WUVA now has space on Grounds, in Newcomb Hall, for offices and a small, satellite studio. This is a game-changer for WUVA. However, to equip the new facility, we need your help.
Our main studio will remain at Arlington Boulevard next to the Barracks Road shopping center, but that location has proved difficult for most students to get to. That was one reason we applied for space in Newcomb Hall.
The WUVA Board of Directors has begun to equip the station's new media center there. Once this project is completed, WUVA finally will have the enhanced production capabilities necessary for survival in today's rapidly converging multi-media environment. We have very specific, carefully planned, and decidedly ambitious goals for:
Audio facilities so student announcers can record their on-air shifts and production for WUVA-FM programming in Newcomb Hall, rather than having to make the trip out to Barracks Road;
Streaming and podcasting facilities to put 92.7 on the World Wide Web; and
Video production facilities to expand our media reach, create a University-oriented digital media service, and attract much greater student participation.
Please take ten minutes to view this informative video, which explains the project. (If you can't see it, you might first need to download the free Adobe Flash Player).
Without these improvements, WUVA will miss the chance to capitalize on the transition to digital media – at just the time when all student media must make that jump if they are to survive. Our long-term prospects would be jeopardized. And the reality is that the project cannot succeed without contributions from alumni and friends. We need $50,000 for new equipment and, in this economy, WUVA-FM's advertising sales can't produce that funding.
Also, there's a deadline. We must demonstrate productive use of the Newcomb Hall space this school year, or we risk losing it to other student groups.
Please view the video. Then please make a donation in any amount. Help sustain our operations and pioneering spirit; catapult WUVA into the next generation as one of the leading media organizations at the University of Virginia.
Donations of $250 or more enter The Lefevre Circle, named for the station's former dorm-basement home. For leadership donations of at least $640, we are establishing The 640 Club to honor our carrier- current days. Donors of $1000 or more go into The Gold Record Club.
We hope you will join us.
Sincerely,
Steve Taylor, Chairman
for the WUVA Alumni Interest Group
WUVA, Inc. is a Virginia non-stock, nonprofit corporation. The Internal Revenue Service has determined that WUVA, Inc. is exempt from taxation as a charity under IRC Sec. 501(c)(3) and is not a private foundation under IRC Sec. 509(a). Neither WUVA, Inc. nor the WUVA Alumni Interest Group can give tax advice to contributors. Alumni and friends should present the fact of these determinations to their tax advisors in evaluating the tax consequences of contributions.
