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Listening Post: It’s the Season

by on October 13th, 2011

We’ve had the great sunny fall weekend and the first hard frost. So it’s time to wrap up the yard and garden, to get ready for the long white season. Shut off and drain the outdoor tap?–check. Put up the canoe, get down the winter shirts and sweaters?–check. Furnace tune-up?–still gotta make the call.

But I keep having this feeling there’s something else that I’m forgetting. Then while watching the squirrels pile up their winter supply of nuts and spruce cones it comes to me–can’t forget the Fall Fundraiser–NCPR has to keep body and soul together through another long winter, too. We know it’s been a thin year for many, so we don’t ask for all the nuts, or even more than you can spare. But now’s the time to put a little something by for the winter.

It’s been a busy year for NCPR. We’ve added a new NCPR transmitter in Gouverneur, extending service to thousands. We’ve launched WREM, a Public Radio Remix station serving St. Lawrence County. Our news team has expanded. We just launched our iPhone app, soon to be followed by apps for other mobile platforms. And this winter, while the squirrels are dreaming of spring, NCPR will be launching a three-year project deepening local news coverage and training a new generation of public media journalists.

None of this would have been possible without the regular gifts of individual listeners, year after year, in fat times and in lean. Starting Monday at 6 am, and for the rest of the week, we’ll be on-air asking you to give the gift of public radio to your community once again. It’s the season. Thanks to everyone who has already made a gift, and to everyone who helps out in the days to come.

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1 Comment on “Listening Post: It’s the Season”

  1. Bob Falesch says:
    October 13, 2011 at 2:12 pm

    Regarding WREM — Public Radio Remix station at 88.7 MHz: This is important, IMHO. According to PRX (http://publicradioremix.org/about/), this transmitter in Canton (I receive the signal perfectly here in Ogdensburg and I’m sure it’s clear as a bell in Potsdam) is one of only five (that’s 5!) terrestrial transmitters in the world sending out this signal, and one of only two (2!!) doing it 24/7. I’m thinking of Public Radio Remix as possibly the first-ever instance of post-modernism in mass radio broadcasting, and we can get it right here in North Country on our FM dials. It’s also available on various web streams and through XM, but I get warm and fuzzy when I can pop it in with my receiver’s remote from my bed where I do some of my most discriminating listening 🙂

    Spruce cones. Nuts. Cool.

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