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Thanks for your support of Baton Rouge Community Radio in our Winter Pledge Drive

Thanks to all our supporters who called or went online to pledge their support to WHYR-LP during our Winter Pledge Drive. Your support keeps Community Radio going, keeps us independent, and allows us to go into 2020 strong and ready to continue bringing our community all the programming you enjoy. We appreciate your support and hope you keep listening!

WHYR also thanks our Pledge Drive financial supporters the Society for the Preservation of Lagniappe in Louisiana, Louie’s Cafe, Jen Ocken Photography, and French Truck Coffee.

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Check out the new shows on Baton Rouge Community Radio

There are seven new shows airing on WHYR. Tune in Saturdays at 7:00pm for our new, locally produced world music show One World! Your World! followed at 8pm by a new local electronic music program Syntheclectico.

Then listen Sundays at 6am for Baroque and Beyond classical music, and later that day catch two new live local music shows. Gentle On Your Mind at 1:30pm will be oldies and rock and roll followed by Artist of the Week at 2:00pm, our first ever live performance show featuring an in-studio concert by a Louisiana singer-songwriter every week.

And we’re bringing two new syndicated spoken word shows to our weekday drive-time schedule. Keeping Democracy Alive is Wednesdays and Fridays at 7:00am. The program features interviews with important newsmakers and thinkers about the politics of our country and the world. Every Friday at 5:00pm brings you Sea Change Radio, a half-hour weekly show on the environment and the transition to sustainability. So enjoy checking out our new lineup and tell us what you think.

  • One World! Your World! – Saturdays 7:00-8:00pm
  • Syntheclectico – Saturdays 8:00-9:00pm
  • Baroque and Beyond Radio – Sundays 6:00-8:00am
  • Gentle On Your Mind – Sundays 1:30-2:00pm
  • Artist of the Week – Sundays 2:00-3:00pm
  • Keeping Democracy Alive -Wednesdays and Fridays 7:00-8:00am
  • Sea Change Radio – Fridays 5:00-5:30pm
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Hear Noel Jackson Music Satisfaction again, Tuesdays 9am-12pm, starting August 13th

Is hearing Noel Jackson Music Satisfaction once a week leaving you still unsatisfied? Well, now you can hear the best Southern Soul, R&B, even ‘The Lady from England’ Petulia Clark and Roy Orbison, all over again. We’re glad to announce starting Tuesday, August 13th, you can hear a rebroadcast of Music Satisfaction every Tuesday morning at 9 o’clock. And you can only here it right here on 96.9FM, WHYR-LP.