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Posted in Fundraiser Event, Harvest The Power of Community, Special Programming, WSCA Announcements, WSCA events, WSCA shows
Please Support Portsmouth Community Radio During Our Fall Fundraiser
October 31st to November 7th. 603-430-9722 or Online at www.wscafm.org and
click on “Join Now” on the top banner. Thank You.
Major Garrett
Tune in locally at 106.1 FM, streaming online at www.wscafm.org, or on your mobile device using the app “TuneIn”… just search “WSCA”
Anyone for croquet? Far from the game you played for fun as a child, competitive croquet is a whole different matter. You won’t want to miss Charlie Griffin’s interview with croquet champion JimMcLaughlin (photo) 
Friday after the 8 o’clock news as he explains how “ real” croquet is played. Jim is also a former statistician for the New York Jets and he will tell us what’s involved in “crunching the numbers “ in the NFL. Join Charlie and Jim on 106.1 FM and streaming lived on the web at WSCA.org… also on your Mobile Device with the “TuneIn” App (Just search for WSCA)
Posted in Local news, Special Programming, Special Show, Uncategorized
Posted in Guest musicians, Special Programming, Special Show, Uncategorized, WSCA Announcements, WSCA shows
Posted in Community events, Special Programming, Special Show, Uncategorized
Since 2005 our own Audio Theatre Players group, made up of local volunteers, has performed 50+ re-creations of classic radio programming. Tonight you will hear something that is unlike anything we have done before.
On the 75th anniversary of the CBS Columbia Workshop’s presentation of Richard Sale’s “Seven Waves Away” (April 2, 1938) you will hear this intensely dramatic play that is centered around a lifeboat adrift in the middle of the North Atlantic, some 1000 miles from land. The boat has 33 passengers but is provisioned and designed for a maximum of 16. The sea is rising as a violent storm approaches. The Captain is mortally injured. The First Mate is given command of the boat… but he is mentally unstable. It is not known if a distress message sent from their ship before it went down was received. The water is up to the gunwales of the overloaded lifeboat and the storm is intensifying. “What to do and how to do it” is the focus of this story.
Our actors include: Jack Tracksler, Eddie McGee, Diane Ficarra, Mike Nelson, Jessie Raines, Chuck Curtis, Richard Jenisch, Shawn Henderson, Steve Shervanian, and Mike Coppinger. The production was directed, recorded, and edited by John Lovering
Don’t miss this dramatic, and somewhat disturbing tale of survival, “Seven Waves Away” to be aired beginning at approximately 6:10 pm on Tuesday, April 2nd’s Portsmouth Community Radio Audio Theatre with host John Lovering.
Also heard on tonight’s broadcast: “The Whistler - Night Final” (Jan. 28, 1948) starring Bill Forman; William Bendix as the lovable Chester A. Riley in “The Life of Riley - Cissie’s Marriage” (March 24, 1950); “Afloat with Henry Morgan- Part 45 - Jeffrey is Under Diatz’s Control” (1933) Australian Radio Adventure Series.
Locally at 106.1 FM - Streaming live online at wscafm.org or on your mobile device via the app “TuneIn” and search for WSCA-LP. Thank you for supporting Portsmouth Community Radio.
Posted in Special Programming, WSCA shows
Saturday Night Fever on WSCA!
WSCA’s coverage of Portsmouth High School post season basketball reaches a ‘fever pitch” Saturday night with the boys quarterfinal game between Portsmouth and Souhegan beginning at 6:45. Andrew Van Ness and Lincoln Soldati will provide live coverage from Stone Gymnasium while Charlie Griffin will be in studio with pre-game interviews with varsity coach Jim Mulvey and Junior Varsity Coach Brett Mulvey as well as part two of his halftime interview with Tom O”Leary about the naming of Stone Gymnasium . Join our team as the Clippers continue their march to the “Big Dance’ a trip to the semi-finals next week at UNH. You can also listen online at WSCA FM.org
Remember: Tune in locally at 106.1 FM or listen via our online live stream at www.wscafm.org … Portsmouth Community Radio - WSCA-LP - 106.1 FM - Your Community Connection!
Any business interested in underwriting our live broadcasts of Portsmouth High School Basketball should contacting underwriting@wscafm.org
Posted in Special Programming, Special Show, WSCA Announcements
Seizure alert dogs have an amazing natural ability to warn of impending seizure activity up to an hour in advance—allowing their partners to move to a safe environment. for the duration of the seizure. Canine Partners for Life (Pennsylvania) is one of only five organizations worldwide to place seizure alert dogs. To date, CPL has placed over 500 service and home companion dogs in 43 states.
Jean will discuss this topic with Jackie Jarest who has applied for a Seizure Alert Dog (she lives in Greenland NH) and Harry Reed, care giver for and advocate of people with disabilities.
Listen locally at 106.1 FM or streaming live online at www.wscafm.org
Posted in Special Programming, WSCA Announcements, WSCA shows
Hosted by none other than our own Shawn Henderson, this Pledge Drive Special Event Live Music Marathon from 10 a.m to 7 p.m. features 17 artists performing LIVE right here in our studio at 909 Islington St., Portsmouth. Listen! Enjoy! Come on down! Pledge! Call at 603-403-9722 or go online at www.wscafm.org or donate in person at the studio!
This is a one-of-a-kind event, the kind of event that would be heard only on an Independent Radio Station like Portsmouth Community Radio -WSCA - 106.1 FM. Isn’t having an Independent Community Radio Station like this in YOUR community worth supporting? Please donate and support Portsmouth Community Radio!
Live Music Marathon Schedule
10:00- Celtic/Folk/Holiday - Steve Carrigan,
Bruce MacIntyre, Jim Pendergast
10:30- Classical - Sea Reeds (Clarinet Quartet)
11:00- Roots/American - Charlie Strater, Kate Redgate
12:00- Singer-Songwriter - Cormac McCarthy
12:30- Singer-Songwriter - Jason Crigler
1:00- World - Carol Coronis, Ramona Connelly
1:30- Singer-Songwriter - Don Watson
2:00- Old Timey/Folk - Spirit Family Reunion
3:00- Instrumental - Ed Gerhard
3:30- Blues - Samuel James
4:00- Pop - Andrea Szirbik
4:30- Bluegrass - Cedar Mountain Boys
5:00- Singer-Songwriter - Joe Young
5:30- Bluegrass - Lunch at the Dump with Doug Baker
6:00- Roots/Americana - Liz Frame
6:30- Pop - One Step Up
7:00- Gospel Choir Holiday - RMS Five
Posted in Fall Fund Drive, Fundraiser Event, Guest musicians, Harvest The Power of Community, Special Programming, Special Show, WSCA Announcements, WSCA shows
Mark Your Calendar - Thursday - November 22nd - Shawn Henderson Will Play the Entire Beatles Catalog from A to Z Beginning at 7 AM
It has become a tradition here at Portsmouth Community Radio. Stay Tuned’s (Fridays 1:30-5 pm) host, Shawn Henderson will spend Thanksgiving Day entertaining listeners with his annual “Thanksgiving with the Beatles” marathon. It all begins at 7 AM on Thursday, November 22nd and ends when Shawn has played the ENTIRE Beatles catalog from A to Z.
Listen locally at 106.1 FM or listen online at http://wscafm.org A day long celebration of community with the music of the Beatles.
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Maureen Raiche, Marketing Director for UNO, being interviewed on-air by John Lovering on June 20th. Damon Thomas handled the studio end of the interview.
Medium, Danielle, did psychic readings at the UNO “Great Musician Photo” Auction in Dover on June 20th.
As the sun and temperature went down, Bob McDermott and John Lovering emerged from their “undercover” location to help promote Portsmouth Community Radio it UNO’s of Dover on June 20th
Sharon Jones joined Terry MacDonald on a special ediiton of Jazz Straightahead
Former Poet Laureate, John Perrault, performs in-studio on June 20th
(l-r) Exeter Theatre’s Carol Aten, Seacoast 2012 Idol - Kat Murphy, and Sandy Martin wait to go on the air on June 20th.
Members of “The Senior Scenes Players” (l - r) Guy Monte, Chuck Curtis, and Gillian Aguilar, were guests on Audio Theatre with host, John Lovering, on June 19th
Phone Volunteer, Richard Jenisch, takes pledges on June 19th… he worked 5 hours!
Ann Bliss, Board Chair, handles the phone pledges during the “Scratchy 45′s and Beyond” Special Fund Drive Show on June 16, 2012. Show host, Supersport, is supervising.
Program Director, Damon Thomas, was awake bright and early and on duty taking phone calls during the “Scratch 45′s and Beyond” Special Fund Drive Show with host Supersport on June 16th
“Scratchy 45′s and Beyond” host, Supersport, holds up a K-Tel album during the June 16th Special Fund Drive Show “K-Tel Power Explosion”. Laughs, entertainment, and a lot of pledges combined to make the morning a big success!
Supersport (r) with guests Louie “Spindoctor’ (c) and Damon Thomas, Program Director (l) combined to put on a terrific “Scratchy 45′s and Beyond” Special Fund Drive Show on June 16th - “K-Tel Power Explosion” How did they get 20 songs on one album? No one knows… or do they?
Jeanne says — I’ve never seen so many people walk into the station and give us cash! Thank you all!
Danielle Dionne, Medium, was a special guest on Bob McDermott’s “The Paranormal Zone”
June 15th - Stay Tuned with Host Shawn Henderson welcomed the five piece contemporary Bluegrass band from Maine known as Cribstone Bridge
Cribstone Bridge - Contemporary Bluegrass band from Maine - Performs live in the studio on Stay Tuned - June 15th
Kathi Hubbard, our volunteer bookkeeper, tallies and deposits each day’s donations.
Uncle Phil serenades his audience with pledge drive promos!
Dick Rozed (l) and Roger Wood (r) joined Ann Haggart, Host of Radiogazette, to tell tales of the old days of radio in the seacoast
Charlie Griffin waits to read the news as Angelynne Hinson, Host of Morning Voices, and her guest Dennis Kleinman kick off our June 2012 Pledge Drive
Mayor Eric Spear reads the Proclamation by the City of Portsmouth for Pledge Drive Day
“Left Right Correct” guest Kevin Kervick
Posted in Fundraiser Event, Special Programming, Special Show, Spring Fund Drive, WSCA events, WSCA shows
You can listen now or download the audio (a lightly edited version).
When Governor John Lynch delivers his State of the State address to members and guests of the Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce at 8:00 am on Wednesday, March 21st, Portsmouth Community Radio will be on hand to bring the governor’s address to our listeners live from 106.1 FM and streaming from portsmouthcommunityradio.org. The address is the centerpiece of the morning’s Bank of America Breakfast Forum, to be held in the ballroom of the Sheraton-Harborside Hotel in Portsmouth.
This being Governor Lynch’s fourth and final term in office, Wednesday’s State of the State address will be his last. The governor will speak on the state of the economy and what he sees coming out of the New Hampshire Legislature in 2012 and beyond. There is anticipation, too, that he will share some history and reflection on his eight years as governor.
Hosting the broadcast for us will be Dave Day, with Richard Kirkpatrick the engineer of record. Both are new PCR volunteers. In addition to the live broadcast from the Breakfast Forum, the governor’s address will be rebroadcast on Portsmouth Community Radio on Saturday, March 23rd, from 1 to 2 pm.
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