Tuesday, October 03, 2006 Pledge Drive, Volunteers, and more

KTOO just wrapped up its Fall Fundraiser.  The community raised $95,000 in support great programming and community radio.  It was great to see a number of comments on the pledge cards expressing enthusiasm for the new radio stations coming on line.

Andy Kline, our new Co-Program Director, officially started full time in his position this week.  Welcome Andy!

We received the music “library” for the station we are currently calling “Excellent Radio”.  This is the mainstream station that will feature a good mix of top 40, new artists on the scene, college rock, etc.  The library is on a hard drive and includes about 5,000 songs.  We look forward to vastly expanding on this in the weeks and months to come.

We have lots of new volunteers!  Jeff Brown and I trained close to 50 new radio volunteers this last month.  These folks have all sorts of great ideas for new call-ins, debates, remotes, music shows, and other radio features.