PLAINFIELD – In a recent blog post, WGDR-WGDH Station Manager Llu Mulvaney-Stanak announced, “The Vermont legislature just approved $150,000 in one-time funding for the ten community radio stations in Vermont. This is a direct result of your advocacy on behalf of the difference WGDR & WGDH makes in your everyday lives. Especially given federal funding trends and the impact on state funding, this is a really, really big deal.”
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“This funding will help each station up-fit with new, critical broadcast gear like new transmitters or antennas, to ensure we stay on the air, especially during emergent situations in our communities,” she said. “For many of these stations, they operate on budgets of less than $25k, with no staff. This is a game changer for them.”
“For WGDR and WGDH, this means we can move ahead with our plan to move the WGDR antenna to a better tower location in Plainfield, to dramatically improve our broadcast reach and quality. This too, will be a game changer for us.”
For 50 years WGDR-WGDH has broadcast to central and northern Vermonters. In the spring of 2021, Goddard College gifted the station to the community by way of Central Vermont Community Radio (CVCR) to manage. Under community ownership, the station’s mission shifted to put community first, by serving the people of north central Vermont and beyond; to provide a forum for cultivating social change that re-harmonizes human communities with the natural world, supports the independent arts and celebrates diversity, creativity and freedom. The station exists to inform, entertain and educate listeners through the presentation of alternative news, artistic expression and public affairs programming.
The station can be found over the air at WGDR, Plainfield, 91.1 FM and WGDH, Hardwick, 91.7 FM and online at wgdr.org
