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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

Digital Daze
In support of WFHB's digital conversion campaign, we're presenting a live radio show fundraiser at the Buskirk-Chumley Theatre on Saturday, March 13th at 8:00pm. "Digital Daze" features comedy, music, skits, and storytelling. Performers include Ginger Curry, Art Heckman, Cathi Norton, the Firehouse Gospel Quartet, and Dennis Riggins & the Firehouse Swing Thing, and stories by Arbutus Cunningham.
Tickets are available at the Buskirk-Chumley Box office on East Kirkwood. Proceeds will help WFHB make its local goal of $28,000, to match a federal grant of $57,000 to finance the digital conversion. More information is available at www.wfhb.org.

New Board Member
(Bloomington) Indiana State Representative Matt Pierce (D-61) is the newest member of the WFHB  board of directors.The board unanimously approved Pierce’s selection during their February  board meeting. Pierce fills the unexpired term of Duane Schau, who stepped down last fall.Pierce has a long association with WFHB, having served on the station’s Community Advisory Board when the station first went on the air in 1993. Pierce received his degree in telecommunications and political science from IU in 1984, and went on to get his law degree from IU Bloomington in 1984. He has been a member of the Indiana House of Representatives since 2002, and served as Chief of Staff for Congressman Baron Hill (1999-2002). Beyond WFHB, Pierce is a member of the Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service and the Amateur Radio Emergency Service, and is a member of the executive board of the Bloomington Amateur Radio Club.Pierce currently holds the position of Lecturer with the IU Department of Telecommunications.

Tell Me a Story

WFHB is proud to help sponsor the latest "Tell Me a Story" event, to be held at the Muddy Boots Cafe in Nashville March 6th at 7:00pm. If you have a TRUE story to tell, you're welcome to submit it to BloomingtonStorytelling@gmail.com. And if you don't have a story to tell, you're welcome to join us at Muddy Boots for a great evening of true REALITY radio storytelling. More information at www.wfhb.org.

Local Live
WFHB's Local Live brings you a weekly showcase of South Central Indiana's eclectic music scene. Performances are broadcast live every Wednesday night from 9:30 to 10:00pm on WFHB. Upcoming Local Live performances:

• March 3:  Bowery Boy Blue w/ Whipporwill, and Thousand Arrows - Live from Russian Recording
• March 10: Elmo Taylor
• March 17: Open
• March 24: Kid Kazooey and the Ballroom Roustabouts
• April 14: David Gohn Band

WFHB News Specials

The WFHB newshounds are at it again, bringing you the finest in live community news specials. Visit the WFHB news website for a recap of all the specials from the first part of 2010:

• MLK Day in Review: Listen to keynote speaker Jesse Jackson's speech broadcast live on WFHB, and the annual youth-produced documentary "A King's Legacy."
• National Homelessness Marathon: Live from Bloomington: Hosted by Darryl Neher and broadcast on over 200 radio stations live across the country on February 24, 2010.
• State of the City Address: Mayor Mark Kruzan delivers his 2010 State of the City Address in a full-length recording of WFHB's live feed broadcast from inside City Hall.

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