Shop the CVCR Swag Store

You’ve waited long enough!

We just launched our first CVCR Swag Store to help celebrate 50 years of WGDR. You’ll find designs of the past, CVCR logo swag, and soon, special 50th-anniversary swag.

Shop for t-shirts, sweatshirts, tote bags, and cups. They make great gifts and even better treats for yourself.

This online store allows us to save time and a ton of money upfront in managing a store. Thanks to our supporters covering the shipping and tax, we get the same return on investment in merch we always have. We’ll be adding new designs, created by local artists and designers, throughout 2023 for the 50th, so check back often.

Go ahead and splurge. You’ll look great!

Underwrite or Sponsor WGDR & WGDH

 Underwriting or sponsoring the station is a fantastic way to support the station.

We have a diverse array of over 50 locally-made shows and over 100 shows total that draw in listeners from across Central and Northern Vermont. Along with thousands streaming online each month, we reach at least 70,000 households and businesses in our broadcast area. By underwriting or sponsoring with us, you will reach a loyal base of Vermonters who are eager to support those who support the station.

Our new rates are posted and we have lots of prime schedule slots available on a first come first purchase basis. We offer the most affordable rates, by far, of any media outlet in our area (we checked!). If you are interested in learning more, contact us at Underwriting@WGDR.org or call 802-276-0365.

What is Underwriting?

Underwriting is not advertising. It is a neutral, 15-second mention of your services or entity in exchange for on-air placement. It is a non-tax deductible way to financially support our community-owned station, with a big return for your generosity from our listeners supporting you back.

We welcome businesses, nonprofits, municipalities, schools and colleges, and sole proprietorships to underwrite the station. We offer 6-month or full-year rates, starting at mentions once a week and going up to 5 a week.

We’re the best deal out of any media outlet opportunities in our area (we checked!).

What is Sponsorship?

Sponsorship is a promotion for your entity or services as part of a station event, on our digital outlets, or as a pre-roll recording for our live stream. Sponsorship is far more flexible than FCC rules for underwriting for scripts but also does not include on-air broadcast mentions. Sponsorship packages range in options depending on if they are connected to an event or digital packages.

Learn more about underwriting and sponsorship and see who already supports us.

Spring Drive Results

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Friends of WGDR/WGDH -

We know you are all eager to know how our Spring Drive ended up. Well, in short, even as we wait for the final checks in the mail, we are confident in saying this was the most successful drive we've had as a community-owned station.

❤️ Just about $9,500 raised ($10,000 goal)

❤️ 132 total donors

❤️ 41 new donors (50 goal)

❤️ 10 new sustainers (10 goal)

These 10 new sustainers, along with our current 50 monthly donors, will now fund the entire rent for WGDR's studios and WGDH's broadcast shed every month. This is a huge milestone for our fiscal sustainability.

We are so proud of how this drive came together too. So many of our new programmers jumped right in to pitch, other programmers did special programming, and even non-programmers took to the airwaves to help share why WGDR & WGDH are so darn valuable. A long-time programmer said, "this is the most fun I've had fundraising for the station, ever!"

This is what it is about folks. Funding a station that means so much to all of us and having fun while doing it.

If you missed your chance to give, you still can! Just know that you can’t be entered to win the prizes. Give securely at WGDR.org/donateor by check to “CVCR” and mail to 123 Pitkin Rd. Plainfield, VT 05667.

As always, thanks for tuning in,

Llu Mulvaney-Stanak, Station Manager

Llu@WGDR.org, 802-276-0365

p.s. In case you haven't had a chance to learn about our new schedule and locally-made shows, please do. There are some fantastic new programs worth tuning in for.

WGDR/WGDH broadcasts at 91.1 FM in the greater Plainfield area, 91.7 FM in the hollows and hills of Hardwick and beyond, and at WGDR.org to the whole world. Our studio is located at the Eliot Pratt Center on Goddard College campus at 123 Pitkin Road, Plainfield, VT 05667.

Follow us on social media on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook at @WGDRWGDHVT

CVCR 2023 Summer Internship - Filled

2023 CVCR Summer Internship

Update: As of 5/5/23 this position has been filled. Thank you for your interest! 

Overview

This summer you could spend ten weeks engaging rural and urban Vermont communities in conversations and celebration about community radio. Come join Central Vermont Community Radio as we embark on a summer of meeting up with our listeners at farmers’ markets, festivals, and parades.

You’ll help recruit new listeners, programmers, underwriters, and supporters; work on our big 50th celebration party of WGDR for the fall and learn about how a small non-profit can make a big impact. The station has lots of additional experiences to offer you two including learning technical skills, radio production, marketing and promotion, fundraising, project management and more.

While this internship is focused on community engagement and organizing, we are eager to customize the work toward what you are interested in learning. This internship is part-time, 20 hours a week, remote and in person, with a range of additional professional development opportunities.

Prior Skills, Interests, & Resources Needed For Success

·      A willingness to talk to and turn strangers into new friends of the station.

·      Good communication skills in writing, inter-personally, and as part of a team.

·      Project management and an ability to plan for attending events, tabling, collecting data, and following up with that engagement.

·      Interest in community radio and rural Vermont communities.

·      Access to a car (we will reimburse mileage from the station to events).

Your Summer Project Responsibilities

·      Grow Our Station Community Engagement: Help us deepen our connection with our listening community about both stations. We are especially looking to work on WGDH’s engagement in the greater Hardwick area. This will include attending summer community events, networking with area businesses to help with underwriting, and helping us recruit new volunteers and programmers.

·      Build Up Our Programming Marketing: Develop messaging in email, web, and social platforms to help highlight our new programming line up for the summer. This will include multi-media features (short video, audio, and graphics), to help tell the story of our new programming to our listeners.

·      Help Us Party: Assist our 50th Party committee in planning for our October celebration, including helping to find sponsors, event planning (promo, talent, logistics), and working with the committee.

·      General Station Support: We are eager to have the intern identify which part of non-profit work or a radio station brings them most interest and to customize a part of the internship to teach them about it. This could be how to fundraise, the programming of radio, or tech and engineering.

What You Will Learn & Gain Experience In

·      How to connect with community members and engage folks on the value of their community radio station, including fundraising through underwriting.

·      How to work with a variety of personalities and talented volunteers.

·      How to plan a large scale event alongside volunteers, deepening skills in project management and fundraising via sponsorships.

·      How to develop messaging and stories to highlight the programming of the station, including how to use social media platforms, email marketing, a SquareSpace website, and more.

Work Schedule

Have the ability to work at least 200 hours during the summer, which is about 20 hours a week for the 10 weeks. Some nights and weekends are needed to attend community events, which will make this a flexible schedule most weeks. Date for the internship must fall between May 30 and August 5, but the internship start and end dates are flexible within those dates.

Compensation & Perks

Pay rate is between $13-20* an hour.

We offer a great work environment, that includes remote, in-station, and in-community work. Our organization is made up of one-paid staff, our Station Manager, to whom the intern will report. We also have a large team of volunteers who have a range of skills they are eager to help teach. As part of this internship, you will be part of a cohort of Central Vermont interns who will participate in paid, weekly professional development workshops hosted by UVM and CVEDC.

A computer can/will be provided for use during the internship, to be returned to the station at the end of the summer.

Our listening area is most of Central and Northern Vermont, which will have you in the most beautiful parts of Vermont, during the most gorgeous time of the year. In addition to being paid to attend some of the best summer events our community has to offer, you’ll always be near great swimming holes and creemee stands.

Our stations are committed to being a caring, equitable, and connective place to work, volunteer, and make radio shows. As an organization, in staff, volunteers, and programmers, we aim to reflect the diverse community we broadcast to. We believe that being intentional in our inclusion makes our stations better.

*The higher end pay rate is available for UVM enrolled students only. That program is funded in part by the Statewide Internship Project Pilot, a partnership between the UVM Office of Engagement and the Central Vermont Economic Development Corporation (CVEDC).

About Central Vermont Community Radio

CVCR’s mission is to provide a community radio station which serves the people of north central Vermont and beyond; to provide a forum for cultivating social change that re-harmonizes human communities with the natural world, supports the independent arts and celebrates diversity, creativity, and freedom. We inform, entertain and educate through the presentation of alternative news, artistic expression, and public affairs programming. We do this by broadcasting local, community made and national syndicated radio content via two stations, 91.1 FM, WGDR, Plainfield and 91.7 FM, WGDH, Hardwick, as well as streaming worldwide at WGDR.org. We are two years into community-ownership, after 48 years as Goddard College’s radio station. We are located on the Goddard College campus in Plainfield, VT.

To Apply

Send a cover letter describing your interest in this internship and a brief resume to Station Manager, Llu Mulvaney-Stanak: Llu@WGDR.org. No calls, please.

PDF Copy of this Internship Description

The Spring Drive Is Live: 4/16-4/30

Friends of WGDR/WGDH -

If you're tuned in this morning (Sunday, April 16) you are hearing Alan & Steven kick us off with the Spring On Air Drive. They're offering up seeds and ramps as incentives to get donors to jump in right away with gifts--a very WGDR/WGDH and spring-time way to start us off.

Together, we're aiming at raising $10,000 by April 30th through:

• 50 first-time donors

• 10 new sustaining donors

• and a suggestion for a $50 gift (if you can swing it) in honor of WGDR's 50th this year.

Over the next two weeks, our programmers and special guests will talk about why WGDR & WGDH are such a critical and beloved part of central and northern Vermont. As a long-time supporter, we know you get how valuable it is to you, too. We ask that you make a donation today to invest in our continued growth.

You can give securely online (and follow our progress there too) or give by check, made out to "CVCR" and sent to WGDR, 123 Pitkin Rd. Plainfield, VT 05667.

To sweeten the spring drive a bit more, we're also offering up incentives to encourage you to give during these next two weeks. Every donation (online or by check) given by April 10 will be entered to win one of these great prizes:

2 tickets to see Grace Potter this September at the Shelburne Museum via Higher Ground.

A banner or poster from the Bread & Puppet print shop.

2 tickets to see John Gorka at the Highland Center for the Arts on June 3.

2 tickets to see Ziggy Marley at the Flynn Theater on July 6.

During this drive, we are not just celebrating spring, we are celebrating some huge milestones:

• As of this month, we've been on the air for 50 years at 91.1 FM.

• In May, it will be two years of community ownership--a testament to the commitment our community has to our success.

• And right now, you are hearing the difference your gifts from the fall drive are making, with the launch of our new schedule with 27 new shows coming on the air.

This is a really exciting time at the station and we are so grateful to be your community-owned and operated radio station.

As always, thanks for listening!

In great gratitude,

Llu Mulvaney-Stanak

Station Manager WGDR/WGDH

CVCR 2023 New Schedule Changes

New voices are coming to Central Vermont Community Radio. This will be our biggest schedule change in a long time and one that everyone at CVCR feels both proud and excited about. The new programs and voices are part of our continuing effort to put the community at the center of Central Vermont Community Radio.

It’s been three years since Covid forced us to reduce live and local programming. We know that many listeners have tuned out due to losing so many local voices. This revamped schedule will return us to majority live and local programming. Changes will occur across April and May.

We are eager to have you tune in, give the new shows a listen for a while, and then let us know what you think.

This new schedule will double the number of locally made programs, from 23 to 50 shows. We will continue to air long-loved national shows like Letters & Politics, Sprouts, UpFront Soul, All Mixed Up, Democracy Now, and many more, some with changed airtimes.

 These 27 new local programs will: 

• give voice to a diverse mix of folks of various backgrounds, social identities, and ages, including five youth!

• offer a variety of music currently not heard on WGDR: bluegrass to world, to metal to hip hop.

• dig into more discussions with listeners and members of the community. We’ll have many more shows that will take live calls and talk about various creative and cultural content. 

• You’ll hear these new shows coming on the air throughout April and May. A current schedule can be found at WGDR.org and once completed, a printable schedule will be available by June.

• For the most current schedule and on-demand listening via our archive go to WGDR.org. 

This schedule was carefully curated by the CVCR Programming Committee. This committee is made up of six community members, including three programmers, a past programmer, and former and current long-time Vermont journalists. These folks were appointed by the board and/or voted for by current programmers late last summer. The committee spent the last six months recruiting new programmers and developing a schedule that prioritizes local content, retires rerun shows, and continues airing beloved syndicated programming. They’ve also curated each day to have less long “talk blocks” of shows, shifting to music by midday, then back again for a couple of hours of talk/news programming, then back to music. The majority of the new local schedule is set, with shows coming on the air between now and mid-May. You will now hear nearly all local programming airing between 9am-11pm, everyday! Our early overnight programming is still being worked on.

You can explore the new schedule line up, with the air days and times of all current, and new shows. You will see where new shows are booked and where some syndicated shows have been moved.

In this new schedule, we are going from 23 to 50 locally-made shows and from 40 to 53 syndicated shows. In total, we’ll go from the 63 shows you were hearing to 103 shows. Indeed, we’re going to sound better than ever! From all these changes you are going to find so much more great programming in our schedule.

New Locally-Made Programs

• The Immanent Grove w/ Conni Mags - cultural music, traditions, and stories that celebrate diversity and will entertain.

• The Revel Level w/ Emma Manion-Kohr - a music show with a variety of music to make you dance.

• Kaleidoscope w/ Will Ibey - a youth-programmed music show of progressive rock and beyond.

• Blluminations w/ Stefanie Lingenfelter - a talk show focusing on healing, plant medicine, and more through interviews and music.

• Delia Gillen’s show - a music show with world, folk, cajun, and bluegrass.

• Theme Time Radio w/ Sydonia Axis - themed shows with poems, musings, and music from all parts of the world.

• Gilded Splinters w/ Kevin Titterton - a free-form music show with experimental, obscure psych rock, ambient and global sounds.

• Borderlands w/ Stefan Nickum - dance music, from house to electronic music, celebrating club culture sounds.

• Deep Blues w/ Les Mawson -a music show keeping the love of blues alive.

• All the Crooked Saints w/ DJ Sacramento - A music show featuring covers and educational content on themes and topics of the day.

• Get Fresh with DJ Llu - new music focus, featuring the latest releases in rock, R&B, and RPM each week.

• Still Life with Club Soda w/ Serena Matt - a variety show of music and talk, focused on community engagement and sharing of resources.

• Still Live with Orange Peel Ada Bowman - a variety show of music and talk, focused on community engagement and sharing of resources.

• Merry Gangemi’s Show - A talk and interview-based show (returning on the air & live!)

• Country Sounds in Modern Music w/ Barry Matthews - a music show focusing on Americana and non-mainstream country.

• Rumblestrip w/ Erica Heilman - A Peabody award winning Vermont based podcast, telling the stories of Vermonters everyday lives.

• August’s Show - a youth-programmed variety of music

• Oliva’s Show - a youth-programmed variety of music

• The Jive Turkey Show w/ Turkey Joe - a youth-programmed variety of music

• Barndance Bluegrass w/ Daniel & Kellon Menucci - bluegrass music featuring traditional and local music

• Fire and Ash: Talking about Death w/ Poa Mutino - a talk-based show celebrating the diversity of ways humans age and embrace death.

• Bread & Salt w/ Maria Shuman - a story-based show of family oral histories and traditional music.

• Pollinator Report w/ Emily Lanxner - a talk show with interviews and other content focused on Vermonters focused on protecting pollinators in our state.

• Kitchen Permaculture w/ Rebecca Beidler - a talk show about local and seasonal food, cooking, growing food, and more.

• Predictably Unpredictable w/ Chris Buckridge - a music show celebrating creativity and freedom of off-beat expression in genres of rock and beyond.

• The Metal Edge w/ Willis Pratt (returning on the air!) - a music show featuring rock and heavy rock.

• Hoi Polloi w/ Damien Taylor - a variety show of music and talk focusing on activism and the issues of our day.

• The weather with Bob has also returned to its former schedule, Monday-Friday live at 9am and Sundays live at 7am.

Continuing Locally-Made Programs

• Curse of the Golden Turnip w/ Alan LePage and Steven Farnham

• Transformational Listening w/ Dennis Darrah

• Thought Pasture w/ Maura Quinn

• Spanning the Chasm w/ Peter Goreau

• Bon Mot w/ Rick Agran

• Personal & Political w/ Stephanie Fraser

• Trailing Edge w/ David Ferland

• InCommon Sounds w/ Brother B

• Gathering Peace w/ Joseph Gainza (returning live!)

• The Quilting Hour w/ Maura Quinn or Sasha Thayer

• Spawning Stones w/ Ben Bashore

• Music as Art w/ Uku Meri

• Relocalizing Vermont w/ Carl Etnier

• Hittin’ the Note w/ Bill Hahn

• Xav Wax w/ Xav Jimenez

• Flow Eclectic & Heavy Metal Radio w/ DJ Eben Flow

• Magical Mystery Tour w/ Tonio Epstein

• Long and Winding Road w/ Dave Tucker (now 3 hours!)

• Geezer Rock w/ Jeff Lindholm (now 2 hours and back live!)

• The Meltdown w/ KingTone

• Amy’s Kids’ Show w/ Amy Hornblas

• Boxful of Blues w/ John Foster

• Acoustic Harmony w/ Mark Michaelis

• The Beatdown w/ Z-Point

New Syndicated Shows

• Food Sleuth - a national program exploring food systems and challenges in the U.S.

• Green Bubble Tea - a music show focusing on the music of South-Eastern Asia

• Prison Pipeline - a national program

• Train to Skaville - a music show focusing on Jamaican music and the genre of ska

• Around 12 more new talk and music syndicated shows are to come as well starting in May.

Continuing Syndicated Shows

• Woodsongs Old-Time Radio Hour

• Big Picture Science Show

• Timeless Oldies Radio Hour

• Short Wave Report

• Rock Sexy

• Out of the Woods

• For the Wild

• Thom Hartmann Program (1 hour best of) - We will be alternating THP with Ian Masters’ Background Briefing Monday-Friday in the 6am-7am slot.

• Background Briefing with Ian Masters

• Democracy Now, 8am live show and 6pm daily rerun

• Making Contact

• Economic Update

• Full Moon Hacksaw

• Letters & Politics (Monday-Thursday)

• Deep Threes

• Rising Up with Sonali

• Alternative Radio

• The Final Straw

• All Mixed Up

• New Dimensions

• Woodwarbler’s Jazzgrass Show w/ Brian Aust (shifted to WRMW-LP as his local station during covid, not a locally-made show for now)

• And You Don’t Stop

• Oldies Time Machine

• Indigenous Music

• Afronsonic Taxi

• Upfront Soul

• Baroque and Beyond

• Counterspin

• Law and Disorder

• Peace Talks Radio

• Sprouts

• This Way Out

• TUC Radio

• Radio Free Albany Blues Show

• What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?

• Planetary Radio

• The Children’s Hour

Syndicated Shows Retiring

• Juke in the Back - Retired due to violation of the DMCA law, a liability we could not risk with broadcasting and streaming the show anymore.

• Moccasin Tracks, Dark Side of the Tune - Retired due to frequent technical and length issues.

• Explorations - Retired due to no longer providing new content.

• Thom Hartmann Programm (3 hour full show, overnights)

Feedback on the Schedule

We know that these changes may not please all listeners. However, we’re confident that once you hear about these new shows, you will enjoy the freshness and diversity that it adds to our schedule. It’s a work in progress, and we’ll adjust as the need arises.

We welcome your feedback about our programming at CVCR. You can send an email to the Station Manager, Llu Mulvaney-Stanak at Llu@WGDR.org and they will pass it on to the Programming Committee.

These changes come as the station celebrates two major milestones. 2023 marks WGDR’s 50th year of broadcasting, an anniversary that also coincides with our second full year as a community-owned station after Goddard College gifted the licenses to CVCR. Altogether, there is so much to celebrate in community radio being made right here in Central and Northern Vermont.

Thank you for listening.