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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
It's Fundraiser Week at KDVS!
And, Justin and I are excited to make the 2009 TWIS science music compilation cd available to everyone who donates to KDVS at either the $25 student or $40 non-student levels.
You can donate to KDVS and attribute the pledge to TWIS here.
Why should you donate? Justin reduced it pretty ridiculously in the show:
KDVS is required to raise $60,000 this week in order to maintain station for the year.
$60,000 sounds like a lot of money… in sales, whenever I came up against a large looking number the most important thing to do would be to put that number in perspective, to reduce it to something manageable… that’s why things are advertised as being so much money per month or by day as opposed to per year or in total…
Which means that the monthly listener expenditure to keep KDVS on the air is
$5,000 a month… not bad. If we held a fund raiser each month for $5000 it would be easier to reach the goal, but would make this a very annoying station to listen to… Still, in terms of reduction $5,000 is kind of a big number even if much less intimidating than the $60,000 figure.
Let’s try the daily figure…
$60,000 divided by 365 days, carry the one and wow!
less than $165 dollars a day! That’s more than a cup of coffee, but pretty darn cheap in terms of operating expenses… I doubt you could run a successful hot dog stand on $165 a day…
So $165 a day, but a lot can happen in a day, hour by hour each piece of equipment gets constant use, from chairs to headphones and microphones, from computers, control boards and industrial strength cd players to towers tubes and radio signal transformer thingies… a 24 hour station means 24 hour use…
So $165 divided by 24, round it to the nearest… under $6.88 cents per hour!
Below minimum wage for a station that believes the minimum is never enough, for a station that strives to give you only that which you can not get anywhere else packed into each and every minute… lets go to minutes…
11 ½ cents per minutes! is that all it takes to keep kdvs on the air?
Still, 11 ½ cents is a lot of money for any one of us to come up with… that’s why we reach out to the listener community once each year and ask you to help us out.
To invest in your very own radio station…
So in pledging today, think about how often you enjoy listening to KDVS and invest accordingly…
a $25 investment keeps KDVS on the air for 217 minutes! Over 3 ½ hours of programming put on the air by… you!
A $40 investment gets you well past 5 ½ hours of your favorite shows!
Even a $10 dollar pledge buys nearly an hour and a half of KDVS for the year!
Our goal today, for this show, this week in science… $2000 will be enough to keep our home station up and running for an amazing 290 hours! So we ask you to donate, to help keep freeform radio a reality…
If you want, you can also donate directly to TWIS! Just click the orange button to the left.
There's rather cool TWIS schwag over there too. Just look. Go ahead. We dare you. Buy something!!!
In the meantime, here are the stories that we covered this week in addition to asking for money: PCB's are bad for neural development, and researchers at UC Davis are figuring out why. Sentences are procedural. Red ice led researchers to discover a new form of life. And, beer goggles don't help with age.
We also spoke with Dr. Charles Langmuir from Harvard University about planetary evolution.
Listen to it all here.
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And, get yourself a copy of the TWIS Book Club book of the month:
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