{"id":674903,"date":"2026-05-17T05:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T05:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/674903\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T05:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T05:20:10","slug":"were-live-on-air-the-first-voice-of-pender-radio-hit-the-airwaves-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/674903\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re live on air: The first voice of Pender Radio hit the airwaves Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first voice of Pender Radio hit the air waves Saturday, launching a brand new radio station, live from an Airstream trailer. <\/p>\n<p>The radio studio is located beside the Community Hall, near the summer Farmers Market, with the all the radio magic coming from inside a renovated vintage Airstream trailer, with a stage attached to the airstream for live performances, but on market days it acts as a hangout spot, according to one of the founders, Laurie Storrie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe started just over a year ago and formed a not-for-profit organization and began recruiting volunteers,\u201d says Storrie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was humbling and very gratifying to experience the feedback from those at the Market,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"1325024\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/cheknews.ca\/were-live-on-air-the-first-voice-of-pender-radio-hit-the-airwaves-saturday-1325022\/700050524_122111053785091669_512527327618070788_n\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cheknews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/700050524_122111053785091669_512527327618070788_n.jpg?fit=1536%2C2048&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1536,2048\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"700050524_122111053785091669_512527327618070788_n\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cheknews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/700050524_122111053785091669_512527327618070788_n.jpg?fit=768%2C1024&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/700050524_122111053785091669_512527327618070788_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1325024\"  \/>Pender Radio Facebook<\/p>\n<p>The very first voice to hit the airwaves came from George Fowlie, president of Pender Radio. After that Laurie Storrie hopped on, a morning DJ and the technical director of the station.<\/p>\n<p>The project was founded by George Fowlie and Laurie Storrie, Jaime MacLean and Matther Coutts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe feeling today is truly hard to put into words, I tried to start a community radio station here over ten years ago, but didn\u2019t have the resources or team behind me to make it into reality,\u201d says Storrie. <\/p>\n<p>Storrie says the four founders felt the impact of their work Saturday after they \u201cflipped the switch on this morning, surrounded by 40 or so volunteers and DJS dozens of people crowded around the deck to celebrate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As of day one, Storrie says they\u2019re already reaching an audience of nearly 500 unique listeners, with over 1,200 connections in the first six hours, (half the population of Pender).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe live in a wonderful community of supportive Penderites,\u201d adds Storrie. \u201cTo do something you love, surrounded by people you love is a truly a dream come true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The newly launched <a href=\"https:\/\/penderradio.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">penderradio<\/a>\u00a0streams programming 24\/7 as of Saturday, May 16, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first voice of Pender Radio hit the air waves Saturday, launching a brand new radio station, live&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-674903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}