Posts Categorized: News
WMPG to Broadcast Casco Bay High’s Graduation Thursday August 6th @ 6pm
WMPG is broadcasting the Casco Bay High School graduation on Thursday August 6th @ 6pm. Listen locally at 90.9FM, online at WMPG.org and by clicking this link.
WMPG broadcast the Deering High School graduation earlier today – linked here!
WMPG broadcasted the Deering High School graduation on Thursday August 6th @ 10am. Here is a recording of it link!
WMPG Broadcast of the Portland High School Graduation
On August 5th WMPG broadcasted the Portland High Graduation. It was a beautiful evening, if you missed it you can watch the video @ this link.
Thanks and congrats to all the graduates!
“Ella Fitzgerald: Just one of those things” – this Friday online from Portland Museum of Art
This Friday’s premier biopic of the First Lady of the American Songbook held in conjunction with the Portland Museum of Art and WMPG’s JAM (Jazz at the Movies): will be available online by going to Portland Museum of Art. Ella Fitzgerald was a 15 year-old street kid when she won a talent contest in 1934 at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem. Within months she was a star. Ella: Just One of Those Things follows her extraordinary journey over six decades as her sublime voice transforms the tragedies of her own life and the troubles of her times into joy.
WMPG Online Only Begathon – missed it? Still time to make a donation!
WMPG Community Radio asks for your support twice each year, and we started doing that on Monday, June 15… But in a “first-ever” for our Community Radio station, we’re doing it all online! You can click here to donate.
USM’s 2020 Student Commencement Speaker former WMPG Intern Leyla Hashi! Listen to her Speech and more!
STUDENT COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER Leyla Hashi ’20 When Leyla Hashi receives her diploma, like so many classmates she will become the first in her family to complete a college education. It is a special kind of story told over and over again, but Leyla’s journey to University of Southern Maine (USM) and her degree is particularly poignant.
Leyla Hashi - the 2020 USM Student Commencement
Speaker & former WMPG Intern
WMPG to Broadcast MECA’s Salt’s Spring ’20 Final Show on May 7th from 7-9pm
Salt’s Spring ‘20 Final Show, “All Things Reconsidered,” was broadcast on WMPG 90.9 fm radio in Southern Maine. Featuring the Spring 2020 cohort’s collection of Final Project work the show aired Thursday, May 7th. Listen Here
WMPG & The Portland Museum of Art to present a special debut of “Up From The Streets”
WMPG is excited to announce that our new film program JAZZ AT THE MOVIES will be teaming up with a brand new feature film narrated & produced by Terrence Blanchard. This first run film explores
WMPG on the air with socially distant radio…
WMPG is on the air, but we’ve sent our wonderful volunteers home to be socially distant and safe. To keep the great sounds coming to you, we are broadcasting programs from our archives, and trying to sync these programs with the DJs who would be on the air if we were broadcasting live. And you know what? This programming is SO good… We are often reminded that WMPG has some of the best programming in radio, and hearing these shows again really brings it home.
