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Erin Van Ness writesCHIRP’s Fall Campaign Kicks off Today!
Well folks, it’s here, whether you are ready or not. Fall is in the air. Time for bands to get their vans fueled up for this year’s epic tour. Time to finish up those citrus beers and make room in your fridge for the welcoming taste of Oktoberfest. Dig that beloved hoodie from under your bed and heck, make some chili while you’re at it.
Here at CHIRP, fall also is the time of year where we hold our semi-annual membership drive and reach out to our amazing and loyal listeners for support. You know the ones we’re talking about. You, who proudly wears your CHIRP button on your backpack and has a CHIRP sticker on your car. You, who uses the CHIRP iPhone app to listen on the train and at work. You, who has asked your local coffee shop to play CHIRP Radio through the speakers. And you, who simply enjoys the station and encourages your friends to check it out.
Yep, we are talking to you. And we want to thank you for being so darn loyal and invite you to help us celebrate the community effort that makes CHIRP something special. Let the world know that you have helped make CHIRP the coolest radio station in Chicago! Just visit http://chirpradio.org/donatenow and become a member today.
CHIRP DJ writesCHIRP Radio Profiles: Meet Bobby Evers
CHIRP Radio is an all-volunteer effort. We would like to introduce you to some of the people who make the station what it is!
CHIRP DJ writesCHIRP Radio Profiles: Meet Blake Burkhart
CHIRP Radio is an all-volunteer effort. We would like to introduce you to some of the people who make the station what it is!
Blake Burkhart was born in Chicago, raised in the nearby suburbs to the North and now is a member of the Ukrainian Village community. He studied Documentary Filmmaking at Columbia College Chicago for undergrad and graduated in 2008.
Aside from his day-to-day grind, Blake does freelance Video and Photo projects for clients (mostly Chicagoland artists/bands), and sometimes purely to entertain himself. He is most at home behind the lens of a camera and now has plans to take on more projects than ever before in the coming months. He’s somewhat handy with a bass, shaky with a guitar, and is now attempting to learn the drums (slowly but surely….very slowly).
Blake has been a CHIRP volunteer since February 2011. He has enjoyed every second of his involvement from handing out fliers and telling nice Chicagoans what CHIRP is all about, to conducting interviews for the guest department including: Cut Copy, Architecture in Helsinki, Battles and Art Brut. He has also done photo work for CHIRP and is in the early stages of some CHIRP-related video projects.
He has just started DJ training, and is thrilled at the prospect of gracing the CHIRP airwaves one day soon. Blake will continue to tell anyone who will listen that joining CHIRP easily ranks among the best decisions of his life and he has high hopes for his future involvement with the best radio station in the world.
CHIRP DJ writesCHIRP Radio Named “Best Internet Radio Station” by Chicago Magazine
Congratulations are in order for CHIRP Radio – Chicago Magazine has named us “Best Internet Radio Station” in its new 2011 Best of Chicago issue!
We are flattered and honored to get this shout-out from such a fantastic publication, and we’d like to thank them and all of the people who listen to the station for their support!
Shawn Campbell writesCHIRP is “Best Overall Radio Station” in Reader’s Best of Chicago Issue
Thanks so much to everyone who voted in the Reader’s annual Best of Chicago poll and made CHIRP Best Overall Radio Station . We love you back! And if you just found out about us through the issue, you can listen to us at CHIRPradio.org — this site is our blog.