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In October 2020, global feminist allies came together for a virtual town hall to discuss our frameworks for climate justice. The Framework Reader includes one-page summaries of each of the frameworks that were presented and discussed in the Town Hall, as well as additional resources to learn more. We hope that this Reader is useful. WEDO features a variety of music, Talk, Religious, Multi-cultural programming and Local McKeesport Tigers games, which also can be listened to live over the internet via the “Listen Live Tigers” Icon.

I'm Spencer, CEO here at WeDo.

Five years ago, I started WeDo to better understand how actions and behaviors affected productivity, wellness, health, and overall happiness.

WeDo became the #1 life manager, and helped nearly 1,500,000 users towards this goal.

Unfortunately, WeDo is shutting down on September 30th, 2020. This decision was not made lightly. This is every start-up's and user's worst nightmare. While we accomplished our mission of creating a tool that was so helpful to so many, we can no longer financially support it. Even today, tens of thousands of people enjoy WeDo every day - and for that, we are so delighted and grateful. Closing up has been one of the most painful realities and decisions I've ever had to make.

I'm sure a lot of you have questions, so we've created an FAQ below.

Why now? Since 2018, I've been investing my personal capital into WeDo to keep it alive and going. We've tried everything to give WeDo a chance of continuing. Unfortunately, I'm no longer able to support WeDo financially.

At the end of September 2020, WeDo will no longer be live on the App or Play Store (learn what this means in our FAQ below).

But, we learned a lot and are applying those lessons to what we do next. We want to continue building products that help you.

Check out Remote Labs if you'd like to keep up with what we're doing next, or if you're a product person or founder yourself, you can checkout something we're building called Build Better, helping teams build better products.

We can't wait to get your feedback on what we build.

Be well,
Spencer Shulem
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September 2020

P.S. If you want to hear the struggles of raising money for WeDo, you can listen to it here, on The Pitch.

WEDO (810 kHz) is a commercialAMradio stationlicensed to McKeesport, Pennsylvania and serving Greater Pittsburgh. It carries a brokered programmingradio format. Hosts buy segments of time on the station and may use their shows to advertise their products and services or seek donations to their ministries. Some shows are for ethnic communities, some are religious and others are devoted to special interests. WEDO is owned by Robert and Ashley Stevens through licensee Broadcast Communications, Inc. The studios and offices on Lincoln Way in White Oak, Pennsylvania.

By day, WEDO is powered at 1,000 watts. The transmitter is off Foster Road, also in White Oak.^[1] But AM 810 is a clear channel frequency reserved for Class AWGYSchenectady and KGOSan Francisco. So to avoid interference, WEDO must sign off at night when radio waves travel farther. Programming is heard around the clock on 50 watt FM translatorW227DB at 93.3 MHz.^[2]

History[edit]

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The station signed on in 1947, at around the same time as another McKeesport-licensed radio station, WMCK AM 1360 (now WGBN). WEDO has had only this call sign, and only two owners in its history. Tri-City Broadcasting first put the station on the air and operated it until 1972, when it was purchased by 810, Inc., a wholly owned company headed by local entrepreneurs Ralph and Judith Baron. Following the death of Ralph Baron, Judy Baron, now residing in Florida, has recently established a trust that would control the station in the event of her death or incapacitation.

During the 60s and 70s, WEDO became known for its Top 40 music presentation and even received more notoriety when they relocated their studios and offices inside Midtown Plaza Mall on Fifth Avenue in downtown McKeesport during the 1970s. The mall, one of the first in suburban Pittsburgh, enabled shoppers to watch the DJ's in real time as they did their on-air shifts.

In the early 1980s, when FM emerged as the leading technology for music, WEDO gradually dropped its music for the program-oriented format that it originally had in its formative years. As McKeesport's downtown economy continued to deteriorate, so did tenant business in Midtown Plaza Mall, as many of the stores went out of business or relocated into the suburbs. With few tenants left in the building, the property's managers turned off heat to several areas of the mall in an effort to reduce operating costs. A heating problem one day in 2000 resulted in a frozen pipe bursting in the mall and leaving the radio station in about two inches of standing water. According to a former employee, it was the second time that such an incident occurred.^{[citation needed]}

Management then decided to relocate to a different building. WEDO cleared its equipment and furniture out of the mall weeks later and moved to its current location at a former bank location at 1985 Lincoln Way, where it occupies the second floor.

In the spring of 1999, WEDO was the victim of a not-so-innocent and dangerous prank committed by local high school students at its transmitter facility in Forest Hills, as explained in the April 13th and 29th, 1999 issue archives of the Tribune-Review...

Police blame vandals for toppled radio tower...officials say cables cut; WEDO-AM is off air

Vandals cut the wires supporting a McKeesport radio station's transmitting tower, police said, allowing high winds to blow down the tower and knock the station off the air early Monday morning.

WEDO-AM may be dark for a week or more, said John James, vice president and general manager.

The damage to the 300-foot-tall tower along Foster Road in North Versailles Township was discovered early yesterday. Only a 30-foot section remains standing, James said.

The station, whose studios are in Midtown Plaza Mall in McKeesport, has an old daytime-only broadcasting license. WEDO had signed off on Sunday before 8 p.m.

North Versailles acting police Chief James Comunale said two of six wires supporting the tower were clearly cut. Though the tower was protected by a fence, the wires stretched deep into the woods, he said.

'I personally believe (the wires were) cut prior to this and the wind took it down last night,' Comunale said. 'We found no footprints and with all the rain we've had, we would have seen footprints.'

Local youths frequent the trails in the woods nearby, he said.

James, of North Huntingdon Township, said he was looking for a replacement tower. If one can't be found quickly, he said, he'll look for a temporary broadcasting site, possibly on another station's tower.

Radio station is back after rebuilding tower

WEDO-AM, the McKeesport radio station knocked out of commission when its tower was felled about two weeks ago, is back on the air.

Station vice president and general manager John James said Wednesday a new tower has been constructed at the same North Versailles Township site as its previous one. WEDO, a 1,000-watt station, signed back onto the airwaves at 6 a.m. Tuesday.

James said he estimates the cost of the new tower at more than $60,000, which is expected to be covered by insurance.

'We're in the process of working with the insurance company right now,' he reported.

The amount of lost advertising revenue has not been determined, but he expects the station's insurance to cover that as well.

'We lost a bundle,' James said.

A 16-year-old White Oak resident has been charged with criminal mischief in the incident. North Versailles police said strong winds toppled the tower after guy wires holding it in place were cut on April 11.

Change in Ownership[edit]

On Tuesday, September 15, 2015, it was announced that 810 Inc. agreed to sell WEDO to Broadcast Communications, Inc. of Irwin, Pennsylvania, licensee of WKFB, WKHB, WANB, WKVE and three FM translators in the Pittsburgh market, plus other broadcast properties in the Cumberland, Maryland market. The sale was finalized on January 5, 2016, at a purchase price of $175,000.

WEDO people[edit]

John James managed the station from June 1982 until retiring in 2014. James' predecessor, David Leiner took over for longtime manager John Longo in 1980. Longo went on to own and operate WCNS, about 50 miles (80 km) east of Pittsburgh until his retirement in 2014.

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• WEDO in the FCC's AM station database
• WEDO on Radio-Locator
• WEDO in Nielsen Audio's AM station database

Coordinates: 40°21′51″N79°48′46″W / 40.36417°N 79.81278°W

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