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The Capital Times: Thirty Years On The Air!

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http://www.madison.com/archives/read.php?ref=tct:2005:12:01:536509:EDITORIAL

Thirty Years On The Air!

The Capital Times :: EDITORIAL :: 8A
Thursday, December 1, 2005

At 8 p.m. on Dec. 1, 1975, Madisonians who were spinning their radio dials in the vicinity of 89.9 FM heard something new and completely different: community radio produced by volunteers.

Thirty years later, with commercial radio stations more consolidated in their ownership and more formatted in their programming, WORT is even more refreshing and necessary than it was back in the days when Paul Soglin was the city's "boy mayor."

Because of its innovative public affairs programming -- including Madison's most extensive local news reports on radio -- and its diverse music shows, WORT has become an essential part of the local political and cultural discourse. And, now, thanks to streaming on the Internet and podcasting, it is being heard nationally and internationally.

[Click link pasted above for the rest of the TCT newspaper article]
 
> At 8 p.m. on Dec. 1, 1975, Madisonians who were spinning
> their radio dials in the vicinity of 89.9 FM heard something
> new and completely different: community radio produced by
> volunteers.

I guess 89.7 counts as "the vicinity of 89.9"<grin>...

(on 1 Dec 1975, WORT wasn't on 89.9. They started on 89.7. The frequency was changed when they moved from the old 104.1 tower on Winnebago St. to the channel 15 tower - 1983 or thereabouts?)
 
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