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Ithaca Community Radio
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Ithaca NY 14850
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It's not just giving season, it’s gratitude season. Tune in for monthly specials and features as our show hosts express their gratitude to YOU their listeners and our station supporters. PLUS we have lots of ways for your donation to WRFI to support your gifts to other loved ones for the holidays.
You know that feeling you get when you’re driving home from a long trip? When you drive back into your hometown, cross that invisible line and can tune back in to your favorite local radio station for the first time after long road trip hours of flipping through channels? Yup THAT feeling. It’s a feeling of home, familiarity, and community and it's why WRFI is here for you throughout the year, and why we’re hoping you’ll support us this year.
Whether you tune into the station in the morning, with hot coffee in hand as you reconnect with the news of our region and the world. Or if you find yourself listening to WRFI music in the evenings as you’re in the kitchen preparing food to share with others. Or even if you catch a snippet of discussion on a WRFI talk show while supporting a locally owned business while shopping locally. Whenever and wherever you tune in to WRFI, we want you to know that we are broadcasting for and because of listeners like you.
“Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.”
Frederick Douglass, 1860
Over 50% of WRFI’s funding came from our listeners in 2024, and we steward the responsibility of being community-supported seriously. WRFI is a vital civic infrastructure for our region, reaching 300,000 households across three neighboring counties. We broadcast 7 days a week, intentionally creating an on-air space to share independent voices, alternative music and news, Public Service Announcements, and as a free network to amplify the resources and support services of non-profits and community organizations.
Whether you started listening to WRFI for the unique and eclectic music options, or because of our deep commitment to independent news that values facts, integrity, and the lives of human beings, or because a local friend told you they were hosting their very own show on-air, we hope you've stuck with WRFI because we help you feel connected to your Finger Lakes community in a unique way. The gift of WRFI is that you never quite know what you'll hear when you tune in, but you know that our 70+ local hosts are curating every hour for their neighbors in our beloved community.
Thank you for supporting us this gratitude season, and for tuning in and sharing the airwaves with us all year long.
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Ears of Every Size - NEW Artwork by Emily Hopkins
"Ears of Every Size" is a 2025 design from WRFI DJ Emily Hopkins of Hello Earthlings, whose design style you might recognize from New Yorker cartoons! Everybody's listening to WRFI! Limited number of tote bags and tee-shirts in this print available.
Community Build Cap
The updated version of our classic Community Build cap, with a larger logo on a heavyweight Eureka cotton twill structured baseball cap in black.
Chapbook from poet Quentin Lewis
From our Undiscovered Country series, this chapbook features the work of poet Quentin Lewis. Lewis is currently incarcerated at Wende Correctional Facility in Western New York and is actively fighting his conviction. This volume collects his recent work-poems written while inside. Letter-pressed and hand-sewn by Felix Teitelbaum at WRFI in collaboration with Caleb Harrington at the Ithaca Generator and Draya Koschmann at Sew Green, this is a limited edition of 50 chapbooks.
