Delgado Community College’s budding radio station needs your help! Having been awarded a construction permit to build a 100-Watt FM station, all that is left for Dolphin Radio WXDR 98.9 FM to be broadcast throughout New Orleans is a transmitter. To complete the project, Delgado Community Project has to raise $5,000, and they are turning to the public for donations.

Dolphin Radio has been active online and on YouTube for many years now, with programs that vary from the Ron Rich Takeover, which features the best of R&B every Monday, to education and news programs. The opportunity to be aired throughout the entire city is a great new step for the station.

“As far as the format is concerned, the programs will try to be a little more coherent than what is done at the moment,” Dolphin Radio faculty adviser Bob Dunn said. “We won’t change our eclectic musical selections, but rather try to organize them in block programs aired at particular times. We’re absolutely going to keep the existing programs, especially our student DJ sessions.”

One of only seven community colleges nationwide to have been given this permission, Dolphin Radio also takes this opportunity as a great chance to kick off many original projects.

“It’s incredibly exciting!” Dunn said. “I’m really keen to have as much new international programs as we can. We have a lot of international students here, and if I could get anybody to do something like an Arabic or Vietnamese popular music show or something like that, that would be great. I would also really like to get some of our music professors to do some programming. Right now we are open to all suggestions. What we want to do is give voice to the voiceless. All we need is money.”

If you want to be part of it, all your donations are welcome and tax-deductible through PayPal (no account required).