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CVCR is on the move, literally, by March 1 of next year. Help us move into the community, to a new forever home with mission-aligned partners and endlessly positive possibilities. This will take all of us to pull off.

Learn more and consider giving your time, talents, or a gift toward the move. Thanks!

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The most Vermonty Auction in Vermont is back starting Sunday, August 2! Bid on over 70 of unique, fun, and exciting items from generous Vermont businesses, organizations, and talented Vermonters. It runs for two weeks and features both fabulous items and a frenzy of friendly competition to out bid your neighbors. The best part is it helps fund the programming you love and rely on from WGDR, WGDH, and online at WGDR.org.

There are 71 items this year, including:

  • Katharine Montstream prints, VT Green soccer tix, MadBush Falls stay, Mary Azarian print, meals at the top Vermont restaurants - Honey Road, Frankie's, and more.

  • Experiences with many of our talented WGDR folks, including a voicemail box greeting from Erica Heilman, Alan LePage garden tour, co-hosting a show with Maura Quinn or DJ Llu, how to write an obit with Steven Pappas, writing consults with Rick Agran, steelpan lesson with Emily Lanxner, and harmonica lessons with Ari Erlbaum.

  • Live music, comedy, and other in person experiences including Buena Vista Orchestra at Higher Ground, Samara Joy at the Flynn, Sam Jay at the VT Comedy Club, Grand Kyiv Ballet Presents Swan Lake at the Chandler Center for the Arts, Hill Farmstead Brewery Harvest Festival of Ales and Lager, and more.

Thanks for supporting your community radio station and a huge thanks to our generous item donors from across Vermont!

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A Very Vermonty Online Auction - Coming Soon!
A Very Vermonty Online Auction - Coming Soon!

CVCR’s Very Vermonty Auction is coming up on August 2nd! Take a look at our auction site here to preview items.

Our Next Chapter Starts Now
Our Next Chapter Starts Now

We have big news: Central Vermont Community Radio will be moving out of Pratt and off the Creative Campus by March 1, 2027. This wasn't our decision or our plan, but we are readying up to meet this moment. After 53 years in our location, this is a big deal and we are going to do this in as community-centered a way as possible. Learn more about what comes next.

Press release about the move.

Building Out Our Broadcast: Upcoming Translator Station Window
Building Out Our Broadcast: Upcoming Translator Station Window

We create programming that meets listeners where they are. Broadcast radio remains essential—for discovering WGDR, receiving emergency information, and for many, simply because it's how they prefer to listen. Listening habits are changing, but what connects our audience is the value they find in our programming. However people choose to listen, we're committed to providing the best possible experience.

That's why we'll be applying during the FCC's new noncommercial translator filing window this August. FM translators are low-power stations that rebroadcast WGDR's signal into communities we can't reliably reach today.

There is a lot of strategy that goes into applying for these stations and where. We are working on this over the summer. Learn more about translators by clicking this link.

Lost Broadcast? Try This!
Lost Broadcast? Try This!

With the new WGDR antenna, we have a slightly new broadcast map. For folks on the new fuzzy fringes, there are a few things to try: 1. Check your radio. Reception quality varies widely between radios. 2. Upgrade your home antenna. In many cases, adding a better antenna to your current radio can make a noticeable difference. 3. Consider a better FM radio. We've had good results with the Prunus J-288 (around $25). 4. Listen online, via an internet radio device.

Click through to read more details on home antennas and other gear to try.

New State Funding for Community Media
New State Funding for Community Media

The good news keeps rolling for community radio! As you know, we just finished doing critical broadcast gear upgrades, alongside our 5 other community radio partners, with last year's one-time state grant funding.

Now, with the end of the legislative session, and passage of the state budget, we can excitedly announce that our partnership with Vermont Access Network was successful in pursuing annual funding for community media across the state. There is now 1.89M in annual public funding for the 24 public access stations and 9 community radio stations (3 new stations are coming on the air this year!). $90K of that funding will go to community radio and just under half of that will fund Central Vermont Community Radio!

Can You Hear Us Now? Map it!
Can You Hear Us Now? Map it!

WGDR listeners, we need your help!

Now that our new antenna is up and broadcasting on 91.1 FM, we're asking listeners across Central Vermont to help us map our new signal reach.

If you've noticed that WGDR comes in clearer—or if you're hearing us in places where you couldn't before—we want to know! Enter your location on our WGDR broadcast listener map. Click through to learn more.

Everyone who helps us map this will be entered to win a prize from our swag shop! (note, you need to make your pin public/put your info with it so we know it was you to enter to win!).

Central Vermont Community Radio is the non-profit that runs WGDR, Plainfield at 91.1 FM and WGDH, Hardwick at 91.7 FM. We are community run through and through with over 70 locally made shows and nearly 45,000 listeners each year over broadcasts, live streaming, and archive/on demand listening. For such a small, rural station, we have a mighty big impact and we appreciate your support. We are proud members of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters and Pacifica Network.

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