WGXC Online Radio is on the air now, around the clock. Listen to recordings from Greene and Columbia counties. Current song is listed on top. Click here, or paste the following url into "open stream" on your computer's media player to listen:
http://comm.free103point9.org:8000/wgxc.mp3.m3u

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WGXC Mission Statement

WGXC is a community-run media project, re-envisioning radio as an innovative platform for local participation. Our inclusive programming connects diverse voices, and distributes information across the public spectrum in New York's Greene and Columbia counties.

We will launch a 3,300-watt community radio station on 90.7-FM throughout Greene and Columbia counties in 2010, and an online radio station in 2009. The project will be much more than just a radio station, including media training for youth and other members of the community, and a blog, local calendar of events and meetings, photography, and more. This will be an interactive multi-media project engaging the community to report about what's going on in Greene and Columbia counties.




NEW: WGXC Newsroom blog

Read all about community news, events in Greene and Columbia counties, and more in the new WGXC Newsroom. Just click on that link to enter and read all sorts of stories, links to local journalism, and comment on what is going on in your community.
WGXC Newsroom Send press releases, tips, and suggestions to news at WGXC.org.


WGXC community radio project events

To launch this radio station, members of the community in Greene and Columbia counties in New York will have to become involved and help to form the station so it reflects the community. To do that we will hold many public meetings, as well as media training workshops. The aim is to create a new team of citizen journalists, radio hosts, DJs, and media makers who will make the Greene/Columbia radio project their own.

Schedule of public meetings and media workshops:

Thu. July 2, 7 p.m. Audio Workshop Stop by the Cairo Public Library Thursday night for a quick course in how to record digital audio. WGXC has donated a digital recorder, the H2 Zoom, to the Cairo Library, which can be checked out and borrowed by anyone who receives training. Learn how to record town meetings, local events, area performances, and more. Find out how you can get these recordings on WGXC Online Radio, posted on the WGXC web site, and, eventually, aired on WGXC 90.7-FM. Tom Roe from WGXC, and Cairo Library Director Debra Kamecke will be on hand to answer your questions, and show you how to make digital recordings. At Cairo Town Library, 512 Main St., Cairo, NY.

Sun. July 5, 6-9 p.m. Annea Lockwood and NYSAE at Catskill Point. Join free103point9 for an evening of listening at Catskill's Historic Catskill Point on the Hudson River. Sound Mapping will feature a live performance from members of the New York Society of Acoustic Ecology (NYSAE), a conversation between artists Alexis Bhagat and Annea Lockwood, and Annea Lockwood's canonical work "A Sound Map of the Hudson River." Free admission. This event is presented in conjunction with WGXC-FM, a project of free103point9. 1 Main St. at Hudson River, Catskill, NY.

Fri. July 17, 8 p.m.-2 a.m. "RIP: A Remix Manifesto" film/Eclectic Method performance. Screening of remix documentary film "RIP: A Remix Manifesto" and performance from Eclectic Method, - London natives Jonny Wilson, Ian Edgar and Geoff Gamlen - who make audio-visual mash-ups featuring television, film, music and video game footage sliced and diced into blistering, post-modern dance- floor performances. At Jason's Upstairs Bar, 521 Warren St., Hudson, NY. 518-828-UPUP.

Thu. July 23-Sun. July 26 WGXC at Greene County Youth Fair Presented by Greene County Agricultural Society, with cows, goats, dogs, chickens, horses, and more. Live performances, workshops, and speakers. WGXC will record performances and hopefully create a live online radio stream of the event. WGXC is looking for youth to host the event, interview participants, and run the radio show. A complete schedule of events, performers, speakers, and more will be announced soon. Live from Cairo Town Park.

Sun. Aug. 16 at Rip Van Winkle Wacky Raft Race Sponsored by the Greene County Economic Development, Tourism and Planning to benefit Community Action of Greene County. WGXC is looking for hosts for the event, to interview participants, and run a radio show. Live from Dutchman's Landing in Catskill.


Become WGXC Secretary

The WGXC Radio Council is looking for a Secretary. A Secretary would attend each Radio Council meeting and record the minutes. They would also schedule the meeting, and make sure Radio Council members receive the minutes, and other reports and documents. The Secretary does not vote on issues at meetings, but may offer opinions and insights to the Radio Council. The WGXC Radio Council usually meets the first Monday or Tuesday every month.

To apply, send an e-mail explaining why you would like to be WGXC Secretary to info@WGXC.org. The Radio Council will choose a Secretary at its June meeting.


Organize a benefit event for WGXC

Anyone interested in organizing a benefit event for WGXC, please let us know. You can find a venue, invite local artists to perform or local authors or speakers to talk. You could host a yard sale at your house, or put on a wine-tasting or silent auction. Any types of events that involve the community are welcome.

WGXC will provide volunteer help, sound equipment, web streaming, and other support to anyone who would like to organize a benefit event for WGXC. Help us raise the money to bring community radio to the FM airwaves of Greene and Columbia Counties.

In Columbia County, please contact Kaya Weidman at kaya at WGXC.org.
In Greene County, please contact Tom Roe at tom at WGXC.org.


Send local recordings to WGXC

Are you in a local band? Send us recordings to air on WGXC. Want to interview people in the community? Make your own recordings, and share them with your neighbors. Going to you local town meetings? Why not borrow a recording device from WGXC and record your town meetings and share them with your neighbors via WGXC?

Get in touch with Tom Roe at tom@WGXC.org if you want to share local recordings with your community through WGXC.

Send recordings to:
WGXC
5662 Rt. 23, Acra, NY 12405

or e-mail mp3s as attachments to
info@WGXC.org
(mp3s should be 192 kbps/44 kHz/stereo whenever possible.)

Local recordings in current rotation:

Ron Truesdell, "WGXC Station Identifications"
Lex Grey and the Urban Pioneers, "Va Va Voom" (Lexgreymusic)
Sheri Bauer-Mayorga + Lincoln Mayorga, "American Snapshots" (Town Hall)
The Felice Brothers, "Tonight at the Arizona" (Loosemusic) Oded Ben-Ami, "Beyond" Loni Pont, "Pieces" (Planet She Music)
Chrissy Budzinski, "Taking Chances"
Bunny Brains, "Box The Bunny" (Narnack)
United States of Belt, "Ping Pong Holiday" (Chloe)
Evidence, "Receiver" (free103point9)
various artists, "A Raga for Peter Walker" (Tompkins Square) Elizabeth Mitchell, "You Are My Little Bird" (Folkways) John Kirk and Trish Miller, "The Big Rock Candy Mountain" (A Gentle Wind) Tom Roe, "The Worst Hour of the Year" (free103point9)

Live recordings in rotation:

Catskill Community Orchestra live at First Reformed Church, Catskill
Miloh (Leeds) live at Wave Farm in Acra
Mambo Kikongo (Woodstock) live at Hudson Waterfront Park
Jason Broome at Muddy Cup, Catskill
Scanner at Wave Farm, Acra

Many other recordings are in rotation at WGXC Online Radio. Please send others!

Donate equipment

Do you have any audio equipment you can share with WGXC? Anything you might imagine a radio station with studios in Catskill, Hudson, and other locations around the area could use.

We need high-quality equipment that will last. In particular we could use:
*Microphones
*Headphones
*CD players
*Computers
*Digital recording devices
*Mixing boards
*Turntables
*Cables and adaptors
*Compressors
*Tape decks
*Mic stands
Anything else you think a community radio station could use!



Help organize film event

Do you make films? Want to help with a local film benefit for WGXC? A local film event is in the works!




WGXC Program Application

Download the WGXC program application by clicking here to apply to host a program on WGXC-FM. Please consider what volunteer work you are going to contribute to getting the station on the air. Please consider how your program will interact with the people of Greene and Columbia Counties. Applications due Jan. 1, 2010. Send completed applications to info @ wgxc.org, or print a copy and bring it to any WGXC event.



TOWN RECORDER

Record your town meetings, or stream them live on WGXC Online Radio. We will train volunteers to make digital recordings of local town meetings, and archive them on the WGXC web site, so your friends and neighbors can attend even when they cannot make it in person. We have a digital recorder in the Cairo Public Library. Contact info @ wgxc.org for training, and once-trained, anyone with a library card can check out the recorder and then upload mp3 files of local meetings and events to the WGXC web site. Cassette and CD recordings of these meetings are also available in the Cairo Library. Future town meetings will be broadcast in part or in full, on the WGXC FM radio station, and other digital recorders to borrow are coming to Catskill and Hudson.

See full list of Town Recorders at right.


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About the future radio station

Community radio is a unique format run by and for members of the community. Together, we will create a radio station that serves the needs and interests of Greene and Columbia County residents, and invites community members to get behind the microphone. WGXC will have studios at the Catskill Community Center, as well as in Hudson and other towns. There may also be studios at local education institutions. There will also be live internet online radio streams set up from many area venues, with programming from these venues often airing on the FM station. Weekly and monthly programs will focus on agriculture, hunting, schools, arts, music, politics, seniors, youth, and other issues important to the community. Evenings will feature live broadcasts from events all over the two upstate counties.


Get involved!

Please contact Tom Roe at tom @ wgxc.org to get involved. Currently, the station is organizing five work teams to begin building different elements of the radio station. These five work groups include:

FUNDRAISING: Galen Joseph-Hunter (free103point9 Executive Director). This group will organize benefite concerts and events, research and write grants, and find local partners to barter services to get the new radio station started.

OUTREACH: Dharma Dailey, Ethos Wireless. This group will contact different members of the community, and organizations in the area to see how the radio station project can work to help the community.

POLICIES: Liza Dichter (former). Dichter was leading the Radio Council to create policies for the station.

FACILITIES: Kaya Weidman (Germantown Community Farm). This group is working to find donated studio space in Hudson, New York, as well as building studios at the Catskill Community Center and in Cairo. Carpentry, electronic repair, sound, wiring, and other hands-on skills are needed here. E-mail Kaya at kaya @ wgxc.org.

PROGRAMMING: Tom Roe (free103point9 Program Director). Initially, this group will get the online radio station started this spring, and eventually will work on choosing the shows to air on the FM radio station.

Donate!

If you would like to make a donation towards these efforts, let us know. E-mail Tom Roe at tom @ wgxc.org. We will soon have a list of items you can donate to help get the new radio station started. Click below to donate funds online through Paypal.

You can also donate equipment such as microphones, headphones, digital recorders, studio furniture such as chairs, shelves, and filing cabinets, and many other items. Watch for a complete list of items we are looking for donations of here soon.






What will WGXC sound like?

That question will largely be answered by the community, and who applies to host programs, and what those programs are like. We want the station to reflect the community, and be focused on covering local issues of all types. Initially, we have a few parameters of what might be on the air:

MORNING SHOW: 6-9 a.m.? A team of reporters and hosts air local news, music, a community calendar, and reports on subjects such as agriculture, education, politics, seniors, the arts, weather, and other important issues every week day. 6-7 a.m. hour likely will be agricultural/farming/animal/gardening-oriented.

MORNINGS AND AFTERNOONS: 9 a.m.-3 p.m.? A variety of shows focusing on issues such as agriculture, education, politics, seniors, the arts, local history, hunting, previews of local events, town news, and other important issues every week day. Some programs may feature DJs playing music, locally-produced and otherwise.

EDUCATION SHOW: 3-4 p.m. As students are getting out of school and parents are in cars picking up their kids, this show will focus on their issues with reporting from local high school students, perhaps live from local schools.

AFTERNOON SHOW: 4-7 p.m.? A team of reporters and hosts air local news, music, a community calendar, and reports on subjects such as agriculture, education, politics, seniors issues, the arts, weather, previews of events that evening, and other important issues every week day.

THE CREATIVE COMMONS: 7 p.m.-midnight? Various DJs will play music from across many genres, and mix in live feeds from events happening right then in the community every week night. We are currently reaching out to local venues that hold performances, workshops, lectures, and other events, about providing them with an online radio stream for their events that is occassionally picked up and aired on the FM station. We will also go live to local town hall meetings and votes, and high school sports championships, recitals, and other important community events.

LATE NIGHTS: midnight-6 a.m. Here we will air the radio art that free103point9 is internationally known for, including radio plays, experimental sounds, and reports from the worlds of short wave, and other frequencies.

SATURDAYS: free103point9 will also curate this day every week, with radio art, live performances, guest DJs, and more. The week before every election this day will be turned over to local politicians to make their cases, and we will go live and try and air local festivals and other events as often as possible.

SUNDAYS: A variety of programs will originate from studios at the Catskill Community Center and in Hudson. Sunday mornings may have a children's program.



Propose a show

To apply for a program or regular on-air appearance, download this document, fill it out, and send it to info @ wgxc.org by Jan. 1, 2010.
Download Program Application by clicking here.



Local Partners

Catskill Community Center







Youth Workshops

WGXC will feature student reports from local schools, news reporting about education from adults, and live reports and coverage of school events. If you are a young person who wants to attend workshops and make a radio show, please contact info @ wgxc.org. This summer we will have youth workshops and a live radio show at the Catskill Community Center.


Where will I be able to hear the station?

Our signal is 3,300 watts, and will originate from an already existing tower in Greene County. The listening range is from Windham to the Taconic Parkway, and from southern Albany County to Saugerties and Germantown. And everyone around the world with a computer will be able to hear the station via an internet radio stream. Click here to download a pdf of a map of the radio station's listening area.



WGXC Town Recordings

Click below on any mp3 file to play or download.

Media reports about WGXC

Building community one watt at a time
Story about May 10, 2008 at the Catskill Community Center by Dharma Dailey

Quicktime movie of first radio station workshop
May 10, 2008 at the Catskill Community Center, shot and edited by Dharma Dailey

Press release announcing new FM radio station (pdf)
free103point9, Oct. 31, 2008

Making Waves
Seeing Greene blog, Oct. 31, 2008

FCC grants license to Acra radio station
The Daily Mail, Nov. 1, 2008

New Yorkers to get a jolt of experimental music and more
Scanning the Dial blog, Nov. 3, 2008

Radio network expands reach
Albany Times-Union, Nov. 4, 2008

Catskill radio
The Daily Mail, Nov. 6, 2008 (scroll down)

Occasionally there is justice: free103point9 receives an FM license
Mediageek blog, Nov. 8, 2008

free103point9 to return to the airwaves, pt. 1
Mediageek interview with Tom Roe, Nov. 20, 2008

free103point9 to return to the airwaves, pt. 2
Mediageek interview with Tom Roe, Nov. 20, 2008

Podcast interview with Tom Roe of free103point9
Future of Music Coalition blog, Jan. 12, 2009

Greene County community radio planning for launch
Chris Churchill in Albany Times-Union, Feb. 9, 2009

Radio station representatives seek ways to serve community
Susan Campriello in Daily Mail, Feb. 20, 2009

Into the ether: Radio resurgence is making noise
Paul Smart in Woodstock Times, March 12, 2009

Arts group ready to hit the air waves
Danielle Furfaro in Albany Times-Union, April 26, 2009

New radio group hopes you'll listen to this
Parry Teasdale in The Columbia Paper, May 8, 2009

Homegrown Radio: An all-local station prepares to hit the airwaves in Columbia and Greene counties
Greg Ryan in Hudson Valley Magazine, June, 2009


WGXC Logo:
Typestyling by Kathleen Packard / KathodeRay
Icon by Antony Katz / Sorted

GREENE/COLUMBIA COMMUNITY RADIO PROJECT

WGXC 90.7-FM coming June 2010

Who is organizing the radio station?

    RADIO COUNCIL
  1. Dharma Dailey, Haines Falls. A media policy researcher specializing in community media and community networking Dailey's clients have included the Prometheus Radio Project, The Media Justice Fund and the Ford Foundation. Dailey is the Director of Research at the Ethos Group, a consulting company focusing on the social impact of information and communication technologies, specifically community broadband networks. Current Ethos research focues on information needs and flows of academic researchers, policy analysts, and network practioners who are interested in the social impact of local communication infrastructure networks. Recent presentations include "Online Participation and Democracy," One Web Day, Washington Square Park, New York, NY (with Lawrence Lessig, Susan Crawford, et. al.); "Grassroots Wireless and You," National Association for Telecommunications Officers and Advisers Conference, Atlanta, GA; "Data Collection for Community Wireless Networks," International Summit for Community Wireless Networks; and "Good Media Needs Good Bones, Feminist Approaches to Media Policy and Infrastructure," Women Action and Media Conference, MIT, Cambridge, MA.
  2. Max Goldfarb, Hudson-based artist. Goldfarb is a radio artist whose work intersects many disciplines. He has exhibited at such venues as the SculptureCenter, NY; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY; Western Front, Vancouver, B.C.; Mjellby Art Center, Halmstad. Sweden; Art & Idea, Mexico City; De Stadgalerij, NL; and Fringe Exhibitions Space, Los Angeles, CA. His M49 project represents recent projects including objects, improvised electronics, radio transmissions, and performative situations. Goldfarb graduated from the MIT Visual Studies Program in 2006 and currently teaches at Parsons.
  3. Hosneara Kader, works with Hudson Family Literacy, a group working in the Hudson City school system.
  4. Debra Kamecke, is the Library Director of the Cairo Public Library and a former local journalist and newspaper photographer and the recipient of a New York State Press Association Award in photography. She worked as a freelance copyeditor and proofreader for a medical journal publisher, et al in NYC as well as for Harcourt-Brace in Albany, as the Production Manager for Young-Conway Publications in Los Angeles, and as Director of Programming and Counseling for the ETA at Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson. She is currently participating in the New York State Writer's Institute.
  5. Christina Malisoff formerly worked at WRPI in Troy, and is Program Assistant at the Hudson Opera House and 2009 Chairperson of the Hudson Community Garden.
  6. Kathleen Packard, Greenville. Acclaimed for her ability to create beautifully crafted graphic designs, Kathleen McQuaid Packard founded KathodeRay Media in 1996, and has created interactive and traditional marketing programs for many highly recognized brands and organizations such as HBO, American Express, Pfizer, ABC Radio, Otis Elevator, Dial Soap, New York City Opera, CitiGroup and IBM. Deeply involved in her local community, Packard serves on the Board of Directors of the Greene County Chamber of Commerce as Vice President, and is a Past President of the Kingston Business Builders BNI Chapter. In addition, she has taught Multimedia Design and Development as an adjunct professor at Parsons Design School in New York City.
  7. Tom Roe, free103point9 Program Director, Acra. Roe is a radio artist who has exhibited widely both in the United States and internationally including at the Center for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, at Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdansk, Poland; Gwangju Biennale, South Korea; Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico; Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT; The Kitchen, New York; and The Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Florida; among numerous others. In Sept., 2006 he served as a radio technician with The Wooster Group's show "Who's Your DADA?!" at the Museum of Modern Art. Roe has also written about music for The Wire, Signal to Noise, and The New York Post, among others. Roe has led many of free103point9's "Radio Lab" education lectures and workshops, at venues such as Columbia University, Brown University, Brooklyn College, Flux Factory, The Kitchen, NYU's ITP Program, RPI University in Troy, and other locations. tom @ wgxc.org
  8. Alan Skerrett, President of the Columbia County NAACP, lives in Valatie.
  9. Paul Smart, Catskill. Smart has worked as a local journalist for nearly a quarter century, having served as editor of the Mountain Eagle, Ulster Magazine, and the Catskill Quarterly in addition to his current work as editor of The Phoenicia Times and Olive Press, reporter for the Woodstock Times, and art journalist and critic for Ulster Publishing. He has also served as a regular contributor to the Christian Science Monitor and written copy for a host of local organizations, as well as receiving a number of NYSCA and other public funding grants for his curating work, film series, and various fiction and creative non-fiction writing projects over the years. He is the author of two books and the husband of artist Fawn Potash, with whom he shares a toddler son, Milo.
  10. Hudson Talbott is the Vice-President of the Catskill Community Center. Talbott is also the author of several children's books. His latest is River of Dreams, about the Hudson River and currently being turned into a theatrical production to premiere this summer.
  11. Andrew Turner has been the Executive Director for Cornell Cooperative Extension of Greene County since 1998 and prior to that worked as an environmental educator in the lower Hudson Valley. Turner has provided leadership for the creation of the Agroforestry Resource Center (The ARC). The ARC has become an important regional educational center with a focus on the ecological and economic sustainability of our rural landscape through workshops, community outreach and support to private landowners and farmers. Turner has served on many local and regional boards and has provided facilitation and planning support to numerous local projects and community initiatives. He also serves in a statewide capacity for Cornell Cooperative Extension supporting efforts to enhance the health and viability of a local food system in New York State.
  12. Kaya Weidman, Germantown. Weidman has lived and farmed in the area for seven years. She is co-founder of Germantown Community Farm, a collectively-run CSA (community-supported agriculture) and educational farm in Columbia County. She is involved in a large network of small farmers and producers in the area as well as other locals who participate in the CSA. Weidman collaborates with youth in Hudson through theater projects and gardening classes. Her involvement in radio developed through working with several low-power radio and media projects in rural and urban communities in Mexico, who who she continues to work as an apprentice technical engineer and organizer. She has also co-taught workshops in radio transmission as a tool for community organizing, creativity, and empowerment. kaya @ wgxc.org



    13. WORK TEAM
  13. Dharma Dailey (see above).
  14. Galen Joseph-Hunter is the Executive Director of free103point9, a non-profit arts organization cultivating Transmission Arts, experimental radio art, video, light sculpture, installation and performance utilizing the electromagnetic spectrum. Located in upstate New York and New York City, free103point9 supports artists exploring transmission frequencies for creative expression. Joseph-Hunter has served as Executive Director since 2002, while working at the video art organization Electronic Arts Intermix since 1996. Over the past ten years, she has organized and curated numerous international exhibitions and events. She has served as a panelist/reviewer for the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Experimental Television Center, and Meet The Composer, among others.
  15. Tom Roe (see above).
  16. Kaya Weidman (see above)


    17. START-UP TEAM
  17. Liza Dichter, co-founder and co-director of the Center for International Media Action (CIMA). Previously, she helped found the nonprofit MediaChannel.org, serving as Senior Editor and Education Coordinator. Dichter has helped with the planning and launch of many media-activist initiatives including the Action Coalition for Media Education, the Youth Free Expression Network, and Communication Rights in the Information Society. She sits on the board of Women In Media and News (WIMN), a women's media-analysis, training and advocacy organization. Dichter has conducted workshops and presentations for thousands of activists, and is a workshop leader for the United Methodist Seminar Program on issues of media, peace and justice. Her articles have been published by Alternet, Media File, The Indypendent and the Media Development journal. Dichter was the 2005 "Visionary In Residence" at Dartmouth College's Center for Women and Gender. She is currently facilitating Radio Council meetings for this project.



    18. Working Teams
    Working Teams are each assigned specific duties, which are listed in italics below. To inquire about joining a work team or teams, e-mail info @ wgxc.org.


    VOICE TALENT
    Truesdell and Morrison are recording professional station identification tags, and others may sometimes host live remote broadcasts, and/or record promotional recordings for future WGXC events. E-mail Tom Roe at tom @ wgxc.org.
  18. Ron Truesdell is a Cornwallville-based voice talent.
  19. Jenny Juristo Morrison is a New York-based voice talent, who has previously worked with WUSF and WMNF in Tampa, Fl.
  20. Greg Draiss lives in Athens and contributes a gardening segment to the "People are Talking" show on WKZE (98.1-FM, Red Hook), and is an engineer/newsman for "Kingston Community Radio" on WGHQ (920-AM).
  21. M.A. Tarpinian is the Executive Director of the Cairo Chamber of Commerce, and occassionally hosts shows on WRIP (97.9-FM, Windham), and is an event organizer.


    22. DESIGN TEAM
    Working on web site design, logo design, branding, and promotional design. E-mail Galen Joseph-Hunter at galen @ wgxc.org.
  22. Max Goldfarb (see above)
  23. Galen Joseph-Hunter (see above)
  24. Antony Katz designed the "Greene/Columbia Community Radio Project" logo. Katz is a graphic designer based in Hudson. His solar-powered design studio, Sorted, will be opening on Warren Street soon.
  25. Kathleen Packard (see above)


    26. FACILITIES
    Construction, scouting locations, design, and RF engineering. E-mail Kaya Weidman at kaya @ wgxc.org.
  26. Kaya Weidman (see above)
  27. Bear runs Bear Labs, does audio, studio, and acoustics design and engineering, plus RF design, lives in New Baltimore.
  28. Andy Gunn is Technical and Training Organizer at Prometheus Radio Project in Philadelphia, PA.
  29. Eamon Furlong lives in Claverack, and opened Paladar, a restuarant on NYC's Lower East Side.
  30. Tom Roe (see above)


    31. YOUTH MEDIA WORKSHOPS
    Training youth about all facets of media: radio, blogging, audio editing, photography, journalism, web design, social media, and other related topics. Team members will help coordinate appearances from experts on these subjects from Greene and Columbia Counties. Team members will teach youth to prepare for live braodcasts, and help facilitate youth broadcasts at events throughout the community. E-mail Tom Roe at tom @ wgxc.org.
  31. Emily Bennison teaches youth radio at Poughkeepsie's Children's Media Project and lives in Hudson.
  32. Christine Passero Coyne has been involved with thousands of teens and children through her various work and volunteer activities in the community over the past 20 years. She has coached Odyssey of the Mind teams, led children's choirs, assisted with various theater productions in the area, done studio work, and is presently involved with the productions of "River of Dreams - The Musical", and "Cats." She currently substitutes at Cairo-Durham High School.
  33. Dharma Dailey has worked with Philadelphia's Prometheus Radio Project.
  34. Greg Draiss is an Athens-based print journalist who writes for community newspapers from Westchester County to the Canadian border, and the Hudson Valley Business Journal, and also contributes a gardening segment to the "People are Talking" show on WKZE (98.1-FM, Red Hook).
  35. Alex Malmude (Germantown) recently moved back to Columbia County after attending the documentary radio program at The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.
  36. Tom Roe has led workshops and lectures on radio and radio art at Columbia University, Brown University, RPI, Bard College, Brooklyn College, NYU's ITP Program, The Kitchen, Mattress Factory, East Harlem's Kids Discover Radio, and other institutions and programs.
  37. Paul Smart, Catskill. Smart has worked as a local journalist for nearly a quarter century, having served as editor of the Mountain Eagle, Ulster Magazine, and the Catskill Quarterly in addition to his current work as editor of The Phoenicia Times and Olive Press, reporter for the Woodstock Times, and art journalist and critic for Ulster Publishing.
  38. Suzanne Snider is a writer and oral historian based in Hudson. She teaches courses in Nonfiction and Documentary Studies at the New School University, and has worked as an interviewer for HBO Productions, The Guardian, Columbia University's Oral History Research Office, and the New York Academy of Medicine. She serves on the Judd Foundation's Oral History Advisory Board and co-curates KGB's Nonfiction Night in New York City. She designed and implemented visual and performing arts curricula for visually-impaired students at the New York Institute for Special Education, and consults on numerous community-based oral history projects.
  39. Kaya Weidmann lives in Germantown and has co-taught workshops throughout Latin America and the United States in radio transmission as a tool for community organizing, creativity, and empowerment.


    40. FUNDRAISING EVENTS
    Organizing, and staffing benefit events to get WGXC on the air. Anyone who can sit at a table, do some recording, organize events, or help clean up afterwards, e-mail Tom Roe at tom @ wgxc.org.
  40. Tom Roe (see above)


    41. WGXC News Team
    Members are charged with creating a news policy for the station, and making audio and video recordings and preparing blog entries for launch in May, 2009. E-mail Tom Roe at tom @ wgxc.org.
  41. Greg Draiss is an Athens-based print journalist who writes for community newspapers from Westchester County to the Canadian border, and the Hudson Valley Business Journal, and also contributes a gardening segment to the "People are Talking" show on WKZE (98.1-FM, Red Hook).
  42. Tom Roe is a former freelance writer who has written for The New York Times, The New York Post, Newsday, The Wire, and was music editor at Creative Loafing and Music magazine in Tampa, FL.
  43. Paul Smart, Catskill. Smart has worked as a local journalist for nearly a quarter century, having served as editor of the Mountain Eagle, Ulster Magazine, and the Catskill Quarterly in addition to his current work as editor of The Phoenicia Times and Olive Press, reporter for the Woodstock Times, and art journalist and critic for Ulster Publishing.


    44. PHOTOGRAPHY
    Members are charged with creating a photo policy for the station's web site, news coverage, and promotional materials, and documenting WGXC events. E-mail Dharma Dailey at dharma @ wgxc.org.
  44. Dharma Dailey (see above)
  45. Greg Draiss (see above)
  46. David Fried is a Greene County-based photographer.
  47. Debra Kamecke (see above)


    48. INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES
    Creating a useful web site for a community radio station, with citizen-participation. E-mail Galen Joseph-Hunter at galen @ wgxc.org.
  48. Lee Azzarello works with communications, open source software, sound, and video in New York City. He's the most happy when he works on all of these things at once. He's also an avid cyclist.
  49. Gabriel Farrell donated his extraordinary talent and effort in creating the free103point9 Online Audio Archives in 2005. In 2007, Farrell programmed free103point9's current website, creating a sophisticated and intuitive content management system around the digital components of the free103point9's archives.


    50. SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGEMENT
    Updating social network pages, and attracting more members. E-mail Tom Roe at tom @ wgxc.org.
  50. Facebook: Jessica Abrams runs the Green in Greene business in Earlton.
  51. myspace: available position


    52. CAIRO TOWN RECORDERS
    Recording interviews, events, performances, and other sounds in and around Cairo. E-mail Tom Roe at tom @ wgxc.org.
  52. Tom Roe (see above)


    53. FREEHOLD TOWN RECORDERS
    Recording interviews, events, performances, and other sounds in and around Cairo. E-mail Tom Roe at tom @ wgxc.org.
  53. Robert Wood


    54. HUDSON TOWN RECORDERS
    Recording interviews, events, performances, and other sounds in and around Hudson. E-mail Tom Roe at tom @ wgxc.org.
  54. Emily Bennison (see above)
  55. Alex Malmude (see above)
  56. Slink Moss performs in the Slink Moss Orchestra and the Hudson City Ramblers, among other bands.
  57. Suzanne Snider is a writer and oral historian based in Hudson. She teaches courses in Nonfiction and Documentary Studies at the New School University, and has worked as an interviewer for HBO Productions, The Guardian, Columbia University's Oral History Research Office, and the New York Academy of Medicine. She serves on the Judd Foundation's Oral History Advisory Board and co-curates KGB's Nonfiction Night in New York City. She designed and implemented visual and performing arts curricula for visually-impaired students at the New York Institute for Special Education, and consults on numerous community-based oral history projects.
  58. Allyson Strafella is a visual artist who lives in Hudson.


    59. PERFORMANCES DONATED
    E-mail WGXC to declare support at info @ wgxc.org.
  59. DJ Andalu
  60. DJ Bocham
  61. DJ Inti
  62. Grandma Shakes
  63. Rob Hervey (Saugerties)
  64. Jolie Holland + Jesse
  65. Lady Moon (Ngonda Badila)


    66. SUPPORTERS
    E-mail WGXC to declare support at info @ wgxc.org.
  66. Vincent Seeley (Catskill)
  67. Unk Slater (Cairo)


    68. PROGRAM APPLICATION RECEIVED
    The following people have submitted program applications.
  68. JoAnn Piazzi and Peter Lerner (Windham)
  69. John Cleater (Columbiaville)
  70. Matthew Slaats (Staatsburg)
  71. Max Goldfarb (Hudson)
  72. Terence Doyle (Delhi)
  73. Chrissy Budzinski (Catskill)
  74. Jeffrey P. Moore (Copake)



    75. LETTERS OF SUPPORT
    For PTFP grant, Dec. 2008.
  75. (then) Sen. Hillary Clinton
  76. (then) Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand
  77. Linda Mussmann (TSL, Hudson)
  78. Gov. David Paterson
  79. Vincent Seeley (Catskill)



    80. DONATIONS
    Folks who have donated equipment, services, prizes, gifts for auction or raffle, or other help. E-mail info at WGXC.org to donate something to WGXC.
  80. Walter Neidel (Cairo) studio equipment
  81. Ronnybrook Farm Dairy (Ancramdale)
  82. Mexican Radio (Hudson) gift certificate
  83. John Cleater (Columbiaville) artwork
  84. TSL (Hudson) movie passes
  85. Shana Lee jewelry
  86. Bodhi Hollistic (Hudson) massage
  87. FACE (Hudson) gift certificate
  88. Jason's Upstairs Bar (Hudson) raffle item
  89. The Spotty Dog Books & Ale (Hudson) gift certificate
  90. Karyn Dornemann (Hudson) Bodyline Back Huggers
  91. Hudson Talbott (Leeds) signed book
  92. Kristopher Perry original prints
  93. Musica (Hudson) mini chamalons
  94. Deb Brower five-day New Hampshire vacation
  95. Matt Miller bike tune-up
  96. Under One Sun jewelry
  97. Otto's Market (Germantown) gift basket
  98. Jean-Deux Books & Records (Hudson) gift certificate
  99. KOSA gift certificate
  100. Lu Heintz votive candle holders
  101. Saugerties Lighthouse (Saugerties) one-night bed & breakfast stay
  102. Fellow Workers Farm (Pine Plains) farm products
  103. Marian Acquistapace
  104. Dennis Fink and family
  105. Courtney Grimes-Sutton
  106. Cory Fischer-Hoffman
  107. Maka Munoz
  108. Ben Torpey
  109. Kaya Weidman (Germantown) FM transmitter/lesson
  110. Germantown Community Farm (Germantown) farm products/benefit show
  111. Eve's Cidery (Ithaca)
  112. Atomic Ink (Hudson) gift certificate
  113. Anarchy Apiaries (Germantown) hive box
  114. Eamon Furlong (Claverack) food
  115. Paolo Nutini
  116. Danny Loehr pottery
  117. Lick (Hudson) gift certificate
  118. Catskill Historic Community Theater (Catskill) gift certificate
  119. Autumn Stoschek
  120. Hudson Farmers Market (Hudson) coupons





    121. (Image by Antony Katz.)

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