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WMPG presented the fifth annual Fashion Show !
WMPG, Greater Portland's Community Radio presented its fifth annual Fashion Show on Saturday, April 25 at Space Gallery, 538 Congress Street in Portland. Doors opened at 8 pm and the show began at 9 pm. Each year, Fashion Show Director Paul Drinan gathers Maine designers of clothing, jewelry and accessories to present their creative fashions on the Space runway. "None of that 'off-the-rack-schmack'", muses Drinan, "This is the real deal!" This year's event brought out a large crowd to witness exciting all-original clothing, jewelry and accessories designed by local artists. This year's added touch of pre-show entertainment by Quasar with an interactive, improvisational musical extravaganza, makes this year's show a "Powered Up" experience. WMPG is kicking off a two year "Power Up!" fundraising effort to boost their broadcast power with a new transmitter and stronger signal. A huge "thank-you" goes out to everyone who made the show possible including all the fashion designers, models and especially producer Paul Drinan. The WMPG Fashion Show is annually produced and directed by former runway pro and WMPG Volunteer, Paul Drinan. All proceeds went to WMPG and our "Power Up!" campaign! FMI Contact Paul at wmpgfashion@yahoo.com. Click here for a MaineToday.com photo spread of the event! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Premier of Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold, a radio and photo documentary produced by WMPG-FM in collaboration with the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Aired February 26th, 7:30pm on WMPG.
In 1912, the state of Maine evicted about forty-five people from Malaga Island off the coast of Phippsburg. The island residents were poor, black, white, and mixed race. The eviction is typically viewed as a shameful moment in the state's history. WMPG-FM, in collaboration with the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, announces the premier of Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold, a radio and photo documentary recounting this infamous event and its impact on several generations of descendents. Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold includes an hour-long radio program plus a gallery show featuring photographs, audio, and a panel discussion. The radio documentary aired on WMPG, February 26th. A gallery opening will took place at Salt. "This is one of those stories where people say 'That happened in Maine?!' or 'The state did what?!' Then they say 'Tell me more,'" said Rob Rosenthal, radio producer for Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold.... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
WMPG Celebrates Women's History Month On Sunday March 29, the women of WMPG, Greater Portland's Community Radio station, will present a daylong celebration of Women's Voices, Women's Issues and Women's Song. From 6:30 am to 9:00 pm, the airwaves at 90.9 and 104.1 will broadcast the sounds and stories of younger women, older women, African women, financial women, blues women, Lesbian women, local women and more.
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Silly's Restaurant Wins WMPG Cajun Cookin' Contest!
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WMPG Music Reviews
Music Reviews by WMPG DJ's 
THE CURE4:13 Dream Suretone/Geffen Records; 2008 By Ron Raymond WMPG Music Director How does a 32-year-old alt-rock/goth band get the fans excited about a new album months in advance of the album’s release date? Well, to prepare for the 13th album by 80s alt-rock/goth heroes The Cure, 4:13 Dream, the 4-man band led by Robert Smith, released singles on the 13th of each month leading up to the album’s initial release date of September 13th. Each of these singles had non-album B-sides, which have always been a Cure staple. However, the album got pushed back to October 13th and was ultimately released on October 28th. After a remix EP was released on September 13th to tide fans over, the album arrived and is the first album since 1989’s Disintegration that, for the most part, sounds like The Cure we used to know. 4:13 Dream opens up like several Cure albums past – with a long track. In this case, it’s the song “Underneath The Stars.” The song echoes back to Disintegration, by far the band’s biggest album to date. First single “The Only One” also echoes back of Cure days past, to songs like 1985’s “In Between Days,” 1987’s “Just Like Heaven” and 1992’s “High.” It’s refreshing considering how awful 2004’s self-titled album was. There was maybe one good song on the whole thing. It’s nice to see Robert Smith and Co. going back to basics. The album does, I feel, take a couple of missteps in the songs “The Real Snow White” and former single “Freakshow.” These songs sound like the more recent Cure offerings and they don’t feel like they belong in any album. They just seem out of sorts compared to all of the other great cuts. Other highlights on 4:13 Dream include the sweet but short “Sirensong”; one of the singles and my favorite song on the album, “The Perfect Boy”; the simple but lovely “This, Here And Now, With You”; and, “Sleep When I’m Dead,” which sounded to me at first like an older Cure song – and now I know why. Upon further reading, “Sleep When I’m Dead” is actually a song that was originally written for the 1985 album The Head On The Door. Do I think like The Cure are headed back in the right direction? Yeah, I do. 4:13 Dream is the first studio album that reunites original member Porl Thompson with the band since 1992’s Wish. And, strangely enough, in Spain, where the Cure have never had much success, the first three singles off the album have all gone to #1, with “The Perfect Boy” reaching #2. This album makes me look forward to their next effort, so I can applaud that one as well, because I believe the Dream is real – that The Cure can (and will) still make some truly good music. Read More Music Reviews: David Pence reviews "Neu!" Dylan Morrow reviews "The Mighty Hanibal" Chris Darling reviews Sean McGowan's River Coffee Pete Hodgin reviews the "Ides of Space" Valerie Cartonio reviews "Amajacoustic" Lenny Smith reviews Macy Gray's "The Id" Ron Raymond reviews Paul Weller's "22 Dreams" Ron Raymond reviews The Replacements' "Don't you know who I think I was?" Ron Raymond reviews David Byrne & Brian Eno' "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today" Ron Raymond reviews The Cure' "4:13 Dream" Ron Raymond reviews The Smiths' "The Sound Of The Smiths" Ron Raymond reviews Merl Saunders' "Blues From The Rainforest: A Musical Suite" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
WMPG Radio Open Mic Live! Brought in the crowds!
On a Thursday afternoon, December 11th, the sixth edition of WMPG's Radio Open Mic took place and brought the open mic genre to the WMPG airwaves. In front of a live audience, at the University of Southern Maine Portland Woodbury Campus Center Amphitheater act after act made their way to the mic and showed us and the world what they had! For people and acts that couldn't make it, we had mp3s that had been submitted that were played in between live acts. There was no admission to give it more of a Coffeehouse feel. Coffeehouse fare was available in the food court nearby. Check back here for audio from the event as available! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
WMPG CDs & Record sets news records!
Din't make the show but still want to help out your friends at WMPG! - Donate your records and CDs to WMPG for next year's sale. If you have records, cassettes, CDs or old turntables taking up space and you don't know what to do with? We will take them. The sales from the event go to help WMPG obtain equipment and offset other fees. If you would like to donate records or CDs to WMPG for this year's sale, call (207) 780-4424 or e-mail the stationmanager@wmpg.org. Our crack team of drivers will quickly arrive at your house to clean away all those old records that are taking up space! We will then give you a receipt which can be used for a tax deduction! Thanks again for everyone who came to this years sale and especially to everyone who donated the records and CDs! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
WMPG has a new news training project, and as our reporter trainees finish their training they are producing feature reports on a wide variety of subjects. Each piece airs several times on our air, and is also posted on the web. To visit WMPG's general news page, click here.
On a related note, WMPG's 2008 Election Project has begun. Our volunteer reporters will bring you wide-ranging truly local coverage through election day and beyond. The reports will air as we have them in regular slots in our air schedule: 8:30am and 5pm Monday through Friday. On the days we have no fresh reports, none will air, but if you make a habit of tuning in at those times you'll hear all of our coverage. And, all the reports will be posted on line as well, along with episodes of our established public affairs shows which include election coverage. To go to the WMPG Election Project 2008 page click here. And if you would like to find out about becoming a citizen reporter yourself, call WMPG Program Director Dave Bunker at (207) 780-4598 or e-mail him by clicking here.
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Amy Goodman - the Democracy Now host and executive producer draws more than 400 to Portland for WMPG benefit!
Amy Goodman came to Portland for a joint benefit appearance for WMPG and CTN Channel 4. The Democracy Now host and executive producer gave a talk on Friday evening, September 12th, at Portland High School Auditorium from 7 to 8pm; the talk was followed by a book signing of Amy's newest book (with her brother, David Goodman), Standing up to the Madness, Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times, presented in conjunction with Longfellow Books. There was also a reception before the talk which was a chance to meet and talk with Amy one on one in a more casual social setting, with refreshments. Together WMPG and CTN Channel 4 raised more than $5000 at this event! Thank you to everyone who came and made this night a great success. WMPG is grateful, as always, to the many partners who contributed to the success of the events for Amy Goodman's visit and send out a huge "Thank You" to:
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WMPG Reporter Jessica Lockhart co-produces national broadcast from the St. Paul during Republican Convention
WMPG reporter and engineer Jessica Lockhart co-produced a two hour live broadcast in St.Paul, Minnesota on Tuesday September 2nd. Lockhart volunteers with the Homelessness Marathon which produced the program in conjunction with a protest rally organized by the Poor People's Economic Human Right's Campaign. The rally called "The March for Our Lives" was one of several taking place during the Republican National Convention. Jeremy Alderson is the director of the Homelessness Marathon and the Live coverage of the poor people's rally says: "We were very pleased with our Live From The March for Our Lives broadcast from St. Paul, outside the Republican convention. The March for Our Lives did make it into the mainstream news, but only because after it was over, the remnants of the crowd (including our crew) got tear gassed and pepper sprayed (some of you may have heard my reporting on this during the regular Pacifica convention coverage). This later development was especially unfortunate, because the march had been entirely peaceful and it did not deserve to be sensationalized in that way. Needless to say, we feel that the poor deserve to be heard not herded"
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WMPG Needs Your Car!
Your old car -- think it's not worth much? Well it may be gold to WMPG! If your car has an engine and is towable... and you have the title, call 1-888-WMPG-AUTO to see if your old wheels may be eligible for a tax deductible donation to WMPG. You make the call... and we take care of the rest! WMPG has teamed up with the friendly folks at The Center for Car Donations to coordinate this effort. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Counrty Rock legends Chris Hillman and Herb Pederson visit the Kitchen Party!
WMPG's Thursday morning "alt country" program the Kitchen Party had two of the originators visit us on 8/7/08! Frequent musical collaborators Chris Hillman who has played with the likes of The Byrds, Flying Burito Brothers, Manassas, Souther Hillman Furay, Desert Rose Band and Herb Pedersen who has played with David Grisman's Smokey Grass Boys, The Dilliards, Manassas, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Kris Kristofferson, John Prine, Jackson Brown, John Denver, Desert Rose Band and more stopped by for a long interview and to play a few songs including Tamborine Man and If I could Win Your Love. They were in town promoting a show at One Longfellow Square. Everyone was thrilled to have such musical legends honor us with a visit and songs! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Okbari brings the Mideast to Downeast!
WMPG's Friday morning global music show, Shaken and Stirred, hosted by DJ Adira welcomed two members of Okbari to the studio on August 1. Amos Libby on the oud, and Eric LaPerna on percussion filled the station with the sounds of the Middle East. Find out more about them at www.okbari.org
Okbari Amos Libby and Eric LaPerna perform Armenian and Anatolian folk music, classical Middle Eastern music and traditional folk and contemporary songs from the Greek, Arabic and Balkan traditons. Okbari also presents multi-instrumental original music inspired by the musical systems of the Middle East and India. They perform on the oud, clarinet, duduk, bouzouki, doumbek, riqq, tabla, ney, mridangam, and several other instruments from around the world. Okbari was formed in 1995 and has independently released four albums: 'Among the Believers', 'By the Banks of the Red River', the self-titled 'Okbari', and, most recently, 2007's 'Armenian and Anatolian Folk Music.' Okbari also appears as a traditional Armenian and Turkish dance quartet featuring former Bardezbanian ensemble violinist Michael Gallant and noted guitarist Michah Blue Smaldone. Okbari has a long partnership with Maine's most beloved belly dancer, Jamileh. Okbari are from Portland, Maine and has performed throughout the Northeast. To further their studies, Okbari traveled to Istanbul, Turkey, where they shared the stage with the Kemani Serkan Roma Ensemble at Ikinci Bahar in the famed Cicek Pasaji as well as with the Oudi Hasan Roumeli Kef Ensemble at Roumeli Meyhane. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Underwriter Profile:
By Dale Robin Lockman, Development Director Portland Pilates
On the second floor at 49 Dartmouth Street, on the corner of Forest, there is a bright, welcoming room busy with quiet activity. When you arrive, a friendly sign urges you to remove your street shoes, and as you enter, you can see what private and group instruction in the practice of Pilates looks like. Pilates is a system for strength and fitness that was developed by Joseph Pilates in the 1920s and 30s, and focuses on breath control and muscle control as basic skills for core strength and wellness. Nancy Etnier is the owner of Portland Pilates, and is the brains and energy behind its programming. During a recent visit to the WMPG studios, Nancy sat down with us, and reflected on the history and philosophy of her Portland Pilates studio. Read more about Portland Pilates You can find out more about Portland Pilates at their website, pilatesportland.com or by calling 772-8950.
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Volunteer Profile: Roberto Mendoza, Host of "Eagle, Quetzal, Condor
Volunteer Roberto Mendoza hosts Eagle, Quetzal, Condor Monday mornings from 10:30am to noon each week on WMPG. He describes it as a show of news, music, and commentary from an indigenous perspective which covers the Western hemisphere. With this show Roberto seeks to generate renewed interest in indigenous values and to promote dialog between descendents of all the different ethnic groups which, at various times, have come to this part of the world. On Friday, June 27th, 2008, Roberto had a conversation with WMPG Program Director Dave Bunker about these topics and more besides. Click here to listen to the interview. You can hear Roberto Mendoza's show: Eagle, Quetzal, Condor Monday from 10:30 AM 'til 12 PM. Read More Volunteer Profiles: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Return your returnable bottles & cans and support WMPG!
Next time you bring back bottles and cans you can help support your favorite local community radio station...And you don't even have to get dirty! CLYNK, a new local redemption program, will let you turn in a bag of bottles and/or cans at any participating Hannaford and will credit it to WMPG. There are special bags, which you can pick up here at WMPG, that have a barcode. Want us to mail you a few of them - no problem! Shoot us an e-mail to WMPG Station Manager. When you fill them up and drop them off the barcode will credit your (5 and 15 cent) returns to us! It's that easy. Participating Hannaford stores include: Biddeford, Brunswick, Buxton, Falmouth, Lakes Region (Windham), Portland (Forest Ave), Saco, Sanford, Scarborough (CLYNK's flagship location), South Portland (Mill Creek), Topsham, Westbrook, Yarmouth, and York. A big thanks to Jan, host of Local Motives, who had some quick thinking when she learned about the program and added us in! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
USM Jazz Lab Ensemble & USM Jazz Ensemble were broadcast live on WMPG from USM Hannaford Lecture Hall on April 22nd - listen to it in the WMPG Archives 
On Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 the USM Lab Jazz Ensemble, directed by Larry Williams, and the USM Jazz Ensemble, led by Dr. Doug Owens, raised the roof of the Hannaford Lecture Hall in the Abromson Community Education Center on the USM Portland campus with a swingin' set apiece. WMPG was there, broadcasting live. We also recorded both halves of the concert, which can be downloaded here: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Malik Rahim and Robert King Wilkerson interviewed on WMPG
On Friday April 18th Malik Rahim and Robert King Wilkerson visited WMPG for an interview with Hashim Allah. The interview was a riviting look at the American Justice System and how a person can spend more than 30 years in jail for the possession of a $5 bag of marijuana... In 1970 Malik Rahim was a co-founder of the Lousisiana Black Panther Party. Today Malik continues struggling for social and ecological justice in his community. One week after Katrina, Malik co-founded Common Ground Relief. Over the pst 2 1/2 years, Malik has worked endlessly to bring the story of post-Katrina New Orleans to the world. Robert King Wilkerson is a former member of the Black Panther Party. He spent 29 years in solitary confinement in the Louisiana State Prison aka Angola Prison for a crime he was later exonerated for in 2001. He is one of the widely written about Angola 3. Since he was released King has worked to free the other two former Black Panthers who are still incarcerated. Both men are in town for a discussion at the Meg Perry Center located at 644 Congress Street in Portland. FMI 930-5232
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WMPG collaboration with Portland Harbor Museum on the Homefront Veterans Oral History Project wins MAB 2007 1st place award for Features!
The Maine Association of Broadcasters holds an annual conference to highlight some of the years best work in radio and television. For 2007, WMPG staffer Stephanie Philbrick was honored with a First Place Award for Feature reporting for her production of "The Homefront Veterans Oral History Project, Episode 1". This five part series was a collaboration between WMPG and the Portland Harbor Museum and funded in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. WWII turned the greater Portland area into a boomtown. Thousands of people flooded into the area to take jobs generated as we geared up for war. Old professions became new again when two large government shipyards were built in South Portland. Thousands of men and women from all over New England came to build the Liberty ships that supplied allied troops overseas. Many ships were built between 1942 and 1945. Portland Harbor Museum and WMPG are recording interviews with the Homefront Veterans who built the Liberty ships.
Homefront Veterans Oral History Project Audio here. | WMPG presented a "Speak Out" on diversity - @ USM's Gerald E. Talbot Lecture Hall
The WMPG "Speak Out!"
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| Steve Hirshon interviews Roger Bowen 
USM's Convocation opens this year with a keynote speech by Roger W. Bowen, a former university president and former general secretary of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). He will speak on "Academic Freedom and Academic Democracy" on Thursday September 20. The morning of the speech he talked with WMPG volunteer Steve Hirshon on his show Hukkin' a Chainek. That interview can be heard here. Download here Steve spoke to Daily Kos blogger Bill from Portland Steve Hirshon speaks with Daily Kos front pager Bill in Portland, Maine. Bill writes Cheers and Jeers Tuesday through Friday. Daily Kos is one of the top ten most read blogs on Earth.
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The humble Farmer, Robert Skogland visits Home Dad
On Tuesday, May 1st The humble Farmer Robert Skogland was a guest on Home Dad. Famous for his downeast Maine humor,commentary and music program on MPBN radio, he recounted a few humorous moments and discussed his future. Many of you may be aware of what's been going on with Robert Skoglund, aka the humble Farmer, and Maine Public Broadcasting. If not, here it is in a nutshell: The Humble Farmer is a weekly radio show that has been on the air for 28 years. Skoglund has a very dry sense of humor, and he features his commentary between a pretty eclectic mix of jazz standards. The commentary is sometimes humorous Maine stories, and other times it drifts into something can be loosely regarded as political. Skoglund has been critical of the Iraq war, as well as the Taxpayer Bill of Rights. read more
Click here for MP3 Homedad Archive Downloads including The humble Farmer program Homedad and "the Community Television Network" have partnered up to bring you the Homedad Show to TV. If you have cable TV in the greater Portland area you can now watch the Home Dad program.
Click here for the Community Television Network daily schedule
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Long time WMPG Technical Director remembered with Memorial Stone
For more than ten years WMPG DJ's had Phil Hersey to thank for keeping all the equipment up and running. Phil's favorite time at WMPG was either late at night repairing equipment or when a band was playing and he was the engineer. Phil was the WMPG Technical Director and engineer for our Local Motives program, the program dedicated to live local music. If you were in a local band around here for the last decade, chance are Phil made you sound good. He was an institution within the local music scene. Phil passed away in 2004 and last year WMPG DJ Lars Lindgren completed this monument to him. If you want to hear some of Phil's work just call one of our DJs and ask for some local music. We have more than 500 recordings in our library which he mastered. We miss ya Phil but are happy that your passion and love for live music has lived on here at WMPG!
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| Pulitzer nominated author Dave Eggers and Valentino Achak Deng, one of 17,000 Lost Boys of Sudan - speak at USM
"I cannot recall the last time I was this moved by a novel. What is the What is that rare book that truly deserves the overused and scarcely warranted moniker of "sprawling epic". Told with humor, humanity, and bottomless compassion for his subject, one Valentino Achak Deng, Eggers shows us the hardships, disillusions, and hopes of the long suffering people of southern Sudan. This is the story of one boy's astonishing capacity to endure atrocity after atrocity and yet refuse to abandon decency, kindness, and hope for home and acceptance. It is impossible to read this book and not be humbled, enlightened, transformed. I believe I will never forget Valentino Achak Deng." --KHALED HOSSEINI, author of The Kite Runner This was a fundraising event for The Telling Room, a Portland-based writing program for young people. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| WMPG's Dave Wade interviewed independent journalist Dahr Jamail  On Wednesday, September 27th, WMPG's Dave Wade interviewed journalist Dahr Jamail. Jamail is one of only a few independent US journalist who has spent time in Iraq during the war. His MidEast Dispatches have become critical material for publications such as The Nation, The Sunday Herald, Islam Online and the Guardian. Jamail is in Portland to speak at USM at the Abromson Community Education Center. Before the evening event he visited us.
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| Take a virtual tour of WMPG's facilities!
Have you ever wondered what WMPG's music library looked like or perhaps the on-air studio? If yes, then here it is, we recently took out our digital camera and took a walking tour. Take a look at our 67,000 cds and 30,000 lps! Check out our new audio console compliments of the Maine Association of Broadcasters. Meet a few of the people that keep WMPG running! Thanks to Stephanie Sample for the creative editing of the video. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Day of the Dead...A Radio Drama
LISTEN TO IT NOW! Download the 96 kbps .MP3 (35MB) For more information or to contact Frederick go to http://www.finalrune.com/dead | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Zippy interviewed the late Barry Cowsill
During the summer of 2004,the Thursday Evenin' Sun featured an imaginary roadtrip throughout the southern states with the Zipdawg at the wheel. On one such ride,July 1st, Zip picked up Barry Cowsill hitchhiking. Barry graciously chatted and played a couple songs live to earn his fare. Straddling the line between reality and fiction,this interview becomes more relevant and poignant now that Barry Cowsill has passed on at the age of 51. Listen and enjoy,sharing a few minutes with Zipdawg and Barry Cowsill (1954-2005).
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18th and Vine: Kansas City's 'Creole
Corner'
Written by: John Mooney, WMPG Volunteer DJ For Tuesday's Groove Yard Shift 6:30-8:30 am Long ago, Kansas City, Missouri lit up the American musical scene as never before. The city's 18th and Vine district became second to none with its jazz influence. Jam sessions would swing the masses into what would become the signature of Kansas City as well as our nation. Click here for the entire story! WMPG starts up the HD RADIO transmitter!
In June, WMPG completed the installation of our new analog/digital 90.9 IBOC FM transmitter. Brian Dyer, WMPG’s long-time Chief Engineer, began installing the equipment this past spring and we have been tweaking the signal and making adjustments to the digital broadcast. For you, the listener, the transition should have been seamless as we continued broadcasting in analog. The new transmitter broadcasts in both analog and digital . If you want to hear WMPG in digital you'll need to purchase a digital radio. There are a number of models available from Kenwood and a number of new autos that offer digital radios, too. You may also install a digital converter. This will allow an analog radio to receive digital signals. As for other WMPG plans related to our digital upgrade, we are planning on purchasing a number of digital radios and placing them around town as “listening booths” and when they become available we'll be offering digital radios as Begathon premiums....
Steve Hirshon interviewed Sean
Wilsey
On Thursday, July 21st, WMPG's Steve Hirshon interview Sean Wilsey, editor at large at MC Sweeney's Quarterly. He talked with Steve Hirshon about his memoir "Oh, The Glory of it All(Penguin)" on the Thursday morning drive-time show Huckkin' A Chainek prior to his Portland reading at Space Gallery. Sean Wilsey's writing has appeared in The London Review of Books, The
Los Angeles Times, and McSweeney's Quarterly, where he is the editor at
large. Before going to McSweeney's he worked as an editorial assistant
at The New Yorker, a fact checker at Ladies' Home Journal, a letters
correspondent at Newsweek, and an apprentice gondolier in Venice, Italy.
He was born in San Francisco in 1970 and now lives with his wife, Daphne
Beal, and his son, Owen.
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Call 1-888-WMPG-AUTO to donate your car to WMPG!
We've teamed up with the friendly folks at 
A Radio & Photo Documentary
500 Forest Avenue, Portland, ME (207) 780-9581
Discount Computer Sales and Road Runner Access for USM Students and Employees!
Click here for a VIDEO TOUR of WMPG
Click here for Homefront Veterans Oral History Project
WMPG is now broadcasting a digital signal. Click here to learn more.
