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Radio Roundup
Sep 12, 2015 12:02 am
• OFF THE AIR New Palenville low-power FM station WLPP-LP is off the air, after just going on a few weeks ago. The station's Facebook page included a Sept. 9 message saying, "We're currently experiencing technical difficulties: our transmitter is defective, and is being returned to the manufacturer. We'll be back on the air by the weekend, with a better transmitter."
• NEW AD MAN Columbia-Greene Media made Rick Sophia advertising director Sept. 8. Sophia (pronounced So-FI-a) was the advertising director at Strauss Newspapers for 20 years, working with 17 local weekly newspapers in Manhattan and Orange County, as well as northern New Jersey and Pike County, Pennsylvania.
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PLEDGE DRIVE The Daily Freeman reports that Kingston Community Radio begins its latest fund drive Sept. 21, hoping to raise $7,000 from 7 to 9 a.m. each weekday for two weeks. Kingston Community Radio features local interviews and public call-ins mornings on Kingston-based WGHQ (920-AM). Call Walter Maxwell at (845) 331-1004 for more information.
• NEW AD MAN Columbia-Greene Media made Rick Sophia advertising director Sept. 8. Sophia (pronounced So-FI-a) was the advertising director at Strauss Newspapers for 20 years, working with 17 local weekly newspapers in Manhattan and Orange County, as well as northern New Jersey and Pike County, Pennsylvania.
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PLEDGE DRIVE The Daily Freeman reports that Kingston Community Radio begins its latest fund drive Sept. 21, hoping to raise $7,000 from 7 to 9 a.m. each weekday for two weeks. Kingston Community Radio features local interviews and public call-ins mornings on Kingston-based WGHQ (920-AM). Call Walter Maxwell at (845) 331-1004 for more information.