Tucked in the top floor of Curtis Hall are the studios of WMFO, Tufts’ student-run freeform radio station. The station, running 24-hour broadcasting since 1974, features nearly 300 DJs from the ...

Community station ART FM WXOX(LP) in Louisville, Ky., values “creative energy built through respect and mutual understanding.” It also values its 100+ volunteer DJs. So when time came to remodel ...

Imagine radio broadcasts with no commercials, no top-five playlists that loop every half-hour, and no DJs pandering to their corporate bosses. After listening to WMFO, Tufts freeform radio, your ...

Jim Ladd, a celebrated free-form radio DJ who is widely considered the inspiration for Tom Petty’s 2002 album and single “The Last DJ,” died Dec. 17 of a heart attack. He was 75. Since 2012, Ladd ...

Jim Ladd, a maverick Los Angeles disc jockey who helped pioneer free-form FM radio in the 1970s, and who went on to become a rock institution and an inspiration for Tom Petty’s song “The Last DJ,” ...

Brooklyn freeform radio station WBAI abruptly shut down operations on Monday, after more than 60 years broadcasting. The news was announced by Pacifica Foundation, the Berkley-based nonprofit that has ...

“Bored working as a computer engineer at IBM in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Larry Josephson began volunteering in the mid-1960s at WBAI, a ragtag listener-supported FM station in New York City where he was ...