Radio Project Update
Here is a progress update from Marilyn Welker:
102.1 FM - Local Power Community Radio Is Happening!
With support from so many of you for assistance and offers to help, willingness to produce programming, and ongoing encouragement and support, we anticipate being on air by late April.
WHAT: WCRS, 102.1 FM, the voice of Simply Living
WITH WHOM:
WCRX, 102.1 FM, the voice of Bexley Public Radio Foundation, is currently on air from 11a.m. to 1 p.m. Mon. through Fri., rebroadcasting simultaneously on 98.3 FM.
WCRC, 102.1 FM, the voice of Community Refugee & Immigration Services, will also begin broadcasting within the next few months.
We anticipate rebroadcast support from 98.3 FM, owned and operated by the Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism.
Our station (transmitter w/ antenna and equipment) is built, thanks to extraordinary effort by Eugene Beer!
Next steps:
Short term: Finalize agreements with our broadcast partners. Finalize music licenses and program permissions. Comply with FCC requirements. Produce playlists and broadcast!
Longer term: Write business plan. Build studio. Develop capacities to produce our own local programming. Build community partnerships and larger constituency to support community radio.
Your Simply Living Radio Steering Committee: Eugene Beer, Jenny Floch, Rich James, Jim Kammerud, Kris Keller, Bruce Reed and Marilyn Welker, with valued long distance support from Ken Kraska.
The excitement is growing--Columbus is the largest U.S. city to have a low power community radio station. Your station--your voice for what matters!
Top get involved contact the Simply Living office at 614/447-0296.
posted by Rich @ 1:28 PM
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30 Comments:
Rich---the WCRS-LP signal reaches Bexley and Whitehall...102.1 is clear and strong...98.3 is sometimes clear and sometimes there is a layer of static...its good to hear your station...keep up he effort...Kurt
Tuesday August 28, 2007. 11:45 a.m. In Whitehall. Reception on 102.1 is strong and clear. Bexley 98.3 FM is weak and saturated by static. Weather conditions, hot, sunny and ocassional clouds.
Wednesday August 29, 2007... In Whitehall... Hot clear sky with ocassional clouds....12:15 p.m.... Reception on both Bexley 98.3 FM and 102.1 FM Local Power Radio strong and clear...EB was called and reception report made..reception was in strong contrast to reception on last Thursday and yesterday Tuesday when Bexley 98.3 was weak and staticky..(sp???)....
Thursday August 30, 2007. In Whitehall. 11:15 a.m. 102.1 FM reception is strong and clear. Bexley 98.3 FM is weaker with a low layer of light static. Weather condition was hazy but was breaking up when reception test made. Warm and sunny thorugh the lessening haze.
Grandview in the evening. 7:00 pm Bexley 98.3 FM was clear and strong.
Labor Day. Monday September 3, 2007. Sky clear and sunny. Temperature warm. Reception report from Easton at 11:45. 102.1 FM Local Power Radio was strong and clear.
A second listener reported that both 102.1 FM Local Power Radio and Bexley 98.3 were strong and clear in Whitehall.
WCRX-LP Program guests for Labor Day were Richard Shack of Stagehands Local 12 and Dorsey Hager of Asbestos Workers Local 44
Labor Day (2) Monday September 3, 2007. 6:00 p.m. drive though Bexley and Main Street through Whitehall to FedEx Kinkos. Nothing transmitting on either WCRS 102.1 FM or Bexley 98.3 FM. I called EB and left a voice mail.
Tuesday September 4:00 pm. 6:00 pm. German Village area. E. Whittier St. driving east. Wether conditions hot sky broken with ocassional high altitude clouds Amy Goodman show, Democracy Now reception on both 102.1 FM and 98.3 FM okay but ocassional bursts of static interferred with reception.
Wednesday September 5, 2007. Whitehall. 12:10 pm. Reception was strong and clear on 102.1 FM Local Power Radio and Bexley 98.3 FM. There were ocassional weak bursts of static on Bexley 98.3.
WCRX-LP programming included a live dispatch from WCRX-LP Alaska culture correspondent Joanna Tornes.
She discussed a local sustainability conference in Homer Alaska and the art gallery walk scheduled for this weekend. Joanna Tornes also discussed the need for local passenger rail service to smaller communities such as Homer.
The Alaska culture correspondent was interviewed by WCRX-LP program host Joe Contino and Troy Paton.
Joanna Tornes is a Bexley native who has migrated to Alaska. She returns to Bexley regularly.
Thursday September6, 2007. Whitehall studio. 11:45 a.m. reception at 102.1 FM Local Power Radio and Bexley 98.3 FM is strong and clear. Weather is hot and no significant clouds.
WCRX-LP guest is Kriss Galloway, communications director for Jewish Community Center.
Friday September 7, 2007. 11:45 a.m. Weather hot, some wispy clouds at high elevations. Reception at Whitehall on 102.1 Local Power Radio was strong and clear. Bexley 98.3 FM was strong with a small layer of static. Bexldey at 5.55 p.m. no transmission on either 102.1 FM or 98.3 FM.
During the 11:30 a.m. segment, WCRX-LP rebroadcast Katy Taylor's interview of Shahyan Ahmad, an OSU Fisher College of Business MBA student. WCRX-LP received a listener call complementing Katy Taylor and the station for an excellent program on Pakistan and life in the US for a foreign graduate student.
Saturday September 8, 2007. 9:00 a.m., 10:30 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. Respectively at S. Drexel and E. Main in Bexley, E. Broad St. and S. Drexel in Bexley and in the center of Easton near Barnes and Noble. Nothing being transmitted on 102.1 FM and 98.3 FM.
Supplement to Friday note.
During the afternoon program at WCRX-LP, 102.1 FM, Local Power Radio on Friday, Glen Kizer, executive director of Foundation for Environmental Education, discussed his organization's Solar School Program.
The program provides funds and technical assistance for solar power installations on school buildings.
For more information on the Solar Schools Program, contact Bexley Public Radio Foundation or WCRX-LP at (614) 235 2929 or email WCRXLP@yahoo.com.
Monday September 10, 2007. 11:45 a.m. Whitehall. high clounds warm weather.
102.1 FM Local Power Radio is strong and clear. Bexley 98.3 is slightly less strong and clear. Both frequencies have a low crackling sound. Katy Taylor does recipes. Regular central Ohio auction market report.
6:30 p.m. 102.1 and 98.3 are strong with some static in automobile radio reception on E. Main Street.
Tuesday Setember 11, 2007. Whitehall. Cloudy with breaks of sunshie. 11:45 a.m. Reception on 102.1 Local Power Radio is strong and clear...reception on Bexley 98.3 FM is straong and clear but there is a low layer of crackle.
Wednesday September 12, 2007. 12:15 p.m. Bexley. Warm day. Light clouds. Reception is strong and clear on 102.1 FM Local Power Radio and Bexley 98.3. Joe Contino's show is about sports today. He needs a more local point of view about the teams he comments on.
Thursday September 13, 2007. 11:45 a.m. and 12:40 p.m.Whitehall. REception on 102.1 FM Local Power Radio was strong and clear. Bexley 98.3 reception was filled with static. Most of the programming was Frank Ingwersen's Wall Street Market Report and Leah Edmundsen reading local news from The Bexley News. The programming also included the WCRX-LP Auction Market Report coverage of a Sotheby's charity auction. The sale is scheduled for October 5 to benefit the International Crane Foundation. The items to be auctioned are from the ornithology collection of Brooks McCormick.
Friday September 14, 2007. 12:10. Warm, clear sky. Whitehall on Hamilton Road driving south and driving west on E. Main St. in Whitehall and Bexley. 102.1 Local Power Radio strong and clear. Bexley 98.3 has a lotta static. Morning programming continued Auction Market Report coverage of the October 5 Sotheby's charity auction to benefit the Internaitonal Crane Foundation of Baraboo Wisconsin.
Monday September 17, 2007. 11:40 a.m. in Whitehall. Warm and sunny. No clouds. Bexley 98.3 FM was constant layer of static that disturbed listening. 102.1 FM Local Power Radio was strong and clear. Same for both frequencies at 12:15 p.m. traveling west on E. Main St in Bexley.
WCRX-LP programming featured a pre-recorded report by Cynthia Rosi on a writers conference held at Fawcett Center on August 24, 25. Rosi interviewed Antoinette Cross who is a substitute teacher in Bexley Schools, Cross and her husband own Foul Play Mystery Bookstore in Westerville, OH.
Reception report from Frank Ingwersen for Monday September 17. In auto E Broad St at Drexel going west toward downtown. Reception on 102.1 FM was adequate until I-71 was approached, then significant fading of the signal made reception no good.
Similar report for Friday September 14 on 102.1 FM Traveling north west on US 33 toward Bexley at I-70 interchange then on I-70 west toward downtown: reception okay until Miller Kelton reached, then signal was weak and unacceptable. At 4th Street exit, reception was fuzzy.
Tuesday September 18, 2007. Whitehall. John Manning in auto reports 102.1 FM Local Power Radio and Bexley 98.3 FM. Clear and no static on both frequencies. Weather clear and warm. No clouds.
Thursday September 20, 2007. Could not get a byte stream. Worked Page 24 protocol and Page 106 protocal. Neither to any avail. No technical assistance was available. Efforts for telephone assistance produced nothing. Abandoned broadcast attempts at 11:16 a.m.
Thursday September 20, Friday September 21, 2007.
Technical problems. Broadcasts abandoned.
Engineers couldn't solve the problems.
Thursday problems were no transmission. Metering worked. Byte stream was active but no transmission resulted.
Friday. Began with metering and byte stream but no tyransmission. Same as prior day. On Friday after engineer intervention, neither byte stream nor transmission occurred.
In station guest Kevin Kale and call-in guest Kris Galloway were disappointed. Program host Joe Contino was disappointed.
Two listeners (neighbors) asked why they couldn't get the station Friday.
Transmission successful but controlling volume was problematical...at 11:20 a.m. and 12:25 p.m. signal was strong on Local Power 102.1 FM, okay on Bexley 98.3 but there was some static on Bexley 98.3 and the sound quality on the Rosi pre-recorded piece was not satisfactory. Content. Kriss Galloway did a report on events scheduled for Jewish Community Center. Frank Ingwersen reported on Wall Street, WCRX-LP did its auction market report and also covered a Chldrens Hospital charity fundraiser and also a charity fundraiser in Monaco. Frank Ingwersen also confirmed that he and Joe Contino are exploring the possibility that Frank will do a Friday commentary on socio-economic matters during Joe's program.
After today's program, a neighbor commented on the WCRX-LP report last week about the Homemaker Day at the Ashland County Fair.
Station manager John Manning offered the opinion on air that there was no way for the gatekeepers to tell if someone is a homemaker...which comment received the staff rejoinder that the homemakers are the women who look "happy and haggard."
Tuesday September 25, 2007. A drum solo sounded at the beginning of transmission. It had the characteristicss of sound stroed in a buffer but DE said that there was no recording of a drum the night before. Is this a question for EB? Warm generally clear day but sporadic clouds threatended rain. At 11:15 a.m. and again at 12:15 p.m. 102.1 FM Local Power Radio at the studio was very strong and clear. Volume was adjusted down to compensate for the steength. EB called about the strength also and the volume on the studio computer was adjested downward. Bexley 98.3 FM was weaker and had a distubing layer of static.
Programming was Amy Maurer on gardens, Frank Ingwersen on Wall Street, Lee Edmundsen on her convalesence and a new feature Paul Peltier with a culture report from Portsmouth New Hampshire.
Wednesday September 26, 2007. Cloudy and warm. Rain threatens.
At 10:57 am buffer like transmission of Amy Goodman Democracy Now fragment is broadcast. Source not known.
102.1 FM Local Power Radio is strong and clear in Whitehall. Bexley 98.3 FM has a steady layer of static.
At 12:15 EB calls volume is too strong. Part of problem is JC preference for volume and general strong voice.
Content: prerecorded Cynthia Rosi interviews from 15th annual writers conference. Joe Contino live interview of Representative Jim McGRegor, 20th Ohio House District. Discussion of alternative energy, wildlife, education finance and innovation.
Thursday September 27, 2007. Whitehall raining. Warm. 102.1 FM Local Power Radio strong in Whitehall. Bexley 98.3 FM Almost strong but a layer of static.
Nothing noteworthy in programming exccept Amy Maurer did not mention floura or fauna other than topics in the Old Farmer's Almanac material. Frank Ingwersen's Wall Street Report had more "nature" in its content than Amy Maurer's program. but then Amy asked some good finance questions of Frank.
John Manning and Kurt Weiland discusssed the morning auction results for the Sotheby's sale of an antique golf club collection.
Tuesday October 30, 2007. weather sunny and a bit of chill. 102.1 FM signal loud and clear on North Hamilton to Clark State Road. Interference from a Country and Western station suddenly at Headley Park and continued until New Albany Reynoldsburg Road...clear to New Albany, clear west on SR 161, strong and clear through Easton to I-270 back to studio.
Translater 98.3 FM was not broadcasting.
Amy Maurer's Noon Time Gardener covered the very practical topics of what to do to the lawn until Winter, getting rid of poison ivy in the Fall. Frank Ingwerson gave a late morning update on Wall Street.
At noon programming shifted to rebroadcast of the Bexley Chamber of Commerce mayoral candidates forum. The rebroadcasts filled the hour.
WHERE IS JOE CONTINO??? I MISS HIM!! Him and his sidekick Troy are hilarious. I do find Joe crass/harsh at times. However, I have learned to appreciate it - it seems just genuine - it comes across loud and clear on the radio. I think that is just who he is!!! It is refreshingly "real".
Congratulations, Wcrx is a welcomed addition to the air.
While living in Richmond, VA I grew accustomed to WRIR and the great variety of local programming they provided.
With any luck, and a lot of hard work we can be that and more.
Laura Franks reports surprising seven percent price decline in the Bexley Consumer Price Index for the third quarter.
Entering the third quarter of calendar year 2008, Bexley retail prices declined at the rate of seven percent (7%).
In the exclusive feature produced for Bexley Public Radio, Laura Franks made the surprising report in her Tuesday broadcast on 102,1 FM.
The Bexley Consumer Price Index reports on the aggregate prices paid for a uniform basket of merchandise purchased at retail from Bexley merchants and nearby retail stores.
The Bexley CPI measures the change of prices for typical retail purchases made by Bexley residents.
The Bexley CPI can be compared to the price changes reported by the Bureau of Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor. The comparison can provide useful information for Bexley consumers about local price changes compared to price changes in other parts of the United States.
The price data reported by Laura Franks on Tuesday surprised WCRX-LP staff and management and was not what they expected based on general news reports about the economy and the forecasts of media pundits.
As reported by Franks for the third quarter, 2008, Bexley retail prices for a standard market basket of purchases showed a seven percent (7%) decline compared to the second quarter, 2008.
Franks attributed this decline to special sale prices for back-to-school supplies that are included in the market basket. One item of school supplies was discounted an amazing eighty-three percent (83%) from its second quarter price.
Some items reflected pricing increases. Notably, two beverage items in the market basket recorded small price increases.
Personal hygiene items also showed modest price increases.
These price increases were slight compared to the significant discounting for stationery and school supplies.
The result of the steep discounting is that the quarter-to-quarter change in retail prices for Bexley is a seven percent (7%) price decline for the entire market basket.
Bexley Public Radio Foundation broadcasting as
WCRX-LP, 102.1 FM, Local Power Radio
2700 E. Main St., Suite 208
Columbus, OH 43209
Voice (614) 235 2929
Fax (614) 235 3008
Email wcrxlp@yahoo.com
Blog http://agentofcurrency.blogspot.com
The Bexley Consumer Price Index is a copyrighted feature of Bexley Public Radio Foundation. “Bexley Consumer Price Index” and “Bexley CPI” are styles owned by Laura Franks.
Bexley Public Radio Foundation operating as WCRX-LP, 102.1 FM is exempt from federal taxes under IRC Section 501(c)(3). Donations are deductible from federal income taxes for individuals who itemize. Checks may identify the payee as Bexley Public Radio Foundation WCRX-LP, 102.1 FM.
Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. Bexley Public Radio Foundation.
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