Sharing Independent Radio

[ludes98]

There is a local radio station here in Phoenix still owned by a person instead of a media conglomerate. They play alternative music and they have a declaration of principles on their website. They have started playing deeper tracks instead of singles and they play a little more 90's but not too much 80's alternative. They now have streaming audio for anyone who wants to give a listen.

Real Audio

Windows Media
I had to edit out the java script so I think these will work okay. Sorry but it pops two windows one for the player and one for their webpage.

Anyone have good independent radio in their town?

[Suburb Repairman]

We had one out where I lived for a while, but the FCC shut them down since they were operating illegally. It was a very weird station that played everything, including some of the really horrible local country music wannabes .

ClearChannel Communications is headquartered in the big city south of me; Need I say more.

Austin has a new station called BOB FM that I get a kick out of, though I don't know about its ownership. It plays everything except rap from the 1960s to today and does not utilize play lists, etc. Their saying is that they play everything from Bob's life. I can only pick it up when I'm headed that direction for night classes.

[PlannerByDay]

Well it is not an privately owned but

89.1 WIDR is operated by Western Michgian University and has about the same radio format.

I listen to it on occasion.

[Gedunker]

Our high school has a radio station that plays an incredibly diverse mix commercial free (okay, they mention sponsors about once an hour). I have it on one of my pre-sets, if I ever get the Isuzu back from the shop

[plankton]

I feel very lucky to have a couple of indies** in the area. One is an NPR affiliate, the other is talk radio with a great morning call-in show that covers local goings on, including much planning and building stuff. The third is an all sports station that usually plays ESPN radio but covers the local sports scene with uncanny ferocity (high school volleyball tourney is talk of the town dontcha know).

**The latter two station mentioned above may, in fact, be owned by outside conglomorates but at least a portion of their programming is local and the radio stations actually have live people in them.

The two "alternative" rock stations in town pretty much blow as the music is piped in from who knows where. They'll play a decent Third Eye Blind song followed by a riduculous Journey or Bryan Adams tune.

Long live independent radio!!!!