Radio Phoenix
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| Broadcast area |
Phoenix, Arizona (via FM) Worldwide (via Internet) |
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| Slogan | Talk. Sing. Connect. |
| Frequency | 88.7 MHz (Sun 6a-7a via KPNG), 90.7 MHz (Sun 6a-8a via KVIT) & 93.9 MHz (Sun 11a-12n via KWSS) Online (24/7) |
| Format |
Community Radio |
| Affiliations |
Pacifica Radio Native Voice One (NV1) WFMT Radio Network |
| Owner | Arizona Community Media Foundation (AzCMF) |
| Website | radiophoenix |
Radio Phoenix is a non-commercial, online, community radio station serving the Phoenix, Arizona metro area. Launched on October 31, 2008, the station programs an eclectic format consisting of news, public affairs and adult album alternative (AAA) music programming during the day, along with indie and specialty music, talk, and cultural programming at night and on weekends. Unlike other non-commercial radio stations operating in the area, Radio Phoenix is unique because it includes volunteers as part of its staff, and provides area residents with public access airtime to produce local radio shows.
The primary goal of the station is to serve as a vehicle for facilitating increased engagement of the community at large, with a special emphasis on engaging traditionally marginalized and underrepresented populations within metro Phoenix. Such groups include social and political progressives, persons of color, lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender-questioning (LGBTQ) persons, organized labor, and immigrants. A secondary goal of the station is to expose listeners to viewpoints, cultures, and music not often available from commercial or existing public radio stations.
A select amount of the station's programming can be heard Sunday mornings from 6am to 7am on KPNG 88.7FM as well as Sundays from 6am to 8am on KVIT 90.7FM through a program sharing relationship with the East Valley Institute of Technology (EVIT). Arizona Community Media Foundation (AzCMF), a 501(c)(3) public media organization and owner of Radio Phoenix, was the original owner of KPNG until selling the construction permit to EVIT. Likewise, the station's weekly relationship talk show The Venus Vault is simulcast on Sunday mornings from 11am to 12noon on KWSS FM 93.9.
In 2002, Phoenix-area attorney Victor Aronow and other residents of the city's east valley grew concerned about a noticeable decline in the coverage of local civic events, airplay of music by local artists, and an absence of diverse viewpoints on the local radio dial. After discovering the change was in part due to a 1996 federal law called the Telecommunications Act, Aronow and his group set out to develop a community oriented radio station that would have a focus on promoting local news, current affairs, and music programming for residents of Phoenix's growing east valley.
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