[WXBH-Discuss] Open House for Fern Creek Radio's facility Tuesday

[John Hicks]

Some of you may be interested in attending the "grand opening" open 
house for our sister station, Fern Creek High School's WFHS-LP. It will 
be tomorrow (Tuesday) from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. at the high school, 9115 
Fern Creek Road (within sight of Bardstown Road).

As most of you know, the FCC granted LPFM licenses for the 92.7 mHz 
frequency to both FCHS (actually, to the school's Alumni Association) 
and to the Brick House, requiring us to work out some kind of time 
sharing arrangement. After much deliberation on the part of both 
parties, we are currently finalizing an agreement with Fern Creek to use 
their transmitter and antenna and to broadcast at night and on weekends 
(and during their vacation times). The two stations working together 
will be bringing the community of Fern Creek (and Southeast Jefferson 
County) a full time community-based station.

Fern Creek High is a great partner to have because it is the magnet 
school for media and mass communications. They already have a TV 
broadcast program in their curriculum and are now adding a radio 
program. This is wonderful enabling, empowering technology that they are 
teaching about!! Think of the many ways we can be working together.

So if you're interested in working with WXBH, you'll want to get to know 
Fern Creek. And the Open House may be a way to start doing that!

[Note: Unfortunately we won't be sharing Fern Creek's studio, only their 
transmitter and antenna, so don't get too excited about all the 
equipment they'll be showing off :) We both felt that there might be 
some initial apprehension about having a motley assortment of the public 
(that's us) being present on school property after hours. In the future, 
after we establish a history of stability, mutual trust etc., we may 
very well be able to work out a way to share studios. But, to begin 
with, we are planning on setting up our own remote studio facilities and 
uploading the signal to the transmitter via Internet or dataline.]

We hope to have some more news about WXBH soon. But in the meantime I 
thought some of you would be interested in checking out the Fern Creek 
station tomorrow night.

Cheers,

--John Hicks
for the Brick House Board of Directors