It's here again; my annual funding drive show is Sunday October 23 from 8pm-midnight and the funding drive only goes until Friday. The theme this year is cjsw 90.9fm Call of the Dial! (with artwork by Dirty Donny)
For one week every year we take a break from being the best radio station anywhere, and ask you, our listeners, to help us out.
All the money raised during our annual Funding Drive campaign goes towards our capital budget (like it always does), paying for everything from upgrading our web servers (we're really trying to keep ahead of the exponential growth in the number of people trying to listen online), to maintaining our 4000 watt fm broadcast tower, to our CD players (commercial grade cd players and parts are becoming harder to source), our headphones, and all the other costs associated with running a radio station. For more info on the why's of funding drive please read this.
Operators are standing by to take your calls. If you would like to donate on my show but won't be able to listen (too busy, on the other side of the world, etc.), we'd be happy to accept your pledge online.
As in previous years, there is a great variety of pledge incentives. I have compiled some virtual (downloadable) funding drive compilations. For each paid $25 pledge amount you a get an emailed link to the zip file (ex. $25 = one zip file of your choice, $100 = all 4). I will be able to offer some additional cd's, LP's, or other goodies as incentives for pledges over $75. I have set a bunch of great cd's and vinyl records aside (at least I think they're great... for example Experimedia was very generous to us this year). For those of you outside of Calgary, the station will mail your pledge incentives to you.
Feel free to donate early and donate often; it all goes to the same worthy cause: keeping cjsw in good financial shape and on the air for another year. Certain incentives do tend to go fast (ex. women's t-shirts) so if you want to ensure the best selection feel free not to wait for my show on Sunday.
Thanks very much for your support!
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Thanks to everyone who pledged! We raised $1740, a new record for the show. If you haven't pledged yet there is still time (you have until 6pm Friday).
Don't forget to listen for the various grand prize draws on the Road Pops on Nov. 18 (for those who have paid their pledges by 12pm Nov. 18).
The 2011 CJSW Funding Drive is done and we reached a grand total of over $188,000! Big thanks to all our supporters who pledged their hard-earned dollars towards CJSW.
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