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Check out this great feature about WPAZ 1370 AM in today’s Pottstown Patch.
If you or your organization have an upcoming event, or simply want to get the word out to the community about what you do, get in touch with Dave Devlin or Ross Landy. They want to hear from you!!
Call the station at 610-326-4000 or email wpaz@wpazradio.com, or check them out at www.facebook.com/WPAZRADIO or www.wpazradio.com.
Positively!Pottstown thanks Jim Lovely of Kenilworth for sending in these photos of wildlife in Kenilworth Park. We featured Kenilworth Park in last fall’s Parks & Recreation series for the Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation. Rosemary Keane and I are steadily recording the blog series for WPAZ 1370 AM so they can re-broadcast the information whenever they get a chance; keep an ear open for “Paths, Parks & Playgrounds: Your Guide to Outdoor Recreation.” We appreciate Jim’s contribution to keeping the area’s incredible outdoor resources in the spotlight!
The weekend is finally almost here for Yoga on the Steps, which benefits the amazing organization: Living Beyond Breast Cancer. In case you weren’t able to attend our last Positively!Pottstown Happy Hour and you haven’t seen this video circulating around the internet (especially on facebook), here’s the culmination of some fun ideas, a lot of great participation by local business owners and leaders, and the talent of a certain photographer, Melia Rios-Lazo of Priceless Moments
Owner of High Street Yoga and the creative force behind the video, Barbara Kosciewicz offered her thoughts today about the video. She writes of the project:
Throughout the long winter, during each class someone would comment or giggle about a certain pose we could do in a location in Pottstown. We dreamed for spring to come and decided it would be our spring project. Before long, the idea began to grow and evolve into raising awareness and funds for our Yoga team Tri-County for a Cure that is attending Yoga on the Steps on Sunday May 15th. Suddenly the project became much greater than ourselves and became something both fun and meaningful
You can read the rest of her thoughts on her blog, Yoga Wisdom for Everyday, which is also a Mercury Town Square Blog.
There is still time to get involved with Yoga on the Steps: you can donate to the Tri-County for a Cure team or even sign up to participate on Sunday. Just visit www.yogaonthesteps.org to get the details.
REAL COMMUNITY RADIO for the WORLDWIDE COMMUNITY
On Saturday, March 26th WPAZ will be part of a multi-station donation drive to benefit the victims of the earthquake, tsunami and aftermath in Japan. The show runs from 4pm-12 midnight Eastern at 1370AM and STREAMING LIVE at http://www.wpazradio.com/. You can see details at A Night for Japan Facebook page.
Other stations participating will be:
— Woody Radio http://www.woodyradio.com/ (out of Canada) 1pm – 1am Eastern
— Pop Garden Radio http://www.popgardenradio.com/ (AM1300 WMEL, out of Cocoa, FL) 8pm – Midnight Eastern
— The Time Machine http://www.manaoradio.com/ (out of Maui, HI) 8pm – 11pm Eastern
— Twirl Radio http://twirlradio.com/ (out of Sacramento, CA) 7pm – 9pm eastern
WPAZ will be urging listeners to donate to a number of different charities. A full list of charities will be posted before the show airs, and you can donate either online or via telephone.
They will have local musicians and poets submit music and poetry, and have a few live performances as well. Many of these artists have recorded songs just for this program. Everyone is welcome to contribute music, thoughts, and prayers to the evening. Call 610.326.4000 or email wpaz@wpazradio.com
You can email or call during the show to let them know that you’ve donated, and they’ll read your name on the air. WPAZ is a REAL COMMUNITY RADIO for the WORLDWIDE COMMUNITY, helping our neighbors in need!
Before I tell you all about WPAZ and their really cool vision for what community radio is going to be in Pottstown, I have to make a confession: I am a total radio geek. I love radio. Don’t ever ask me who is on Dancing with the Stars or American Idol because I actually have no idea when or where to find those shows. But, if you want to know what’s on NPR at 2pm weekdays or who the guests are this week on Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me, well, you’ve come to the right person.
So, when I got the chance to visit the WPAZ studios last week and see what’s going on, I was pretty excited. Actually, everyone in Pottstown should be pretty excited about what the new WPAZ radio (1370 on you AM radio dial) is doing here in town.
Station Manager, Ross Landy, who worked hard and long with General Manager, Rick Rodgers, to get WPAZ back on the air as a local station, is absolutely passionate about what radio can do for Pottstown. “We are Pottstown people,” he says. And the station is going to be about local issues, organizations, businesses, musicians. It has the power to raise awareness and cover topics with a local focus and be entertaining at the same time.
While I am not old enough to have sat around the radio at night instead of the television, I do have a real appreciation for radio shows. I remember fondly listening to Rock and Roll Roots, an old WMMR show that was hosted by Earle Bailey. It kept me company for many Saturday mornings when I had to be at work.
For me, good radio is conversation. It’s not about someone pushing the shuffle button on an enormous playlist and then jumping in every now and then with a commercial break. It’s the idea that the person playing the music has something to share with the audience. WPAZ gets it.
WPAZ is offering plenty of good radio and tons of conversation. I took some time during this, their inaugural week, to listen to the station and you should, too. It’s not like a regular broadcast station where you know exactly what you are in for when you choose country music or Top 40 or even Oldies. Instead, you will be part of a conversation which might include music or talk or a little bit of both.
Here’s a look at some of what’s lined up at WPAZ so far:
6-9 AM The morning show with Randi Ellis and Betsy Chapman
9-Noon Brian James –an eclectic mix of music with a little extra
1-3 PM Ken’s Koffee Shop-music and call in conversation
You can also tune in Wednesday nights for Notes from Home with Mike Holliday, a live music show featuring local musicians. And, look for much more in the future. The Hip Places to be Scene in Pottstown girls, Janet Flack and Gina Stango will have a show soon.
Landy and his crew of radio aficionados have big plans to make WPAZ both a voice for the community and part of its ongoing revitalization. You can look forward to live appearances in the spring at events and a real presence on the local music scene. The station is broadcasting 24/7 right now and will offer live internet streaming in the near future.
So, even if you aren’t a self-professed radio geek like me, it’s worth tuning in to see what’s happening over at WPAZ.
WPAZ Radio 1370 AM
find them on facebook: www.facebook.com/wpazradio
Call the station at 610-326-4000
Pottstown’s got its radio station back. After going silent more than a year ago, WPAZ at 1370 AM returned to the airwaves yesterday afternoon. Check out The Mercury’s coverage here.
After months of hard work and negotiations, the nonprofit WPAZ Preservation Association changed its name to Community Broadcasting Group and recently purchased the station from Four Rivers Broadcasting.
General Manager Rick Rodgers and Station Manager Ross Landy have planned a line-up of old and new shows and increased local sports coverage within a 24/7 interactive format. The tentative official “opening” will be January 8th; keep an ear out then for new and returning personalities and shows. In the meantime, they’ll be running music and promos.
The station’s website is wpazradio.com. And you can find them on Facebook here.
Congratulations to Rick, Ross and everyone involved – looking forward to the programming!
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