Category Archives: Support WPRB

WPRB relies on contributions from our dedicated community of listeners. Every year, we host an annual membership drive to keep doing what we do best.

WPRB Membership Drive: Halfway There!

We’re midway through WPRB’s Membership Drive and we’re halfway to this year’s goal of $40,000!

Big thanks to all of those who have donated this week – and to those of you who have yet to reaffirm their support for the best station on the dial, don’t fret: there’s time yet! Phone bank volunteers are around at all hours of our broadcast day waiting to hear from listeners like yourself, so dial (609) 258-1033 to get in touch! For our more tech-savvy listeners, you can direct your browser to pledge.wprb.com to make your donation.

As an extra incentive to tempt our listeners, we’ve got a plethora of goodies to offer, including a WPRB Sticker Set featuring a bumper sticker and laptop decal, the exclusive BrainBot T-Shirt, and the Sloth Buddy T-Shirt. If you pledge more than $45, you’re eligible to win CDs, records, or even books hand-picked by some of your favorite DJs. Remember, these specialty premiums vary from show to show, so keep your the dial set to 103.3FM all week long to see what we have to offer!

Remember, all funds from the drive go directly to keep WPRB’s unique programming on the air, let’s celebrate another year of great radio! Dial (609) 258-2033 now or pledge online by clicking here.

Membership Drive Premiums: Level 3 Sloth Buddy T-Shirt

We’re winding up Day 3 of the Membership Drive. Thanks to everyone who has pledged so far! Moving up the pledge levels, when you donate $75, we’ll give you another amazing t-shirt, plus the Brainbot shirt and WPRB sticker set. Meet the Sloth Buddy:

When this new design from the Princeton Student Design Agency came up in the WPRB boardroom, everybody fell in love with it. Sloth may be one of the seven deadly sins, but we prefer the animal so chill that he lets moss grow on its fur. Of course, the world would be a much better place with some sheriff sloths around to keep the peace. Until then, this ultra-flattering shirt (everybody looks good in heather gray) will remind you to peace out.

You can pledge online or by phone at (609) 258-1033. Our operators are waiting to take your call!

Membership Drive Premiums: Level 2 Brainbot T-Shirt

Perhaps one day we’ll all be able to download all music ever created straight into our brains. Until then, we need independent radio, and independent radio needs you. When you pledge $45 or more to our Membership Drive, you receive the both the WPRB sticker set and a t-shirt guaranteed to endear you to our eventual robot overlords:

Designed by Plankton Art Co., this shirt might make you consider essential questions about the nature of humanity. Or you can just enjoy the awesome-looking brainbot who is clearly maintaining his balance with some sort of future magic. Up to you.

We’re offering shirts in both men’s and women’s sizes this year. Plus, if you time your call to (609) 258-1033 strategically, a pledge of $45 or more qualifies you for a DJ specialty premium.

So take advantage of your humanity. Call or click to pledge today.

Membership Drive Premiums: Level 1 Sticker Set

It’s the Annual Membership Drive! As always, we’re offering amazing premiums to our even more amazing listeners.

Admit it, you used to think that bumper stickers were the coolest thing when you were a kid. Maybe you wanted your own personal car to decorate, or maybe you imagined plastering an entire car with bumper stickers. (Maybe that second one was just six-year-old me.) Then you became old and jaded and thought, “Bumper stickers? If I wanted to know strangers’ horrible political opinions, I’d spend time on the internet.” But not anymore. Now you have a reason to love bumper (or laptop) stickers again.

The WPRB sticker set.

When you pledge a mere $15, you get not one, not three, but two stickers proclaiming your allegiance to the finest independent radio around. These brand new designs come courtesy of the Princeton Student Design Agency, and they are guaranteed to brighten up their immediate surroundings. The mutant WPRB letters just want to be friends and maybe solve mysteries together. Sloth Buddy is apparently a sheriff of some sort, but a very chill one. So what are you waiting for?

Go here to pledge today.

The pledge site is up!

Dear Lover of Great Radio,

During my past three years working at WPRB, I’ve met DJs with extraordinary record collections, dizzying knowledge of arcane culture, and an inspiring devotion to the station’s listeners. These are the folks who’ve pioneered WPRB’s thoroughly unconventional programming and helped our station wield influence far beyond our broadcast range.

Do you crave an unabridged aural history of underground rock? How about jazz that you won’t hear on an elevator? Want to hear classical DJs who deftly connect the genre’s past with its exciting future? WPRB’s got it all, and listeners are at the core of our operation. Your donations are WPRB’s bread and butter, and your commitment to the station has inspired generations of student and community DJs when curating our left-of-center programming. On October 8th, we’re kicking off our 6th Annual Membership Drive to celebrate another year of invading your hearts and minds, and we hope you’ll be a part of it. 

Last Spring’s silent fundraiser energized station staffers like never before, and that outpouring of listener love has emboldened us to continue pushing the boundaries of independent radio. For this year’s Membership Drive, we’re aiming to raise $40,000 in one week, which will not only keep the records spinning and internet streams chirping, but also bridge the gap between listeners and DJs. At WPRB, we believe radio should always be a social experience, and technology is constantly revealing new ways for dedicated listeners to connect with music. But we can only take advantage of them with your help. 

In a brazen attempt to fire up your generosity, we’re offering a brand new selection of WPRB swag. Front and center, we’ve got two new t-shirts for your pleasure. You can also pledge at a higher level and not only receive the new shirts, but also WPRB Personal Hydration Assistant (it’s a water bottle!). You can also stay toasty and fashionably edgy all winter long with the first-ever WPRB Scarf.

You can make your tax-deductible pledge right now by clicking here, or by calling (609) 258-1033. Remember, your contribution goes directly to help WPRB maintain its own unique programming on the airwaves.

Stay classy,

Dipika Sen

WPRB Station Manager

Spring Fundraiser Premiums: Level 3 Mug

Many thanks go out to our contributors! This spring fundraising drive has been a new experience for us, and we’re extremely grateful for all the support.

If you haven’t had the chance and/or inclination yet, there’s still time! I know, you just sighed in deeply felt relief. Just take a look at the premium we’re offering at the highest level. For the very generous but also very cute pledge amount of $103.30, you can receive all of the previously noted gifts plus a gorgeous WPRB Vinyl LP Logo Coffee Mug:

(Imagine that design on a mug.) Has drinking coffee/tea/other ever been classier? Every time you raise it to your lips, you can let your friends and coworkers know, “I have excellent musical taste and the monetary assets to help make it available to the masses.” Or you can just put your pens in it. Either way.

Make haste forthwith to the pledge page to help support WPRB, and enjoy the summer that is technically still spring!

Spring Fundraiser Premiums: Level 2 T-Shirt

You’ve heard about our spring fundraising campaign (if not, here you go), but maybe you’re not totally convinced yet. In that case, take a look at the next step up on the premium ladder. With only three steps, it’s a rather short ladder, but at the top is helping us make a shiny new website. For your kind donation of $45 dollars, you receive not only the WPRB button set, but also this t-shirt design:

Back for its 20th anniversary, the Hypnotized Cheese t-shirt lets you bring back the 90s! It’s much better than the alternatives, which include A) becoming a Goodwill hipster vulture, B) inventing a time machine, and C) wearing overalls and doing the Macarena. Will you ever have a chance like this again? Do you want to risk it, and end up becoming your own grandfather through zany time travel hijinks when the allure of the 90s just overpowers you?

Play it safe. Go here to pledge today and help us maybe one day get rid of the horrible advertisements on the side of this blog.

Spring Fundraiser Premiums: Level 1 Button Set

As part of our current fundraising campaign (read all about it here), we’re giving you the chance to get some awesome premiums as thanks for your pledge. We’d appreciate any gift that you could spare in order to directly help WPRB’s pressing web and computing needs. Here’s a look at the reward we’re offering at pledge level 1, all for the very affordable donation amount of $15:

On the left, an extremely classy WPRB Vinyl logo. On the right, the classic 90s Hypnotized Cheese design, making its 20th anniversary comeback. Now, imagine them on buttons. Imagine those buttons pinned on your tote bag. On your jacket. On your Star Trek uniform (we won’t judge). Can you look at those button designs and honestly say that you don’t have a place for them in your wardrobe/world? We didn’t think so.

Go here to pledge today and let everyone know that you support the best radio around.

Announcing the WPRB Spring Fundraiser!

Dear Lover of Great Radio,

WPRB’s transformation to a listener-supported station in 2007 was no accident of timing. The proliferation of online streaming music services and subscriber based satellite radio sealed the fate for countless college and community radio stations. But where others saw defeat, WPRB saw a unique challenge: to stay relevant in an ever-changing mediascape. After six years of successful membership drives, it’s clear that thousands of listeners around the world appreciate our unorthodox style of programming and desire ways to engage with it more directly. This month, we’re holding a fundraising campaign to greet these challenges head on, and I hope we can count on your pledge. In the hopes of winning your financial support, we’re adding an opportunity to declare your love publicly with some great WPRB swag.

Unlike our annual on-air membership drive, this fundraising campaign will not interrupt our normal programming, nor will any money earned from it go towards mere ‘operating expenses.’ Instead, proceeds from this mailing will go directly to where they are most needed: to rehabilitate our in-house computing and website needs. In order for WPRB to better serve its increasingly tech-savvy listener base, we have to upgrade our technology so that podcasts, interactive playlists, and alternate content streams become a reality.

WPRB Hypnotized Cheese T-Shirt

We know it’s a big deviation from past traditions to ask for your help twice in one year, and we wouldn’t be doing it if there wasn’t a palpable sense of new energy around the “20th floor of the WPRB communications complex,” as dear Dr. Cosmo used to call it. To show our gratitude towards our most dedicated supporters, we’re bringing back one of the station’s most legendary t-shirt designs on the occasion of its 20th anniversary (Hypnotized Cheese! See above.) Since these shirts will be made only to meet the demand of this mailing, this bit of 90’s nostalgia is bound to be an instant collectible. If you’re so inclined, you can pledge at a higher level and you’ll not only get the shirt, but also the WPRB coffee mug and button set (see below) which will certainly make you the object of envy in the office, the dorm, or wherever else your travels may take you.

You can make your tax-deductible pledge online by clicking here! Remember, your contribution goes directly to help WPRB reach you, our loyal listeners, and expand the scope of the programming you’ve come to know and love. I hope to hear from you!

Dipika Sen
WPRB Station Manager

WPRB Membership Drive 2011 is here!

 

The WPRB Membership Drive begins today! The full schedule for our special week of programming will be:

Sunday 10/9

7pm – 10pm                        John Weingart

10pm – 2am                       Mister Various

 

Monday 10/10

6am – 9am                        Classical with Toby

9am- 11am                         Classical with Sara

11am – 1pm                       Jazz with Dan Buskirk

1pm – 3pm                        Yo Gabbie Gabbie

3pm – 5pm                        Scullination with Eli

5pm – 6pm                       Timeout with WPRB Sports

6pm – 6.30pm                WPRB News

6.30pm – 7pm                The Week In Review

7pm – 9pm                       DJ Rev MC

9pm – 11pm                     Rock with Aaron

11pm – 1am                      Metal Mania

1am – 3am                        DJ Carnie

 

Tuesday 10/11

6am-9am                         Classical with Michael

9am – 11am                     Classical with Bob

11am – 1pm                      The Outerspace Employment Agency

1pm – 4pm                       Rockabilly Roadhouse

4pm – 8pm                      Motorfunker

8pm – 10pm                    Not Truth, But Effect with KPC

10pm – 12am                  Transitional Soundscapes

12am – 3am                     Extremities

 

Wednesday 10/12

6am – 11am                        Classical Discoveries

11am – 1pm                        Classical Discoveries Goes Avant Garde

1pm – 3pm                         The Clothesline with Wilbo

3pm – 5pm                        The Front Porch with Molly and Adoley

5pm – 7pm                        The Death of Tango with Pablo

7pm – 10pm                      Rock with Jon Solomon

10pm – 12am                    J.T.

12am – 2am                      The Sprawl with Mickey Kane

 

Thursday 10/13

6am – 11am                        Towe on Thrsday

11am – 1pm                        Blues, Bop and Beyond with Will Constantine

1pm – 3pm                         Teenage Lust with Colin

3pm – 5pm                        Majestic Jams with Gabe & LP

5pm – 7pm                        Doubleplusgood with Lizbot

7pm – 9pm                        Clean Yr Room with Art and Julia

9pm – 11pm                      Best of the UK with Scott

11pm – 1am                       Peacock Dreams with Lance Loud

 

Friday 10/14

6am – 9am                         Classical with Kate

9am – 11am                       Classical with Nathan

11am – 2pm                       Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

2pm – 5pm                        Pop Rocks with Louisa

5pm – 8pm                       The James & Andy Show

8pm – 9pm                       State of the Station

9pm – 10pm                     Lauren & Dixon

10pm – 12am                  Slot Time with Surgeon General

12am – 3am                     Music with Space with Mike Hunter

 

Saturday 10/15

6am – 7am                        Classical with James

7am – 9am                        Classical with Gabe

9am – 11am                       Sangeet

11am – 12pm                    The world’s Fare with Pangaeo

12pm – 4pm                     FOOTBALL – Live Coverage Princeton vs. Brown

4pm – 6pm                       All Ages Show with Paddy

6pm – 8pm                       Recherché with Readie Righteous

8pm – 10pm                     DJ Shane FM

10pm – 12pm                   Old School Rock and Roll with Kurt

12pm – 2am                     Between the Lines with Sitesh

 

Sunday 10/16

6am – 10am                      Sunday Morning Opera with Sandy

10am – 1pm                      Sunday Jazz with Jeannie

1pm – 3pm                        Musical Odyssey with Bonnie and Xander

3pm – 5pm                       Jamrock Radio with Selecta Bam Bam

5pm – 7pm                       Side-B Radio with Phil Jackson

 

To make a donation, either call us during a show at 609-258-1033 or go to pledge.wprb.com