What the heck is a funding drive? Here is CJSW‘s audio primer
Now with that out of the way, let me quote the fine folks at headquarters and myself liberally and tell you that CJSW’s annual funding drive runs Friday October 18th through to the 25th. For one week every year we take a break from being the best radio station in town, and ask you — our listeners — to help us out. With Money.
All the money raised during our annual Funding Drive campaign goes towards our capital budget (like it always does), paying for everything from maintaining our fancy 4000 watt broadcast tower, to our CD players, our headphones, and all the other costs associated with running a radio station. Thanks to your generous donations last year, the station is just about to increase the 4,000 watts we currently broadcast up to around 20,000. This increase will extend our signal a little further than it currently travels, but most importantly it should help with the interference within the city limits. It would also make CJSW one of the highest powered community radio stations anywhere in Canada!
This year, we’re hoping to put your hard earned dollars at work on improving CJSW’s website. We’re looking to expand our podcasting to the majority of our shows and make playlists available in real time to our listeners.
Pledging is easy. You can all the pledge line at 403-220-5000 between October 18th through to the 25th, or make a donation on-line at www.cjsw.com. Listen to CJSW 90.9 FM and check out www.cjsw.com everyday to find out about all the great swag we have to offer for pledges. Help us reach our goal of $200,000.
Funding Drive and the Fat Beat Diet
I run this blog at my own expense and all my time with CJSW is volunteer work. I do it for the love, but pledging to my show is your opportunity to show your support – and it is greatly appreciated.
Now that the Fat Beat Diet kicks off the very successful Friday night lineup at CJSW, I’ve got more listeners than ever before. I’m looking forward to hearing from each and every one of you over the course of the Funding Drive show, which is this Friday from 6-7pm MT.
Being on the first day of the Funding Drive is a bit stressful – I’ve never had to have my shit together so early on in the Funding Drive before, but it’s worth it — and I hope you think so two.
Fat Beat Diet Incentives
As always, I’ll be putting together a few tasty mixes as added incentive to pledge on the show. These days, I pretty much only makes mixes for Funding Drive, so this is just about your only chance to get a mix from me (outside of the 50 odd mixes I make every other week of the year as part of the show, duh). These mixes are finely crafted, and I always put a lot of love into them. These exclusive mixes are never redistributed outside of the Funding Drive. You’ll never see these up on soundcloud a week after Funding Drive (like I’ve seen other programmers do) to ensure that all you fine pledgers don’t feel like chumps.
I’m still working out the details on my mixes, but I should have a better idea about those closer to my show. This year, i think I’ll be continuing on last year’s digital distribution, unless I hear a flurry of comments about you folks loving the CDr’s I’ve been burning for the last 10yrs or so.
Support the Fat Beat Diet!
If you’re a regular downloader but don’t listen to the show live on air, please pledge by donating online on the cjsw site. Online donating is now open. If you can do this before the show this Friday, October 18th, that will likely greatly increase the chances of getting what you’re after. Online donating has been streamlined this year, but to make sure supporting the this show, please enter the Fat Beat Diet as the show name as illustrated below.
Make me Proud!
Fat Beat Diet fans have yet to let me down, and I’m hoping this year will be no different. Thanks in advance for your support.
