Olivia DrakeWesleyan's non-commercial college and community radio station, 88.1FM WESU, calls on listeners to give the gift of WESU this holiday season during The Fifth Annual WESU Holiday Pledge Drive. The goal for this year’s drive is to raise $25,000 in listener support to sustain operating expenses throughout the coming year. As Wesleyan struggles to close a budget gap this fiscal year, WESU faces more pressure than ever to become a self- sustaining community service. To date, the station has raised $13,000. “To be able to keep pace with the revenue we in raised past years pledge drives in this tough…
The program, "The Middletown Youth Radio Project" (MYRP) on Wesleyan's station WESU 88.1 FM was featured in the Feb. 3 edition of The Christian Science Monitor. MYRP partners 12 elementary and middle-school students with eight Wesleyan University student mentors. Every Friday night, two 10- to 12-year-old DJs put on their headsets in the WESU radio studios and host their own half-hour radio show. Both Wesleyan students and the neighborhood kids benefit from MYRP, says Sonia BasSheva Mañjon, vice president of diversity and strategic partnerships, and Ben Michael, WESU station manager. "The program ... connects students and their curricula work with hands-on…
Operating as a community service of Wesleyan since 1939, WESU has served Connecticut river valley listeners for nearly seven decades and is one of the oldest college radio stations in America. (more…)