WPRK 91.5 FM SUCCEEDED! NEW SITE TUESDAY!
The 52-year-old Rollins College radio station hosted the longest continuous broadcast by a single DJ in radio history! DAVE COMPLETED 110 HOURS ON THE AIR AT 11:03 P.M. FRIDAY! Thank you for all the donations and emails... we will be updating the site Tuesday, Jan. 25
WE WILL SOON HOLD THE NEW GUINNESS WORLD RECORD!
MORE BANDS AND MUSICIANS ARE BEING SCHEDULED EVERY DAY!
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WE CAN'T BREAK THE RECORD WITHOUT MEDICAL SUPERVISORS
PLEASE VOLUNTEER TODAY
JOURNALISTS, AUTHORS, HOOLIGANS AND OTHER VERY INTERESTING PEOPLE
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COME IN, JOIN THE FUN, EAT SOME GREAT FOOD AND HELP MAKE IT HAPPEN
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Sam Flax, the wonderful art supply store on Colonial Drive in Orlando is donating the use of a $900 Herman Miller Aeron chair for the marathon and, assuming we can find a van to deliver it, their amazing, one-of-a-kind Art-O-Mat machine for our studios! The revamped former cigarette dispenser now vends minature art works!
On Monday, Jan. 17, Winter Park Mayor Kip Marchman will declare the entire 110-hour event "WPRK Rollins Radio 110 Hour Guinness Book of Records Celebration," making it an official city holiday!
WINTER PARK, FL -- Longtime WPRK community DJ and Rollins staff member Dave Plotkin will begin broadcasting at
9 a.m. Monday, January 17, 2005 (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day) and will stay on the air until the night of Friday, January 21 at 11 p.m.. That's 110 hours on the radio, without sleeping or leaving the studios. We're obliterating the current record of 105 hours, set in Bern, Switzerland in 2002.

The 110-Hour WPRK Marathon will require hundreds of volunteers serving as witnesses, timekeepers, camera operators, show directors, business & donation coordinators, delivery runners and much more. We will also need many licensed doctors and nurses to serve as medical witnesses, as required by Guinness World Records. To become a volunteer, click on the "Calling All Volunteers" or "Doctors & Nurses" section of this web site.

We're doing all this to raise money for much-needed station improvements, including permanent Internet broadcasting and additional educational resources. We're counting on corporate donors to underwrite parts of the broadcast, as well as individual listeners like you pledging a little bit of money per hour. When combined with those of other listeners, even small hourly pledges can make a successful Marathon broadcast!

WPRK intends to make the Marathon an annual tradition, with a different format and theme each year. This will be the only year we attempt a World Record, though, so you won't want to miss it. We will feature over 60 bands, dozens of special guests and tons of surprises during the five-day show.

This site is your guide to the whole event. Take a few minutes to explore how we put this all together, the detailed and difficult rules Guinness has set forth, the history of WPRK radio and how you can get involved. Thank you for supporting your WPRK-FM!

IF YOU HEAR "110 HOURS" OFTEN ENOUGH, you start to forget what a painfully long time that is. 110 hours is a dreadful amount of time to be awake.

Think of everything you do from Monday morning at 9 until the next Friday night at 11. During that time you will probably complete five full work days, four nights of sleep, countless errands and so much else. Imagine being in a radio studio from the time you start work at the beginning of the week until when you'd be having a beer downtown on Friday night.

That's how long Dave will be awake and on the air.

Here are some other ways to contemplate the magnitude of this marathon:
  • 110 Hours is almost 15 percent of the entire month of January.
  • 110 Hours is about as long as watching all three "Lord of the Rings" films TWELVE times in a row.
  • 110 Hours is like listening to all six Radiohead albums 22 times, or enduring both of The Strokes' albums 96 times.
  • 110 Hours is about how long it would take you to drive to New York and back five times.
  • 110 Hours is the approximate time it took the Apollo 11 crew to travel from the Moon back to Earth in 1969.
  • 110 Hours, from Monday through Friday, is the length of 61 shows on WPRK.

GUINNESS UPDATE!
Friday, Aug. 27:
We're now doctor-approved! Dr. Deborah Sauder declares Dave "Fit to Participate." More in Guinness...