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Purranque FM has broadcast from Chile's Los Lagos Region since 1999, running the only press department attached to its local municipality alongside music rooted in the region's Huilliche and railway history.
Radio Atlântica FM 87.5 streams sertanejo music, talk, and Catholic mass from Itapecerica da Serra, a São Paulo municipality founded as a 1562 Jesuit mission whose name means "smooth, slippery stone."
Orange FM 107.5, once known as Apple FM, is the community station serving Orange, New South Wales, a city named for a Dutch prince whose climate is too cold for citrus but has grown apples since 1841.
Folk'd Up Radio broadcasts folk and Americana from Perth-Andover, a tiny New Brunswick village on the Saint John River, as part of a non-profit that also runs an independent record label and a physical record shop.
Sweet FM has broadcast from Queensland's Burdekin Shire since 1999, run entirely by volunteers for a sugarcane farming community, and has repeatedly stayed on air through cyclones to keep residents informed.
PBS 106.7FM began in a Melbourne hotel room in December 1979 after two music fans spent three years organizing a cooperative for underrepresented sounds, and it still runs on more than 400 volunteer presenters across 80-plus specialist programs.
Lekoa FM has spent a decade broadcasting in English, Sesotho, and Zulu from a shopping center rooftop in Vereeniging, building itself into the information and entertainment leader of South Africa's Vaal region.
Radio Scarborough spent nearly a decade broadcasting online before it ever touched an FM dial, built entirely by volunteers who wanted their North Yorkshire coastal town to have a voice of its own.
Star Radio broadcasts classic rock and Greek pop from Athens, part of a community radio tradition made possible by Greece's 1987 deregulation of private broadcasting.
Belencita Stereo 88.2 FM is the community radio station of Salazar de las Palmas, the Colombian town regarded as the birthplace of Colombian coffee, broadcasting vallenato and cumbia since 1998.
WFCB-LP 100.7 "Ferndale Radio" is a 100-watt, volunteer-run community station in Ferndale, Michigan, built by five friends over seven years under the nonprofit Underwood V Radio, playing hand-picked indie and local music from a booth inside the Rust Belt Market.
Sunny G Community Radio began in 1998 inside a converted police interrogation room in Govan, Glasgow, and grew into one of the UK's first licensed community stations. It survived a near-collapse in 2021 to keep broadcasting hip-hop, recovery support, and local Glasgow voices 24 hours a day.
