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UGA Press, radio station join forces to raise funds during ‘Book, CD Supersale’ |
| By John McLeod |
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| The University of Georgia
Press and the Friends of WUGA will sell deeply discounted books and
CDs during their jointly sponsored “Book and CD Supersale”
Oct. 21 and 22. The event, open free to the public, will take
place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day at the Tate Student
Center Plaza. Proceeds benefit fund-raising efforts currently under
way by WUGA and UGA Press. The UGA Press sale will include books of nature writing, poetry, fiction, literary criticism and African-American studies, as well as titles about Georgia and the South. WUGA will sell more than 1,000 donated discs representing a wide array of artists: classical, Celtic, rap, Christian, Broadway, jazz and local music, as well as movie soundtracks and world music. For every three CDs they purchase, while supplies last, shoppers can choose a free disc from among hundreds of special items. The press recently launched a new fund-raising campaign, and an inaugural fund-raising advisory board of alumni and others is being put together. WUGA’s CD sale follows a highly successful on-air pledge drive. WUGA faces the dual challenge of rising programming costs and FCC-mandated digital upgrades. “The funds raised by the CD sale will help defray both these operational requirements,” says station manager Steve Bell. Working with fewer staff and less money than in the past, the station hopes to continue to provide high-quality national and statewide programming while expanding local programming. |
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