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Come and get to know your community radio station at the Ithaca Festival, May 28 through 31! On Thursday evening, the WRFI Community Radio News Team will be broadcasting live from the Ithaca Festival Parade. You can also stop by our booth and catch a show on the WRFI Stage in Dewitt park on Saturday.…
Read MoreSamuel Whitehead speaks with Tompkins County 5th District Legislator Jim Dennis about how he got into public service, revisiting CIITAP, and the fallout of the New Years Eve standoff in Danby. This interview originally aired on the May 25th edition of WRFI Community Radio News;
Read MoreAt about 9:15 on Saturday night, our WRFI transmitter failed completely. It looks like the power supply got fried, probably by lightning. More than a dozen volunteers worked like crazy yesterday to make repairs and we were back on the air by 7:30 Sunday night. Special thanks are due to fellow broadcasters WVBR who lent us a backup…
Read MoreSamuel Whitehead speaks with Trevor Pinch and James Spitznagel about the exhibit “Switched On: The Birth of the Moog Synthesizer” at the History Center in Tompkins County, which closes at the end of May. They also touch on the spread of the synthesizer in popular music and what it’s like to play a Moog. …
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