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To The Greyhound on Sunday evening for a fundraising pub quiz for Radio Wivenhoe. Which was quite an achievement, seeing as though *cough* Wiv Chat was being broadcast on your favourite online hyperlocal station, around the same time that round three was just starting.

Clever stuff, I tell you. Clever stuff.

As well as raising funds for Radio Wivenhoe, raising awareness was equally important. All current running costs for the online station are being met by Jerry Davis, the head honcho for the station and all round good fella for Wivenhoe First.

Local advertising will hopefully soon follow, once Wivenhoe folk find out about the station and its ambitions to bid for a license in 2013. The pub quiz was just the first step in helping to build a profile locally.

If the standing room only at The Greyhound on Sunday evening was any indicator, Radio Wivenhoe is already on the radar of many local folk. This was a fantastic turn out, with many *ahem* latecomers left to loiter around the bar with their answer sheets.

Being the poptastic world of radio, and the quiz of course was music based. We had a music and movies round, a name that year, a general knowledge set of questions and a picture quiz.

Much like the inclusive nature of the station itself, the musical styles covered all decades and tastes. Anyone who can theme a quiz around Jon Bon Jovi, Sandie Shaw and Musical Youth, must know a thing or two about different musical tastes.

In rather poor taste of course was the team name of Last of the Summer Winehouse - no apologies though in picking up third prize overall. Back of the net!

A rather generous raffle also took place. This was perhaps the most promising part of the evening - many local businesses stepped forward to kindly donate prizes to help generate more funds. On the Corner, Wivenhoe Eyecare and local yoga sessions were just some of the very generous businesses which contributed.

Radio Wivenhoe is of course still finding its feet. The schedule is bedding down, with weekly shows such as Mr Mule’s Over the River, the Rock Show, a Soul Show and Wiv Chat, all filling up the schedules.

We need the continued local support of the community to make this work. The alternative is to allow the outside big boys of broadcasting into our town to take over the local media.

I’m still contesting the liberal approach of allowing a point for Bon Jovi, when we all know that Jon Bon Jovi of course recorded Wanted.

Maybe it’s a Wivenhoe thing…