Baton Rouge Community Radio brings you excellent local and syndicated shows seven days a week, music and talk and more from our own neighborhood and across the world. Through online streaming and syndicating our shows to dozens of community stations from Oregon to Vermont, 96.9FM’s programming reaches not just Baton Rouge, but all around the country. WHYR is proud to announce this summer we’re rolling out seven new shows to […]
There are many ways to support your Community Radio 96.9FM in Baton Rouge; listening, telling friends and family about us, becoming a sustaining member or making a one-time donation, coming to our events or volunteering your time and talent as a show host or station volunteer. An easy and convenient way to support WHYR-LP is donating your used vehicle. We get much-needed financial support, you get a tax deduction, and […]
Baton Rouge Community Radio is thankful for the help of our volunteer emcee, DJs, engineers, and board operators to make our broadcast of Mid City Gras' first ever Mardi Gras Ball a success. We hope you enjoyed the show and keep listening this year for more unique 96.9FM experiences. Yeah Community Radio!
We at Baton Rouge Community Radio want to thank all those who attended North Gate Fest this past Friday, November 2nd. Proceeds from North Gate Fest help WHYR-LP 96.9FM and other non-profit organizations here in Baton Rouge. Thanks also to all those Community Radio volunteers who helped make North Gate Fest and WHYR's record booth a big success. We couldn't have done it without you! You're what keeps Community Radio on the […]
This week's A Pause for Thought features Southern University Law Professor Angela Allen-Bell on Louisiana's unusual non-unanimous jury law and the upcoming November 6th vote on constitutional amendment #2 to change the law to require jury unanimity. You can listen on-demand here to host Wayne Parker and Dr. Allen-Bell discuss the history of the 10-2 jury law, its effects in Louisiana courtrooms, and the efforts to reform the law leading […]
Louisiana All-American Sports spoke with Southern University Law Center Professor Angela Allen-Bell for the hour during their August 18th program. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE3xUgAO8bc Among the topics discussed in this excellent discussion, Professor Bell spoke about the November 6th constitutional amendment to change Louisiana's non-unanimous jury law, the history of the 10-2 jury conviction law in Louisiana and its consequences for criminal justice. She also explained the case of the Angola 3, three […]
On August 1st, Louisiana's new industry-backed criminal trespassing law for 'critical infrastructure' came into effect. The law is intended to hyper-criminalize protests against the Bayou Bridge Pipeline, currently being constructed between Lake Charles and the Mississippi River. Earlier this summer, a state judge ruled Bayou Bridge Pipeline, LLC (BBP) and state government are violating state law by not providing an emergency evacuation route for residents living near the pipeline's eastern […]
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 @ […]
Looking at history through the eyes of rock, Life is a Rock looks at a week in rock history. This show features old rock & roll, classic rock, blues, soul and more—playing songs that made history and songs about history. History gives us insight into who we were, who we are, and who we’re likely to become. Music, especially music that corresponds to that same history, can give great insight into our deepest emotions as we go through all the events that have shaped our lives. Life is a Rock, looks at our history through the eyes of rock/roll – the music that expressed our lives, our times, and even our future.
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