Frogtown Community Radio

Community radio in neighborhood contexts functions as local infrastructure - Frogtown's station proves this daily. Broadcasting at 192kbps for this small St. Paul neighborhood, the station prioritizes local music over national acts, community talk over syndicated programming, neighborhood service announcements over advertising revenue. Presenters know their listeners by name and address. Music selections reflect the neighborhood's actual demographics - Dominican, African-American, recent immigrant communities hear their own musical traditions alongside each other on the same station. This mult…