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12/25/2024

Merry Christmas!

12/24/2024

Happy Holidays!

Whether you say Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Joyous Kwanzaa or whatever holiday greeting you choose, we hope that yours will be everything you want it to be this time of year.

We are blessed and ever grateful for your listener and advertising support over the years. While at times things tend to get hectic at the radio station, we're all taking time to reflect on where we've been the past year and what lies ahead for 2025.

I hope that you all will take a few moments to reflect on 2024 and what it has brought you. I will be taking some precious time to spend with my family and value that time together. I implore you to never take the gift of time for granted.

When you tip, tip generously. When the hustle and bustle of crowded stores or traffic jams overwhelms you, pause an extra moment to realize the joy of the season and forget the frustrations we experience throughout daily life.

In the immortal words of Charles Dickens, "God Bless us, every one."

God Bless you all, every one.

Happy Holidays to one and all,

Ken Hawk
President and General Manager
Saxonburgradio.com

12/24/2024

Fun With Flags! Mic flags in this case! These are normally available to stations for about $100 each, depending on the color scheme you want, then it's more. Ken Hawk managed to find blank flags online and made ours himself...three of them for less than $100!

12/24/2024

Before we managed to score the Arrakis ARC-10, we found this Arrakis 1200-10S, which was more than we needed and we ended up selling it.

12/24/2024

Before the pandemic hit in March 2020, we took account of our cash on hand and decided it was time to upgrade some of our equipment. While the microphones we had were adequate, we still preferred to have the best equipment available if we could get it. We lucked out by scoring these two microphones, which included booms and risers, for less than $500, which is what one would pay for one of those microphones brand new. You see them in just about every major radio station on the air today. The mics needed some minor work, but we had them fixed up and into service in no time.

12/24/2024

12/24/2024

More studio photos.

12/24/2024

Ted sets up the new audio processor as part of the studio reconfiguration. He runs a noise tone to set the parameters.

12/24/2024

March 17, 2018. After we had the new Arrakis ARC-8 production board online, and were pleased with the results, we felt it was time to reconfigure the on-air studio setup. So Ted came out that day and made it happen!

12/24/2024

And the day it happened...Sunday, October 25, 2015, when Ken Hawk opened the mic and officially signed on the station at 1:33pm and released Saxonburgradio.com to the world!

12/24/2024

This replaced the Pyramid DJ mixer in July 2016 as the main on-air control board. Our weekend DJ and VP of Brand Development, Bob E. Bell, helped us score this Arrakis ARC-8 from a station in Raleigh, North Carolina and at a fair price! We really felt we were in the big leagues with this one!

12/24/2024

Getting ready for our first Mingle on Main of 2017 with the Saxonburgradio.com Urban Assault Vehicle parked out front with loudspeaker at the ready!

12/24/2024

Our first "invitation" sign shortly after we signed on our FM signal in October 2017...note the "...and 100.3 FM!" under the 1620.

12/24/2024

Savannah helps her dad do a sound check at the first Mingle on Main of 2017 in the lobby of the South Butler Community Library!

12/24/2024

More photos. Others still to come!

12/24/2024

No local news Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. We will resume our regular programming at 12:01am on Thursday, December 26th.