The Quiz Show & a NYE countdown

Tune in on New Year’s Eve, Tuesday, December 31 from 6-7pm for Central VT Community Radio’s very first Quiz Show! Our very first contestant will be Rebby, an avid listener from the base of Mt. Hunger. 

She’ll have help too, from our panel of WGDR/WGDH programmers. They’ll be there to provide hints, help, and humor to help her win. The trivia is based on the station and our past year. Fun will be had by all, and we encourage you to play along at home. 

Panelists are Club Soda from Still Life, Dude from Barndance Bluegrass, and Tonio from the Magical Mystery Tour, with quiz host, DJ Llu.

Tune in to help us wrap up the year with a little fun and cheer! ​​And stick around after the quiz for the top 10 tunes played on WGDR this year.

Keep that radio on all night long, right up to midnight, with the Still Life Crew, 7-9pm, and Swivel Radio, 9pm until midnight, doing an extended COUNTDOWN to ring in the new year live on the air.

2024’s CVCR Rewind

​​​​Friends of CVCR -

​Well, that was a very eventful year. We didn't have Goddard College closing, three attempts at selling campus,  more historic flooding, and a busted WGDH audio processor from excessive summer heat on our bingo card. Phew! Our bingo cards did have squares for building our capacity as a station, making even better content, and increasing our engagement with the community. And that, was a coverall win this year for us. 

This was all possible due to the support of listeners like you. Truly, on behalf of all of us, thank you for tuning in and donating!​

As we look to the end of the year, here are a few highlights of 2024:

• ​More great local content: Across the year, we welcomed another 24 local programmers on the air, taking us up to 61 local shows.  These shows range from music, to interview shows, to community conversations. Tune in in late January to hear the final batch of these folks taking to the air.  We are so proud that 75% of our schedule is now local and there is some mighty fine radio being made.

• ​New special content: We aired a dozen special programming features,  providing responsive coverage of the flooding in July and live election night coverage with Democracy Now. We also live-streamed WWOZ's Jazz Fest straight out of New Orleans, celebrated the life of Reuben Jackson with a radio remembrance of our dear friend for folks far and wide to take part in, and brought loads of extra local content on the air, including live music, for our fundrives and the recent music and match Giving Tuesday. This is all in concert with our continued highly curated lineup of 40 syndicated programs featuring national and international news, views, and deeper discussion on the issues of our day.

• Celebrations and connecting as a community: We partied like it's 1973 at the Pratt, celebrating 50 years of WGDR being on the air. Over 250 folks turned out, bringing together multiple generations and eras of the WGDR community. Our internal station community also continues to thrive, gathering regularly to share ideas, take on projects, and welcome in new folks.

• ​More community-focused content on the air:  We've promoted over 220 community events on the air by our programmers, brought on numerous guests speaking to projects and local needs, and tabled at over a dozen music festivals and community events - including the solar eclipse on the statehouse lawn!  We're welcoming new to the station board members, Programming Committee members, and other volunteers in a variety of capacities too.

• Diversified funding and increased capacity: A thriving WGDR and WGDH under community ownership has hinged on ensuring we have many types of income sources and that we invest in this place - not just in gear, but in the talented people it takes to run the station. We made great strides in all these areas this year and these investments will help further shore up our future success as we prepare to partner with Mike Davidson's new campus vision and lay out a larger station strategy for the years to come.

​​We've all worked really hard to get to this point. Thank you to everyone who has helped toward our success. We hope you are enjoying what you are hearing and will be as excited as we are for what comes next in 2025.

As always, stay tuned,

Llu Mulvaney-Stanak, WGDR/WGDH Station Manager

Llu@WGDR.org, 802-276-0365

p.s. If you have yet to give this year, please consider a gift before the end of the year.

We’re Hiring! Part-time Development Coordinator

Posted Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Central Vermont Community Radio continues to commit to right-sizing the station by building our capacity on staff. We are looking for a very part-time, 10 hours a-week, one year temporary Development Coordinator to help work directly with our Station Manager and board of directors to help us manage our fundraising efforts and administrative needs of the organization. This position is new to CVCR, but the work is established.

We’re looking for a new teammate who is all about the details, eager to learn, excited about helping this community radio station grow, and is such a people person, that you’d be pumped to ask folks for support. To be successful in this role, you must be ready to work with a wide range of personalities, fundraising comfort levels, and many types of systems (with an eye toward integration and improvement!). The role will have a mix of remote computer work, at station event management, and some out in the community connecting.

CVCR is committed to being an equitable employer and has set the rate for this position at $22 an hour. We are an organization that believes the more diverse we are, the better we can be at meeting our mission. Therefore we strongly encourage folks from underrepresented backgrounds (in radio and more largely media) to apply.

Applications are due by Friday, January 3, 2025, with reviews beginning promptly. We are looking to fill this ASAP (by early February at the latest) so don’t delay in applying!

To apply send your resume and a brief cover letter explaining your interest in the position and how you’d make a great fit with the CVCR team, to the Station Manager, Llu Mulvaney-Stanak at Llu@WGDR.org.

CVCR Development Coordinator Position Description

Job Summary

WGDR/WGDH’s Development Coordinator (DC) role will help us build our capacity in fundraising, telling our story, and keeping the everyday critical administrative details of the organization on track. This role will work closely with the SM and CVCR board to support a variety of fundraising strategies, some well-established, and some brand new to the station. This position will ensure the behind-the-scenes organizational systems hum, like data management, mailings, fundrive support, and more. If the idea of integrating systems, spreadsheet coordination, project management, and leveraging data to help make magic happen excites you, this would be a great fit.

Responsibilities Include

Fundraising & Messaging Support

● Lead the year-long underwriting and sponsorship efforts, including soliciting new

support and ensuring renewals, meeting the set annual budget goals.

● Work side by side with the Station Manager to support existing areas of fundraising,

including donor development (appeals, list building and tracking), two fundrive “behind

the scenes” support, and end-of-the-year fundraising efforts.

● Lead the planning of the annual big station birthday party, at the station, coordinating

volunteers, entertainment, food, sponsorship, and promotion.

● Work with the SM and CVCR Board to support the administrative needs to establish new

sources of fundraising and income, including a new online silent auction, legislative and

municipal funding, space rental, and a possible new crowdsourced funded event.

● Assist with broadcast messaging (promos and scripts) and digital updates (website,

social media, and email newsletter), for our fundraising projects.

● Help with creation and production of station printed outreach materials: schedule,

brochures, posters, stickers, etc.

Administration & Systems Coordination

● Manage all coordination of underwriting and sponsorship contracts, scheduling, spot

recording, and other details.

● Manage the station’s database (Little Green Light) for all donations and other income

donations, general upkeep and integration of station data information, and prep for

appeals and mailing projects.

● Manage all donation acknowledgments, end-of-year tax donation prep, and other donor

assistance needs.

● Help track monthly income and expenses, working with the SM and bookkeeper.● Coordinate community event tabling by volunteers and supply restocking.

● Assist with utility and other account coordination as needed for the station.

Other duties assigned by the Station Manager as needed. 

Prior Experience Required:

·      At least two years of experience working in the administrative or development area of a smaller-sized nonprofit(s).

·     Eagerness to work with a small, but mighty team of community radio staff and volunteers. Ability to work with people of all tech comfort and personalities.

·      A deep appreciation for detail management.

·      Prior radio experience not required.

Reports to: Station Manager

Position Status: Part-Time, Temporary for FY25 (dependant on fundraising success)

Compensation: $22/hour, 10 hours a week. No PTO or benefits are part of this position.

Please note, funding and effectiveness of this position in expanding capacity will determine if this position continues into FY26.

Feedback on the Station

As we look back on the year and all we've accomplished (even in the last three years), we're eager to hear from you about how the station is sounding, feeling, and engaging with the community.  There is a survey being conducted in partnership with the National Federation of Broadcasters (of which we are members) for community stations like ours collecting important feedback about how the station serves the community, you, and your larger thoughts about the state of media.

This takes just 5 minutes to fill out and we appreciate your participation! 

An interview on the future of Goddard Campus

On Sunday, December 1st's “Curse of the Golden Turnip,” Alan LePage and Steven Farnham interviewed Mike Davidson, the new buyer of the Goddard campus, and Celina Barton, who is working with Mike to envision the possibilities of campus and make them happen. They take many calls and the conversation is wide-ranging on what is in progress and what might come next. Take a listen and share widely!

Giving Tuesday: A Day of Music & Matched Donations

We're participating in this year's Giving Tuesday - a national day of raising funds for non-profits before the end of the year - on Tuesday, December 3. We've got a matching gift of just over $1,000 from some members of our CVCR board, the Programming Committee, programmers, and a generous donor to help challenge donors who have yet to give this year. If you have not yet given to the station in 2024, please make Giving Tuesday the day you give and have it doubled! We're aiming to raise $2,000 or more.

To add to the fun, we’re giving you a full day of live, specially-themed music shows, made by some of our local programmers. The line up will include:

• 9-11am - Maura Quinn of the “Thought Pasture”

• 11am-1pm - DJ Llu of “Get Fresh”

• 1pm-3pm - Dave Tucker of the “Long and Winding Road”

• 3-5pm - Bill Nowlan’s “Listen Up!”

• 5-6pm - Delia Gillen of “Magpie in the Morning”

• 6-7pm - Conni Mags of “Immanent Grove”

• 7-9pm - The “Still Life Crew” with DJ Orange Peel and Club Soda

• 9-11pm - KingTone with a special “Meltdown”

Tune in and enjoy a day of curated great music and hear us work toward meeting the match!

As always, we keep the station budget nimble. Everything we raise goes directly into the programming and costs to run the station. Give to WGDR & WGDH before the end of the year or give in honor of someone for their holiday gift. We provide our community with locally made, community-centered, unique, and inspiring content every single day. Gifts of any size go a really long way in helping us keep this up into 2025 no matter what comes our way with national trends. Thank you!