A closet on Kentucky Street
A handful of volunteers talk the city into a public access channel and run it out of a borrowed storage room.
History
Four decades of people in this town borrowing a microphone and handing it to the next person.
First licensed broadcast
The radio signal goes up. Programming is twelve hours a day and entirely volunteer-produced.
The studio on the river
The organization moves into its current building and opens the production floor to the public.
Training becomes free
Class fees are dropped in favor of membership, and enrollment roughly triples in two years.
Podcasts get their own room
A second recording booth is built specifically for long-form interviews and on-demand shows.
Radio, TV, podcasts, and a room for anyone
Four departments under one roof, still run mostly by people who walked in without any experience.
Add to the archive
Tapes, photographs, programme guides, station T-shirts — if you have something from any of these years, we would like to scan it and give it back.
Get in touch →Placeholder milestones — dates and details are invented for this mockup.