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                            HISTORY OF THE GRASSROOTS RADIO CONFERENCE

The Grassroots Radio Coalition was born in 1996, as a response to increasing pressure in the field for more a corporate and less grassroots model for of public radio, along with lack of support for volunteer-based stations.  It is an informal coalition that hosts a national conference in different places each year, and maintains an email listserve for ongoing networking.  Though not "founders" per se, Marty Durlin of KGNU, Boulder CO, and Cathy Melio of WERU East Orland, ME are generally recognized as "midwives" of the GRC.  They have said that the idea of the GRC was ready to be born; they just helped make it happen.  In 2000, they wrote a position paper about the conference and its relationship to grassroots radio as a medium.

For the past three decades, different community radio stations have hosted the conference, and brought their own special flavor to it.

2023 - WTSQ Charleston

2020 - WXOX Louisville

2019 - WXIR, WAYO, and WEPL Rochester

2018 - KBOO Portland

2017 - WCAA Albany

2016 - KUHS Hot Springs

2015 - WLPP Palenville

2014 - KHOI Ames

2012 - WRFU Urbana

2011 - KKFI Kansas City

2010 - KMUD Garberville

2008 - KBOO Portland

2007 - WUML Lowell

2006 - WXOJ Northampton

2004 - KCSB Santa Barbara

2003 - KZMU Moab

2002 - WJFF Jeffersonville

2001 - KGNU Boulder

2000 - WORT Madison

1999 - WERU Bar Harbor

1998 - KGNU Boulder

1996 - KGNU Boulder

     




















     
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