Posts Tagged ‘radio’

WFMU’s Annual Fund-raising Marathon Kicks Off Today

By Jon Whiten • Mar 1st, 2010 • Category: Arts, Blog

It’s a time-honored tradition. Jersey City’s renown nonprofit freeform radio station WFMU brings us some of the most eclectic radio programming that exists all year long, and in turn it asks us listeners to pitch in one time each year during a pull-out-all-the-stops two-week fund-raising marathon; this year’s begins today and runs through March 14.
As [...]



WFMU: A Radio Treasure Buried in Jersey City

By Tad Hendrickson • Nov 20th, 2009 • Category: Arts, Featured

A high-water mark by which open format radio stations around the globe measure themselves, WFMU has been called at one time or another the best radio station in the country by the Village Voice, CMJ and Rolling Stone.



WFMU Will Broadcast Live from Fatburger Tomorrow

By Jon Whiten • May 18th, 2009 • Category: Arts, Blog

WFMU’s Three Chord Monte program will be broadcasting live from Fatburger in Jersey City Tuesday from 12-3 pm. Joe Belock and Todd-o-phonic Todd will be programming the entire show out of the restaurant’s jukebox, and Todd will be picking up the tab for the first 100 Baby Fat burgers, with a limit of one per [...]



WFMU’s Annual Fundraising Marathon is Underway

By Jon Whiten • Mar 9th, 2009 • Category: Arts, Blog

The world-renowned Jersey City-based freeform radio station WFMU kicked off its annual fundraising marathon last week with a goal of raising $1.2 million. “We’re just over halfway there,” station manager Ken Freedman told JCI this morning.
Freedman said the nonprofit station is facing a couple of dicey financial scenarios this year, which makes the fundraiser — [...]