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Clear Channel Radio Partners To Aid Flood Victims of Southern West Virginia

San Antonio, TX -- Clear Channel Radio is partnering with the Salvation Army, WOWK 13 News and WV Radio to collect supplies for flooding victims in Southern West Virginia. Volunteers with the Salvation Army will be collecting supplies or monetary donations.

 

In Charleston, donations are being collected at the West Virginia Radio Building located at 1111 Virginia Street from 6am - 6pm Tuesday, May 12.

 

In Huntington, the donation drive is being held at the WOWK Studios located at 555 5th Avenue from 6am-7:30pm Tuesday, May 12.

 

According to the Salvation Army, the supplies that are most needed at this time are:

Plastic storage bins with lids (for storing clothing and other belongings), cleaning supplies (mops, brooms, shovels, hoses, paper towels, lysol, etc.) Water (bottled drinking water) *Nonperishable food items (canned goods, macaroni and the like) and cash donations.

 

The Salvation Army will have representatives on hand with a truck to collect and will deliver these items to the affected areas. There will also be a kettle at the locations listed above for cash donations.

 

For more information about the Salvation Army, please visit www.salvationarmyusa.org.


Worcester City Council Recognizes Clear Channel Station WTAG for Life-Saving Service

Clear Channel’s Cross-Divisional Efforts Raise Over $65 Million in First Two Months of Relief EffortsClear Channel’s Cross-Divisional Efforts Raise Over $65 Million in First Two Months of Relief Efforts

Worcester, MA – Clear Channel Radio recently announced that News Talk 580/94.9FM WTAG has been honored with special recognition from the Worcester City Council, the Mayor and the City Manager, during a Council’s meeting at Worcester’s City Hall. The region was pummeled by a severe ice storm on December 12, 2008. Over two hundred thousand people lost power and tens of thousands did not get their power restored for weeks. Despite being hit just as hard, WTAG was a beacon of information for the community. The broadcast studios in Paxton were running on generator and station phone lines were down. Under the direction of Market Manager Sean Davey, WTAG preempted their syndicated programming and provided close to 15 hours each day of local emergency coverage. These broadcasts were the only lifeline to people without power.

 

Under the direction of Program Director George Brown, staff began taking text messages on a station cell phone, then a wireless laptop, and eventually, one phone line was restored. After about five days, power was restored to WTAG but tens of thousands were still in the dark. For over a week, people could turn to WTAG for safety information, shelter locations, power restoration updates, and friendly, familiar voices to help them weather this ice storm that devastated central Massachusetts. Five days earlier, and before an audience that included hundreds of local business leaders, WTAG was presented with another community service award from the Worcester Area Chamber of Commerce.

 

“We took an opportunity to be a good citizen, to do the right thing, to help,” Market Manager Sean Davey told the Council as he thanked them for their recognition. “We would take a call from an elderly woman in distress, and then someone who lived three streets away would call and say they would take care of her.”