we do not get some quick donations we will be forced to close our doors and shut down our programming. If there are any listeners who value noncommercial local radio please consider making a donation. WVEW is a 501(c)3 nonprofit. Our address is P.O. Box 365, Brattleboro, VT 05302.
WVEW Brattleboro Community Radio Needs Your Support
Authored by: cgrotke on Wednesday, March 18 2009 @ 02:16 PM GMT+4
I hope this works out. The WVEW lineup has become familiar, and there
are lots of great programs.
It's also an important part of our local media mix - Brattleboro
encourages people who live here to make their own TV, produce their
own radio shows, write their own newspaper articles, and publish news
and information online. Losing the radio piece would really be a loss, in
more ways than one.
WVEW Brattleboro Community Radio Needs Your Support
Authored by: Ken Brace on Thursday, March 19 2009 @ 06:53 AM GMT+4
This post should be considered a call to action, not a notice of our demise. We should be clear that the radio station is thriving in terms of listeners and programming, but suffering in financial terms (due to a decrease in contributions), just as many nonprofits and small media outlets are suffering during these trying economic times.
At the moment we are working hard to increase listener support and our underwriting program. What’s underwriting? Underwriting is when a business or individual contributes to WVEW, Brattleboro Community Radio to support on-air programming. Underwriters receive on air acknowledgment of their support (just as underwriters are acknowledged on NPR and VPR) and underwriters are also acknowledged on our website at wvew.org. If you’re interested in learning more about becoming a WVEW Underwriter please contact our underwriting director, Jim Maxwell at 257-1299.
Authored by: erichkruger on Thursday, March 19 2009 @ 01:16 PM GMT+4
ReNew Salvage has been an underwriter for a while now and I feel our message is really reaching local people with a commitment to spending their money locally.
WVEW Brattleboro Community Radio going under? adio Needs Your Support
Authored by: HAPPYJJJACK on Thursday, March 19 2009 @ 05:16 PM GMT+4
Who do we put into the lifeboats as water washes the deck of the community media Titanic? (The Reformer, The Commons, the local commercial radio stations, iBrattleboro, our dearly fought for Brattleboro Community Radio) We must make room in the lifeboats or, do what we can; make a commitment to stay on board and man/woman/person the bilge pumps. Well maybe in four of the five cases. Don't be complacent and expect that these outlets will always be here. Or, like store fronts on Elliot street that will close for a time and then open with something not necessarily better. But I digress. I'm just one person, at the pump down in the hold of WVEW (ever since the fcc scuttled good old rfb) I sense another pledge drive comming. But what would you expect to get for your money? (for, that i$ the present media for exchange) A raffle perhaps? More stuff! (altho I could use a new-er truck . . . whatever your wish) More realistically, what would you change to improve your only community non-commercial radio station if you didn't want to "DJ" or had no time to be other than a potential listener to your favorite shows? Or, would you be motivated to pledge support if live programming were eliminated and HAL, the MEGA-SEG music program ran 24/7? I've heard it play some gems but then I suffer from whiplash? Or perhaps you would like to hear your favorite shows repeated at a time more convienent to you? What is your pleasure? It"s time to gitupoffa your deckchair while we rearrange . . . Your opinions are important. Your monitary donations will chink the seams. Help keep your Community Radio afloat
Please note that WVEW's mailbox was changed to be P.O. Box 653, Bratleboro, VT 05302.
Thank You.
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