I found this story particularly inspiring...WCGH, also called “The Beat of the Heart.” 88.1 FM, has an extraordinarily small target market: those living within Coler-Goldwaterm, a public long-term care hospital on Roosevelt Island, muddy-red brick walls. It is a world unto itself with Chappels for the faithful, a Subway fast-food restaurant, smoking lounges and a small gift store that sells items like soda, chips and stuffed animals.
"Patients who are not bedridden stroll through fluorescent-lit corridors or roll about in wheelchairs, killing time between meals and their next dose of medication, many of them destined to spend the rest of their lives here. But one resident of the institution, officially known as Coler-Goldwater Specialty Hospital and Nursing Facility, has found a calling of sorts in this unusual world. His name is Joel Malament, and the other day he could be seen gingerly taking a seat in front of the mixing board to begin his twice-weekly morning radio show, “The Renaissance Hour,” which is broadcast from Coler-Goldwater."
Read more from NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/nyregion/thecity/03radi.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
"Patients who are not bedridden stroll through fluorescent-lit corridors or roll about in wheelchairs, killing time between meals and their next dose of medication, many of them destined to spend the rest of their lives here. But one resident of the institution, officially known as Coler-Goldwater Specialty Hospital and Nursing Facility, has found a calling of sorts in this unusual world. His name is Joel Malament, and the other day he could be seen gingerly taking a seat in front of the mixing board to begin his twice-weekly morning radio show, “The Renaissance Hour,” which is broadcast from Coler-Goldwater."
Read more from NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/nyregion/thecity/03radi.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
