Meet a Louisiana lawyer you’ll like on Law and Disorder, heard only on 96.9FM in Baton Rouge

Baton Rouge Community Radio airs lots of great locally-produced shows every week. We also carry many syndicated shows, from Democracy Now! to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour, State of Belief, Planetary Radio and many more. (You can see our entire weekly schedule and click on the name of any show to learn more about it and get on-demand podcasts of previous episodes here). Every Wednesday, Law and Disorder airs on […]

December 18, 2017

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WHYR’s A Pause for Thought on felon disenfranchisement and the ongoing struggle for voting rights in Louisiana

Baton Rouge Community Radio's A Pause for Thought recently covered felon disenfranchisement in Louisiana. You can listen to the episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a57wmpOh1M The program features an interview with Norris Henderson, executive director of VOTE (Voice Of The Experienced), a non-profit by, of, and for formerly incarcerated individuals and their families. VOTE is the lead plaintiff in VOTE v. Louisiana, currently in the First Circuit Court of Appeals, charging that the state […]

November 22, 2017

Announcements

Life is a Rock and ALTitude coming to WHYR Wednesday nights starting November 8th @ 8pm

Fans of 96.9FM's Wednesday night country, blues, and rock lineup will have two new shows to enjoy starting Wednesday November 8th. Joining Baton Rouge Community Radio will be Life is a Rock, 8:00-9:00pm, and ALTitude, from 9:00-10:00pm. Life is a Rock is a classic rock program with a weekly theme on historic events and milestones of rock personalities from that week in history, playing the hits and the B-sides by those […]

November 2, 2017

Announcements

Good Points Radio now on WHYR Mondays @ 10:00pm

Good Points Radio is the newest show to join Baton Rouge Community Radio. Listen every Monday from 10 to 11pm for 'the greatest music ever recorded, one hour at a time.' Check out the show, listen to past episodes, and see the play list at Good Points' website: https://www.goodpointsradio.com/ One more thing: Every fourth Monday, Good Points Radio will become 'Shakedown Radio', Louisiana's ONLY Grateful Dead radio hour! Does the neat […]

September 14, 2017

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Check out WHYR’s newest show, Theme Time Radio, Tuesdays @ 6:00am

https://soundcloud.com/smsdataschool Listen to Baton Rouge Community Radio's newest local show, Theme Time Radio, every Tuesday at 6:00am. Theme Time comes to us from Southeast Middle Magnet School and features a half-hour of interviews, stories and music on a weekly theme produced by eighth grade students at that school.

August 27, 2017

Announcements

Friday night game-of-the-week returns live, starting September 1st @ 7:00pm

The Louisiana All American Sports' Friday night game-of-the-week returns to 96.9FM live at 7:00pm on Friday, September 1st. Tune into Baton Rouge Community Radio every Friday from 7-10pm this Fall for live play-by-play coverage of McKinley Panthers high school football. The LAAS game-of-the-week broadcasts live on your radio at 96.9FM in Baton Rouge, streaming on the internet worldwide at whyr.org and on the LAAS' streaming website.

August 25, 2017 1

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Arthur “Silky Slim” Reed speaks on Alton Sterling, BRAVE, the Metro Council and more

https://youtu.be/a_0g-9bOAXQ The Louisiana All American Sports Show interviewed Mr. Arthur "Silky Slim" Reed on its Saturday, July 29th program. In the interview (beginning at 16:05 in the program) Mr. Reed addressed his recent remarks to the Baton Rouge Metro Council, his continued call for justice in the Alton Sterling case, the killing of three police officers by Gavin Long last summer and his mission to educate Baton Rouge youth in […]

August 25, 2017 1

Announcements

Coverage of Charlottesville, racism and resistance on 96.9FM

Listen to (and SUPPORT!) Baton Rouge Community Radio for the ONLY independent community media outlet in Baton Rouge bringing you the voices of: Ta-Nehasi Coates, Cornel West, and others on terror in Charlottesville, white supremacy, fears of 'good negro government' and reparations for slavery; Louisiana All-American Sports with Arthur "Silky Slim" Reed in his own words on justice for Alton Sterling; Where the Alligators Roam interviewing Nancy Maclean on her […]

August 15, 2017 2

Announcements

Nether Street’s Space Rock extravaganza

Baton Rouge Community Radio's progressive and psych rock show Nether Street, airing Wednesdays 10:00pm - midnight with Clyde Cleburne and robot side-kicks Laura and Graham, is out with a special Space Rock episode featuring Hawkind, David Bowie, German Krautrock, and lots more. Alien abductions and surly commentary by Clyde's AI personal assistant are likely. You can listen to the Nether Street Space Rock episode on demand here: https://www.mixcloud.com/steven-boone3/nether-street-episode-140-8217/

August 6, 2017 1

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