WGXC Programmer Resources

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Want help making radio?

transom.org has a tools section about equipment you can use to make radio, and lots of how-to guides.

Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for download on Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and other operating systems.

Looking for more radio content to listen to -- or broadcast?

A Pacifica affiliate, WGXC can access public programs produced by other Pacifica stations and independent producers. On this site, you can browse some of the available programs. Let us know if you want access to a particular audio file.

PRX “The Public Radio Exchange” is an online library/marketplace of independently-produced radio content. You can listen to the full-length stream of any piece. For broadcast, most of the programs cost money – but you can often contact the producers directly.

www.radio4all.net A place for grassroots broadcasters, free radio journalists, and cyber-activists to share radio programs. The archived material here is available to anyone.

www.radioproject.org Making Contact is a half-hour weekly magazine/documentary-style public affairs program produced by the National Radio Project, with in-depth reports on political and social issues. Its programs are free for noncommercial stations.

http://wings.org “Women’s International News Gathering Service” is an all-woman independent radio production company that produces and distributes news & current affairs programs by and about women around the world.

WGXC's History

This piece, produced by Eleanor Kagan, during the WGXC Barnraising is a great snapshot of WGXC's early history. Listen to Eleanor Kagan's Raising Barns, Raising Voices here.

Other Resources

If you need to email big audio files, WGXC has a yousendit account. Email tom [at] wgxc.org if you’d like to use the account.

Convert YouTube videos to mp3s with many different websites, including this one: YouTube MP3.

Radio Conferences

Deep Wireless: Radio art conference in Toronto in late May.

Third Coast International Audio Festival: Radio conference in Chicago in the fall.

Grassroots Radio Conference: Annual conference in different U.S. locations.

NFCB Community Radio Conference: National Federation of Community Broadcasters hold their conference in a different U.S. city each year.

Allied Media Conference: Activist media conference in the summer in Detroit.

WGXC Programmer’s Manual

The WGXC Programmer’s Manual outlines:

  • General information about WGXC
  • WGXC procedures
  • FCC Regulations
  • Emergency FAQs

  • Click here to download a PDF version of the current Manual.

    File Uploads

    Here’s where you can upload audio to our server.

    If you need a log-in, email tom [at] wgxc.org

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