MON, 4/12 @ 7:30 PM > Community Gathering to Support WDFH 90.3 FM Community Radio

 

Special Community Meeting to Support WDFH-FM
Community Radio for the Lower Hudson Valley

 

Date: Monday evening, April 12, 2010

Time: 7:30 pm

Location: The theater at the Chappaqua Public Library, 195 South Greeley Avenue, Chappaqua, N.Y. Please enter the double doors facing the parking lot. Directions...

From the WDFH web site:

This is a critical time for WDFH-FM, your local community radio station. We've completed our long-awaited signal expansion and can now reach about 400,000 people in central and northern Westchester and eastern Rockland. WDFH can also be heard online worldwide. But we lost our studio space in 2006 and need to raise funding to rebuild and operate our studios at a new location. This will enable a vast expansion of our programming and our service to the community.

  

If we are unable to raise the necessary funding, the station's survival will be at stake. Community support is an essential part of community radio, and your involvement is needed if we are to maintain and rebuild WDFH as a local, volunteer-powered, noncommercial radio station. WDFH is the only such station in the lower Hudson valley.

  

If we are unable to meet our financial responsibilities, the station's irreplaceable broadcast license will be sold. The likely buyer would be a public or religious broadcaster from outside our area that would transform WDFH into a mere repeater for programming from far away. Any chance for local community programming and engagement would be lost.

 

So the time is now. If you believe in participatory, grassroots, nonprofit media and want to find out how you can help keep it alive and healthy in our area, please join us for our public meeting.

 

More information: (914) 674-0900 after 3:00 pm or e-mail meeting@wdfh.org

 

Press release

 

Video: WDFH's Marc Sophos and Maxine Margo Rubin discuss the station and the upcoming meeting on Night Vision with Robin Zablow on NCCTV — New Castle Community Television.

 

Without your support, independent community radio is simply not possible.

 

WDFH FM 90.3, in Ossining, New York, the lower Hudson valley's community radio alternative and Pacifica affiliate, needs to raise funding to rebuild and operate our studios at a new location. WDFH is independent, nonprofit, and entirely commercial-free. We don't receive government or institutional funding, so community support — your support — is an essential part of the equation.

 

We've built what many communities would give their eyeteeth for: a volunteer-powered local radio station committed to:

• supporting local musicians
• informing the electorate
• training community volunteers to become active media participants
• helping build a stronger community
• reporting in depth on local news
• promoting arts and cultural events
• giving voice to underrepresented constituencies and viewpoints

With our newly expanded signal, the stage is now set for us to be able to do these important things on a much larger scale than before. We don't want to lose WDFH as a local resource, and we hope you don't either.

Please join us at our public meeting on April 12. We have one chance to maintain WDFH as a local station. This is it.
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This meeting is open to the general public. The Chappaqua Public Library is generously providing space for this meeting, but as with other non-library meetings, our meeting is not sponsored by the Library; nor does the Library have any relationship to the meeting or to WDFH. WDFH and its parent organization, Hudson Valley Community Radio, Inc., are a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization.