WFHB FireHouse Broadcasting

November 10, 2010

Dear WFHB Community Member,

As the holiday season approaches, it is time to celebrate what our community provides and reflect on how to give back.

Hey folks,

WFHB is half-way through fall fund drive. Right now we're about $2,000 behind where we were last year at this time. Yet we're hoping to end our drive $5,000 above last fall's. Obviously the math has to change. So we're COUNTING on you to:

* renew your membership if you haven't already
* spread the word about fund drive
* encourage new membership

Thank you so much!

Will Murphy
General Manager
WFHB FM
Bloomington, IN
--

The Voice of Community Radio: WFHB

In this issue...

• General Manager's Report
• Music Report
• News Report

WFHB has suffered an equipment failure in the past couple of days that has resulted in interference with its primary frequency, 91.3 FM.

"At times listeners heard severe static, while at other times another station's broadcast was bleeding into 91.3," said station manager Will Murphy.

WFHB Spotlight NewsletterIn this issue: WFHB Digital Radio | Digital Daze | New Board Member | Tell Me a Story | Local Live | WFHB News Specials

WFHB Digital Radio
WFHB signed on in 1993 with a transmitter that was already used. We haven’t made significant upgrades to our transmission equipment since. If WFHB is to stay timely and relevant, we must upgrade our transmitter to support HD Radio. The new equipment is expensive -- nearly $100,000 total, but we have already come a long way to meeting this challenge. We have secured a digital conversion grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting worth $57,000, but we must match it with an additional $28,000. To date we have secured nearly $20,000. Now we need to raise just $8,000 more before March 15th to bring you WFHB HD radio!

The WFHB transmitter will not only be newer, it will be a better, digital transmitter. We will be able to broadcast a digital signal which allows for additional channels and improved CD-quality sound. We would love for you to experience that better sound, so if you donate $180 to help us go digital we have a new Insignia Portable HD radio for you as our way of saying thanks. Of course, any amount is welcome and every donation is appreciated. So, please show your support for Local, Live, Community, DIGITAL radio. Click here to donate and help WFHB go digital!
Click here to learn more about HD radio and the CPB Digital Conversion Fund

The WFHB Variety Extravaganza series reconvenes Saturday, June 13, at 8pm in the Buskirk Chumley Theater with the group Small Potatoes taking the stage with the usual local suspects, including Ginger Curry, Art Heckman, and Dennis Riggins and the Firehouse Swing Thing. Don Fischer, known as the Voice of the Indiana Hoosiers, will join us in a special guest role for this show, to be hosted by Arbutus Cunningham and Col. Mike Kelsey. That's 8pm on Saturday, June 13, at the Buskirk Chumley Theater -- join us for radio at its best!

The WFHB Live Variety Show Extravaganza: An Evening with Border Radio | Buy TicketsDear Fans of Bloomington Community Radio,
WFHB has a two-hour live show coming up Friday, March 27, at 8pm at the Buskirk-Chumley, and we in the cast, staff and production crew are scared whatever-less that there will be Empty Seats.

Please tell your friends, family, and fellow FHBers -- we need HELP to make our Fall Fund Drive goal!

On Sunday afternoon, the leftovers from Hurricane Ike knocked WFHB's main frequency (91.3 FM) off the air, which in turn silenced the translators in Nashville (100.7 FM) and Ellettsville (106.3 FM). As of late Tuesday morning, all four WFHB frequencies are back in operation! The outage came at a bad time, as WFHB was only two days into its Fall Fund Drive when power at the main transmitter site went down.

The Voice of Community Radio: WFHB - 91.3 / 98.1 / 100.7 / 106.3 FM

Click here for a printable PDF version

In this issue...

The Voice of Community Radio, WFHB - 91.3 / 98.1 / 100.7 / 106.3 FM
Click here for a printable PDF version
In this issue...