Author: Tom Larson
The current Porch Talk edition which began airing on Saturday June 20th, is a conversation between Ted Tait and Peter Farney. If you’ve missed it on air, you can listen to it here:
As you may know, the historic sailing vessel Edna Lockwood visited Colonial Beach during the Potomac River Festival. When she departed, they sailed up the Potomac for two stops in Washington, D.C. On their return trip toward the Chesapeake Bay, they decided to stop in Colonial Beach for the night. That’s when I caught up […]
Colonial Beach Community Radio includes the Colonial Beach Community Foundation (CBCF) on its list of sponsors. But make no mistake, the Colonial Beach Community Foundation is much more than a “sponsor” of WWER. For 2019, the foundation is the entity holding the FCC license for the station. More importantly, CBCF has provided a substantial contribution […]
At about 8:00am this morning (Thu June 6th), WWER returned to the air with our replacement transmitter. It appears that our signal is significantly stronger than it was over the weekend — with a reach of nearly 10 miles! So that’s awesome. What’s a little less awesome are the occasional drop outs we’re having. We […]
Transmitter Troubles Being Addressed To Our WWER Listeners: On Monday morning, the WWER staff decided to take forthright corrective action to ensure the weak / disappearing FM signal problem gets resolved once and for all. To do that, we made the tough choice to go off the air on only our third day of operation. […]
Welcome to YOUR radio station. Tune to 88.1 FM and enjoy! At midnight Friday night, WWER went on the air – live! Ted, Charlie, Dave L, and Tom said a few words to mark the occassion. We clinked our champagne glasses and engaged our automation system to carry us through our first week. You can […]
This afternoon, our station manager Ted Tait and several of his minions performed the first end-to-end test of Colonial Beach Community Radio. The computer in our Chamber of Commerce studio, sent a demo play list audio stream to the tower and out over the airwaves. When that happened, three middle-aged men were jumping and high-fiving […]
Today Ted Tait, Bill Butler and I (Tom Larson) met with the Dashan Turner (Superintendent of CB Schools) and Tricia Williams (CB High School Principal). We provided a station overview and outlined our vision for involving Colonial Beach students in WWER’s future while learning valuable skills in the process. Both Mr. Turner and Ms. Williams […]
Week One Program Schedule Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019 WWER Listeners: Today we are unveiling our Week 1 Programming Schedule! Please know that the first week of June will be our first week ever on the air. As such, the schedule will likely require some “on the fly” adjustments, as we learn our way into operating […]
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