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WPKN - Bridgeport, CT - 89.5 FM |
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 WPKN - 89.5, 88.7 FM
244 University Avenue
Bridgeport, CT 06604
Phone: 203-331-9756
www.wpkn.org 
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WPKN is a challenge for the new listener. We've been carefully taught to expect
all radio stations to be consistent and predictable, and WPKN is simply not
that kind of radio. WPKN's programmers enjoy extraordinary freedoms. They conceive
and deliver their programs without interference from funding sources or concerns
about popularity. Despite all of the interest in respecting "Diversity",
our culture actually has no real interest in that which is regarded as "too
obscure." This is nothing new, of course. Money has always called the shots,
and that which is commercially successful is worshipped. Noncommercial radio
was supposed to stand apart from The Marketplace, but ever since the professional
consultants got their claws into it, the trend has been toward more and more
of less and less. Finally, the open-minded listener is denied the experience
of the unfamiliar. And that is more than unfortunate.
WPKN turns 42 in 2005. We've been 100% listener-supported since 1989 and a
completely independent entity since 1992. We preserve our freedom to be different
by pointedly refusing corporate or commercial underwriting, government money,
and donations that are in any way restricted. |
