WGXC begins its spring pledge drive this week, WFMU continues theirs, and Resonance FM just completed there fund drive. A report.

Radio jamming, documentary about radio jamming, recent clips of China jamming the BBC and VOA.

Songs about disc jockey, and on-air clips of famous hosts such as Bob Lassiter, Jean Shepherd, and others, are considered.

Tune in to news about Kentucky Republican Rand Paul's Senate filibuster Wed., March 6. Paul questioned whether the U.S. administration felt it could bomb Americans with radio-controlled drones on U.S. soil. Also, Free Speech Radio News is in danger of going off the air. Plus, the White House says "It's time to legalize cell phone unlocking." More than 114,000 Americans signed an online petition to legalize cell phone unlocking, and the White House agreed it is a good idea. And Broadcasting & Cable reports on what cuts the Federal Communications Commission is making due to the budget sequester.

President Franklin Roosevelt gives first radio Fireside Chat, about the banking crisis, March 12, 1933, and this show rolls that tape. From Wikipedia: "Roosevelt first used what would become known as "fireside chats" in 1929 as Governor of New York. Roosevelt faced a conservative Republican legislature, so during each legislative session, he would occasionally address the citizens of New York directly. In a New York History Quaterly article on the fireside chats' origin, Geoffrey Storm notes that while a WGY radio "address of April 3, 1929 was FDR's third gubernatorial radio address, historian Frank Freidel asserts that this was the first fireside chat." In these speeches, Roosevelt appealed to radio listeners for help getting his agenda passed. Letters would pour in following each of these "chats," which helped pressure legislators to pass measures Roosevelt had proposed. He began making the informal addresses as president on March 12, 1933, during the Great Depression."

Telegrams will be sent on this listen to the songs and sounds of Western Union. Grover from "Sesame Street" delivers a singing telegram. Songs by The Five Americans ("Western Union"), T. Rex ("Telegram Sam"), Elvis Presley ("Western Union"), Keith Loyd ("My Western Union Baby"), Jerry Butler ("Hey Western Union Man"), Mary Lou Lord ("Western Union Desperate"), Serge Gainsbourg ("Overseas Telegram"), Sonny Boy Williamson ("Western Union Man"), Kinky Friedman ("Western Union Wire"), Silver Connection ("Telegram"), Wire ("Dot Dash"), and other sounds and stories about telegrams.

Recording of 2006 performance at Wave Farm in Greene County.

Rebroadcast from March 9, 2013. The work of Victoria Estok and Steve Lambert, two sound artists. They will be at the Wave Farm Study Center in Acra, NY with host Tom Roe.

Victoria Estok has a dual background in sound art and environmental work. Before pursuing sound, she was an environmental worker in both urban and backcountry settings. It was during this time that she became aware of a deep seated need to uncover the intentions behind everyday actions. Her work highlights listening as a practice often exposing emotional undercurrents. Alternating between taking a playful look at what we consider to be reality and then sometimes a more poetic approach, Estok lingers on sounds and words capturing listeners and having them reexamine what they are paying attention to.

Steve Lambert made international news after the 2008 US election with The New York Times “Special Edition,” a replica of the “paper of record” announcing the end of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other good news. In the Summer of 2011 he began a national tour of Capitalism Works For Me! True/False – a 9 x 20ft sign allowing people to vote on whether capitalism worked for them . He has collaborated with groups from the Yes Men to the Graffiti Research Lab and Greenpeace. He is also the founder of the Center for Artistic Activism, the Anti-Advertising Agency, Add-Art (a Firefox add-on that replaces online advertising with art) and SelfControl (which blocks grownups from distracting websites so they can get work done). Steve’s projects and art works have won awards from Prix Ars Electronica, Rhizome/The New Museum, the Creative Work Fund, Adbusters Media Foundation, the California Arts Council, and others. Lambert’s work has been shown everywhere from museums to protest marches nationally and internationally, featured in over fourteen books, four documentary films, and is in the collections of The Sheldon Museum, the Progressive Insurance Company, and The Library of Congress. Lambert has discussed his work live on NPR, the BBC, and CNN, and been reported on internationally in outlets including Associated Press, the New York Times, the Guardian, Harper’s Magazine, The Believer, Good, Dwell, ARTnews, Punk Planet, and Newsweek.

U.S. Army documentary from 1950s, about radar defense systems.

Weekly international radio and media show. The show is produced jointly by PCJ in Taiwan and Canada. Producer/Presenter: Keith Perron.

Highlights from the Tue., March 12 U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing “Oversight of the Federal Communications Commission.”

Radio cartoons, songs from Carl Stalling, sound effects, and more, from Muppets to Warner Bros.

Episode 872 of weekly experimental new music show, by folks formerly behind Staalplaat. Click on title for playlist 872: tracklist for Vital Weekly 872: 0000 Tune; 0014 Deuce - I Want To Spend This Night With You; 0328 Kev Hopper - Super Coupe; 0630 M. Armani - El Vuelo De Chancina; 0931 First law - Whole; 1244 Navel - Pythagoras Galaxy; 1544 Jeremie Mathes - Arrecife; 1844 Machinefabriek - Worm II; 2144 Eric Lunde - Animation On The Cheap; 2436 Noise Factory; 2738 Superpoem; 3027 Machinefabriek - Vergezicht II; 3333 Tim Blechmann & Manuel Knapp - VIII; 3631 Surface Hoar & Kenji Siratori - Corpse City; 3930 Neck vs Throat; 4234 Tune.

A Night of International Noise rebroadcast from June 1, 2001 featuring Einleitungszeit (Slovakia), Schloss Tegal (U.S.), Lux Mammoth (Australia), Perlonex (Berlin), Skrol (Czech Republic), Ortho (Brooklyn), Damian Catera (ex-Condemek), Brutum Fulmen (CT), Joe Christ (film "My Struggle"), DJ Dan Bodah (WFMU), DJ Brian Gilroy (Viodre), DJ Jared Turinsky (Extraction Records).

First, "The RAIN Report," with 14-year-old Danny McReynolds/KD4ILX reading his paper "Writing Your Own Radio Control Software" from the 2012 Dayton Hamvention Youth forum. Then, from "PiratesWeek," pirates in the news this week include a Boston Radio Pirate Runs for Mayor and we take a look at the FCC Activities. Chris Smolinski writes on his blog about the 2012 pirate activities. Select postings from the Free Radio Network, HF Underground and note stations logged per the Free Radio Weekly. ‭Off Air Recordings include the stations of: Man in the Moon Radio, Boombox Radio, Voice of Alix and another blast from the past- WSRR Solid Rock Radio. Radio confiscation in Zimbabwe and the pirate forum from the fest with George Zeller.

Latest radio and media headlines and news.

News music from Sightings, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Distant Correspondent, Scanner, Curtis Hasselbring, Devendra Banhart, Co La, and others.

Songs and sounds from free103point9's Dispatch Series, including works by Seth Price, Scanner, Neptune, Carlos Giffoni, Mammal, Joshua Fried, Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson, Anna Friz, Tianna Kennedy, Japanther, 31 Down, Matt Bua, Nautical Almanac, and many others.

Do not call during rebroadcast! Off The Hook, from the hacker zine 2600, airs every Wednesday night at 7 p.m. ET in New York City on WBAI 99.5 FM, and is rebroadcast the next morning at 5 a.m. on WGXC and free103point9 Online Radio. It is simulcast online via streaming MP3 and via shortwave on WBCQ The Planet at 5110 KHz. Join #offthehook on irc.2600.net to chat during the show. Email show at oth [at] 2600.com Do not call during the 5 a.m. rebroadcast.

News of radio and media.

Tune in to ghosts in the machine, sounds in the ether, noises from nanotechnology, and other electronic sounds on this show. An excerpt of Hari Kunzru interviewing Joe Banks, author of the book "Rorschach Audio," talking about the use of radio noise and electromagnetic interference in the installation art and electronic music project Disinformation, for Sky TV show "The Lounge" in 1999 will be played. We'll listen to Alan Lamb's recordings of Australian electrical wires, 147 layers of "Call Me Maybe," and Scanner's recorded-and-remixed radio signals, and hear "Haunted Radio" by Dymaxion, and more.

Weekly free jazz show aired on eight European radio stations and free103point9/WGXC. Click for playlist for Episode 05/2012. 05/2012: porter Cracked Refraction: Kyle Bruckmann – oboe, English horn Tim Daisy – percussion Anton Hatwich – bass Jen Clare Paulson – viola Jason Stein – bass clarinet emanem AVIGNON AND AFTER - 1: STEVE LACY soprano saxophone THE SUN: STEVE LACY soprano saxophone IRENE AEBI voice (1) ENRICO RAVA trumpet KARL BERGER vibraphone KENT CARTER double bass ALDO ROMANO drum set FAST TALK: KAY GRANT voice & electronics ALEX WARD clarinet andy haas ask the oracle: Andy Haas, ss, fl, hojok/ Colin Fisher, guitar/ Aaron Lumley, b/ Brandon Valdivia, perc/ Matthew « Doc » Dunn, perc multikulti nuntium: Robert Kusiolek, accordion, electronics Anton Sjarov, violin, voice Ksawery Wojcinski, double-bass Klaus Kugel, drums, percussion, sound-objects delmark Sun Rooms: Jason (vibraphone), Mike Reed (drums) and Nate McBride (bass) The Story This Time: Joshua Abrams on bass, Frank Rosaly on drums, and Keefe Jackson on tenor saxophone, contrabass clarinet edgetone records brains - unloaded: drew ceccato, ts/ chris golinski, dr turqoise sessions: joe lasqo, piano ROGUART RECORDS velvet songs: Ernest Dawkins: soprano, alto & tenor saxophones Harrison Bankhead: double bass, cello Hamid Drake: drums, frame drum NEW ARTISTS The Stone Set: Connie Crothers, Piano/ Bill Payne, Clarinet

Three legends of jazz, Dizzy Gillespie, McCoy Tyner and Charles Mingus and poets Amina and Amiri Baraka live from The Village Gate, New York City as broadcast live on Pacifica Station WBAI, 99.5 FM in 1977, "From the Archives" of Pacifica Radio.

Two reports about radio-controlled drones from Free Speech Radio News, and a report about the Cairo-Durham School Board meeting of March 14, 2013.

Show ends with a performance from Joshua Fried, and starts with radio pledge drive theatre.

Four hours of "Saturday Morning Serial," on themes of sound effects, Western Union, cell phones, and the month of March.

Two hours of shortwave radio-oriented programming, starting with solar weather, news on meteor showers and ham radio, and other reports. Other reports include:

5:15 a.m.: "The RAIN Report: "14-year-old Danny McReynolds/KD4ILX reads his paper "Writing Your Own Radio Control Software" from the 2012 Dayton Hamvention Youth forum"

5:30 a.m., "The Shortwave Report" with host Dan Roberts and international news via shortwave radio.

6 a.m.: "Glenn Hauser's World of Radio"

6:30 a.m.: "Amateur Radio Newsline" This week: Dayton announces Hamvention 2013 award winners; 2013 will see two Global Simulated Emergency Tests in April; France approves digital voice for its ham community; Review of Canada’s ham radio examination questions is underway; Comments to FCC on WRC 2015 close on March 22; Legendary CBS World News Roundup turns 75

Songs and sounds of radar. Includes documentary information about military applications and speed detection, as well as songs by Britney Spears ("Radar"), Golden Earring ("Radar Love"), Big Joe Turner ("Radar Blues"), Link Wray ("Radar"), Holy Modal Rounders ("Radar Blues"), The Bottle Rockets ("Radar Gun"), and others.

Anyone can contribute to the show in many ways, or to keep the station on the air, on "Open Air." Matt Bua hosts live transmission art show about local transmissions from the Catskill Community Center. You make up the show with stories, phone calls, messages, requests, further information, and more. Please help be a part of the show. Stop by the Catskill Community Center in person. Call in at 518-219-WGXC. Tweet requests @WGXC. Skype calls at WGXCfm. Talk on Channel 6 on CB radio, we are tuning in. Features include solar weather, shortwave news, and more.

NOTE: This week is the WGXC Pledge Drive. To donate to the pledge drive call 518-828-0290.

Call 518-219-WGXC or Skype calls at WGXCfm to talk on the air.

"Radia" is a group of international radio stations, including WGXC/free103point9, interested in new and forgotten ways of making radio. Each week, one station makes a show that the rest air. This week: What is Radio? by Özge Dayan Mair and Maria Herold for Radio Orange for the "Radia" network. "What is Radio?" To find answers to this question we immersed ourselves deeply in the world of radio - poetic spoken atmosphere together with a cacophony of thoughts about historical moments in radio-periods were the result. In nearly every person's life radio plays a major role. But what radio is to the individual mostly differs from what it is for the masses. We guide you with surrounding sounds, voices, words, languages, music and silence through the fascinating and diverse world of radio. You just have to listen. Producers: Maria Herold & Özge Dayan Mair Many thanks to the users from freesounds.org, Tobias Dankl for sound sceneries and the accordion player from Karlsplatz. Links: http://kakophoniedergedanken.tumblr.com/

This edition of framework:afield has been produced by Jason Kahn and is the first of two new edition in his ongoing series, Unheard Cities. This one is titled Unheard Kyoto. For more information see http://www.jasonkahn.net.

In celebration of creative community radio tune in for the live, pledge drive edition. So call in and pledge for the chance to win the premium of an autographed copy of Buke and Gase's new album General Dome and a band t-shirt.

This episode from Max Goldfarb.

This show will tune in some history about pledge drives, and bits of pledge drives of other radio stations. Nell Abram from Free Speech Radio News" will explain about their latest financial woes. Currently, WGXC, WFMU, and other radio stations have pledge drives, and Resonance FM and others just finished their spring pledge drives. Tune in to other radio news, headlines, solar weather, and more. Hosted by Tom Roe.

After the Weekly Presidential Radio Address, pirates in the news this week include a Boston Radio Pirate Runs for Mayor and we take a look at the FCC Activities. Chris Smolinski writes on his blog about the 2012 pirate activities. Select postings from the Free Radio Network, HF Underground and note stations logged per the Free Radio Weekly. ‭Off Air Recordings include the stations of: Man in the Moon Radio, Boombox Radio, Voice of Alix and another blast from the past- WSRR Solid Rock Radio. Radio confiscation in Zimbabwe and the pirate forum from the fest with George Zeller.

News about the Rip Van Winkle Amateur Radio Club's meeting Mon., March 18, and the Greene County Amateur Radio Club teaching local fir fighters amateur radio.

Irish garage bands from the 1960s including Andwellas Dream, Greenbeats, Luvin Kind, Pregnant Insomnia, Dr. Strangely Strange, The Bats and more from "Lost DIscs Radio Show" broadcast live on March 17, 2007.

Survey of Pacifica Radio’s Irish collection, including audio of Nell McCafferty, Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, William Butler Yeats and other Irish authors featured in program called “Six Variations On A Theme of Blarney,” and excerpts from Padraigin McGillicuddy's “Feminist View of St. Patrick’s Day.”

A Piper Piping Away: An Interview with Paddy Maloney, founder and leader of the traditional Irish music group The Chieftains. The Chieftains are instrumental in popularizing traditional Irish music that was in danger of being lost forever. In Early 1979 Michael Huston traveled to Dublin Ireland to meet with Paddy Maloney: piper and founding member and frontman for The Chieftains.

The Chieftains and Ry Cooder present the history behind their collaboration inspired by The St Patrick's Battalion of Irish-born soldiers in the Mexican War. Chieftains' Paddy Maloney, Cooder, Irish-American historian Peter F. Stevens and members of the Mexican-American band Los Cenzontles discuss the history of the San Patricio Battalion, the kinship between Irish and Mexican cultures, and how they relate to the music from the SAN PATRICIO album, plus one exclusive live track from a Jan 2010 Dublin concert.

The Dead, from James Joyce's classic 1914 book The Dubliners. This short story is read by the classic Irish American actress Geraldine Fitzgerald. We also have actor Alec Baldwin reading a selection for Pacifica's 30th Anniversary Radio Bloomsday special celebrating James Joyce

Rebroadcast of March 16, 2013 edition of "Radio Wonderland," with Joshua Fried remixing NYC radio.

Yousaf Butt on Iran, Mary Bottari on Fix the Debt.