Appendix B
WFHB Past and Present Archive Listening Station
Segment 1: Photo of Richard Fish reading off a script and speaking into a microphone held by Jim Manion. Caption: Early Underwriting Promo with Rich Fish circa 1993.
Audio file is a truncated version of a recording of Richard Fish talking over/responding to recordings apparently from Cleveland-based community radio station WRUW about community radio.
WRUW speaker 1: …and all of the time—
Rich: Yes, I know they do, but—
WRUW 1: —with WRUW, you can close your eyes and not miss a thing.
[Background music changes to a more upbeat instrumental.]
Rich: That’s a good point, but this is WFHB in Bloomington, Indiana, and we’re—
WRUW speaker 2: Community radio is non-profit.
Rich: Yes.
WRUW 2: Non-commercial, listener supported radio broadcasting.
Rich: Yeah, true, but—
WRUW 2: And it’s right here—
Rich: Where we are?
WRUW 2: —in your area—
Rich: Southern Indiana?
WRUW 2: —in your neighborhood.
Rich: Monroe and surrounding—
WRUW 2: In your city.
Rich: Bloomington!
WRUW 2: In your town.
Rich: From Bedford to—
WRUW 2: Whatever their sizes and markets, community radio stations share a common commitment to meet the diverse needs and interests of the communities they serve.
Rich: Yes, they certainly do—
WRUW 2: What community radio’s been best doing for the past 40 years is to provide a sound alternative to other stations in their listening area.
[Background music changes to a violin-based instrumental.]
Rich: That’s a very good point, but look, this is WFHB FM in Bloomington, Indiana. We’re brand new! We’re Indiana’s first and only community radio station and people—
WRUW 2: Community radio is non-commercial.
Rich: Yes.
WRUW 2: Therefore, it can’t air ads. It’s supported by the listeners’ donations, by some public funding sources, and in many cases, by local businesses and foundations.
Rich: Community radio is an exciting new idea here in southern Indiana, and already the public response to WFHB has been overwhelming. People from Martinsville to Bedford, from Spencer to Nashville, are delighted with what they’ve been hearing, and we’re just getting started. One of the most important sources of support for WFHB is program underwriting from local businesses. It’s a great opportunity, because underwriting on WFHB is a wonderful way to reach your market, a creative way to enhance your image, an important new way to serve your community, and a sound business alternative. WFHB Community Radio is now ready to welcome underwriting from businesses in our listening area. The cost is surprisingly affordable. For more information, call our offices in Bloomington at 323-1200. That’s 323-1200. Wanna turn your customers on? Turn your radio on and support community radio over at WFHB.
[Applause.]
Segment 2: Photo of Bloomington Voice cover from September 1997 highlighting the Lotus World Music and Arts Festival. Under the title on the cover is the line “The Weekly Newspaper of South-Central Indiana • September 18 – September 25, 1997” and a collage including the Lotus Festival logo and pictures of artists. Caption: LotusCelitc [sic] Fiddle Fest Promo 1997
Audio file is a promotional spot for a Lotus- sponsored concert by the Celtic Fiddle Festival.
[Fiddle music: “Suite de Loudéac” by The Celtic Fiddle Festival.]
Speaker: The Lotus Festival concert series and Abodes Management and Construction welcome three of the finest violinists in Celtic music today. Join Kevin Burke from Ireland, Johnny Cunningham from Scotland, and Christian Lemaitre from Brittany for the Celtic Fiddle Festival, Wednesday, March 4, at the Waldron Arts Center. With a long history with such formidable groups as the Bothy Band, Silly Wizard, Kornog, and Patrick Street, their playing moves from the fluid, highly ornamented style of Kevin Burke to the dazzling, lightning-fast reels of Johnny Cunningham. Scottish guitarist Tony MacManus joins the trio for a meeting of minds, music, and cultural roots. Tickets are $12 advance, $14 at the door. Doors, as usual, open at 7 and music starts at 8. Tickets are available at Classical Film and Music, Perennial Designs, Tracks, TD’s CDs and LPs, and the Waldron. This Irish-Scots-Breton musical collaboration is the latest in the Lotus Festival concert series. Wednesday, March 4, at the John Waldron Arts Center.
[Music concludes with audience applause.]
Segment 3: Photo of Brian Kearney and Jeffrey “Sundog” Morris standing outside the transmitter shack and tower at Radio Ridge, WFHB’s first broadcast site and still in operation as the station’s transmitter site. In the photo are a blue plastic portable toilet cubicle, a car, and a pile of boards. The shack looks unfinished. Caption: “Lifestyles of Radio Ridge” WFHB Membership Drive, March 21, 1993
Audio file is a skit to be aired during WFHB’s 1993 membership drive that is structured as a parody of television series “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.”
Host: Today on “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,” we’re going to Radio Ridge! We’ve just put up a $14,000-bazillion dollar radio antenna. How in the hell are we going to pay for it?
[Photo changes to one of Sundog and two other men working construction at Radio Ridge.]
Speaker 2: And they also need to go to the Firehouse! How’s that gonna happen?
Host: I’ll tell you! People are going to call 323-1200 and give us money! Lots and lots of bloody money! Thank you!
Segment 4: Photo of Jim Manion in a WFHB shirt at the front of a crowd walking down the street on Kirkwood Avenue westward from the Sample Gates at the edge of the university. Several crowd members are wearing WFHB shirts and/or carrying large portable radios. A car is driving down in the middle of the group. There are spectators sitting on the sidewalk watching the crowd, indicating that this is a parade. Caption: Local Live with Velo Deluxe (John P. Strohm and Kenny Childers), host Jim Manion, 9/10/1994
Audio file is an excerpt from an on-air interview and live session with local group Velo-Deluxe, formed in the wake of the 1994 split of Bloomington band Antenna.
Jim Manion: Well, we’re here on the Local Music Show on WFHB with John Strohm and Kenny Childers from said band, and John, you used to be in a couple of other bands, right? Antenna and the Blake Babies?
John Strohm: Well, yeah, and you know about Journey. Foreigner. REO Speedwagon.
Jim: Journey. You were one of those faceless rock stars from the 70s?
John: [Laughs] Yeah.
Jim: Wow, I didn’t know that! [Laughs]
John: Yeah, that was like, I kind of try to bury all that stuff, but, you know, I was like, a behind-the-scenes guy for those bands. You know, I’d kind of like, come in and play some guitar every once in a while, while they… But yes, no. No, yes. I played in the Blake Babies and I played in Antenna, which is basically the same band as Velo-Deluxe, but it’s, we’ve been playing, Antenna’s been playing with a different lineup than the ones on the records for the last, like, six or eight months or something like that. And we made this record thinking that we were called Antenna, and then, you know, it came out sounding real different from anything that Antenna’s done, so we decided to take a new name.
Jim: I guess I first saw you in the Blake Babies when you did a number of shows at the Bluebird.
John: Right. Back in the late 80s.
Jim: Yeah. But then I later found out that you actually, and of course, you’re back here now, but you grew up and went to high school here in Bloomington, right?
John: Right. Right, right, right. I remember you.
Jim: Well, I’ve always been curious about, like, what that time period was, and, because there’s a lot of music going on in Bloomington back then, I’m just wondering what you were, like, when did you graduate from high school?
John: Well, I graduated from Bloomington South in 1985.
Jim: Okay, so were you familiar with, like, the Dancing Cigarettes and other bands that were around here from back then?
John: Yeah, I was. I was a big local music fan, and I was mainly in punk rock, you know, but I first started going out to see shows when I was about 13 or 14.
Jim: Street dances?
John: First shows I saw were street dances, yeah, so the Dancing Cigarettes, and I kind of just miss seeing, like, the Gizmos and the Panics and all that, and I’m really bummed out about that, because I love those records, but I saw the Dancing Cigarettes, and I saw, I don’t know, what, Mars Needs Women, that was a good one. And I don’t know, the QAX Pistols, all those great old-time rock bands, and Moto X is my favorite. I love Moto X.
Jim: And that, if people don’t know, featured Frankie Camaro and, uh…
John: Ross Danielson and, yeah, Greg Phillips from Speed Luxury.
Jim: Speed Luxury. Joyride.
John: Yeah. So, yeah, I was definitely, like, I was one of these, you know, little wanker kids who was just always, like, trying to scam my way into shows and stuff.
Jim: Cool. I always wondered about that.
John: But I had, I had some punk rock bands, you know, that weren’t that noteworthy.
Jim: Okay, well, let’s play a couple more things off of it, and then maybe we can get you to do something live. I’m gonna play a couple of songs off of side two, “Skin and Bones,” and is “Saturday,” is that the kind of country-sounding one?
John: Right, yeah, yeah. That’s the, do you ever go to the Pit Stop bar?
Jim: Oh, yeah.
John: Okay, well, I’m a, regular at the Pit Stop, since I kind of live right by there.
Jim: Good time country music.
John: But they used to have this guy named Jimmy Meisenheimer who played the pedal steel guitar.
Jim: Right, I’ve heard of him.
John: He was just an absolute genius, genius pedal steel guitar player. And I think he has a regular gig out somewhere on the way out to Nashville, Indiana now, or in Nashville, Ski World or something like that. But anyway, he’s just an absolute genius pedal steel player, and he plays on this on the second song that we’ll be hearing, “Saturday.” So check it out.
Jim: Cool. Let’s listen to him.
[“Skin and Bones” by Velo-Deluxe starts to play and fades out.]
Segment 5: A group shot of volunteers standing outside the Firehouse. Among others, it includes Cindy Beaulé (then Levindofske), Bill Weaver, John Westhues, Sandy McGinn, Brian Kearney, Steve Volan, and Jim Manion. Caption: Chris Green’s WFHB Poem, The Rose Firebay, 6/7/1997
Audio is one part of a clip of a poem about WFHB (“323-1200 Fund Drive”) written and read by local author Chris Green. Poem line breaks and unconventional spelling and grammar in transcripts in this appendix are copied from the poem’s written form as published in The Ryder Magazine.
Chris Green: …It’s a single poem. I’m not gonna read a bunch of poems. It’s just one big, long poem. And this is my prop, but we’ll set it down right now. And it is called “323-1200 Fund Drive.” This here is the chrome-plated tinted-window low-rider- / with-purple-neons-spouting-at-the-running-board cruising-down- / Kirkwood-Friday-night sort of Fund drive machine / with the late night jockeys and the early morning mix, / Coretta Scott King and poetry from the lips of a silver-shocked / South African Kanderous lady: mid-day media critique / break distilling consumption from blood riving blues / and Women's Song spouting from the endless cup. Shagging / with Japonize Elephants on the carpet with Saturday's Satyr Child! / We're jamming to each other's sit-down thigh-slap / sigh-bag full of greatest hits, tuning in, turning on, / turning off N B C -n- A B C -n- C B S and / Turner can syndicate this. We're ploughing our own field, / breaking the slimy spine of corporate thought-spin subsidy / modulating our own organic composite-feel-good gumbo / stirring it up radio-style in one bowl of what-was-that-taste soup. / And, sweet d.j.'s, though I don't know the swagger of your hips, / can't say the sparkle in your eyes, your voices rim and tinge / my ear jubilating new sounds from my mouth: underwriting / concern about where we live, about the middle way, harmony / and hospitality, about Thompson tax breaks, about civic capital / expenditures to rebuild the primal library of rhythm and being / from Baker's sweet dozen, and Blues from Piney / “did-you-know-you-lived-down-the-street-from-me” / Woods's Blues Party. Neighbor’s this here is raising the barn, / holy barn of blue grass sound with my favorite old time train 45 / which fits me with fiddle-shoes to wade the deep brown day. / O World Spirit! O Reggae Children down at the dark / end of the street where the beat party beats, where voices / from pacifica are telling us eye-level what's going down: / This celebration, This jigging education, This blissification!
Segment 6: A group shot of volunteers walking and driving down Kirkwood Avenue west from the Sample Gates. Two volunteers at the front of the group are carrying a banner with the 1990s Spot logo and “WFHB 91.3 FM” emblazoned on it. Behind them, a truck carrying a live band is turning onto Kirkwood. The truck is decorated with red, white, and blue designs that indicate this is likely a Fourth of July parade. Caption: Community Radio Station Promo circa 1998
Audio is a montage of local and extralocal figures who have recorded station identifications for WFHB.
David Spade: Hi, this is David Spade…
Bob Kershaw: Hi, this is Captain Kangaroo…
Beth Lodge-Rigal: This is Beth Lodge-Rigal…
David Ossman: This is George Tirebiter here…
Carrie Newcomer: Hi, this is Carrie Newcomer.
Jimmie Dale Gilmore: This is Jimmie Dale Gilmore.
Carol Noonan: Hi, this is Carol Noonan.
Joe Kernen: Hi, this is Indiana Lieutenant Governor Joe Kernen.
Gabriel Yacoub: This is Gabriel Yacoub.
King Bobo: This is King Pharaoh Bobo Rameses the Third and the rest of the Wild Raccoons.
Ani DiFranco: Hi, kids, it’s Ani DiFranco.
Jack Carney: Hi, this is Jack Carney.
Rex Hinkle: This is Rex Hinkle.
Buddy Bill: This is Buddy Bill.
Kerry Getz: This is Kerry Getz.
John Hartford: Hi, this is John Hartford.
Dr. Demento: Hello there! This is Dr. Demento.
Howard Levy: Hi, I’m Howard Levy.
Jimmy Smith: This is Jimmy Smith from the Gourds with a G.
Vida members: We are Vida.
Dar Williams: Hi, this is Dar Williams.
Michael D. Higgins: This is Michael D. Higgins, minister for arts, culture, and the Gaeltacht in Ireland.
Chuck Wilson: And this is Deputy Chuck Wilson.
Lucy Kaplansky: Hi, this is Lucy Kaplansky.
Little You: 91.3, Bloomington, Indiana. With a lot of respect, we love you. As I say, when I’m in Bloomington cooling out, no station in the world—91.3 WFHB. If you haven’t tuned in before, get yourself in line, boy!
Segment 7: Photo of two Youth Radio programmers sitting in the WFHB air room. This image was used in a local newspaper article about the Youth Radio program. Caption: Keanu Revees [sic] Movie Reviews, Youth Radio with Janet Plew, 9/7/1996
Audio is a recorded Youth Radio program featuring a review of the movies Speed and Chain Reaction, both starring Keanu Reeves.
[Opening music.]
Janet Plew: Hi. This is Janet Plew with WFHB Youth Radio. This week is my salute to the one, the only, the Keanu Reeves. [Clears throat.] Well, the first movie that I’m reviewing explodes onto your television screen. It’s called Speed. Keanu Reeves plays a bomb squad member who has to save a busload of people. Now, if the bus goes over a certain number it’ll be fine, but if it goes under 50 miles an hour, it’ll explode. See Speed blast onto your television screen on home video. It’s definitely two thumbs up. See it tonight! It’s great. Rent it. It’s wonderful. You will not regret it. It’s terrific. Next, I’m reviewing a totally cool movie called Chain Reaction. Keanu plays a scientist that the whole world wants because he has a secret that could save our planet. If it falls into the wrong hands, however, let’s just say, it’s not good. [Laughs.] Find out what the big secret is and what happens on this totally awesome movie, Chain Reaction. It’s definitely two thumbs up. You have to see Speed and Chain Reaction as soon as possible. They’re both Keanu Reeves movies. I think that you should see any of Keanu’s movies because he’s a wonderful actor, like Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. A whole bunch of his movies, like The Prince of Pennsylvania, a whole bunch of stuff that he’s done, and it’s all great, like A Walk in the Clouds, it’s terrific. I suggest you rent them as soon as possible. Well, tune in next week whenever I salute one of the stars bigger than anybody in Hollywood. Well, if there’s anyone you want me to do a salute to, call on in at 323-1200, and I’ll be happy to do a salute for you and ask for Janet Plew. Until then, I’m Janet Plew and you’re listening to WFHB Youth Radio, bye.
Segment 8: Photo of early WFHB volunteers standing outside the Firehouse, which is adorned with a banner that reads “FUTURE HOME OF WFHB Bloomington Community Radio 91.3 FM.” Volunteers include, among others, Bill Weaver, Richard Fish, Jim Manion, and Brian Kearney. Other photos used throughout the segment include a photo of Indiana University Chancellor Herman B Wells from the Indiana Daily Student taken by Eve Bohakel, with a caption reading “Chancellor Herman B Wells welcomes WFHB, 91.3 community radio to its downtown location during his speech Sunday afternoon” and a photo of four WFHB personnel sitting on top of a bookshelf of records in the Firehouse library in front of an empty bookshelf. The personnel include Brian Kearney, Cindy Beaulé, and two others. Caption: Chris Green’s WFHB Poem, The Rose Firebay, 6/7/1997.
Audio is another excerpt from Chris Green’s live read of his poem “323-1200 Fund Drive.”
Chris Green: Two. So 3 2 3 twelve-hundred! Pledge today and we have a special / if you call in to tongue wag with the Sports Dogs: yes, pledge, / you will receive, as a premium, the moon! Just imagine sliding / the moon on your disk player. A moon of your very own. / “Knock. Knock.” Now just imagine it. "Knock, knock" at your door— / And there it is lashed firmly to a dolly— the moon! no skimpy / reproduction, but the real cheese. The full thing. Glaciers and all / in the sea of hope: Neil's footprints marring the otherwise smooth / surface (which like your house is covered with dust) / And behind the moon, pushing the dolly, there is this shrimp / of a guy squashing your daisies (a volunteer he calls himself)— / but you forgive him, he's got the moon, your premium, after all, / you're just desserts for donating 60 dollars to community radio / and meeting the challenge from (what the hell) Herman B. Wells— / and the skinny guy says, "yeah, yeah, where do you want me to put this?" / You shrug, say you didn't expect it to be brought to your house, / not the literal moon any way, but he just stands there picking his nose / until you point to a place there is not too much sunlight, / and then, he seeps back, waves his hand and his six year old daughter / rolls in the moon, lifts it off the dolly and plops it on the wall. / ln-stall-ation's free! — what you do with it is up to you.
Segment 9: Photo of the Firehouse with the banner “FUTURE HOME OF WFHB Bloomington Community Radio 91.3 FM” still hanging above the garage; “FUTURE” has been crossed out. There are flyers and a “NO PARKING” sign taped to the garage windows. Caption: WFHB Telephone Survey Promo, Fall 1993”
Audio is an informational recorded spot about an upcoming telephone survey conducted by and about WFHB.
[Phone rings.]
Speaker 1: Any day now, your telephone is liable to [Phone rings] and when you pick it up, you’ll hear:
Richard Fish [on phone]: Hello, I’m calling for WFHB.
Speaker 1: As we gear up to move downtown and expand, we really need your help. We’re calling everyone we know and asking for input and support to help us grow. We need to know how we’re doing, what you like, and what you don’t. What you’re hearing and what you’d like to hear. Please give us a few moments of your time. We’re working for you, and we need your advice. [Phone rings.] If you’ve been meaning to join, this will be a great chance. You’ll get the program guide, a bumper sticker, and member discounts at WFHB concerts and events. [Phone rings.] WFHB Community Radio is not only listener-supported, it’s owned and operated by your friends, your neighbors, maybe even you. So if community radio rings your bell, [digital phone ringtone] please give us those few moments to tell us what we can do for you, and thanks for listening.
Segment 10: Drawing by Joe La Mantia of the design for a sculpture of Spot, the WFHB mascot. It is labeled “Firehouse Dog” and signed “J. La Mantia ‘96.” Caption: Saturday’s Child with Bob Lucas, 2/14/1998
Audio is a clip from the beginning of Bob Lucas’s February 14, 1998 performance on Saturday’s Child.
David Grundmann: Thanks, Mike. My name is D. James. Welcome to Saturday’s Child on this Valentine’s Day edition. Very, very lovely treat for us this morning. Mr. Bob Lucas is here. [Audience applause and cheering.] Yeah, how about it?
Bob Lucas: Holy cow.
David: He’s a legend. We’re happy to have him, and none other than Mr. Jamie Reed over here is gonna be doing a little percussion for us this morning. [Audience applause and cheering.] In case you’ve accidentally stumbled upon 98.1 or 91.3 on the dial, you’re listening to WFHB Community Radio. This is Saturday’s Child, our monthly live radio broadcast from the John Waldron Arts Center’s Rose Firebay. We have all kinds of tasty treats here besides the music, we have bagels and cream cheese and some Firehouse Blend Coffee, courtesy Cappuccinos, the bagels courtesy of the Bloomington Bagel Company. Like to thank you all for joining us here in our studio audience this morning, and if you’re sitting at home or driving in your car wondering how you’re going to spend the next hour, I suggest you pull over, get out and walk over to the John Waldron Arts Center where we’re going to be having lots of fun this morning. How about it? [Audience applause and cheering.] if you’re sitting at home, get yourself a hot beverage or cold beverage, whatever suits your fancy. Open the drapes, let that sunshine in. And we got all kinds of sunshine this morning with Bob Lucas, how you doing, Bob?
Bob: Hi. How about you?
David: Good, real good.
Bob: Hey, I’m kind of disappointed, I heard that there was going to be pony rides for the kids and balloons and everything.
David: Well, that’ll be after the show. I left my pony costume in the car. Bob Lucas, on Saturday’s Child.
Bob: All right. Just want to say hi to everybody out there in radioland. Now, this song has a sing along chorus, and because it’s, actually, you don’t have to do a whole lot of singing. All you have to do to say, “Here’s Jack.” Let’s hear you say, “here’s Jack.” Ready, one, two, three, [with audience] “here’s Jack.” Very good. And that comes right into the chorus. [Sings “Jack of Hearts.”]
Segment 11: Picture of a meteorological map of South-Central Indiana. Caption: Station Identification, Monroe County Airport, Rex Hinkle
Audio is a station identification by Cook Aviation executive and aviator Rex Hinkle.
Rex Hinkle: This is Rex Hinkle at the Monroe County Airport. You are cruising with Whiskey Foxtrot Hotel Bravo on niner one point three and niner eight point one FM.
Segment 12: Picture of Jeffrey “Sundog” Morris, Brian Kearney (wearing a “Hermie’s Army” shirt with a picture of Herman B Wells on it) and two other people in front of the radio console in the shack at Radio Ridge. Caption: Chris Green’s WFHB Poem, The Rose Firebay, 6/7/1997
Audio is the third part of Chris Green’s poem.
Chris Green: Part three. Where else dares air Joy Harjo? Or medieval harp players / that sing for the dying? Where else Clinton's do-good real-life / ex-Surgeon General Jocelyn telling it like it is? Praise be the dark / long road and the late night fast-and-bulbous youngsters / pounding their heads in the rubber room, and Praise the Void / wherein we case off our old jalopies and refrigerators / like lush veils in an industrial belly dance in this here county / of 14 superfund sites — thank you Westinghouse. Praise be / Cindy Levindofske! Praise be the rough, gruff volunteers! / And praise be Blue Monday Meanies, the old changin' way, / the Tao of late night radio, and who hasn't dreamed of mixing / with a succubus field trip, and Bob Knight where is your spot / supporting community radio? Praise Jonathon Coke / getting us going in the morning, grinding it out on the 7:45 / local news spot mid-winter snow report. Praise Praise Praise…
Segment 13: Video footage from Bloomington public access television series J&B on the Rox. Caption: BCAT’s ROX Station Testimonial, Play after 11pm only
Audio is a fund dive pitch by the J&B on the Rox personnel.
[“O Fortuna” plays, hosts sing along with their own lyrics.]
Christy Paxson: His mama thought she had a hydrocephalic baby…
Joe “J” Nickell: …And everybody in Bloomington thought that he was a bartender.
Bart “B” Everson: The only person I see here with a fat head is you.
Joe: You must be talking about me. I’m J. Actually, I host a program here on WFHB called the Well-Tempered Mixologist. It’s a classical radio show, actually.
Christy: FYI, this guy’s head’s 3.084 standard deviations above the norm.
Joe: In circumference.
Bart: Wow. And don’t you mix drinks on this classical TV show, then?
Joe: Classical, well, classical radio show and a TV show, ROX, actually, on BCAT [Bloomington Community Access Television].
Bart: Oh, that’s the ROX guy.
Joe: Yeah.
Bart: Multimedia bartender.
Joe: Yeah. But I’m here on WFHB right now, actually, talking about the fund drive, of all things, the money thing.
Christy: Yeah. So if you got any extra money, give it up for WFHB.
Bart: Well, send it to ROX.
Joe: No, well, well, either, either one is fine.
Bart: Charity of your choice.
Christy: Yeah, but you know, WFHB, you know it’s, it’s cool.
Bart: Listen to it!
Joe: And since none of us have any money, we figured we’d make this testimonial as our little payment.
Christy: That’s right. Everybody, raise your right hand. I do solemnly swear…
Bart: I do swalomnly swear…
Christy: …to give some money… [“O Fortuna” begins to play.]
Bart: …to give some money…
Christy: …to WFHB.
Bart: …to WFHB.
Joe: FHB. WFHB.
Christy: All right. Now, slide that hand down into your pocket…
Bart: …and do it.
Joe: And lay it on the radio.
Christy: That’s right, come on. Just come on down. Bring it on down to the doghouse down here. Or the Firehouse.
Bart: 323-1200.
Christy: [Makes dog howling sounds.] The dog’s actually in the fire, and if you actually gave it up, we could get the dog out of the fire. Let’s go. Come on.
Joe: The dalmatian.
Christy: That’s right. With your donation, you can help save the dog. Remember when Jessica, baby Jessica, fell in the well? Huh? Huh?
Bart: Save the spotted dog!
Christy: You were there. Now, save the dog. Give it up for WFHB, come on. Come on. [Makes dog howling sounds.]
Segment 14: Handmade Youth Radio poster with cutout pictures of a dinosaur head, an ant, the X in the X-Files logo, the titular hero of cartoon The Tick, and two people. In marker is written “WFHB Saturday 4:00 91.3 or 98.1 FM” and “Call In: 323-1200.” Written in pen are “Hot artists” (in a speech bubble coming from cartoon character the Tick’s mouth), “Now that’s yummy radio!” (in a thought bubble coming from one of the people), “Finally Radio for kids! It’s Youth Radio,” “Turn on you [sic] radio! Turn off your TV” (next to a hand-drawn TV-like frame surrounding the X), and “Requests” (after the phone number). Caption: Youth Radio Staiton [sic] ID 1996
Audio is a station ID by Youth Radio DJ “Chick of the 90s.”
“Chick of the 90s”: [Imitates chicken clucking.] The chick of the 90s. Only on Youth Radio WFHB 91.3. [Imitates chicken clucking.]
Segment 15: Informational placard about series On the Line. It reads:
Mayor John Fernandez will get “On The Line” the first Thursday of every month!
WFHB, Bloomington’s Community Radio Station, gets down to business every week when we get On The Line. On the Line is a weekly in-depth look at the economic forces at work in the Bloomington area from a business, financial, and consumer perspective. And you can get “On The Line” with your questions or comments by calling 323-1200!
Every Thursday at 5:30pm
On The Line is hosted on a rotating basis by a group of local area experts:
Tracy Clay – Bank One Marketing Director Business Banking Executive
Susan Fernandes – Former County Planning Director
Brian Werth – Herald Times Business Editor
Dave Miller – Director, B’ton Business Incubator
Rod Young – Bloomington City Council Member
Don’t miss these upcoming shows:
Feb. 1st. Guest: Mayor John Fernandez.
Feb. 8th. Host: Tracy Clay. Topic: Valentines Day. Guests: Sue Mitchell of Whitehouse Flowers, & Amy Riptenberger of Viewpoint Gifts.
Feb. 15th. Host: Rod Young. Topic: Buying a Home. Guest: realtor Sandy Sabbagh.
Feb. 22nd. Host: Susan Fernandes. Topic: Fiber Optics & Telecommuting. Guests: Jeff Willsey of Sunrise Publications, & Steve Volan of Bluemarble Information Services.
Feb. 29th. Hosts: Dave Miller & Brian Werth. Topic: The Newspaper Business. Guest: Mike Hefron of the Herald-Times.
WFHB has been voted Bloomington’s BEST Radio Station two years in a row! Don’t miss our other great programs, including news, talk shows, and of course the best music in town!
WFHB. 91.3 & 98.1 FM.
Later, the image changes to a video of someone driving around Bloomington. Caption: On the Line “Canopy of Lights,” 11/20/1997
Rod Young: …people saying hello to each other. People seem to get a little friendlier this time of year. We’re still live on the air with WFHB. Hi. Would you mind telling us why you’re down here downtown? We’re live on the air with WFHB Community Radio.
Guest 1: Sure… [inaudible] a friend of mine, by the way. So anyway, I’m down here. I was doing a weaving project at Yarns Unlimited. I’m weaving dish towels and blankets for Christmas presents.
Rod: Excellent. Excellent. You shop downtown.
Guest 1: Sure. A lot of places down here I like.
Rod: Great, great. Thank you. Okay, we just picked up a… uh oh, now we’ve missed the light, didn’t we? [Laughed] Well, we just grabbed someone off the street and started talking, these lights, once again, are just absolutely gorgeous. The canopy of lights here was something that they had done, oh, back in the ‘30s or so, and then it then discontinued. I remember growing up here, we used to have some of the trees and stuff decorated on the courthouse lawn, and some of the stores would decorate things, but nothing quite like this. And I remember one of the meetings with the Commission for Downtown Bloomington, with Felicia Coffick [?] and the gang down there. I believe it was Bob Pearlman [?], Senior, that suggested, or mentioned that this is something that had been done some time ago, and they’re doing it again. They’re draped across through here. I’m sure people have come down and seen this, between the canopy and then the accenting of the trees that lead down to them. It’s just absolutely gorgeous. My kids make us drive through here about every evening, if we if we can. Okay, we’re headed around the corner. Don’t have too long to go. It’s about 10 after, we’re going into Talbot’s right now, closing door. Ah, warmth again. Shopping. Hello. I’m fine, thank you. Yes. My name is Rod Young. I’m here with WFHB Community Radio. We’re live on the air. Is there someone here that would like to say hello and let people know what your hours are and what we have for sale this evening? Little Santa Claus looking thing. All right, is there someone maybe that would like to talk? If not, we’ll just kind of walk through. Would you like to say hello to the listening audience at home? We’re live on the air with WFHB. Like to tell us why you came in here and shop? We’re at Talbot’s.
Guest 2: My very favorite women’s apparel shop in the area. You can, I can always find what fits and what is so pleasing and appropriate and of fine quality at Talbot’s, and the staff are always so friendly and helpful.
Rod: Now that, honestly, that was an honest-to-God endorsement. I just walked up to a lady that’s making a purchase here and asked her for her comment. So I’m assuming you guys are going to be open every day until Christmas. Be open Sunday, Christmas Eve day, and also be open nine, nine to eight, nine to five on Christmas Eve day, Sunday, from 10 till six. Pretty good, reading the time. So… and I know that my girls all shop in here, have a pretty good time. I kind of enjoy it in here, too. Nice colors, nicely landscaped, so to speak. Yeah, and the traditional Talbot’s red door. Thank you. Merry Christmas. In fact, at the door… well, wrong door. Let’s try this one now. They got a nice wreath there too. Merry Christmas. Hi, Janice! Hi, Richard!
Segment 16: Photo of five people sitting around a table in apparent discussion; one may be Jim Manion. Caption: Chris Green’s WFHB Poem, The Rose Firebay, 6/7/1997
Audio is part five of Chris Green’s poem.
Chris Green: Part five. What you give when you donate $60 to community radio? That’s roughly 11.25 hours of minimum wage. Or for me, that’s six hours of teaching at the Waldron that’s two Monday night poetry classes that always go for an extra hour anyway, or it’s a one and a half days of being a sub for MCCSC. And hey, I’m just going to put off that payment on my 357 Magnum and pawn my shotgun instead, because I want to support community like a pair of suspenders and lint. What do you give up when you support community radio? Well, there’s the first deposit in your IRA and then the next level of health insurance, or 1/20 of a trip to Peru, being Rothed once, buying the next three John Grisham novels, something like 200 packs of dentine, 10 bottles of Gallo, you know, the expensive kind, a quarter bag. What has inflation done? Giving up 120 cans of Coke? Rapists with an ad coke for Coca Cola, 10 creosote movies, 40 gallons of gas, which, by the way, is enough to get you to New Orleans and back, figuring about 30 miles to the gallon, 256 pounds of bulk cat litter. That’s the nice kind, about half a ton of cheap compost, or one ticket to a John Cougar Mellencamp concert.
Segment 17: Hand-drawn WFHB poster apparently in colored pencil. It reads “Bloomington WFHB Community Radio” and includes four drawings emulating the 90s Spot logo, one near each corner. Caption: Youth Radio Staiton [sic] ID, 1996
Audio is a Youth Radio station ID over drum beats.
Speaker: 91.3 Youth Radio. It’s all for youth and all for you. For more information, call 323-1200. That’s 323-1200. [Youths laughing.]
Segment 18: Clip from a local newspaper article entitled “Making waves on air” with the subtitle “Community radio station features songs you won ’t hear elsewhere.” Above the headline is the phrase “SOMETHING DIFFERENT ON THE DIAL” and a picture of Glenn Hicks looking through CDs in the air room pond, captioned “Picking one out: Glenn Hicks, the host for an afternoon rock show at WFHB, looks for a CD inside the DJ booth. The low-wattage Bloomington station usually gets 150 to 200 new CDs every week.” Caption: Pledge Drive Promo “Beavis & Butthead” 5/21/1994
Audio is a pre-produced fund drive promo parodying the television series Beavis and Butthead.
[Rock music.]
“Butthead”: Hey, Beavis. I bet you’re a big member of WFHB. Hah. Hah.
“Beavis”: Heh heh. He said “member.” Heh heh. That’s cool. Heh heh. I always wanted to be a member. Heh heh. How do I do it? Heh heh.
“Butthead”: Dude, just call the number. It’s 323-1200.
“Beavis”: Heh heh. What’s the number? Heh heh.
“Butthead”: Hah. Hah. 323-1200. Buttcheese. Hah. Hah.
“Beavis”: I’m gonna kick you in the head. I’m gonna, I’m gonna call that number and then I’m gonna kick your ass. Heh heh heh.
“Butthead”: In your dreams. Hah. Hah.
Richard Fish: Let’s face it. Television sucks. You really need community radio. Join or renew your membership. Call 323-1200 now.
“Butthead”: Radio’s cool. Hah. Hah.
Segment 19: Polaroids of past volunteers: James Chiplis, Jon Cash, Chase Potter, “Jammin” Jim Surmann, John Byers, Doug Kruithof, Marti Crouch, Melissa Federoff, Brad Warren “Luckey X,” Helen Gross, Will Booker, Chris Dadds, Robert Harman “The Flying Scotsman,” Loraine Addison “LowRain,” Bob Kissel “Bugsy,” Jaylene Marsh (Youth Radio) “Miss Moon,” Alice Wolfson, Sarah Flint, Evie Ladin, Brian Kearney “Marv Foley,” Mark Richardson, Stephen Volan “TallSteve,” Mike Englert, Richard Fish, Mike Sullivan, Carolyn Vandewiele, Jeffrey Morris, Joy Bridy, Amy Roche, Christine Hague, Jerry Prairie, Claudio Buchwald, Carrie Charlesworth, Virginia Fiscus, Steve Wender “Pappy,” LuAnne Holladay, Patrick Snider, Gwen McCay, Norman Danner, Chet Chmielewski + some children (Jackson Tate, Kathryn, Claire), Ken Grooms “The Rev. Groove!”, Seth Mahern, Paul Sturbaum, Gary Paul Glynn, Beth Williams, Craig Brenner, Sandy McGinn, Andrew Miller, David Medlock “Roscoe,” Craig Kinney, Randy Bone, Karl Ost, Eva [?], Bill Weaver “Vicious Gus Travers,” Shana Ritter, Joe Loop, C Rademacher + Lilly, Mary Paxton, Linda Cajigas, Brian Hardy, Mike Stankovic, Nicole, Jaylen, Jenny, Tom White, Carl Gross, Brian Hendrickson, Ken Luther, Claude Chandler “C-Note,” Jenny Beasley (Youth Radio), Jeffrey Miller, Matthew Blankenship, “G-Man” (Dan Selvaggi), Patti Powell, Lee Williams, others whose names are obscured. Caption: Chris Green’s WFHB Poem, The Rose Firebay, 6/7/1997.
Audio is part 6 of Chris Green’s poem.
Chris Green: Part six, and this is the final part. We ain’t paying no poll tax for culture. Sure ain’t paying any invisible hand to program our youngsters via stroking no camel’s nose or seduced by the dumb a-ribbit of a Budweiser frog or the raunchy crunch of a lustrous Pringle jingle. I don’t give a hang about ER or Cosby or Friends or 90125, but 323-1200, I’ve opened my window wide, I’m throwing out my TV set, I’m paying local, I’m paying direct. The Lord help me, I’m gonna give up designer shoes and go into the Gap and Chi-Chi’s can keep its ‘Chichamongas’ because I’m whooping it up on the backroads out by the hog farms on Vernal Pike. I’m hoisting kids down Odin Way, up on my shoulders. I’m stomping the ground down by Griffy, where beautiful Melissa used to woo me. I’m setting up house, I’m on Third Street Park, I’m searching for routes I’ve only heard about. I’m seeping back into the limestone ground like nitrate runoff. I am Karst topography. Because it’s not only about reclaiming subdivisions or dezoning the mall or scrolling through school board meetings or rabble-rousing down at City Hall, but of soldering together our plate-glass souls with the seamless cement of language and love and music and thus redesigning the Maya through mutual amendment, learning to weave the sensuous allusion we live, rushing to find the local masters of this divine life to emit outward into spirals of dreamtime on this place, 98.1, 91.3, WFHB, and this time fragment, a fragrant, frantic, dissociated, uncontrolled community discourse of co-authored satisfaction. We’re throwing down and opening wide. We’re putting shoots everywhere: it’s like kudzu’s come to Indiana. 323-1200 fund drive. Why don’t you set that load on down, because this is our one blessed life. Thank you. [Audience applause]