Kickstarted – The next step for WMSE

By Mark Metcalf - Jan 5th, 2012 04:00 am

Beginning last October, WMSE 91.7 FM ran a Kickstarter project with the goal of raising $30,000 in two months. Just before Christmas, the station met its goal and will be able to keep live music on the Milwaukee airwaves for the foreseeable future.
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Billy Cicerelli

Ryan Schleicher

Like many Kickstarter projects, WMSE’s had a specific target, which was to raise funds for new equipment to broadcast and record live music at their downtown studio. I sat down with Ryan Schleicher and Billy Cicerelli of WMSE to talk about the successful campaign and to find out what’s in store for the radio station in 2012 now that the goal has been met.

Listen now:

Backstage with Mark Metcalf: Ryan Schleicher and Billy Cicerelli, WMSE 91.7 FM

“Backstage with Mark Metcalf” is recorded at the ThirdCoast Digest office at the Grand Avenue Mall.

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