WMFO 91.5 FM is a pretty good freeform station, but on a very cramped frequency. There's a much more powerful 91.5 FM college station up north (WUML at Umass-Lowell) that reaches into the northern Boston suburbs bordering Medford, and there's the weaker WZLY 91.5 FM at Wellesley College, among others.
Metro Boston is a paradise for college and noncommercial radio. The only places in the country that compete (and I really have searched the radio dial in almost the whole country) are metro NYC and ... actually that's about it. There's a lots of good college and noncommercial radio in Chicago, the Colorado Front Range, and along I-91 in CT and MA, too, but nothing like Boston.
WMFO is one of the few around here that I don't know much about internally, so hopefully someone else will chime in and tell us more. I know WMFO used to broadcast WBRS's live music program The Joint live, the year before I got to WBRS. And that they seem to mostly be off the air at nights and during breaks.
Other local stations that do freeform or could have an opening for freeform, and that let community members join and get shows, include WMBR 88.1 FM (MIT), WBRS 100.1 FM (Brandeis), and WZBC 90.3 (Boston College). There are also some in nearby cities like Worcester (and Lowell, as I mentioned above).
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WMFO and other Boston college radio
Date: 2005-05-02 05:11 am (UTC)WMFO 91.5 FM is a pretty good freeform station, but on a very cramped frequency. There's a much more powerful 91.5 FM college station up north (WUML at Umass-Lowell) that reaches into the northern Boston suburbs bordering Medford, and there's the weaker WZLY 91.5 FM at Wellesley College, among others.
Metro Boston is a paradise for college and noncommercial radio. The only places in the country that compete (and I really have searched the radio dial in almost the whole country) are metro NYC and ... actually that's about it. There's a lots of good college and noncommercial radio in Chicago, the Colorado Front Range, and along I-91 in CT and MA, too, but nothing like Boston.
WMFO is one of the few around here that I don't know much about internally, so hopefully someone else will chime in and tell us more. I know WMFO used to broadcast WBRS's live music program The Joint live, the year before I got to WBRS. And that they seem to mostly be off the air at nights and during breaks.
Other local stations that do freeform or could have an opening for freeform, and that let community members join and get shows, include WMBR 88.1 FM (MIT), WBRS 100.1 FM (Brandeis), and WZBC 90.3 (Boston College). There are also some in nearby cities like Worcester (and Lowell, as I mentioned above).