Ocracoke Community Radio WOVV 90.1 FM
Ocracoke's Village Voice
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Underwriting Sponsors Kevin Hardy Custom Carpentry
Thank You very much to: The Outer Banks Community Foundation And
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Mission and
Purpose
Ocracoke Community
Radio's mission is to provide the Village of Ocracoke, and
its visitors, with a community-enhancing medium of
education, information, civic discourse and entertainment
through access to the public airwaves for locally-focused,
regional and national programming produced by, and
responsive to the needs of, our unique island community,
WOVV's policies,
practices and programming will always strive to support
equality, peace, sustainability, democracy and social and
economic justice.
Future
WOVV Board of Directors Charles Temple - Pres. / Chairman Jim Borland - Vice President Mandi Cochran - Treasurer Jenn Price - Secretary Bill Cole Clayton Gaskill Robert Raborn Jenny Scarborough Debbie Wells
Community Advisory Board Kenny Ballance Paige Bennett Aaron Gallaher Dave Hilton Greg Honeycutt Susie Kennedy Gary Mitchell (your name here)
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History
In the summer of 2007, in response to a rare filing window from the FCC for full-power non-commercial educational broadcasting licenses, the Ocracoke Community Radio Project was organized with the goal of obtaining a license and developing a locally produced and locally responsive FM station for Ocracoke Village and its visitors. With sponsorship and support from the Ocracoke Foundation we were able to file a successful application in Oct. 2007 and received our Construction Permit in Feb. 2008 to broadcast at 650W on 90.1 FM with the call letters WOVV. During this filing window there were over 3600 applications for new broadcasting licenses. Only about 250 were fast-tracked as singletons, non-mutually exclusive, and granted CPs by April; Ocracoke’s was one of those fortunate applications. During the Summer 2008 we have been developing our organization and held a successful WOVV 90.1 FM “What Could Possibly Go Wrong” Fund Raiser on Fri. June 13. We have established our initial Board of Directors to write our Articles of Incorporation and By-laws, start grant writing and underwriting efforts, recruit and establish a voting membership from the community and keep the process rolling along in general. We would like to thank the following for their support during these early stages: The Ocracoke Foundation Ocracoke Civic and Business Association Ocracoke Preservation Society Hyde County Emergency Management The Ocracoke School Hyde County Board of Commissioners Outer Banks Community Foundation
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