
{"id":10747,"date":"2010-06-03T13:14:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T21:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=10747"},"modified":"2010-06-03T13:14:20","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T21:14:20","slug":"letter-celebrate-community-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/06\/03\/letter-celebrate-community-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Celebrate community radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been five years since WCOM went live at 103.5 LP FM. We began with a leaky roof and didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how long we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d last. Folks who like to keep one station on the radio from Carrboro to Raleigh have had their frustrations. Get more than 10 miles from our tower and you are probably going to hear mainstream rock covering our signal. With this kind of local reach, some of you may be wondering why in the world 70 different volunteer DJs regularly pick up the mic and broadcast. The answer is simple: community empowerment, freedom of speech and a lot of fun!<\/p>\n<p>When we heard that we would have to leave our first home on Greensboro Street \u00e2\u20ac\u201c yes, behind the teller\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s window of the old bank \u00e2\u20ac\u201c we felt a sense of panic. Would the community support us? Would we be able to find another spot? Was anybody listening?<\/p>\n<p>The answer has been a resounding YES. Over the web and over the radio, WCOM is part of Carrboro and Chapel Hill culture. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not just the 70 crazy DJs and volunteers; it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the musicians, writers, health advisors, scientific researchers, green builders and teens who want us here. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the people at the Weaver Street summer concerts who see our broadcast table and those who hear the remote broadcasts from Shakori Hills who enjoy the power of a good old-fashioned radio broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why every one of us at WCOM, and everyone who listens over the airwaves and over the Internet, and all our sponsors and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153less than a latte\u00e2\u20ac\u009d club contributors, are calling for a celebration as WCOM goes live again from a new home at 208 E. Main St., next to Cat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Cradle, just behind Seagrove Pottery. Look for us at the lawn when the lawn concerts start this week. If you want to volunteer or start a show or just see how a radio DJ gets it out on the air, come by. Because WCOM is community radio \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s important!<\/p>\n<p>TOFU DAVE BELLIN<br \/>\nWCOM DJ<br \/>\n<em>Carrboro<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been five years since WCOM went live at 103.5 LP FM. We began with a leaky roof and didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how long we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10748,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10747\/revisions\/10748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}