The 2008 Live Radio AUCTION & the December Membership Drive:

The WERU live radio auction is back!  On Saturday, December 6, 2008, from 8 am until Noon, you will have an opportunity to bid on a wide range of items donated by members of the WERU community.  Most items are gift certificates for restaurants, inns, classes, books, garden supplies and many other services and products.  A few items, including art work and jewelry, can be viewed at our website.  Bidding on each item will begin at half its value. Support your favorite community radio station, secure great holiday gifts, and just have fun!

You will be able to bid on large ticket items all through the auction.  During the last hour of the auction, 11 am to noon, we will close out these items one by one.  From 8 am until 11 am we will auction items off in groups of three.  Our auctioneers will describe each group and then play music while the bids come in.  You can call 469-6600 or 1-800-643-6273 and give your name, phone number and bid to one of our phone answerers.  The auctioneers will update listeners as the bids come in.  We will close each group out with a gong.  If you are the high bidder you will get a call from a volunteer who will ask you if you are paying by check or credit card and get the necessary information and your mailing address.  

NOTE:A few items that have been donated cannot be sent through the mail and we will ask you to come to the station to collect those items.  Most will be mailed to you.

CLICK HERE FOR THE COMPLETE AUCTION ITEM CATALOG

December Membership Drive:

December 6 – 14 you can help your Community Radio Station by contributing to the cause during our last Membership Drive of the year.  Our goal for the fourth quarter drive is $70,000 and $20,000 has already come in this quarter through mailed-in membership renewals and sustaining member payments (thank you very much).  Thanks in advance to everyone who calls in a pledge to do what you can to support WERU Community Radio during the Membership Drive!   

All you have to do is call 1-800-643-6273 and talk for a couple minutes with a friendly WERU Volunteer and your pledge is made.  Or you can pledge online any time using the link on the left of this home page.  When you give and how much you give is all up to you, but please consider giving before or during the December 6 - 14 Membership Drive.  

Your pledge dollars will help keep WERU strong and thriving through this coming winter!

The Featured ARTIST of the Week:

(Paid Advertisements from WERU Business Supporters)

WERU invites you to tune in every weekday morning during our Morning Maine's eclectic mix of Americana at 7:45 to catch The Featured Artist of the Week. This segment is intended to help promote and highlight the wonderful gigs and performances of local, obscure & world renown artists. Morning hosts will discuss the artist and announce CD & ticket giveaways.

December 1st - December 5th: JD Souther

“Good news is that the guy's comeback, "If The World Was You", is a near-perfect project, re-establishing where much of the Southern California country-rock-noir movement came from and how good that genre can still be.” - Philadelphia Daily News

IF THE WORLD WAS YOU is both a bold step forward and a return to  J.D. Souther's Amarillo, Texas roots, where the young multi-instrumentalist grew up listening closely to Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, and steeped in the improvisational sensibilities of John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk and Miles Davis as well as in the music of country and rock pioneers Hank Williams, Buddy Holly, and Roy Orbison, all of whose influences are evident.

Recorded live in the studio fronting a five-piece ensemble, two horns, piano, bass, and drums, Souther has crafted an inventive new musical setting for his characteristically playful and literate musings on life, love, and politics. The work of a musician at the height of his considerable powers, IF THE WORLD WAS YOU is whip-smart, adventurous, seductive, and shot through with the sublime longing that characterizes Souther's finest work. And his voice -- one of the most plaintive and soulful in rock 'n roll -- has never sounded so immediate and so powerful.

IF THE WORLD WAS YOU is the long awaited return of a master singer/songwriter as well as the birth of a new and relevant artist who's creating music that is absolutely essential and entirely his own.

Twenty-five years in the making, JD Souther's triumphant return with IF THE WORLD WAS YOU has most definitely been worth the wait.

UPCOMING LOCAL PERFORMANCE :

CLICK HERE FOR A COMPLETE UPDATE OF OUR

PERFORMING ARTS & COMMUNITY EVENTS CALENDAR

SUBMIT INFO FOR WERU's COMMUNITY & PERFORMING ARTS CALENDARS
E-mail, fax or mail us your local event announcement for our on-air calendar.  Two weeks notice, please.

Weekly WERU Public Affairs Roundup for 12/1/08 - 11/7/08:

This is WERU’s News and Public Affairs Manager Amy Browne with a look ahead to the locally produced news and public affairs you can hear this week on YOUR community radio station:

Weekday mornings at 6:00 find "National Native News", at 7:00 find Pacifica's "Election Unspun", at 8:00 catch "Democracy Now! Headlines" and at 8:30 listen to the "Hightower Report".

Weekday mornings at 6:30 and 7:30, and weekend mornings at 6:30 and 7:30, we have short features on a variety of topics, produced by WERU volunteers.  Monday mornings at 6:30 it’s “World Ocean Radio”, and at 7:30 “A Word in Edgewise”.  Tuesdays at 6:30 the feature is “Esoterica” and at 7:30 it’s “Outside the Box ”. Wednesday mornings at 6:30 it’s “Ask W.A.M.” (the Wildlife Alliance of Maine) and at 7:30 EarthSense.  On Thursday mornings at 6:30 it’s “TBA” and at 7:30 “Notes from the Electronic Cottage”.  Friday mornings at 6:30 the feature is “Cosmic Radio ” and the 7:30 feature is “Awanadjo Almanac”. 

On Weekend mornings we air "Isla Earth" (Sat. & Sun. at 6:30), "Mindful Parenting" (Sat. at 7:30), "TBA" (Sun. at 7:30), "Ask W.A.M. " (Sat. at 8:30), "Awanadjo Almanac" repeated from Friday (Sun. at 8:30) and just after morning we run "Radio Bilingue News" (Sat. at 12:30 pm).

The short weekly feature "Peacetime" has moved to Monday afternoons.  It will be airing during "Earthtones" between 2 and 4 o’clock.

Monday morning 12/1/08 at 10 o'clock am: "Alternative Radio".

Tuesday morning 12/2/08 at 10 o'clock am: join host Anita Arnold for the monthly call in show, "Conversations thru the Ism Prism", when the guests will be diversity educators and the discussion will be a review of 2008.

Tuesday afternoon 12/2/08 at 3 o'clock pm , during “Mostly Manding” an African music show, Isatou Jobarteh brings us “Some of the News from West Africa”.

Tuesday afternoon 12/2/08 at 4 o'clock pm, hear "Voices", the community audio magazine.

Wednesday morning 12/3/08 at 10 o’clock am: health program this week is "Healthy Options". 

Thursday morning 12/4/08 at 10 o’clock am: join us from local call in show "Doing Business".

Thursday afternoon 12/4/08 at 4 o’clock p m: it’s time for "RadioActive", the grassroots environmental and social justice news journal with Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco. This week we’ll continue the interview with well-known local photojournalist and international social justice activist Jim Harney.

Friday morning 12/5/08 at 10 o’clock am... we’ll have a call in show "Renewable Radio " hosted by Dave Evans.

Saturday afternoon 12/6/08 at 3 o'clock pm:  “Weekend Voices”, the community audio magazine. 

PODCASTS: As always, if you miss something, be sure to check them out at . Almost all of our locally produced news and public affairs programs can be found there, and you can listen, free of charge, whenever it’s convenient for YOU.

Click here for a complete public affairs schedule

WERU 20th Anniversary:

WERU sincerely thanks everyone who helped organize, feed, entertain and celebrate at our 20th Anniversary Open House on May 1st at our studios in East Orland.  Thanks to all the listeners, volunteers, staff and musicians who worked together and partied together Community Radio had a wonderful day commemorating the twenty amazing years it has been since WERU’s very first broadcast from The Henhouse in Blue Hill.  

Approximately 250 people attended and enjoyed the delicious food (thanks especially to the Whole Earth Kantina in Bucksport and caterer Karen Frangoulis of Blue Hill), live music (Jay & Bjorn Petterson, Burnham Boys, and the Toughcats), used music sale, open-mic radio programming, station tours and strong sense of community.  

We are grateful for all the volunteer power and listener support that has kept WERU alive and well for twenty years and invite everyone to take part in other upcoming 20th Anniversary events scheduled throughout the year!

Check out these slideshows with music from the

May 1st 20th Anniversary Celebration:

PART I: The Bands

PART II: Volunteers & Fun, Fun, Fun!

Check out the RadioActive 20th Anniversary Open Mic that took place during the celebration! Listen to community members discuss their relationship with WERU.



CHECK OUT THIS LIST OF EVERY SINGLE UPCOMING

20th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION EVENT!

The 89.9 FM signal is getting STRONGER:

WERU Community Radio 89.9 FM, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, has begun broadcasting further inland towards Bangor, Dover-Foxcroft and Waterville with a much stronger signal than ever before.  This change came about thanks to recent permission granted by the  Federal Communications Commission that allowed the East Orland based noncommercial radio station to reconfigure its antenna in Blue Hill and improve its signal northwards and westwards.

WERU’s signal has always been strong from Hancock to eastern Lincoln County along the coast, but inland towards Bangor WERU's signal has been weak on its 89.9 FM frequency.  Prior to this week's signal change, WERU broadcast on a supplementary frequency at 102.9 FM in Bangor using a small FM transmitter that radiated 50 watts of power, which resulted in a signal that covered only a small portion of the Bangor area.  Now WERU is broadcasting at 89.9 FM to Greater Bangor with 12,000 watts, as well as westwards towards Augusta and Waterville.  For many listeners, this means they can hear the station better than before; and others will be able to listen to WERU for the first time.  (WERU continues to broadcast at 102.9 FM in Downtown Bangor and this signal too has improved as a result of the change to the 89.9 FM antenna.)

“We are very excited to be better able to serve the Greater Bangor area as well as further to the north and west,” stated WERU General Manager Matt Murphy.  “Over the years we have had some volunteers and listener/members from those edge regions of our broadcast area but now we look forward to welcoming many more.”

WERU’s mission is to provide a community based non-commercial radio service for people living in the areas covered by WERU’s signal; to broadcast programs designed to serve the needs of those not fully served by other broadcast media; to be a “voice of many voices” offering a wide variety of people an opportunity to share their experiences, concerns, and perspectives with their neighbors over the WERU airwaves.

In working to accomplish its mission, WERU celebrates diversity in its programming and invites the people and communities within its listening area to be involved in virtually all aspects of station operations, both on-air and behind-the-scenes, so that the station truly reflects their interests and concerns.  (Hence the phrase contained within its call letters: “We are you!”)  WERU presents local public affairs programming, alternative and independent national news, local and national commentary, eclectic and varied music and other creative cultural content.  Over 150 people volunteer, doing everything from producing radio programs to serving on working committees.  2008 is WERU’s twentieth anniversary year.

For more information about WERU or this signal improvement for Bangor, go to the station's web site at www.weru.org, or call 469-6600 during business hours.

Listener Feedback:

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What have you heard of WERU programming recently that you really liked or didn't like?

Do you have any suggestions for making WERU programming stronger and more in tune with your community?

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Is there something you would want added or changed on our Web site?

Answer these questions or make other comments on WERU by emailing us with "Listener Feedback" in the subject line, or send us a note. All written listener feedback on programming is shared with the WERU Program Advisory Committee.

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P.O. Box 170
East Orland, ME  04431-0170
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