97.9 Valley FM: The Heart of the Community
97.9 Valley FM is Streaming
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Welcome Friends!
Thank you for joining us online.
Our society envisions an amazing, new, community radio station. And we are just at the beginning of making this dream come true!
Thank you to all the sponsors, donors, businesses, and individuals who have stepped up and helped us “Power the Tower” so that 97.9 Valley FM can get ON AIR across greater Vernon with our 600-Watt radio transmitter. We are going forward with purchasing and installing the necessary equipment to make this dream a reality.
Also, we are pleased to welcome Marv Machura as our executive director! See our media release here.
During the course of our Power the Tower Fundraiser, we have made many new friends and welcomed many new members into the Vernon Community Radio Society.
Our Story
In 2017, Gord Leighton and others saw a need for an additional radio station to provide local ON AIR programming for the greater Vernon area. So they founded the Vernon Community Radio Society.
Since that time, the society has gotten an approved FM radio frequency, studio space, and broadcasting equipment. In addition, Valleyfm.ca has been streaming content (and a growing list of local programs) online over the past year.
Valley FM is now taking the dream of a locally focused radio station into reality and will soon start broadcasting on 97.9 FM ON AIR!
Thank you for joining us in making this dream into reality!
Click here to see our recent “Our Story” page.
About Us
97.9 Valley FM is about bringing us all together.
We are locally-focused radio: local talk, news, music, news/interviews nurture a vibrant, friendly, informed community.
As we go ON AIR we will be able to become a vital part of our city offering live news coverage of local stories and more. Last year’s wildfires reminded us of the necessity for 24/7 live broadcasting of news!
We provide quality air-time support and advertising and promotional opportunities for Vernon businesses–from exciting startups to established community-minded businesses.
We provide broadcasting and promotional support for local sports and recreation as well as festivals, arts, and culture.
We give volunteer and learning (student) opportunities for careers in radio broadcasting, IT, writing, promotion, and more.
We understand that we have much work to do to establish the kind of programming, learning, quality, and advertising for which we are reaching here. But we believe that through this kind of local focus we can build a type of community radio that brings us together and is a vital part of the media landscape of our city.
Click here to see our recent “About Us” page.
Foundation for the Station
Our Board of Directors
President – Pending
Secretary – Garry Molitwenik
Vice-president – Pending
Directors: Dave Weatherall, Melanie O’Hara, Rob Tooke, Terry R, John Trainor
Vernon Community Radio Association Bylaws and Constitution.