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Radio TowerWDRT events in JulyBy borges, Section Radio Tower
Check out our Web site, www.wdrt.org, to see recent photos of the progress on construction.
Need Food? Shop the Co-op on July 14th and Help WDRT 1% of your purchases at the Viroqua Food Co-op on Wednesday, July 14th will be donated to support WDRT 91.9FM. Shop, chat with your neighbors at the co-op, eat well, and best of all, support community radio. Everyone benefits! 4th Listening Session in Soldiers Grove on July 29th If you haven't made it to one of WDRT's community listening sessions, you still have a chance to tell us how you want YOUR radio station to sound. Come to the Soldiers Grove Public Library on Thursday, July 29th at 7 p.m. to join the conversation. Refreshments will be served.
WDRT listening session...May 26By borges, Section Radio Tower
Yes, we're filling in the programming schedule and putting up studio
walls, but there's still time to share your thoughts about the
region's only community radio station! Join us at 6:30 p.m. on
Wednesday, May 26th at the Kickapoo Valley Reserve Visitor's Center in
La Farge. WDRT volunteers will facilitate an open discussion about how
Driftless area residents want their station to sound and operate in
the community. This is your chance to let your voice be heard. Want to
host a show? Or help those who do? Stop by on May 26th to join us in
bringing this vibrant public resource to the airwaves.
May Day WDRT Bash TODAYBy borges, Section Radio Tower
WDRT 91.9FM, the Driftless region's only community radio station, is holding its spring benefit bash on May 1, 2010.
Rock to the sounds of Ted Parrish's Bad Axe Blues Band and the Jfar Coretet. Show your love for community radio and help the volunteers at WDRT bring this vibrant public resource to the airwaves by the end of summer. Become a WDRT founding member. Get your first-edition WDRT t-shirt and bumper sticker!
WDRT's May Day Benefit Bash takes place: Sign up to be a Ground Level member (with a $60 contribution) and admission is FREE! Hope to see you Saturday May First! WDRT Volunteers WDRT Radio Listening Session 3/25By borges, Section Radio Tower
Your new local radio station, WDRT 91.9 FM, is holding its 2nd
Community Listening Session on March 25th in Westby.
With almost six months until we air our first broadcast, this is your
Join the board and other WDRT volunteers at our 2nd Community
Thursday, March 25th at 6:30 pm No need to RSVP; we'll have seats enough for 300 people! We hope to see you there.
Sincerely, WDRT Radio Listening Session 1/28By borges, Section Radio Tower
In case you haven't heard, a new radio station is coming to the
Driftless region!
WDRT 91.9 FM, Community Radio From the Ground Up, will begin broadcasting its mix of homegrown music and talk programming this summer. We're noncommercial and volunteer-powered. What happens in the studios and what gets broadcast are up to you. **Share Your Ideas** On Thursday, January 28th, starting at 6:00 p.m., WDRT is holding a listening session to find out how you want your community radio station to sound. Stop by the station at 311 S. Main Street in Viroqua to join the conversation. Light refreshments will be served. **Learn More** Check out the attached inaugural issue of the WDRT newsletter to learn more about the station and find out how you can help bring independent, listener-supported radio to the Driftless airwaves. **Check Us Out** Watch our progress at our studios at 311 S. Main Street in Viroqua or by visiting us on the Web at www.wdrt.org. **Join Us** As a noncommercial, listener-sponsored station, we depend on community support. To help by volunteering, contact us at volunteering@wdrt.org. To help pay for the station's construction and operation, send a check to "Driftless Community Radio" at the address below or use PayPal at our Web site, www.wdrt.org. Driftless Community Radio wants to hear from you!By Angell, Section Radio Tower
Something missing from your local radio experience?
WDRT, Driftless Community Radio, wants to hear from you! WDRT 91.9 FM, Community Radio From the Ground Up, will begin broadcasting its mix of homegrown music and talk programming this summer. We're noncommercial and volunteer-powered. What happens in the studios and what gets broadcast are up to you. On Thursday, January 28th, starting at 6:00 p.m., WDRT is hosting a Listening Session to find out how you want your community radio to sound. Stop by the station at 311 S. Main Street in Viroqua to join the conversation. Come to our Listening Session on Jan 28th and let your voice be heard! Light refreshments will be served. It's your Community Radio.
WDRT Listening Session
WWW.WDRT.Org BENEFIT FOR COMMUNITY RADIO WDRTBy Mocha, Section Radio Tower
Help start our local community radio station by attending Kickapalooza!
Help support community radio centered in Viroqua. Come to the Vernon County Fairgrounds for Kickapalooza, the first annual fund raiser for WDRT--radio from the ground up! This benefit unfolds on Saturday, September 26th from 1-11p.m. with an eclectic selection of music including Cajun, polkas and blues. Dance, eat great food, sample local beer and meet more neighbors. A donation of $10 for adults and $5 for children will help move the station unto the airwaves.
Anyone wishing to volunteer or learn more information should communicate with info@wdrt.org (114 words in story) Full Story Metrofarm.com on the AmishBy borges, Section Radio Tower
Metrofarm covers ag issues from a different perspective and this week it is on the Amish. Not a topic covered very often and certainly pertinent to our condition here in the Kickapoo. Their press release follows with links to the program....
While we pull our plows with giant diesel-burning tractors, they pull theirs with teams of grass-eating horses. Speeding by, we look out the window and think, `How quaint.' But somewhere down the road we pause to ask....
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