{"id":52264,"date":"2022-03-24T17:51:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T21:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=52264"},"modified":"2022-03-25T07:34:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T11:34:34","slug":"wbcq-begins-new-fundraiser-to-expand-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/wbcq-begins-new-fundraiser-to-expand-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"WBCQ Begins New Fundraiser To Expand Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"

From “Uncle Bill” Tilford:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In the wake of its recent Radio Angela subsidized entertainment programming initiative, WBCQ has begun a fundraising effort to upgrade its lower-power transmitters to 100kw, upgrade its antennas and expand its subsidized program offerings as well as make the station a more attractive option to potential paying customers in areas such as public affairs.\u00a0 \u00a0In addition to its donation links on WBCQ.com<\/a>, it has opened a GoFundME page<\/a> for this purpose.<\/p>\n

Please note that this fundraiser is for WBCQ, not the SWLing Post.<\/p>\n

– Bill Tilford<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From “Uncle Bill” Tilford: In the wake of its recent Radio Angela subsidized entertainment programming initiative, WBCQ has begun a fundraising effort to upgrade its lower-power transmitters to 100kw, upgrade its antennas and expand its subsidized program offerings as well as make the station a more attractive option to potential paying customers in areas such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-dAY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2136,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/wbcq-7415-khz-will-move-to-7490-khz-on-october-24-2011\/","url_meta":{"origin":52264,"position":0},"title":"WBCQ 7,415 kHz will move to 7,490 kHz on October 24, 2011","author":"Thomas","date":"October 22, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: WBCQ) The FCC has notified WBCQ that they must vacate 7.415 MHz no later than Monday, October 24, 2011. 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