Our Stations

Everything that you can listen to on underheard.org was created by one of these stations. Without them, underheard.org wouldn't exist. These stations rely on listener donations. If you can, please support our stations with your tax-deductible donation (and don't forget to tell them that you listen to them through underheard.org).

KAJX - Aspen, CO (website) (donate)
Aspen Public Radio is a public radio station located in Aspen, Colorado serving the communities in the Roaring Fork and Colorado River valleys. The station's mission is 'to support, nourish, and enrich our community by providing informative, entertaining and educational radio programming in a reliable and professional manner.' In other words, we seek to inform and delight.

KALW - San Francisco, CA (website) (donate)
KALW is a 1900 watt station owned and operated by the San Francisco Unified School District. Licensed on March 10 1941, it was the first Educational FM station in the country.

KANM - College Station, TX (website)
KANM is Texas A&M's only student run radio station. We strive to enrich the Bryan/College Station community by making unconventional and non-mainstream music available to the general public.

KCSN - Northridge, CA (website) (donate)

KDVS - Davis, CA (website) (donate)
KDVS is the 9,200 watt Davis community radio station run by student and community volunteers. At KDVS we pride ourselves on our diverse programming. Our public affairs programs focus on local community interests and news stories that are not represented elsewhere in the media. We have complete coverage of Aggie football, baseball, basketball and softball. We also feature diverse music programming, ranging from blues, jazz, world music, folk and rock 'n' roll. Our music programming is controlled by our DJs, who are experts in their respective musical fields, and who care about the music they play. This type of attention to the quality of our broadcast, which you won't find on any commercial radio station, has won us an incredibly loyal and supportive audience over the past twenty five years.

KFJC - Los Altos Hills, CA (website) (donate)
Fourty Five years old and going strong! KFJC is the 500 watt station of Foothill College, in the San Francisco Bay area.

KJHK - Lawrence, KS (website) (donate)
On the air since 1975, KJHK is a progressive student-run radio station devoted to producing diverse, professional programming for the KU and Lawrence community.

KPSU - Portland, OR (website) (donate)
KPSU is a student-run radio station at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. Operated by student and community DJs since 1994, KPSU's independent voice has become a mainstay in the greater Portland area. Here at KPSU we take pride in presenting you with the authentic sounds of American college music!

KPWR - Austin (website)
KPWR is an urban, community, web-based radio project. We provide a safe space for grassroots community programming to teach and learn while informing our listeners of our local and global struggles.

KRUI - Iowa City, IA (website)
KRUI is the University of Iowa's student run 100 watt station. KRUI programs and plays a wide variety of music. We are always searching for lesser known music that you wouldn't hear anywhere else. KRUI offers a plethora of specialty shows on the weekend that feature everything from funk to post-modern classical stylings.

KSVY - Sonoma, CA (website) (donate)
KSVY 91.3 Sonoma is public, non profit bilingual community radio at its best. With over 60 volunteer hosts from the Sonoma area, each with varying interests and life views, KSVY's programming is free of the constraints of commercial interest. KSVY is unique in its ability to convey not only locally, but regionally, nationally, even globally, what is distinctive about Sonoma, its people, places and events. We are unique in our geography, our cultures, our foods, our views, and our people.

KTUH - Honolulu, HI (website) (donate)
KTHU is the campus station of the University of Hawaii, and is the only 24-hour non-commercial educational radio station in the state. It has been providing the people of Honolulu with alternative programming as well as cultural and educational enrichment since 1969.

KVCU - Boulder, CO (website) (donate)
KVCU (aka "Radio 1190") is an AM station that has been voted "Best Radio Station in Denver" for 4 years running (and "Most wanted station in Denver" for a number of years before a transmitter upgrade). Operated entirely by University of Colorado, Boulder students, KCVU may not be as polished as some of the others on the dial, but it more than makes up for it through it's programming. The Radio1190 DJs are an exuberant bunch, and it shows. All this from a station that puts out a meager 110 watts after dark.

KZSU - Palo Alto, CA (website) (donate)
KZSU is a 500 watt free-form college station run by Stanford University students and local community members. Our diverse programming attracts a large audience with a potential listenership of hundreds of thousands from the San Jose to San Francisco airports, east to Berkeley, Hayward and Fremont, and into parts of San Francisco on a clear day.

RadioActive - Wellington, NZ (website)

WBAR - New York, NY (website)
WBAR is an independent, free-form, non-commercial, non-profit radio station broadcasting from the Barnard College campus in New York City. All of our programming is generated entirely by on-campus DJ's, with a new show spinning every 2 hours. Our staff is a fine bunch of Barnard and Columbia students, and every one of us is just as aesthetically pleasing as we are qualified for the job.

WCSB - Cleveland, OH (website) (donate)
WCSB 89.3 FM is the student-run radio station of Cleveland State University. It's been providing northeast Ohio with the finest alternative entertainment and information for over a quarter of a century. WCSB provides a truly unique listening experience. In a country rife with the corporatization of the public airwaves, we pride ourselves on our eclectic, quality broadcasting. Musically, WCSB's programming covers jazz, blues, noise, electronica, metal, folk, country, hip hop, garage, reggae, and indie rock just to name a few. It's not unusual to listen a whole week and never hear the same song twice

WHQR - Wilmington, NC (website) (donate)
WHQR Public Radio set up shop in 1984, in a converted bar in a strip mall in Wilmington. Founded by displaced opera lovers - the original Friends of the Opera - the station thrived by truly becoming a community station, supported and staffed by public radio lovers. WHQR is known as the small non-profit radio station with a big reputation for unique performances, solid programming and a community spirit that covers southeastern North Carolina.

WIDR - Kalamazoo, MI (website) (donate)
WIDR-FM is the student-run noncommercial radio station of Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It plays a WIDeR variety of the music--from rock to jazz to world to R&B to experimental to techno to etc., etc., etc.--that the commercial stations ignore.

WKCR - New York, NY (website) (donate)
What is now known as WKCR-FM originated in the early part of the twentieth century as the Columbia University Radio Club (CURC). Following World War II, the FCC began codifying the formalities of being a radio station, and it was at this time that the call letters, WKCR (King's Crown Radio), were adopted. Shortly thereafter, WKCR formally embraced the FM broadcast convention. After the student strike of 1968, the station shifted its emphasis from being an illustration of the university to presenting non-commercially viable programming to the New York metropolitan area.

WKNC - Raleigh, NC (website)
WKNC 88.1 FM is a student run, non-commercial, educational radio station located on the campus of North Carolina State University that broadcasts at 25,000 watts. WKNC prides itself in offering forms of music that cannot be heard anywhere else on the dial. This the reason why we DO NOT play country, pop, classical, or oldies as these forms of music are already offered by other local stations. We use Block Programming for the week, and offer several specialty shows and all request shows on the weekends. Our primary formats our Loud Rock, Alternative, Electronica, and Hip-Hop. Our specialty shows include a Grateful Dead show, Local Music, Jazz, International Music, and Reggae.

WMBR - Cambridge, MA (website)
WMBR is MIT's campus station, broadcasting 720 watts to Boston and most of Eastern Massachusetts. MIT students are a very unique bunch (the first WMBR transmitter was built by engineering students, a first for college radio). Today's radio station reflects not only the MIT students, but the culture of the greater Boston area.

WREK - Atlanta, GA (website)
WREK's 40,000 watt signal covers the entire Atlanta metropolitan area, nearly 4.3 million people can listen off-the-air.

WRUW - Cleveland, OH (website)
WRUW is the campus radio station of Case Western Reserve University, located in the University Circle section of Cleveland, Ohio. In accordance with the motto: "More Music, Fewer Hits", WRUW prides itself on presenting a wide range of music not found on the commercial end of the dial. WRUW's programming encompasses jazz, rock, blues, folk, electronica, polkas, metal, international, reggae, and other forms of audio entertainment, making it one of the most diverse radio stations in existence.

WXYC - Chapel Hill, NC (website) (donate)
WXYC 89.3 FM is the non-commercial student-run radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. We broadcast at 400 watts from the student union on the UNC campus, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Our coverage area encompasses approximately 370 square miles in central North Carolina. WXYC was the first radio station in the world to simulcast its signal on the Internet 24 hours a day.

WZBC - Newton, MA (website) (donate)
WZBC-Newton is a 1000 watt radio station operated by Boston College. WZBC broadcasts at a frequency of 90.3MHz and can be heard throughout the greater Boston area. It is completely operated by full-time undergraduates.