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Regionaljournal Basel Baselland has delivered daily regional news since 1978, broadcasting on Radio SRF 1, a network descended from a WWII-era transmitter once relied on across occupied Europe as an independent source of news.
ERT Ioannina traces back to a 1949 military transmitter in Epirus and kept broadcasting unofficially for nearly two years after Greece's 2013 government shutdown of ERT, before full reinstatement in 2015.
Montana Public Radio grew from a 10-watt University of Montana classroom station launched by professor Phil Hess in 1965 into a network of eight transmitters reaching roughly 500,000 Montanans today.
WNYC launched in 1924 as a New York City government station built around a secondhand transmitter from Brazil, later becoming the anchor of New York Public Radio and home to the long-running Brian Lehrer Show.
Mayotte La 1ère is the public radio station of France's Indian Ocean department, broadcasting daily in both French and Shimaore since its 1961 origins as Radio Comores.
NPO Klassiek launched in 1975 as Hilversum 4 after years of lobbying by violist Theo Olof, grew through several renames into a 24-hour classical broadcaster, and once drew public comment from a sitting Dutch Prime Minister.
WUMB Studio Archives grew out of a UMass Boston station that fought fourteen years for an FM license and once gave Tracy Chapman her first ever radio interview, years before Fast Car made her famous.
WOSU began broadcasting Ohio State football in 1922 as one of America's first educational radio stations. More than a century later, it delivers NPR News to central Ohio. Here is how it got there.
KSFR is Santa Fe Community College's public radio station, a station that swapped frequencies with a Christian broadcaster in 2007 and ended up on 101.1 FM, a spot on the dial technically reserved for commercial stations.
KHFM began in 1954 as a hobby project by two Albuquerque high school teachers and is now the oldest continuously broadcasting classical station in America, a listener-supported nonprofit that partners with the Santa Fe Opera for bilingual live broadcasts each summer.
France Musique La Contemporaine is Radio France's dedicated stream for 20th and 21st century composition — Boulez, Stockhausen, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and living composers — broadcast from the Maison de la Radio in Paris with expert listening guides.
