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Show m - KPCW Fundraiser Nets Radio Station Over $17,000 Park City residents came through in a big way to support their community radio station during the recent winter pledge drive. "It was truly outstand ing," commented KPCW General Manager Blair Feul-ner, Feul-ner, who said the fundraiser will go down as one of the most successful ever, with over $17,000 pledged during the five day drive. "Most impressive to me," said Feulner, "was the number of new pledges." We had over 300 pledges, by far the most ever for a winter marathon." He went on to credit the increase in support to the continued upgrading in the station's programming and professionalism among the station svolunteers and to the new Quarry Mountain transmitter, which has substantially sub-stantially improved KPCW's coverage in many parts of town. In addition, Feulner thanked thank-ed the local businesses that provided the incentive premiums pre-miums for contributors. The Deer Valley ski passes were the most successful premium the station has ever had, with over 100 persons making $30 pledges. "I would like to thank John Miller and Deer Valley, on behalf of the KPCW Board of Trustees, for donating the passes to the fund drive," said Feulner. The goggles and sunglasses sunglass-es KPCW gave to its major donors were also very successful and Feulner expressed ex-pressed his thanks to Tim Mertens, proprietor of Food For Thought and Mountain Savior, for providing those premiums. Also providing premiums were Mary Doughty at the Family Jewels and Tom and Linda Barrett at the Park City Dairy Queen. Many other Park City merchants donated quiz prizes and other merchandise to the fund drive, they are listed in an ad in this week's paper. "It was a real town effort," Feulner said, adding his thanks to the Kimball Art Center, Egyptian Theater, Intermountain Actors, Park City Planning Department, Friends of the Library, Park City Recreation Department, Park City Board of Education, Educa-tion, The Newspaper and Park City Rotary Club, all of whom provided volunteers to man the phones at the station. Money raised from the fund drive will go to operating the station during the next six months. Listener contributions account for about half of what it costs to keep the station on the air, the balance comes from business program underwriting. underwrit-ing. Feulner went on to . note that it was very important that this pledge drive be a success, because KPCW needs to maintain its present level of support in order to qualify for funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in October. When that happens, he said, the station will also become eligible to receive the excellent programming produced by the National Public Radio Network. "It's this kind of continued .. community support that makes the staff and volunteers volun-teers feel the community appreciates all the work that goes into keeping the station on the air day and night, every day of the year," he commented. |
