Help us Build a Radio Station!
Channel: Roisterous Channel
Date: 12/01/2020

GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/korcfm-radio-for-uphill-media

Uphill Media has the opportunity to own 105.9 KORC FM, a radio station license in Corvallis, Oregon - home of Oregon State University. The license is currently held by the nonprofit, Veterans for Peace, who have graciously gifted it to us. UHM has agreed to take over the license and complete the build of a station with a studio in Corvallis. 

The license is for educational use only, not commercial. There will be no advertisements! The content will be civics, related news, and music. KORC is part of a network of nonprofit radio stations in rural areas of the West Coast. Our content will be distributed across these stations as well as on the Internet,. 

We need your help to buy the station gear and build the studio at a location we have already secured in downtown Corvallis. It’s a perfect place for a studio, and will be able to broadcast to the street. 

The station gear is owned by Open Sky Radio (OSR), a nonprofit that helps other nonprofits buy, build, and run radio stations. UHM will sign a contract with OSR to help us setup, the station (antenna and gear placement on the roof), build a studio, and grow the station. They have done this with lots of other orgs successfully so we’re eager to make this happen. 

We need 30,000 to do the following:

Buy the station gear and enter the contract with OSR
Cover ongoing monthly overhead for 1 year  including licensing fees
Buy gear to build the downtown Corvallis studio
Build a website for KORCFM.com
Engage in marketing for KORCFM.com
Produce content with YOU! 

We are already working with local videographers and journalists to produce original content. Our goal is to provide a platform to produce and enjoy quality independent news, and music without copyright or censorship issues. We’ve got lots of experience producing content with others. Now, we can do that without censorship. 

Please help us reach our funding goal to support Indie Media and the education of the electorate for a healthy democracy. 

Let’s do this!

https://www.veteransforpeace.org/
http://www.openskyradio.org/
https://www.uphillmedia.org/news/uphill-holiday-update