Although I’m immersed in the world of college radio, I’m still catching up on visits to college radio stations in my local area. I was aware of a streaming radio station at Laney College in Oakland called 9th Floor Radio and was excited to hear that it would soon be broadcasting over low power FM […]
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Christian Radio Station Quells Violence after Mehserle Verdict
Although I still haven’t sleuthed out the origins of “Oscar Grant Radio,” the mobile radio station that offered up a voice for citizens on the streets of Oakland following the Johannes Mehserle verdict on Thursday, today I learned about another station that was live on the street in order to both discourage violence and offer […]
Oscar Grant Radio on the Streets of Oakland
After the verdict was read yesterday in the trial of former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle in the shooting death of Oscar Grant, there was a great deal of media coverage about local reactions in the San Francisco Bay Area. Most interesting to me was a brief glimpse of a mobile radio station in Oakland […]