Announcements

Baton Rouge Community Radio is proud to premiere another great new local show you'll only hear on 96.9FM. Starting August 2nd, every Thursday from 7:00-7:30pm listen to Locals Only, hosted by Cindy Wonderful, for exclusively Baton Rouge music, by Baton Rouge artists, from a variety of musical genres including hip-hop and much more. WHYR-LP is the only place where independent, underground music by Baton Rouge artists is on the radio. […]

Baton Rouge Community Radio's variety of news, opinion, and talk programming is covering U.S. immigration and detention policies and popular protest, as we have since we went on the air in 2011. Here's a sampling of recent broadcasts available on-demand: Democracy Now!'s daily coverage, heard locally Monday-Friday at 7am and 4pm on 96.9FM: https://www.democracynow.org/ State of Belief (every Sunday at 12pm), from Sunday 6/24: http://stateofbelief.com/showarchive/2018-showarchive/june-23-2018-zero-tolerance/ Law and Disorder (Wednesdays @ […]

New shows, and some scheduling changes to your favorite existing shows, are coming to Baton Rouge Community Radio this summer! On August 2nd WHYR will premiere Locals Only, a pre-recorded 30 minute hip-hop music show hosted by Cindy Wonderful. Locals Only will air 7:00-7:30pm Thursdays, right after The Black Xperience. Thursday nights on 96.9FM will be even more so the undisputed place to hear local, underground hip-hop in Baton Rouge. […]

Check out recent new episodes of Third Place, WHYR's half-hour public affairs interview show. Host David Brown's recently spoken with Kevin Caldwell on drug law reform, EBR Metro Councilman Lamont Cole on the Alton Sterling case, Jan Moller on the state budget, Chris Tyson and Maxine Crump on race in America, and much more. You can hear Third Place on-demand here and weekly on 96.9FM 6:30am and 5:30pm Thursdays and […]

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 […]

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 […]