Radio Free Nashville is on the air!

[Flammable Materials]

I had to drive into East Nashville today, just so I could hear it for myself. 98.9 LPFM. Limited range, but what I heard was nifty. Also, I hear they're going to carry Pacifica programming.

[cry baby]

1. Halleluyah!!! from a Franklin resident!

[Tux]

2. I live in Bowling Green, KY

Would it get that far north?

[dbackjon]

3. Thanks

Will have to try to find it.


I bet their DJs don't molest kids like the Christian Station does ;)

[Egalia]

4. Do I need to buy a special radio?

I live in East Nashville and can't pick it up. Do I need to buy some kind of high powered radio?


Tennessee Guerilla Women
http://guerillawomentn.blogspot.com/2005/04/black-churches-rise-up-against-tn.html

[Dufaeth]

5. I can only get it in and around Bellevue. eom

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[TNDemo]

6. Hey fellow Bellevue-ite!

:hi:

[Dufaeth]

7. I live across town now, but my family still lives there,

so I'm there all the time. :hi:

[TNDemo]

8. You must be like my kids

who migrate to Hillsboro Village. They think Bellevue is the boondocks but I keep telling them it's economic exile out here...

[Dufaeth]

9. I lived there my whole life till I went to college.

I don't mind driving across town, and Bellevue was so much nicer back before the mall of the dead. Now they are stuffing all these apartments in, and it seems to be becoming a less pleasant place compared to what it once was.

[wataugariver]

10. Radio Free Nashville: listen online

Radio Free Nashville
Listen to Radio Free Nashville Online

98.9 WRFN-LPFM is a 100-watt station licensed
to Pasquo, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville.  When it signs on,
WRFN’ssignal will reach a seven to ten mile radius from
our tower and depending on the topography significantly further.
The primary broadcast area will extend from Bellevue (just west
of Nashville) westward to Fairview, to Pegram in the north and
parts of Brentwood and Franklin in the south. This is a
fast-growing suburban area that includes an extremely diverse
population. WRFN will extend its range throughout the world by
steaming over the Internet.

Our basic idea is simple. We believe that since the airwaves
belong by law to the public, the public should have access to
them. We believe that we have as basic a right to speak on the
radio as to listen. And we have a unique opportunity. Thousands
of these LPFM licenses were granted. Virtually all of them,
however, went either to government departments-of-transportation
or small rural churches. WRFN is one of very few
progressive organizations in the entire country to receive one.
There are not going to be many stations like WRFN out
there when we begin.  But hopefully WRFN'ssuccess will
inspire other progressive groups to apply for LPFM licenses.  The
rough & tumble atmosphere of a community radio station brings
diverse communities in contact with each other in very novel and
exciting ways.  And that benefits us all.

We believe that our greatest foes are not so much ideologies as
apathy and distraction. And this makes WRFN an enormously
important undertaking.  WRFN is the only outlet in middle
Tennessee area offering broad-based media education and training
to the community at large.  And it's all free-or-charge.  Money
or lack thereof should never dictate who has access to the
media.  Through WRFN , everyone can find their voice, and
use it.

The WRFN online streaming link connects you with a .pls --- I believe that this is a WinAmp (there use to be a similar free MacAmp program" file extenstion. I would be interested in learning if WRFN also does their internet thingie in Apple QuickTime or some sort of Real Player.