More than 6,000 listeners made pledges by telephone, Internet or mail to support classical music 24 hours a day. Pledges totaled $450,627 by the end of the drive at 9 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 2, 2003.
As in recent pledge drives, an increasing number of pledges came from contributors listening to WCPE via alternative means. WCPE serves central North Carolina and southern Virginia on 89.7 FM and is heard in Aberdeen on 88.3 FM.
The signal is distributed nationwide on C-band (large dish) satellite and is relayed by some three dozen cable TV systems and affiliated radio stations. WCPE reaches listeners worldwide on the Internet.
Station Manager Deborah S. Proctor said roughly one of every four contributions came from outside the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area.
“Thanks to everybody for supporting the music,” Proctor said. “As long as they’re here, we’ll be here. And I intend for that to be a really long time.”
WCPE is celebrating its 25th anniversary in broadcasting this year.
Listeners who did not have an opportunity to pledge during the on-air fund-raiser are still invited to mail in a tax deductible-gift. Listeners may also pledge from WCPE’s Web site, TheClassicalStation.org.
WCPE thanks its listeners nationwide for their generous support of Great Classical Music on FM radio, large-dish satellite, the Internet, and selected radio affiliates and cable TV systems throughout the United States.
The Classical Station, WCPE , is a l00 percent listener-supported, nonprofit radio station dedicated to bringing Great Classical Music to the public 24 hours a day. Its programming is available on the Internet in RealAudio, Windows Media, QuickTime, MP3 and Ogg Vorbis streaming technologies. Programming is also available on the Galaxy 5 Satellite, transponder 7, at 5.58 and 6.12 MHz. Owners of 4DTV receivers can tune to G5 958.
The phone number is (800) 556-5178.
