It has been an interesting year.<\/p>\n
Early in the year we received notification that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had approved our application for a low power FM (LPFM) radio station.<\/p>\n
We did some brain storming and came up with a few preferred choices for our call letters.\u00a0 We applied for and received WMFH-LP.<\/p>\n
We ran a crowd funding campaign on indiegogo.com, bringing in about a thousand dollars.\u00a0 As a “perk” for that campaign we worked with a t-shirt company to design a shirt and get some printed up.<\/p>\n
We put together\u00a0 this web site, humble though it may be.<\/p>\n
We continued working on our station automation system with the Rivendell software, downloading and cataloging content from the librivox.org website.<\/p>\n
We went to a local-charities intro event at the Columbus Lowndes County Library.<\/p>\n
We joined the Columbus Chamber of Commerce and attended a few of their events.<\/p>\n
We expanded our board of directors to include more voices from the community.<\/p>\n
We applied for\u00a0 and received non-profit status 501(c)3 from the IRS\u00a0 (so contributions are tax deductible!).<\/p>\n
We put together an initial offering plan for underwriting and presented that opportunity to a dozen or more local businesses by email, postal mail and in person.<\/p>\n
We searched the world for grant-making foundations and government organizations, seeking start up funds to buy our transmitter and EAS\/CAP machine.\u00a0 We have contacted over a dozen potential grant sources.<\/p>\n
We designed and built an antenna (yet to be tested).<\/p>\n
We toured non-commercial radio station operations at Mississippi State University (WMSV) and Mississippi University for Women (WMUW).<\/p>\n
We have acquired some donated equipment:\u00a0 computer system, microphones, telephone interface box.<\/p>\n
We also have been in contact with experts in the fields of literacy education, radio reading service for the sight impaired, and radio station construction.<\/p>\n
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It has been an interesting year. Early in the year we received notification that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had approved our application for a low power FM (LPFM) radio station. We did some brain storming and came up with a few preferred choices for our call letters.\u00a0 We applied for and received WMFH-LP. We … Continue reading 2014 – Year in Review<\/span>