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"KWMR Changes Bolinas Frequency To 89.9 fm
Beginning Sunday, February 15th at 3pm, Bolinas and Stinson Beach listeners will find KWMR on the dial at 89.9 fm. This is good news for Bolinas and Stinson Beach Where the change will bring improved reception to the two communities and to the Highway One corridor between Dogtown and Steep Ravine. In the Point Reyes area, the frequency remains the same at 90.5 fm, and listeners can still hear the live internet stream 24 hours a day on the KWMR website, http://www.kwmr.org/
Station Manager Kay Clements:
"It gives me great pleasure to announce that the new and improved KWMR translator serving Bolinas and Stinson Beach is complete and ready to broadcast on the NEW frequency, 89.9 FM. We extend special recognition to the KWMR Radio Squirrels who climbed so high and labored so diligently to make this happen."
KWMR is a not-for-profit FM community radio station based in Pt. Reyes Station and broadcasting to the nearby West Marin communities, including Inverness, Marshall, Olema, Nicasio, the San Geronimo Valley, Stinson Beach and Bolinas - about 10,000 homes. KWMR has become an important part of the life of the area, providing about 24 hours of high-quality programming everyday. Perhaps most significantly, KWMR's content is mostly produced and hosted live by over 100 local volunteer producer/hosts - there is relatively little packaged programming from other sources.
KWMR's programming, like the communities it serves, is diverse. It includes many types of music, literature (including books read aloud and author interviews), local news, radio drama, public interest, and even local sports (local youth baseball games, broadcast bilingually).
KWMR is equipped to broadcast local emergency information, which would not be available from any other sources (the station and its transmitters have emergency generators and repeaters, and KWMR is linked to various local, regional and national emergency communication services).
The station is supported by over 1,000 supporting members and donors and by over 60 local businesses, in addition to its 100 volunteer programmers, benefiting from a wealth of local programmers with particular passions and extensive background in diverse subjects such as classical music, jazz, the environment, and its interplay with our farming and tourism economies. By any measure, and particularly as a grass roots media enterprise that has been funded primarily by its own community, KWMR has been an enormous success.
KWMR is already serving as model for other community radio stations that wish to serve their audiences with local, community-based content and to become a force that betters the communities they serve. KWMR has also pioneered new ways for local pubic radio stations, working with emergency agencies and trained volunteers, to provide immediate communications to and from disaster areas that would otherwise be inaccessible.