Prometheus Radio Project to host Radio Barnraising with WGXC

Prometheus Radio Project teams with WGXC to hold our 12th community radio barnraising later this year! Radio barnraisings are weekend-long radio-building and movement-building events. Individuals from the local community and participatory media folks from around the country come together to share ideas, experiences, and skills in the launching of a community radio station. The overwhelming [...]

Feed the Radio fundraiser today in Germantown

PEFORMANCES Lady Moon and the Eclipse (Evan Randall, Peter Lindstrom, Ngonda Badila, Milandou Badila) Moonlight in Paris (Lady Moon and Young Paris) Hi NRG with Giorgio DJ Dance Party (Sound by Tom Morini) WORKSHOPS Making radio: real live tools for real local radio Meet upstairs in the barn. From asking good questions to pressing the [...]

WIOX tests signal

Recently testing began on where [the WIOX] signal can reach. The signal is strong in Fleischmanns, Margaretville, and Andes….tests [continue] over the next few weeks in the other directions….WIOX will have a booth at the Roxbury Sidewalk Festival.

Deadline for WGXC program applications

MAY 1 IS DEADLINE FOR WGXC PROGRAM APPLICATIONS WGXC Program Application Download PDF to apply to host a show on WGXC.E-mail or mail them in to info@wgxc.org or WGXC, 5662 Rt. 23, Acra, NY 12405. Program Applications received: JoAnn Piazzi and Peter Lerner (Windham) Interview show: Politicians, officials, volunteers, activists. John Cleater (Columbiaville) Music: international [...]

Mother Fletcher make WDST finals

Hudson band Mother Fletcher will be in Woodstock Tuesday recording a video for radio station WDST (100.1-FM), according to the band’s Facebook page, as they fight out Elysium Theory and 4 Gun Ridge for a chance to play the station’s Mountain Jam festival. Fifteen bands were in the last round, and Mother Fletcher finished in [...]

Roxbury community station on the air soon

(WIOX engineer Dan Kelleher in the Roxbury station’s new studio.) New Roxbury community radio station WIOX held a station meeting Saturday morning at their new studios in the town’s Masonic Hall, and announced they will begin test broadcasting on weekends this June, with full-time shows on after Labor Day. The station will broadcast on 91.7-FM [...]

FCC awards WBCR full-power

Paul Riismandel in Radio Survivor reports Great Barrington’s low-power WBCR (97.7-FM) has been granted an upgrade to full-power by the Federal Communications Commission.

Albany talk station WROW disappears

Monday Albany Broadcasting began simulcasting light-rock station Magic FM (100.9 FM) on 590-AM, killing WROW and the talk radio format that had been there 16 years, Chris Churchill in the Albany Times-Union reports. The station had a few Capitol Region-based hosts and also ran syndicated shows from conservative talk show hosts such as Glenn Beck [...]

Murphy votes for Local Community Radio Act

Yesterday the U.S House of Representatives passed on a voice vote, HR 1147, the Local Community Radio Act of 2009. This bill will expand the low-power FM program, and allow communities throughout the country to have access to their own airwaves via their own community radio stations. A spokesman for Rep. Scott Murphy (D-NY20), who [...]