Breaking News: FCC Approves WGDR New Antenna Permit

How about some good news? Just before the fundrive started we were notified that the FCC approved the WGDR antenna construction permit. This means we can finally raise the new antenna at the new tower location in May! 

The new WGDR antenna is a big deal for us!

• Better coverage! The new location and stronger, new antenna will get us to the cities of Barre and Montpelier, and much further all around to places we’ve been spotty for 53 years! This truly takes us from our college station roots, to being a community broadcasting station.

• Future possibilities! Moving the WGDR antenna off the old Goddard College campus makes us more nimble for the station’s future.

• Protecting your investment! A higher, better, safer, location for the antenna protects us from impacts from future floods and the dangers of our current tower location—the forest and falling trees and the failing tower structure on campus.

Your support, during the fundrive, ensures that we have the funding we need for our programming costs right now. That way, we are ready to rock when this new antenna goes up and we welcome as many as 20K new households into our broadcast listening area in the valleys of Barre and Montpelier.

More information about the antenna project and timeline can be found here.

Please make your gift today and help us meet this Spring Fundrive goal.

Thank you, listeners!