Tantramar Community Radio Society
35 Church Street
P.O Box 487
Amherst, N.S.
B4H 4A1
Project Overview
Communication is an important tool in linking us as towns and villages with common interests, tastes and concerns. We feel this can be enhanced through the airwaves and that the emergence of a community FM radio station serving much of Cumberland and Westmoreland Counties is long overdue.
The Tantramar Community Radio Society, a not-for-profit organization, has been formed for that sole purpose.
Our application to the CRTC was approved on July 15, 2009 and we are about to launch a major fundraising project to raise the $200,000.00 necessary to build a transmitter site in Fenwick and equip a studio facility in Amherst. In future, TCRS will be streaming audio on the internet, in advance of over-the-air broadcasting.
We [will] offer programming which is under-represented in the mainstream media. It will be "people-to-people" radio in the true sense with a strong core of volunteers driving the ideas and concepts contributing to each day of broadcasting.
We are committed to engaging our listeners with an inclusive, intelligent and innovative alternative experience. Our music, concerts, news, interviews and other programming ideas reflect the rural Maritime communities in which we live and work. Local area artists and performers will have a venue to promote and perform their works. It will also become a training facility for aspiring announcers, news readers, writers and those with other talents. The Tantramar Community Radio Society [will provide] that important link that will create more synergy between communities both large and small in such an expansive geographic area.
Unlike private commercial radio, any profits we accrue will either go back into the continued growth of the station or toward community projects. We are not obligated to shareholders, but to you, our listeners and members.
[We are asking for your support for our endeavour either through a financial or in kind contribution. If you are a member of the business community in Amherst, Springhill. Sackville, Oxford, Pugwash, Parrsboro or surrounding areas, and wish to advertise on Tantramar Community Radio 107.9, we are preparing a commercial package that will assist you in promoting your business ].
Please assist us in making this important community project a reality. For more information on our Society and how you can become a member, email us at admin@tantramarfm.ca.
