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If you would like to become a member of Portsmouth Community Radio, or perhaps renew your membership, you can easily do so online here.
Underwriters are very important to Portsmouth Community Radio. If you own a business or know someone who does, and you think there is interest in becoming an underwriter, please contact our underwriting committee.
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Logo photo by
Dale Lary,
Mt. Prospect Photography
Second masthead photo by Mike Barron
mbarronphoto@gmail.com
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Board Chair:
Ann Bliss
Secretary:
Damon Thomas
Treasurer:
George Toscano
Members at Large: Lou Clark Burt Cohen Charlie Griffin Dennis Malloy Dan Schwarz
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Contact Us | Portsmouth Community Radio
P.O. Box 6532
Portsmouth, NH 03802
603-430-9722
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JUNE 2012
Dear Friends,
Our annual June Pledge Drive is almost here. Starting on Friday, June 15, and running through Thursday, June 21, the Pledge Drive is our opportunity to ask you, our listeners, to chip in to keep Portsmouth Community Radio on the air. Please consider supporting Portsmouth Community Radio during the Pledge Drive. You can call your pledge in at 603-430-9722, pledge online, or stop into the Portsmouth Community Radio studios at 909 Islington Street, Portsmouth, to make your pledge. In addition, we are still in need of volunteer telephone operators to help out during the Pledge Drive. We need phone coverage from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. during the entire Pledge Drive week, and many of these time slots are still available. If you'd like to help out, please contact Volunteer Coordinator Jean Proulx at volunteer@wscafm.org. From all of us at Portsmouth Community Radio, thank you for your support!
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Meet the June 2012 Pledge Drive Team
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Portsmouth Community Radio's June 2012 Pledge Drive is headed by Trustee Dennis Malloy, who recently retired as the Director of Development at New Hampshire Public Television.
The Pledge Drive Team also includes Ann Bliss, Board Chair; Jeanne Danilzuk, Office Manager; Kathi Hubbard, Bookkeeper; Angelynne Hinson, Director of Music; Ann Haggart, Director of News and Public Affairs and Underwriting; Damon Thomas, Trustee and Director of Programming; Jean Proulx, Volunteer Coordinator; and Steve Diamond, Information Technology.
Thanks to all of the team members for putting this year's Pledge Drive together!
 | | Members of the Pledge Drive Team go over the final details of the Pledge Drive's mailings and premiums. From left: Jeanne Danilczuk, Kathi Hubbard, Dennis Malloy, Ann Bliss. |
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June 2012 Pledge Drive Premiums Announced
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Listeners during Portsmouth Community Radio's June 2012 Pledge Drive can take advantage of interesting and varied premiums ranging from a day at a Moffatt-Ladd-sponsored children's pirate camp to a reading by a Medium.
The Seacoast Repertory Theatre is offering up two tickets to any of the theatre's performances, while Historic New England invites listeners to pledge for a year's membership in their organization. The New Hampshire Film Festival is offering three pairs of weekend passes for their popular October event. You could be the guest of North East Paranormal Associates for a private ghost hunt.
Dover's Uno Chicago Grill invites listeners to "come on in and take-out double-doubles!" PaganFM is offering a chance for you to be a program host during the show. Last but not least, if you call, mail, or go online to pledge, you will be entered into a drawing for a full summer CSA share donated by Heron Pond Farm.
Where else are you going to find such deals and help your favorite radio station at the same time?
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A Big Thank You to Our June Pledge Drive Supporters
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You can't put on a Pledge Drive without a lot of help, and when we reach out into the community, we always get a positive response. We want to acknowledge these businesses, whose in-kind donations will help us put on this year's June Pledge Drive:
Allegra Marketing Print Mail: Small business marketing strategies that deliver results.
Heron Pond Farm: Using a mix of sustainable farming practices to produce what we believe to be the best crops around.
Historic New England: Serving the public by preserving and presenting New England heritage.
Mailforce: Making the bulk mail process easy and cost-effective for your company.
Moffatt-Ladd House and Garden: One of America's finest Georgian mansions and former home to William Whipple, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
New England Printing: A provider of print and digital copying services in southern New Hampshire.
New Hampshire Film Festival: Independent films selected and shown in New Hampshire.
North East Paranormal Associates: A team of dedicated professionals who let the facts drive the conclusions.
Seacoast Media Group: Publishers of five weekly newspapers and one daily, The Portsmouth Herald, along the coasts of New Hampshire and York County, Maine.
Seacoast Repertory Theatre: The seacoast's only year-round professional live theatre.
PaganFM: Airing Thursday nights from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Portsmouth Community Radio.
The Wire: The Seacoast's one-stop resource for arts and entertainment information.
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Special Programming to Air During the June Pledge Drive
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Scratchy 45s & Beyond
No Portsmouth Community Radio Pledge Drive can go by without something "scratchy" and special from the Scratchy 45s & Beyond show. On Saturday, June 16, host John "Supersport" Scavo will wake you up with a double-shot of scratchy 45s, beginning at 6 a.m.!
Joining Supersport during the morning will be Damon Thomas, and together with several cups of coffee, they will keep you entertained and take your pledges.
Then, at 9 a.m., Scratchy 45s & Beyond will feature every tune off of those vinyl albums you all remember from the '70s, when the announcer with the big, deep voice talked fast and said, "20 ORIGINAL HITS BY THE ORIGINAL ARTISTS!" K-Tel, Ronco, and other labels fit about as many songs on these 33 1/3 12" vinyl albums as the imagination could spin. Join Supersport, Damon, and special co-host Louie the Spindoctor for this fun and music-filled show.
Click here for a preview of what you might hear during the show.
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Don't Dis My Ability
Ronnie Tomanio, host of Don't Dis My Ability, along with his guest Paul Bellefeuille and engineer John Lovering, will present a special one-hour Pledge Drive show on Tuesday, June 19, from 3 to 4 p.m.
During the show, listeners will hear excerpts of memorable and emotional Don't Dis My Ability interviews from the past year. Paul Bellefeuille will be along to help out with the Pledge Drive portion of the program. With Paul's amazing vocal impersonations, you may find yourself wondering, "Is it Paul, or is it Fritz?"
Don't Dis My Ability, a show for people living with disabilities and those who love and support them, airs only on Portsmouth Community Radio.
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Special "Novelty Songs" Show
On Tuesday, June 19, from 4 to 5 p.m., John Lovering will host a one-hour special Pledge Drive show featuring novelty songs that are guaranteed to bring a smile to many faces.
Songs will include "King Tut," "Purple People Eater," "They're Coming To Take Me Away," "Disco Duck," "Flying Saucers Go West," and a selection from the wacky world of Spike Jones and His City Slickers.
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Audio Theatre
On Tuesday, June 19, from 6 to 8 p.m., a special Audio Theatre Pledge Drive program will feature in-studio guests Chuck Curtis, Gillian Aguilar, and Guy Monti, all members of a group called the "Senior Scenes Players." They will share several of their comedy skit productions and discuss their memories of old-time radio.
In addition, the program will feature a special rebroadcast of a Portsmouth Community Radio Audio Theatre Players December 2006 production of "Gunsmoke: The Guitar." The rebroadcast will be dedicated to the memory of Bruce Allen, a member of our Audio Theatre Players who passed away this past December 16.
We will also hear Episode 5 of our continuing Australian Adventure series, "Afloat with Henry Morgan." This episode, "Longboat Rescued at Sea by Captain Morgan," originally aired in 1933. The program features an actor named George Edwards who would do up to 12 different voices in one show and as many as six voices in one scene!
Rounding out the show will be two "Baby Snooks" episodes starring Fannie Brice and Hanley Stafford.
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Jazz Straightahead
On Wednesday, June 20, Terry MacDonald's special guest on Jazz Straightahead will be Sharon Jones. And because it's a special Pledge Drive show, Jazz Straightahead will broadcast for an extra hour that day, airing from 6 to 10 a.m.
Sharon Jones is a wonderful vocalist and entertainer and has been a favorite of seacoast audiences for many years. Sharon is also well loved by the Portsmouth Community Radio listening community, having hosted her show Singers Past and Present for a number of years until only recently.
Terry and Sharon promise an especially entertaining show with lots of great jazz and vocal music, some of it from Sharon's own collection, as well as lively discussion about the music and the stories behind the stories.
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Portsmouth Community Radio Receives Landscaping Funds
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Ann Bliss and Susan Ferber
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A Portsmouth Garden Club competitive grant was recently awarded to Portsmouth Community Radio. Ann Bliss, Board Chair, and Susan Ferber, volunteer and professional landscaper, accepted the $300 grant at a ceremony held at Portsmouth's Urban Forestry Center. This money will help pay for plant material and special planters for the station.
Rolling Green Nursery of Greenland presented the landscape committee with a gift certificate for $250 to be used as needed to complete the project.
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 Pictured from left are Angelynne Hinson, Brad Carr, Dennis Malloy, John Scavo, and Damon Thomas during a Portsmouth Community Radio Programming Committee meeting. The committee meets on a regular basis to review new program proposals and to discuss any programming issues raised by committee members or other volunteers. New shows in the works include several different music genres, along with a weekly sports show. Programming Committee members include Director of Programming Thomas, Carr, Hinson, and Scavo, along with Ann Haggart and Mark Pruett. |
Terry Farish, longtime station volunteer and co-producer of Seacoast Journal, enjoys a book signing for her latest novel, The Good Braider. |
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