WERU Community Radio

Radio activist Lorenzo W. Milam died in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico on July 21, 2020 at the age of 86. He is survived by over 300 community radio stations, including WERU.

Milam was fascinated with radio since his childhood in Jacksonville, Florida where he listened for hours to broadcasts from Nashville, New Orleans and other faraway cities. He ‘felt like a spy’ he said, listening in to other cultures’ music and opinions.

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After much planning and preparation, construction is underway on WERU’s solar power system for the studios and offices in East Orland. That’s right, soon we will be broadcasting from the “solar-powered studios of WERU!” We are thrilled to be working with SUNDOG SOLAR of Searsport on this project. Check our website every couple of days for photos of the crew’s progress. “Let the sun shine…”

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Tuesdays and Thursdays at 3:50 p.m. (just before afternoon public affairs), WERU’s News & Public Affairs Manager, Amy Browne, will give a live “Maine Coronavirus Report.” We invite you to tune in live, read the transcripts below.

State & Federal COVID-19 Information:

• Maine Center for Disease Control & Prevention
• Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

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The urge to be creative, learn and enjoy the arts and culture is hard-wired into humans, and the COVID-19 pandemic does not shut that down. Our community is rich with cultural and educational opportunities, which have taken to the Internet, so local goings on that are normally in-person activities are now done remotely. The creativity persists and WERU is here to be part of that with our programming and share information about other organizations. Check out our calendar for the latest online events and services!

It’s a difficult time for everyone, including local businesses. Therefore, we encourage listeners, when you are able, to help the businesses that support community radio. You can find a list of them here. Please take a look and consider patronizing these businesses when you are purchasing goods and services, be it curbside, online, by phone or in-person. Thank you to all the businesses out there that help make community radio possible!

(Photo: Eric Furry, owner of Pro Libris Books in Bangor and long-time WERU business supporter.)

WERU’s broadcast operations have changed significantly due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and most of our programming was prerecorded for several months. Some of it still is by hard-working volunteer programmers (music, public affairs and short spoken features), even as we bring some volunteers back into the station. Because of their efforts we were and are able to stay on the air with fresh, new shows in your favorite genres. A big “Thanks!” to our dedicated volunteers whose work in their home studios (like the one pictured above with Greg Rossel of A World of Music) has kept us going for the community!

Thanks to WERU’s Smartphone App you can easily listen to WERU to live and recorded shows from your phone! Just search for WERU in your favorite app store (App Store for iPhones and Google Play for Android phones).  Give it a try – we hope you enjoy it!

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