IMPORTANT: New Phone Number for GCR

To All GCR Partner Stations:

Effective July 1st, 2019, the previous phone number to contact Global Community Radio has been disconnected. Going forward, please use the following number to contact GCR for station related inquiries or issues.

+1 (315) 217-1308

You may also send standard SMS text messages to this number if you wish.

Please note this change accordingly.

Internet Restored. New Programs Resume Tonight

After a nearly 16 hour outage in which our internet was "crippled" but not totally down, things have finally returned to "normal". I can now access all the regular download sites for shows, so new episodes of shows on all streams will be heard from this evening forward.

Thanks to all of you for your patience and understanding. After this ridiculously long internet outage, paired with recurring problems we've been having with our phone service, I may be looking for new providers for both very soon!

Reruns on all streams today (5/31)

Yesterday, something got fowled up in the internet settings on the computer which I use to download new shows for all GCR program streams. Now, I can't seem to access many of the websites where I need to get new audio files. Needless to say, I will be calling my computer tech as soon as he is open for business this morning, and I am hopeful he will be able to come to GCR headquarters and have a look at this issue. Until then, I have no choice but to offer repeats of last Friday's shows. Thank you for your understanding. I apologize for the inconvenience.

Important Notice: Possible Power Outage At GCR Headquarters Due to High Winds

Dear Listeners and Partner Stations:

We are under a high wind warning here in upstate New York from Sunday night all the way thru Monday afternoon (2/24-2/25). I have seen and heard multiple news and weather reports anticipating damage to trees and power lines in this area as a result of wind gusts as high as 70 miles per hour. I sincerely hope that we don't lose power at GCR headquarters in Geneva, NY, but, if you hear our backup loop of instrumental music in lieu of our normal programming, this is most likely the reason why. I wanted to try and alert everyone of the situation in advance. As always, apologies for any inconvenienve this may cause. Further updates on the situation will be posted if necessary.

Thank you for listening to and supporting GCR.

GCR Welcomes New Partner Station in Southwest Virginia

Global Community Radio is pleased to welcome another partner station to our family of campus and community radio stations using our streams to provide unique programming to their local communities.

This time, we say welcome aboard to the folks at WROF-LP (Radio of Floyd) in Floyd, Virginia, in the Blue Ridge Mountain area of Southwest VA. WROF is heard locally at 95.7 FM, and online at www.wrof-floyd.com, where there is already a live stream. For now, listeners can hear GCR2 and its wide variety of music 24/7 on WROF. Eventually, WROF will start offering select programs from all three GCR streams, along with its own local programming.

Hats off to Scott and the rest of the crew at WROF for bringing community radio to their local area. We look forward to working with them for a long time to come!

Update: GCR2 Back On Air

After being down for at least the past 24 hours, GCR2 is back. We were able to finally reconnect to our existing server using the old login credentials. Apologies for any inconvenience caused to our partner stations and listeners. We will be asking our streaming provider to please look into this matter to determine the exact cause, and to ensure it doesn't happen again.

Thanks, everyone, for your continued support!

GCR2 Down - Beyond My Control

To All GCR2 Partners and Listeners:

At some point (not sure just when) the Auto DJ feature of our streaming server hosted by Shoutca.st kicked in. This is normally only used when our "live" normal programming stream is down due to a power or internet outage at our Geneva, New York studio. But this time, there is no problem on my end. Our internet is working properly, and the software we use to stream c0ontent to the server says that it is streaming. But, for reasons as yet unknown, the Auto DJ will not "kick over" to the live stream. I have stopped and restarted the server several times hoping this will resolve the issue. No luck. I can't seem to get our programming out to the stream. I have sent a support ticket marked urgent to the tech teat at the server over in the UK. Unfortunately, until I hear from them, there is nothing I can do to restore normal programming. Needless to say, I am not happy! Up to now, I thought this company was a reliable, dependable streaming service. I am hoping they will help me to resolve this problem as soon as possible. In the mean time, feel free to switch to a different GCR stream if you do not want the "endless loop" of fill music and technical difficulties announcements. GCR1 and 3 are both functioning normally.

I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience to both my partner stations and their listeners. Rest assured I will not rest until this is fixed!