WGDR (91.1 FM) is a noncommercial American radio station licensed to Plainfield, Vermont, serving central

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. WGDR, owned by Central Vermont Community Radio Corporation, is a hybrid community/public radio station, broadcasting a freeform format. Founded in 1973, it is the oldest non-commercial

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station in Vermont. The station broadcasts a mix of music and public affairs programming produced by local volunteers from northern and central Vermont, plus

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programming. It was one of only a handful of radio stations in the U.S. to broadcast news from the English-language international channel of the

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-based TV network

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, until the network launched a separate U.S.-based channel,

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, in August 2013. The broadcast radius is from . There are 65 on-air volunteers on the staff. In 2009, WGDR received a My Source Community Impact Award (an award created by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting) for its Community Broadcast Training program. That same year, the station was granted a construction permit by the

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to build a second transmission tower near Hardwick, Vermont and operate on a second frequency to reach a much wider area of northern and central Vermont. On March 1, 2011, the FCC granted an operating license to the new station, which began full-power regular broadcasting on March 7, 2011. The new station, assigned the call letters

WGDH WGDH (91.7 FM) is a non-commercial educational American radio station that serves the community of Hardwick, Vermont, United States and the surrounding areas of Lamoille, Washington and Caledonia counties. The station, launched in 2011, is owne ...

, broadcasts at 91.7 FM, simulcasting with WGDR. Effective May 10, 2021, Goddard College Corporation donated the licenses for WGDR and sister station WGDH to Central Vermont Community Radio Corporation.

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WGDR website
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