To plug an unexpected hole in its budget before the year ends, the world-renown Jersey City-based freeform radio station WFMU is taking an unusual pledge appeal to its listeners: if you give us $180,000 we’ll send our station manager aloft in a lawn chair. The nonprofit station, whose pledge drives are the stuff of near-legend [...]
The popular public radio show is focusing its Anecdotal Census project on Hudson County Tuesday morning, with an examination of how the community has changed in the 10 years since the last proper US Census. The idea is to create a people’s history of the entire area in the past decade, and the show is [...]
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. [...]
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’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 [...]
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 [...]
 |
 |
 |
|
||
 |
|
 |
|
||
