The next application window for new low power FM radio station licenses is expected sometime in the summer of 2013. The FCC is to announce the dates by the end of this year. The Prometheus Radio Project is spreading the word and helping local groups prepare with a series of free Webinars being offered in November and December. The seminar titles are:

Put Your Hands on the Radio
Finding An Available Channel with Rfree
Creating an Online Presence for Your Station or Radio Project
Streaming Social Movements: Internet Streaming and Podcasting 101

Coming up July 26-29, 2012, at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, 202 S. Broadway, Urbana, IL is the 2012 Grassroots Radio Conference. See www.grassrootsradioconference.org/ for details.
Registration cost before June 10 is $100/person.
Registration June 11 - July 22 is $125/person and late registration (July 23 - day of conference) is $150/person.
All persons interested in getting involved with CityWIDE Radio or in applying for their own FCC license for a new Madison area station this fall are encouraged to attend.

Thanks to Jim Hightower for recording CityWIDE Radio's first celebrity promo. You can hear his 2 min. commentary every weekday on WIDE-LP between 4:15 and 4:30 pm, and now from time to time his voice can be heard promoting our station as well as his daily "little pops of populism."

The following CityWIDE Radio schedule changes are being made for the new year, effective 1/2/2012:

Talk shows:
Matt Rothschild's "Progressive Radio" show (which he posts each Monday on the web) is moving from Friday to Tuesday.
"Culture Shocks," heard Tuesday - Thursday in 2011, is shifting to Wednesday - Friday.

Photos of some of the installation work leading to the initiation of broadcasting from our Hammersley Road transmitter site have just been posted. See the About WIDE-LP link in the left column.

If you read about WIDE-LP in the Nov. 18 Isthmus cover story and were wondering "how can I get involved", here is your chance. CityWIDE Radio has an advisory Radio Council to provide citizen input on our programming and to help with community outreach. The Council's first meeting in some time is coming up next week. It will be at 7 pm at 5610 Hammersley Road, which is the home of the Program Director, Bob Park. It is also the location of the garage where our transmitter is currently located, so you will have a chance to see what hardware it takes to run a low power station.

The Isthmus cover story featuring our station and carrying the above title is now available online at www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35233 .

Madison's free news weekly, Isthmus, has a cover story in its Nov. 18, 2011 issue on community radio which features our radio station, with photos from our Hammersley Road transmitter site. For the time being we are using (with permission) the front page picture as our Twitter page image at twitter.com/#!/WIDE_LP. Use our tweets to follow what's being discussed each week in the CityWIDE Radio talk shows.

Seated Members of the board

Tom Kozlovsky
Eric Howland
Robert Park
Lindy Anderson
Rob Hecimovich
Warren Keapproth

Election of Officers

Chair - Eric
Secretary - Rob
President - Lindy
Treasurer - Tom

Minutes for delayed 2010 MMR board meeting 2011-09-01

Seated Members of the board
Tom Kozlovsky
Eric Howland
Robert Park
Lindy Anderson
Rob Hecimovich
Warren Keapproth

Election of Officers
Chair - Lindy
Secretary - Rob
President - Eric
Treasure - Tom

We discussed but did not seat a Member at Large.