WAMC CONCLUDES FALL FUND DRIVE

ALBANY, NY (10/11/2009)(readMedia)-- WAMC/Northeast Public Radio finished its fall fund drive at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, October 10, 2009. A total of $800,850 was raised and pledges were still rolling in.

In enthusiastic WAMC fashion, the on-air fund drive began at 6 a.m. on Monday, October 5, 2009 and ended in five and a half days with 6,551 pledgers. Dedicated WAMC members and listeners locally and nationally called and pledged on-line all day and into the night to help make this happen.

WAMC Northeast Public Radio President Alan Chartock says It was the best fund drive ever. From my gefilte fish diet to Joe Donahues boil in an unmentionable place, we had the time of our lives. You never know what youre going to get during a WAMC Fund Drive. The one thing we DO know youre going to get is $800,000 and that came from the best audience in the world!

In addition to all the people who pledged during the on-air drive, hundreds of dedicated volunteers from all over the WAMC listening area answered phones, donating their time at the stations Albany studios from 6am to midnight every day. Also, hundreds of regional businesses and organizations donated items, services, and food to the drive, wanting to be a part of the WAMC community. WAMCs fund drives are never possible without the combined efforts of all the contributing sponsors and supporters. For a listing of supporters, visit online at http://www.wamc.org/.

WAMCs fund drives help support the stations award-winning local and regional reporting, membership to NPR and network programming as well as all of the stations other day-to-day operations.

WAMC/Northeast Public Radio is a non-commercial, listener supported public radio network broadcasting 24 hours a day to portions of seven New England and Middle Atlantic States. All broadcasts can also be heard on-line at http://www.wamc.org/.

WAMC-FM 90.3 FM, Albany; WAMC, 1400 AM, Albany; WAMK 90.9 FM, Kingston; WOSR, 91.7 FM, Middletown; WCEL, 91.9 FM, Plattsburgh; WCAN, 93.3 FM, Canajoharie; WANC, 103.9 FM, Ticonderoga; WRUN, 1150 AM, Utica; WRUN, 90.3 FM, Remsen; WAMQ 105.1 FM, Great Barrington, MA; 93.1 FM, Troy; 99.3 FM, Oneonta; 97.1 FM, Hudson; 107.1 FM, Warwick; 107.7 FM, Newburgh; 103.9 FM, Beacon; 96.5 FM, Ellenville; 106.9, Middletown; 102.1, Highland, NY and 90.9 FM, Milford, PA. and on-line at http://www.wamc.org/.