CityWIDE Radio is pleased to announce Lee Rayburn's return to the air waves, in at least our southwest corner of Madison. Starting Monday Feb. 1st we will be broadcasting his "Five Minutes Forward" 4 days a week, Mon. - Thur. at 6:55 pm. Now (if your are close enough to our transmitter on Hammersley Rd near Whitney Way) you will have a good reason to turn on your radio when the News Hour on PBS ends 5 min. before the 7 pm TV shows come on. These 5 min.

The current issue of the Orchard Ridge Neighborhood Association newsletter, The Grapevine, includes a short article about our station on page 7. The newsletter is available online at http://www.orchardridge.info/uploads/ORCC12-09.pdf.

The WIDE-LP story through our first year of broadcasting in the Orchard Ridge neighborhood in southwest Madison has now been posted at http://madisonwi.us/WIDE-LP/. If you live in or near the Orchard Ridge neighborhood, we are eager for your feedback, including: reception reports; programming ideas; neighborhood news; even ideas for moving the transmitter and antenna to higher ground to improve our range. CityWIDE volunteers can be reached via the Contact Us link in the left column.

Bob and Eric are attending the monthly meeting of the Orchard Ridge Neighborhood Association Board on Nov. 15, at the invitation of the Board president. The meeting is at 6:30 pm at the Meadowood Community Center on Raymond Road where Whitney Way crosses it. The meeting is open to the public, and anyone interested in hearing about WIDE-LP is invited to attend.

Today is Sept. 28, 2009, which marks one year since WIDE began broadcasting from the Hammersley Road garage of CityWIDE Radio Program Director Bob Park. Prior to that we had done two weeks of test broadcasting with rented equipment in October of 2007 from the home of CityWIDE Radio Technical Director Eric Howland on Gregory Street.

As posted on our Twitter site at http://twitter.com/WIDE_LP earlier today, we will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock Festival, Aug. 15-18, 1969, with 4-1/3 hours of music performed at the festival, starting tonight (Friday) at midnight. Tune in to hear the following artists, in order of appearance:

You will now find a "PRS" link at the top of the page that will take you to the schedule page for Matt Rothschild's Progressive Radio Show. CityWIDE is broadcasting these 29 minute programs each weekday at 4:30 pm. Our schedule page links to The Progressive Magazine's web page that provides basic information about the guest that Matt is interviewing and a link to the program audio file.

Present: Tom Kozlovsky, Eric Howland , Bob Park  and Mary Somers

1)Training

Next meeting July 28th, 2009 4:00pm CSCI building 517 N Segoe Rd.

Starting June 15, 2009, we are broadcasting The Progressive Radio Show from the Progressive Magazine each weekday, 4:30 to 5 pm. In these podcasts from http://www.progressive.org/radioweekly, Progressive editor Matt Rothschild interviews leading activists, scholars, and artists who are making the world a better place. For now you will hear this month's guests on Mondays, last month's guests on Tuesdays, guests from 2 months ago on Wednesday, 3 months ago on Thursdays and 4 months ago on Fridays. To follow who Matt will be interviewing next follow our Tweets at http://twitter.com/WIDE_LP.

We have a Twitter account where highlights of CityWIDE programing are being posted from time to time. To see highlights since late April, visit https://twitter.com/WIDE_LP. You can get an RSS feed of future updates by clicking on the orange button on the right on the Twitter page.