Even in this bad economy people stepped up and helped WDIY reach its goal of $40,000 during the station's annual Fall Fund drive. This goes to show that people appreciate true radio with excellent news, public affairs and music programming. People are tired of Faux News and the garbage spewed on those type of stations. People are tired of the junk music on commercial radio and would rather hear exciting music on the Blend and other programs. WDIY is here to stay!
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WDIY reached its goal!
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Absolutely. While other public radio stations are making half or a quarter of their goal, WDIY has no problems. Even in a horrid economy. Goes to show people know good radio when they hear it and are willing to help pay for it. I only wish they didn't let their news director go. Jim Desouza (sp?) or something. What's a community news station without a news director? Now if only they could get a power increase. Them and my other favorite radio station, Kutztown University Radio, which is primary relegated to on-campus AM, cable, and webcasting. WDIY's signal gets stepped on by Sirius satellite modulators and Kutztown Radio's you pretty much have to stand on campus with your head tilted one way and your radio tilted another way. It's a good thing both these stations stream. Plus Kutztown Radio is smart in that they are on an I-Phone app and also you can listen to them on any old phone through that thing where you can hear free radio by dialing a phone #. What's that thing called again? I forget. I think it's on their website somewhere though I can't find it. Why doesn't WDIY do something like this?
I hear WHYY-FM reached their planned goal during the pledge drive aired through much of last week. To be honest, I'm not totally thrilled by any NPR affiliate throwing out huge chunks of "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered" just so I can be aurally berated by on-air begging for money. :-|
stewart broadian is a lehigh valley radio genius. he's got quite an impressive resume of radio gigs including WDIY, WJRH, the old WSBG in Stroudsburg, and either WLVR or WMUH (I can't remember which). A guy on Kutztown University Radio also recently interviewed him. i wish some commercial station like 'ZZO or the Hawk would get smart and hire him.
i made sure he was on WJRH last summer.he did a great job and had fun there.like i did.well stewart is one of the main reasons why i listen to WDIY and saturday night alturnative.it's so orignal sounding.i became a fan of dropmore scarlet and keyboard cathy cause of this show! and other musical forms.i like the subs that fill in when stew is away.but it's not the same.DIY needs him.ok i listen to kevin moore on WLEV too.i love the 70's/80's mix! i look forward to saturday nights.
Jefferson Lee Eng said:I hear WHYY-FM reached their planned goal during the pledge drive aired through much of last week. To be honest, I'm not totally thrilled by any NPR affiliate throwing out huge chunks of "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered" just so I can be aurally berated by on-air begging for money. :-|
From what I'm hearing, listener contributions are fairly steady. Unfortunately corporate underwriting is down quite a bit.
(which unfortunately means that much more begging is going to be necessary.....)
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Kutztown University radio?
I tried listening to them once driving thru kutztown, I think the fm got maybe 2 streets past the university, the AM made it all the way to topton.
Definetly can't get them in Fleetwood, we live in a void, philadelphia can,t make it in at all.
Were lucky to just get a handful of signals on Fm.
I just hit scan on my Stereo and this is all I can get, with a folded wire tye antenna.
89.5 NPR harrisburg I believe.
92.9 from wilkes barre
96.1 cat country
97.3 the river
99.3 No ID Sounds like techno "Strong lights up all the lights"
99.9 The hawk
100.7 LEV
101.9 pottsville
102.5 y-102
104.1 top 40 also strong
not much of a selection.
I would lke to hear 88.5 XPN but not even a trace.
I tried listening to them once driving thru kutztown, I think the fm got maybe 2 streets past the university, the AM made it all the way to topton.
Definetly can't get them in Fleetwood, we live in a void, philadelphia can,t make it in at all.
Were lucky to just get a handful of signals on Fm.
I just hit scan on my Stereo and this is all I can get, with a folded wire tye antenna.
89.5 NPR harrisburg I believe.
92.9 from wilkes barre
96.1 cat country
97.3 the river
99.3 No ID Sounds like techno "Strong lights up all the lights"
99.9 The hawk
100.7 LEV
101.9 pottsville
102.5 y-102
104.1 top 40 also strong
not much of a selection.
I would lke to hear 88.5 XPN but not even a trace.
i agree that that area is a void. the area really needs a local station. stuck between allentown and reading. and yeah, 89.5 is WITF from harrisburg. you're right. an NPR station. try 104.9 for WXPN. that's the allentown translator and i've gotten that as far as the kutztown area. that must be a good radio you're using or sometimes AM travels a little further because Kutztown Radio won't come in past campus borders for me, on both the AM and FM. The signal obviously is just using one of those little micro-powered things (carrier current or leaky cable i think it's called) because many other things step all over their signal even on campus, but then again, there's only so much they're allowed to do. their website says because they are legal, the signal only covers campus. thank goodness they have the webcast and that audio on the phone thing and the audio on the local KU-TV access channel because you sure can't hear them past campus. a shame they don't have a regular signal. they sound better than some regular college stations i've heard.
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