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WFMU Moon Radio Fundraiser

Mar 2
Mon 7:00 AM
Location

2009 Moon St
Jersey City, NJ 07303
201-200-9368

How to find us
"Tune in on your internet radio!"

Estimated attendance
 999  people attended.
5.00 5.002

Who organized?
Dan Chusid

The 2009 WFMU Fundraising Marathon

http://www.wfmu.org/...

We're an independent freeform station broadcasting at 91.1 fm in New York, at 90.1 fm in the Hudson Valley, and with gobs and gobs of online offerings.

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http://wfmu.org/about...

WFMU-FM is a listener-supported, non-commercial radio station broadcasting at 91.1 Mhz FM in Jersey City, NJ, right across the Hudson from lower Manhattan. It is currently the longest running freeform radio station in the United States.

The station also broadcasts to the Hudson Valley and Lower Catskills in New York, Western New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania via it's 90.1 signal at WXHD in Mount Hope, NY. The station maintains an extensive online presence at WFMU.ORG which includes live audio streaming in several formats, over 8 years of audio archives, podcasts and a popular blog.

Rolling Stone Magazine, The Village Voice, CMJ and the New York Press have all at one time or another called WFMU "the best radio station in the country" and the station has also been the subject of feature stories in The New York Times and on the BBC. In recent years the station has gained a large international following due it's online operations and counts Simpson's creator Matt Groening, film director Jim Jarmusch and Velvet Underground founder Lou Reed, among others, as devoted fans of the station.

WFMU's programming ranges from flat-out uncategorizable strangeness to rock and roll, experimental music, 78 RPM Records, jazz, psychedelia, hip-hop, electronica, hand-cranked wax cylinders, punk rock, gospel, exotica, R&B, radio improvisation, cooking instructions, classic radio airchecks, found sound, dopey call-in shows, interviews with obscure radio personalities and notable science-world luminaries, spoken word collages, Andrew Lloyd Webber soundtracks in languages other than English as well as Country and western music.

All of the station's programming is controlled by individual DJs and is not beholden to any type of station-wide playlist or rotation schedule. Experimentation, spontaneity and humor are among the station's most frequently noted distinguishing traits. WFMU does not belong to any existing public radio network, and close to 100% of its programming originates at the station.

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  • Dan Chusid
    Posted Feb 20, 2009 10:03 AM
    Organizer
    Pssst! Wana listen to some cool radio?...WFMU's annual fundraising Marathon. March 2nd - 15th! "If you're new to our marathons, they're a great way to show your love for WFMU while winning tons of great prizes and walking off with station swag galore. It's also how we stay on the air throughout the year, since we get no support from The Man, whether it's corporations, a college, or underwriting announcements."

Who attended?

  • 999 attendees
    • Dan Chusid (+10 guests)
       Been listening this morning as the marathon got under way and planning to send them $50 at some point during this two-week affair. I'll proudly wear my WFMU t-shirt that I'll receive for the donation. Woo hoo! - Those who haven't listened to the station yet should check it out! 
    •  Just loved Diana Krall singing "Fly me to the Moon"! <http://www.youtub...; And the temporal lobe transducers were almost like hearing real sound in an atmosphere. Gotta get those for my iPod!