We’re celebrating 50/51 years on the air for WGDR and three years of community ownership, May 17-19.

We’ll be live and local, all weekend long with special programming and a huge “Party at the Pratt,” Saturday, May 18, 3-5pm.

As part of this weekend, we’re looking to raise $2,500 as a birthday "gift" for WGDR from 51 folks giving $51 each. We’ve got matching donors and sponsors ready to match every dollar raised! Together, we could raise at least $5,100 to start the 51st year. Thanks to our sponsors: CVCR Board, anonymous major donors, Onion River Campground, Washington Electric Coop, and Northfield Savings Bank.

Details on the programming, party, and accommodations are available clicking through to this blog post.

We invite you to record a short birthday message for WGDR’s 50th. Share a quick story or your favorite thing about the station.  Just call our office phone and leave a voice message at 802-276-0365. Or you can text a voice memo from a smartphone to that number. Introduce yourself and share a quick story or your favorite thing about the station. We’ll use all the ones we get by May 17, thanks!

We are very excited to provide special programming in partnership with our friends at WWOZ, New Orleans as part of the 54th Jazz Fest. 

WGDR & WGDH will live simulcast the Jazz Fest on the air a few times during the two week festival: 

Fridays, April 26 & May 3, 6-7pm and Saturdays, April 27 & May 4, 7-8pm. 

Central Vermont Community Radio is an asset to the community and as a renter on campus to any future owner. No matter what the future of campus holds, we look forward to remaining a strong partner with whoever owns or manages the Pratt building where we have been located for 51 years.

Goddard College gave us a generous lease for five years (2022-2027), of which we are now in year two. With that in place, we anticipate being in our current location at least until that expires, no matter who owns the campus.

We not only crushed fundrive goals, we set records.

❤️ 226 total donors (our prior record last fall was 157)

❤️ 68 new donors (25 goal)

❤️ 12 new sustainers (5 goal)

❤️ 32 returning donors (didn't give last year) (25 goal) (a new record!)

❤️ 56 streamers/out of staters (25 goal) (our prior record last fall was 29)

$15,871 of our $15,000 goal (a massive new record!).

As part of April’s Sexual Violence Prevention Month, we will air a short, limited-run series podcast from the Vermont Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence called “Uplift Conversations.” 

Tune in on Thursdays, 6-7pm, for the 6-episode series, starting April 4 and running until May 9. 

This series will temporarily pre-empt the rerun of Democracy Now on Thursday nights at 6pm. Listeners can listen to the Thursday show on our archives in the 8am slot at WGDR.org. 

Learn more about the Vermont Network at VTNetwork.org.