Monthly Archives: October 2012

Membership Drive Premiums: Level 6 Record a Show

If you’re spectacularly passionate about our radio and spectacularly generous during our drive, we want to reward you. That’s why, in addition to all the premiums mentioned so far, you’ll be invited to the station to record your own hour-long show if you make a pledge over $1000. We love our station, from the music stacks to the studio, and we’re sure that you will, too. Besides, do you want to deprive our listeners of the earth-shattering greatness of your potential show?

Help make the end of our week a victory. Call us at (609) 258-1033 or click here to show your support today.

Membership Drive Premiums: Level 5 Scarf

We’re staying huddled up in the underground WPRB headquarters, plotting the last two days of our Membership Drive, but it seems that perhaps in the outside world, the weather is changing. There’s a chill in the air and decorative gourds on the horizon. How are you possibly going to show your love for WPRB when you’d freeze in one of our t-shirts? Well, we’ve anticipated your dilemma, and now you can bundle up in independent radio-loving style.

This is the WPRB scarf, given in thanks to every wonderful, generous person who pledges $250 or more (along with water bottle, shirts, and stickers). What’s better than a cozy gray scarf to warm you through the winter? Nothing. Everybody loves scarves.

Warm our hearts before the chill of insufficient funds by pledging online or calling (609) 258-1033 today.

Why I Love WPRB

Hi guys!

Fair warning: this is going to be a little bit sappy. Not unmanageably so, but I am definitely going to get heartfelt up in here.

WPRB is not the first radio station I’ve ever been a part of. My high school had a radio station. It aired to about six people a week, four of whom were related to me. I wanted to do something real, but it was hard when most of my fellow DJs had shows with names like ‘In Which I Discuss The Last Episode of Gossip Girl in Great Detail Because For Real What Was Serena Even Wearing, Right?” and “I Don’t Even Know What Time My Show is On.”

I can’t even describe how different WPRB 103.3 is. The DJs I’ve met here are committed to their shows and to making sure that the stuff they put on the air is worth listening to. And the board members here give so much of their time to the station that I sometimes worry about their health. The people who work here take this place seriously (I mean, not overly seriously. But seriously enough to produce something of quality.)

Really, guys. This place is worth supporting.

BYRD

WPRB Board Member and DJ

Membership Drive Premiums: Level 4 Personal Hydration Assistant

So, we’ve passed our halfway mark towards our $40K goal – and there are still three days left to pledge! If haven’t yet dared to pick up the phone or click this link, just think about the incredible prizes that could be in store for you. The spiritual prize of keeping independent radio alive comes first and foremost, of course, but this WPRB water bottle is also quite spiffing.

With a pledge of $103.30, you can receive the WPRB personal hydration assistant in addition to all lower pledge premiums. This bottle is guaranteed to earn you the admiration of your friends and the envy of your enemies. After all, a sleek, gorgeously designed (thanks to Plankton Art Co.) WPRB water bottle tells the world, “Not only do I have wonderful musical and aesthetic tastes, I also make responsible environmental choices.”

Make a WPRB phone banker happy. Call in a pledge to (609) 258-1033 or pledge online now.

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.