WMPG’s Tanner Olin Smith – has passed away – memorial was held @ One Longfellow Square
We are sad to have to report that WMPG’er Tanner Olin Smith has passed away. Tanner was a USM student and WMPG work-study student. If your band played on our Local Motives show in the last couple years you will likely remember Tanner. He helped engineer the show. The whole community was shocked and sad to hear of his passing and there was a memorial concert held at One Longfellow Square to celebrate Tanner’s life. The event was called AQUAMARINE:…
Blunt Youth Radio Open House Sept. 25th
Blunt Youth Radio Project is hosting an Open House, on MONDAY, September 25th from 7:00-8:30 PM at WMPG – Southern Maine Community Radio on the USM Portland campus at 92 Bedford Street. Check out our live show and find out how you can join. This is a FREE radio training for teens. You get to do a weekly talk show on community radio. Learn to report for radio, host a live show, engineer a broadcast,…
National Radio Day @ WMPG on August 20th! Can we hear from you?
If you love radio and especially if you love WMPG, we’d like to invite you to participate with us in National Radio Day on Sunday August 20th. Across the country stations will be celebrating radio – your source for great music and talk produced by members of your community. We are looking for testimonials and Facebook posts on why you love radio and what WMPG means to you. You can call and leave a recorded voice message at…
The Portland Files – 150th show !
Ashley Kotzur and Mark Magee just broadcast their 150th show. A fan of the show made some award plaques to honor these goofy guys. The Portland Files airs every Wednesday night at 7:30pm. Tune in for some of the most outrageous and outlandish fun. Rounding out the team is Courtney Edmands. listen here
WheeeeDoggies Last show
DJ Dale ended her long running and popular show “Wheeeedoggies” in June, but not everyone got a chance to hear her final show. So we offer it up complete with her traditional phone call to Mama. Listen to first hour Listen to second hour
Audio Documentary about Franklin Arterial
WMPGer and recent USM graduate Alec Hirschberg, created a audio documentary for his last semester at USM. “And Then it Felt Like a Slum: The story of Franklin Arterial.” The story aired on May 23rd and 30th. Alec describes the documentary as looking into the urban renewal of the mid 1900s, and how it gave people the ability to zip from place to place in cars, traveling by land quickly and conveniently. But, for many…
David Brancaccio visited WMPG for a look at Community Radio at USM!
WMPG’s Chris Darling interviewed award-winning journalist David Brancaccio host of American Public Media’s Marketplace Morning Reports who was at USM on Friday May 12th. He was here as part of the USM Corporate Partners series Examining Fake News. He focused on what reporting the news means in this remarkable time. David Brancaccio’s reporting focuses on the future of the economy, financial and labor markets, technology, the environment and social enterprises. David grew up in central Maine and…
Federal Funding and Community Radio
In the Trump Administration’s initial budget the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is defunded. For nearly 50 years, the CPB has supported high quality programming across non-commercial radio, television and digital platforms. WMPG receives 25% ($70,000) of its annual operating funds from CPB, funds that provide for informative national syndicated programming and also help cover numerous expenses, from electricity to equipment to staffing. Learn about what you can do to defend community media at Protect My Public Media . What…
Molly Nillson: Imaginations
Molly Nillson’s Imaginations reviewed by Jake Folsom. Last Friday, Berlin-based Swedish singer-songwriter Molly Nilsson released ‘s her seventh LP, Imaginations. Molly Nilsson’s style is consistent – independent, straightforward, minimal synth-pop. She produces & releases all of her material through her own label, Dark Skies Association, creates her own music videos, organizes tours and designs all the album artwork. If you look up any of her live performances on YouTube, most of shows feature Nilsson alone…
