Friday night was WRIR's 1st Birthday Party. Over 700 local listeners showed up and turned our event into a huge success!
We have reason to celebrate: The 2005 FCC stats are in, and 97.3 FM is the #1 secular LPFM in the US of A! After only 1 year of being on-air!
Being part of the station has been central in my struggle to put myself back together - at times it seems as if it's the only good thing in my life- so the whole event had a very special feel for me. Happiness and human warmth- two things I've had very little of over the last few years.
A slideshow of the bash by the legendary Charles Williams. Check him out. You'll be glad you did.
Note the deer-in-headlights look on my face as I display my Volunteer of the Year Award! That was a true surprise. My first thought was "I don't deserve this" , but looking back at the last year I must admit I've done pretty good for our station.
That's what it is. It's our station. We built it from nothing, staffed it with volunteers- many with no radio background at all- and despite everything being stacked against us , we made it happen.
During today's show we got a phone call from a web-listener in Seattle. His comment?
"The band playing in your studio sounds amazing! Rock on!"
We will.
2 comments:
Woot! Kick arse Allan on the recognition of all your volunteer work! You look happy and healthy btw. =)
All of those people look like a good group. I feel sorry for pic number 1, he's like reaching into his armpit or something? I'm sure he's thinking thanx for posting that pic!
He is playing an armpit-fart solo during a bluegrass medley of Frank Zappa songs.
In key!
True!
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