Show Apps Are Open Again!

Application update as of summer 2026…

We are proud to have nearly 70 local shows on the airwaves. This means 75% of our schedule is full with locally made programs and that slots are limited.

We still welcome anyone to apply and pitch us a show. Landing a show still requires it to be a fit with our programming needs and values, and, now, if we can find a slot that works for you and the station. To be included in the next batch of applications, please apply by August 31.

All new shows are vetted by our Programming Committee. We prioritize shows that can help us build up our local news coverage, tell the stories of our community, provide listener interaction with call-in shows, and/or that captures the lives and experiences of our diverse community members. We are still accepting locally curated music shows, but they need to expand upon the music shows you currently already hear on the air.

Before you apply, please listen to what the station already sounds like and consider this as you apply! What could you add to the mix?

Here is the timeline for show application review for the rest of 2026:

• Open apps summer 2026

• Programming Committee Review in September

• New Programmer Training November & December

If you have questions about a doing a new show, feel free to reach out to Levi@WGDR.org our Program Manager.

Plug in with CVCR this Summer!

Ways to Get Involved with CVCR

Summertime is a great time to get involved with the station. Here are just a few ways to join us.

• Apply for a show

• Consider applying to fill the open spot on the Programming Committee (apply by July 31)

• Apply for the Board (rolling review of applications)

• Help us gather Very Vermonty Auction items for the August auction.

• Help with larger station projects, like organizing the music library, cleaning, storage inventory, and more.

• Volunteer at future station events, like our WGDR, Live... gigs.

• Join our new street team to help get the word out about the station, the new WGDR broadcast reach, and other station happenings.

WGDR, Live…Wow! & State of the Station

What a night at WGDR Live in Barre City! A huge thank you to our sold-out crowd (50 folks!) for bringing the energy with gardening questions, sing-alongs, and dancing to the beats of DJ Xav. And, thanks to the hundreds of you who tuned in on your radios and online, we loved having you along for the fun too.

Special thanks to Host DJ Emma, weather expert Bob Misenberger, the Curse of the Golden Turnip crew, musicians Jess O'Brien and Leah Rocketship, our incredible volunteers, and our sponsors, the Barre Social Club and Physicians' Computer Company. 

Missed it? Listen to the show archive for the next two weeks at WGDR.org. More WGDR Live events are coming soon—stay tuned!

Check out photos from the night, here.

State of the Station Update - June 5, 2026

From Llu Mulvaney-Stanak, Director Central Vermont Community Radio

Good evening, Barre!!!!—and good evening to everyone listening on the radio and online.

I gotta tell you. I’m excited. There is something so special about live radio. It asks you to be just right here, right now. I’m sharing something I think you want to hear. You are listening with baited breath….and together, we are…in this moment….right here…right now. Cool, right? 😊

I’m also excited because tonight marks many major milestone for us. This is our first live remote broadcast as Central Vermont Community Radio, and the first live remote from WGDR in a decade. We are bringing the radio TO the community. Thank you for being here and for tuning in.

I also want to thank our host, DJ Emma, our volunteers, our performers, and especially Levi, our Program Manager. Levi has worked tirelessly behind the scenes to make tonight possible. Please join me in giving them all a round of applause.

My name is Llu Mulvaney-Stanak, and I've served as Director of CVCR since we took ownership of the station from Goddard in 2021.

Each year around this time, we celebrate several important anniversaries. Fifty-three years ago, a Goddard student class built WGDR and signed it on the air. Sixteen years ago, WGDH began broadcasting in Hardwick. Five years ago, CVCR officially took ownership of both stations. And next week, WGDR's new antenna will go up at its new tower site in Plainfield.

That's a lot of history—and a lot to celebrate.

Since this is our fifth birthday as CVCR, I'd like to share five highlights from the past year. And folks, I gotta say, I am really proud of everyone who is part of this station---folks on this side of the mic and folks out there listening. We’ve really come so far not just in the last year, but in the last five years.

First, our audience has grown to 45,000 listeners. More than half now listen online or on demand, while radio listenership continues to grow steadily. When we took over five years ago, we reached about 13,000 people. That growth tells us something important: people still value community radio. They're just listening in different ways.

Second, 75 percent of our schedule is locally produced programming. In Goddard's final years, that number was closer to 30 percent. These are shows created by your neighbors—real people sharing music, ideas, conversations, and stories that reflect our communities. No other station in Vermont has this level of local participation. Thank you to our 65 volunteer programmers who make it happen.

Third, dozens of community members have stepped up to help lead the station. Over the past year, we've completed the transition from our founding board to a larger board focused on guiding our future.

I'd like to recognize Charles, Maura, Larry, David, Tom, and Barry. Please stand and be recognized.

We're also continuing to grow the board, ask any of them about it.

Our Programming Committee has also been exploring an important question: What voices and content are still missing from our airwaves, and what can we do about it? Ari, Delia, Charles, and Maura are here tonight, joined by Steve and Anna, who couldn't be with us. Thank you all for your leadership.

Fourth, with the end of this legislative session, we can now announce that we’ve secured new and annual funding from the state for all community radio stations across Vermont. This is in partnership with the state's public access centers. This recognition reflects the value of community media—from everyday programming to emergency coverage and special broadcasts like tonight's. I'd especially like to thank Senator Perchlik for being a champion for us in the State House.

And fifth, we've completed major upgrades to both WGDH and WGDR. WGDH received a new transmitter and heat pump, while WGDR is getting its first new antenna in 30 years at a much better tower location in Plainfield.

Thank you to the State of Vermont for $42,000 in support, and to the City of Montpelier and seven major donors who contributed another $43,000 to make the antenna project possible. Your investment will strengthen this station for decades to come.

None of this would be possible without the people in this room and the listeners joining us from afar. Whether you've hosted a show, volunteered, donated, underwritten, sponsored, attended an event, or simply tuned in, you've helped build what this station has become.

Now for the news many of you have been waiting for.

We're in Barre tonight for a reason.

For more than 50 years, WGDR's signal at 91.1 FM has been difficult to receive here. Next week, that changes. I'm excited to announce that our new antenna will be installed on its new tower site in Plainfield next week!

This project has been two years in the making. It required FCC approval, fundraising, engineering, a new site, and a lot of patience. I'd like to thank the many partners who helped make it happen: Chip Morgan our engineer, BSW, Sweetwater, Joules Electric Vermont, Prescott Towers, Murray's Heating and Cooling, the Vermont Association of Broadcasters, Broadcast Tools & Die, and Cloud Alliance, our new tower hosts.

This antenna represents more than a technical upgrade. It represents the future of this station.

WGDR was originally built to serve a college campus. Today, we're building it to serve communities across Central Vermont and beyond. This antenna will help more people discover us, connect with us, and participate in what we're creating together.

So stay tuned—there's more to come.

Before I wrap up, I want to remind everyone that this station exists because of listener support.

Everything we've accomplished over the past year—and over the past five years—has been made possible by this community.

Tonight, we're hoping to raise $911 in honor of 91.1 FM and our expanded reach. We've already raised about $785 through ticket sales and sponsorships, so we're very close. If you're able, we'll be passing a donation bucket this evening. And if you're listening at home, you can contribute right now at WGDR.org.

If donating isn't possible, there are many other ways to help. You can volunteer, become a sponsor or underwriter, or contribute items and services to our upcoming Very Vermonty Auction this summer.

Thank you for supporting Central Vermont Community Radio tonight and throughout the year.

We're grateful you're part of this community.

WGDR’s New Antenna!

After over two years of planning and months of project managing, we are in the final days of the new WGDR antenna install project!

We have been hard at work with many local partners to ensure we take care of key project needs: upgrade the radio shed to protect our gear, avoiding interference with our new tower co-users, ensuring proper broadcast gear set up, including redundancy, and more. We are on pace to have the install done in June, still on our project timeline and within our projected budget.

On “crossover day” we will be having planned broadcast outages at 91.1 FM. We will announce this on the air, that day. We need to do a range of safety and regulation testing, so full transition to the new antenna has some variation we need to work with. We have back up broadcast ready to go if this is the case and we will keep you updated.

Once the new antenna is on, we’ll put the call out far and wide to get real listener feedback on how the broadcast signal sounds. This includes quality, new reach, and any other feedback you got for us. This is the best way for us to assess our new broadcast impact, everything else up to now has been engineering estimates. In Vermont, you gotta plug it in to see how it really sounds and how far it really reaches due to our topography. We’re excited to have you help us map this!

Special thanks to our partners on this project:

• The state of Vermont for funding $25K of the project, especially Senator Perchlik for being such a champion for community radio!

• Two anonymous major donors who funded $35K of it.

• The city of Montpelier for a $2,500 grant to help us finally reach all of the city.

• And many donors just like you who have given what you can to be part of this historic moment.

• Thanks to our contractors, suppliers, and community partners, ROI, LLC engineering, Joules Electric Vermont, Prescott Towers, Sweetwaters, BSW, Murray’s Heating and Cooling, Vermont Association of Broadcasters, and Broadcast Tools & Die.

• A big thanks to our new tower partner, Cloud Alliance, for being our new antenna forever home!

• To our hard working staff, Levi Kerchner and Llu Mulvaney-Stanak for all the big and little things to make this project come together.

• And, to our programmers and listeners. Together, it is your unwavering belief in this mighty station that keeps us not only going, but helps us do historic moves like this for our future success.

A reminder! Why are we doing this?

• A need to replace the current antenna: What you listen to at 91.1FM is coming from a 30 year old antenna that is at end of its life and showing performance issues. This new antenna, thanks to the new tower location, will get us further and be cheaper to run long term.

• 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.

WGDR! Live from Barre! June 5 - SOLD OUT

WGDR! Live from Barre!

Friday, June 5 from 7-9pm.

Barre Social Club on Main Street in Barre

SOLD OUT FOR SHOW TICKETS

This show is now sold out, thanks! You can still tune in as we broadcast live, starting at 7pm on your radios or stream it at WGDR.org on Friday.

This is a variety show featuring talent from the Central Vermont Community Radio airwaves as well as the local community. You'll be our live audience, while we live broadcast this out on the airwaves to even more Vermonters thanks to the new WGDR antenna that will be up in time for this show.

The show will feature:

• 6pm - Social hour to mingle with programmers, fellow listeners, and the CVCR board and staff, with DJ Xav spinning tunes

• 7-9pm - Our variety show will include:

  • A live forecast from Bob Misenberger

  • “Curse of the Golden Turnip” hosts Alan LePage, Steven Farnham, and Ethan O’Hara taking questions from the audience on your June gardening conundrums

  • Live music from local musician Jess O'Brien - a singer-songwriter from Plainfield, VT who released her debut album in 2025, recorded alongside celebrated Vermont musicians Colin McCaffrey and Paul Miller. For more, visitjessobrien.com— or support local music and grab a digital download at jessobrien.bandcamp.com.

  • Live music from Leah Rocketship

  • DJ Emma of the Revel Level will be our host for the night.

  • Executive Director, Llu Mulvaney-Stanak will give a "state of the station" update for all

  • And, have DJ Xav spinning tunes throughout the show

It is first come first get a good seat for the show. So buying your ticket for just $9.11, in advance gets you in, but you will want to arrive early during our 6-7pm social hour, to claim a good seat and hang out.

If you can't make it, but would like to donate in honor of the new WGDR antenna going up and/or 53 years of WGDR being on the air and 5 years of CVCR leading the community ownership of the station, please do, with our great thanks!

Please note, we are only able to take digital payment in advance for tickets. We will hold a few cash or check tickets for sale at the door, but we want to ensure we fill the room, so the majority of tickets are for online purchase only.

Additional information on accommodations and what to expect in the event space are further down this page, scroll past the ticket ordering box!

Thank you to our sponsors: Barre Social Club and Physicians’ Computer Company

If you’d like to sponsor this event, please review the sponsor rates and contact Llu@WGDR.org.

Further information, accomodations, and what to expect at the event space.

We are excited to have you join us for "WGDR, Live from Barre!" at the Barre Social Club (105 N Main St) in Barre on Friday, June 5 from 7-9pm.

What to Expect

6pm - Doors open | Community mingle time, bar drinks available for purchase, free water and seltzer for all

7pm - WGDR, Live from Barre Show featuring: Curse of the Golden Turnip, live weather forecast, DJ Xav spinning music, and additional guests.

9pm - Event ends

Parking is available all along Main Street (it is free this time of night) and behind the buildings in public lots on both sides of Main Street, with easy access via side streets and alleys.

Tickets & Seating 

Printing your ticket is not necessary, your name will be on the list at check in! It is first come first get a good seat for the show. So buying your ticket in advance gets you in, but you will want to arrive early during our 6-7pm social hour, to claim a good seat and hang out.

Please note, we are only able to take digital payment in advance for tickets. We will hold a few cash or check tickets for sale at the door, but we want to ensure we fill the room, so the majority of tickets are for online purchase only.

Barre Social Club Space

The space has a main entrance right off Main Street. You will enter and be greeted at a welcome table to check in. The main space is the next area, where seating will be out for the audience and a small “stage” area for the WGDR show, with a sound system sized for the space. The back of the room has a separate bar space, where there will be standing room to mingle while the event is underway. There are single use, accessible bathrooms off the main audience space.

Collective Care

As a station, we are still as covid cautious with our in-person gathering as we can be. We ask that all party attendees make a community-minded decision and not come if they are feeling ill in any way. We are committed to providing as safe a space for all of our community to gather as possible. The space has a heat pump to providing cooling and air flow, but we will also have the front door open for most of the start of the event helping with air flow. That said, there will be no additional increased air filtering at the site. We are fully supportive of masking for personal protection, but will not require it of the audience or performers.

We are also mindful of those with chemical sensitivities. Please do not wear perfumes, colognes, or other highly scented body products. We will do our best to have the space be as low-scent as possible, but as it is a public event, some folks may be wearing products that give off scents.

If any of this limits your ability to attend in person, the event will be live broadcast at 91.1 FM and 91.7 FM and livestreamed at WGDR.org for free, so you can listen live or after the event.

Families and Kids

We are a kid friendly station. Bring the whole family to enjoy the show and see a real life radio show in action.

Food & Drink

We’ll have free seltzer and water at the event. You can bring your own water bottle to limit waste and any snacks you may need, though we ask that you not bring any larger meal to eat, as it could distract from the event.

Leave your furry friends at home, please.

Due to our expected attendance, please do not bring a pet to the event, unless they are a service animal and are trained. We want everyone as comfortable as possible.

Requesting additional accommodations:

Please don’t hesitate to contact Llu Mulvaney-Stanak, Executive Director at Llu@WGDR.org or call (802) 276-0365 to request any additional support that would make attending the event safe and comfortable for you.

Music Bingo at the Jeudevine Memorial Library on May 30th!

Central Vermont Community Radio is bringing you more Music Bingo!

Join us at the Jeudevine Memorial Library in Hardwick for a night of bingo, music, and fun on Saturday, May 30 from 6 to 8pm.

We’ll have 6 rounds of regular bingo, with a championship round of music (like name that tune). A suggested donation of $10 to the station lets you play all rounds! There are fabulous prizes up for grabs for each round too!

The night is hosted by Vermont’s own drag queen legend Emoji Nightmare, and Corey from Found Sound will be playing tunes.

This event will be held in the Parker Ladd Community Room of the Jeudevine Memorial Library, located at 93 N. Main Street in Hardwick. This is not a library sponsored event.

We’ll see you there! 🎉