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Posted on May 08 2006
Do you get a laugh, learn some tricks, listening to the Klacket Brothers on “Car Talk”? Like the easy music of “Echoes”? or “Jazz Profiles,” or “World Cafe” or “Classical Guitar”? Listen to the BBC news for a more unbiased account of world events? Get riled up by the discussions on “Justice Talking”? or inspired by “World of Possibilities,” “Infinite Mind” and “Bioengineers”? Love the interviews on “Fresh Air”? The symphony performances? Pick up investing tips on “Motley Fool”?
Well, if you don’t, you could be—just by turning your radio on to 88.1 or 89.1 on your FM dial. These and similar shows are scheduled 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 12 months a year on KRNM, the CNMI’s only public radio station.
And if you do listen, learn, enjoy, laugh—or at least smile—now’s the time to show how much you appreciate the huge variety of free entertainment and enlightenment and information that National Public Radio brings to the CNMI. Listeners get the shows for free, but KRNM has to pay for most of them—not only for the right to air them, but also for the equipment that brings them here from the rest of the world.
KRNM is conducting its twice-a-year fundraiser for the next two weeks, so now is the time to show your support and make a contribution to NPR, and to KRNM. Any amount is welcome, from pennies or a single dollar to as high as you want to go, and it’s tax deductible. You can mail a check made out to KRNM/NMC at P.O. Box 501250, Saipan, MP 96950, or call in a pledge to 234-5766, or ask someone to pick up your contribution by calling the same number or calling NMC at 234-5498, extension 1520. Or if you want to make a contribution by credit card over the phone, you can call 234-5498, Ext. 1541, and ask for Shirley or Tim—during normal work hours.
However you do it, won’t you please go ahead and do it, so that KRNM can continue to bring such unique programs to the CNMI? Station Manager Carl Pogue promised that if the pledge drive brings in $7,000 by May 15, he would be able to bring in an even greater variety of offerings.
The time is NOW!
An ardent NPR fan,
Ruth L. Tighe
Tanapag, Saipan
