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Hello WCRS Listeners, last week the transmitter that originates 92.7 unexpectedly died and we are working on getting it repaired. Hopefully we will be back on the air soon. But any donations to PayPal to donate@wcrsfm.org are greatly appreciated.

Thanks to everyone who donated to our GoFundMe, we are now back on the air on both 98.3 and 92.7FM.

We are now broadcasting on 98.3FM from a tower located near 71 and Hudson St with a directional antenna pointing west. So you should be able to hear us best on the North Side and especially the campus area.

Shout out to the Ohio Link Network who helped us with the antenna installation.

On the weekend of March 10th 98.3 FM will be temporarily going off the air as we work on moving our translator to a new location. We could be off the air for a few months but will stay broadcasting on 92.7 & streaming here at wcrsfm.org.

Please donate if you haven't already to our gofundme to help us cover the engineering and equipment costs associated with the move. Much appreciation to all of those of you who have donated already. As of 2/8/23 we have raised 2.7K out of the 10K we aim to raise.

WCRS-LP FM -- Columbus's community-powered radio station! -- needs to move our 98.3 transmitter tower in order to keep our 98.3 signal on the air ... so we can keep providing people-powered radio to communities in downtown, West, South, & parts of East Columbus! For the last decade+, we've been bringing you all of the weird, eclectic goodness of people-powered local radio programming: from talk to music to reportage to everything in between. Please help keep us on the air, & preserve our coverage across most of the greater Columbus area!

Visit the GoFundMe page to donate.

A quick update:
Thanks to everyone who helped WCRS in our time of we need. We are now back on the air on 98.3 FM with a new transmitter that will be able to bring community radio to the airwaves of Central Ohio for many years into the future. It wouldn't have been possible without the generous outpouring of support from you our listeners.

WCRS is in need of a new transmitter. 98.3 has been off the air due to a transmitter failure. We are a non-commercial, listener supported community radio station. WCRS is a volunteer, non-profit radio station that relies on grants and donations from our listeners. If you support local arts and radio we need your help keeping our station alive. Any amount helps and we greatly appreciate you!

https://www.gofundme.com/f/wcrs-transmitter-fundraiser

Buy Tickets
SATURDAY 8.28.21 2-11PM
Many Voices, One Station is happening soon!

WCRS FM 92.7/98.3 has a benefit on August 28th in the Brewery District at @doublehappiness4ever
There will be DJ Sets from WCRS DJ/Producers.

Line-Up is on fire
Dj Cat Socks
@page43
@auralthicket

DJ Frizzy Mike
@mycoolchinn
@witchesbrewwcrs

Damian Phillips @dplstv

Tim Blender @turnitupradio

DJ Aloha
@djalohacbus
@strangers_in_town_wcrs
@soundclash_records
@apocalipstick_latinx_party

DJ Icy J • Progressive Grind

DJ JC Lozada @djjclozada

DJ Prime @prime237

Masks ARE Required Indoors.
$ 10 Suggested Donation (you won't be turned away due to lack of funds)

@doublehappiness4ever
482 S. Front St., Brewery District

WCRS and the city of Columbus recently lost a brilliant member of our musicial community, Tony "Doctah X" Harrington. We are going to be paying tribute to his memory this weekend by airing a marathon of his show Prescriptions from Friday at 9PM on January 1st 2021 until 12PM Noon January 2nd 2021. If you would like to share a recording of your memories of Doctah X for us to broadcast e-mail them to localshows AT wcrsfm.org and we will try to include it in our broadcast.

Attention WCRS listeners - we have a few schedule changes to announce this fall.
Witches Brew returns Thursday nights at 11PM.
Biohazard premiers this Friday at 7PM.
Covid, Race & Democracy is now airing Thursdays at 11AM.
Zeb returns featuring blues & jazz Saturdays at 7PM for Zeb's Saturday Stomp.
And we now are airing Grassroots Ohio w/ Carolyn Harding Sundays at 2PM
And followed by Reverend Billy radio from the Church of Stop Shopping at 2:30PM.

The NACC has an excellent interview with local DJ Wes Flexner on his radio show and other things about him. He was also named Genre DJ of the month. Check out the interview here on their website.