The Leonard Lopate Show
WFMU: The Coolest Freeform Radio Station Around
Named the best radio station in America by Rolling Stone magazine four years running, freeform listener-supported radio station WFMU plays everything from hand-cranked wax cylinders to punk to schlock-a-billy music. It’s broadcast here in New York at 91.1 FM. Station manager Ken Freedman and WFMU DJ Dave the Spazz explain how WFMU and freeform radio have learned to survive in today’s competitive media world.
Also, Dave the Spazz has edited a new book, The Best of LCD: The Art and Writing of WFMU, with a forward by Jim Jarmusch and artwork by superstars of the cultural underground like Harvey Pekar, Chris Ware, and Daniel Clowes.
Event: Join Dave the Spazz and other WFMU personalities for a reading and special live broadcast
Friday, December 16 at 6 pm
The Community Bookstore
143 7th Avenue (between Carroll and Garfield Streets)
Park Slope, Brooklyn
The Best of LCD is available for purchase at amazon.com
WFMU’s website
Dave the Spazz’s WFMU show, “Music to Spazz By”
SLIDESHOW: The Best of LCD
Dave The Spazz is the Greatest!!
Posted by: stu in nyc December 13, 2007 - 10:28AM
I've been listening to WFMU since the mid-late-1960s when i was a very impressionable junior high student. it's the only station of its type, and always elicits some comment from a co-worker, since it doesn't always play music you can hum along to. and they only do one pledge drive a year (hint). (and I owe them my pledge for this year, and they don't bust my chops for the money)
love the station. But ask about what percentage of the stations financing comes from the jewish show jm in the am
WFMU is the greatest - I've been listening to that station (and WNYC) religiously for the last 10 years. Ken is also one of the nicest and best station managers around (and his shows are some of the best on the station). I wish there were more stations around the country with the community spirit that WFMU exudes, but at least WFMU can now be heard around the world online.
Most of your topics are really interesting and relevant, but I have to say that this show was one of your worst. I could care less about this station and their smug self-important broadcasters/hosts. Please give less time to those topics that relate to only a handful of listeners and more time to the ones like "Underreported."
Ken Freedman and Dave the Spazz smug and self-important?
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