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Become the Media with Urbana's Newest Community Radio Station: Radio Free Urbana -- Find Out More Tuesday June 8, 8 PM at the IMC	Current rating: 0
by Paul Riismandel Email: paul (nospam) mediageek.org (unverified!) Address: P.O. Box 2102, Champaign, IL 61825-2102	05 Jun 2004
Radio Free Urbana, WRFU, is scheduled to go on air as Urbana's newest noncommercial community radio station in June 2005. Learn how to get involved and help get this new independent media resource on the air at WRFU's first public information meeting: Tuesday, June 8, 8 PM at the IMC 218 W. Main St., Downtown Urbana Everyone is invited.
A new non-commercial community radio station is organizing to go on the air within the next year. Radio Free Urbana, WRFU, is an FCC-licensed low-power FM radio station that will broadcast with 100 watts at 103.5 FM. WRFU is holding its first public information meeting on Tuesday, June 8, 8 PM, at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, 218 W. Main St. At this meeting there will be presentations on how the station will be run and the types of volunteer opportunities that will be available, including roles on-air and off. WRFU is a joint project between the Socialist Forum, a non-sectarian discussion and advocacy group, and the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center (U-C IMC). It will be a volunteer-run station, with a wide range of programming that reflects the diversity of our local community. According to founding member Mike Lehman, WRFU is intended to complement the noncommercial stations already on the air in Champaign-Urbana. “There are only 168 hours in a week that every station has to fill,”Lehman said. “Only so much programming can be put on in that many hours. WRFU hopes to add another 168 hours of community-focused programming to the FM dial.” WRFU does not yet have a studio, however station volunteers plan to locate the studio inside the U-C IMC, which plans to buy a new building within the next year. There will be discussions on the necessary fundraising and organizing efforts at the public information meeting.
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