WVEW LP, Brattleboro community radio at 107.7 FM, has returned to the air from new studios in the Hooker-Dunham Building on Main Street after nearly a year’s hiatus following the fire at the Brooks House in April 2011. Station supporters have worked hard to re-equip and re-build. The station’s signal is clearer and stronger than ever, thanks to a new antenna location at the Austine School, courtesy of Vermont Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. Many favorite DJ’s and shows will be returning, so be sure to check the schedule and tune in!

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Brattleboro community radio is now at 139 Main Street, #706B, on the air at 107.7 FM, and streaming at wvew.org.

A statement from Michael Copps, FCC Commissioner and lpfm supporter: Let's begin with a basic truth: the future of our country's media is an issue that goes to the heart of our democracy. A well-informed electorate is the premise and prerequisite of functioning self-government. To make this compact work, it is imperative that the FCC play a vital role in helping to ensure that all Americans have access to diverse and competing news and information that provide the grist for democracy's churning mill. But for most of the past 30 years, the Commission has turned a blind, and sometimes hostile, eye toward this responsibility. [more...]