Shows

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. […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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.

Gifts and Messages, the weekly jazz program originating from Baton Rouge Community Radio, was recently ranked the top jazz podcast on the website Mixcloud.com . Gifts and Messages, hosted by jazz raconteur and veteran radio broadcaster Dr. Jazz, airs on 96.9 Saturdays from 3:00 to 5:00pm and is on-demand any time at:  https://www.mixcloud.com/DrJazz/ https://www.mixcloud.com/DrJazz/

The Arts Council Radio Show is now on Baton Rouge Community Radio. You can hear the weekly half-hour program Fridays at 6:30 and 11:30am and Saturdays at 10:30am. On the show, you'll hear interviews with musicians, visual and performance artists, and much more about the arts in Louisiana's capital city and the people who make the arts happen here. The program is a production of the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge.