KFFP-LP

Last updated
KFFP-LP
Freeform Portland logo.jpg
Broadcast area North Portland
Frequency 90.3 MHz
BrandingFreeform Portland
Programming
Affiliations National Federation of Community Broadcasters
Ownership
OwnerRadio 23
History
First air date
April 15, 2016
Call sign meaning
FreeForm Portland
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 195263
Class L1
ERP 100 watts
HAAT 15.7 meters (52 ft)
Links
Public license information
LMS
Webcast Listen Live
Website freeformportland.org

KFFP-LP (90.3 FM, "Freeform Portland") is a low-power listener supported community radio station in Portland, Oregon. [2] It broadcasts live programming at 90.3 FM 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It first began broadcasting live in April 2016. [3]

Contents

Freeform radio

Freeform Portland is modeled after WFMU in Jersey City, New Jersey, the longest running freeform radio station in the United States. [4] Freeform radio is a radio station programming format in which the disc jockey is given total control over what music to play, regardless of music genre or commercial interests. Freeform radio stands in contrast to most commercial radio stations, in which DJs have little or no influence over programming structure or playlists.

History

During 2013, Common Frequencies, a nonprofit organization dedicated to community radio, [5] applied for and was granted a low-power FM license from the FCC. In December 2014, Freeform Portland registered with the state as a nonprofit and held their first meeting. There were three volunteers present during the meeting.[ citation needed ] They discussed the mission of the station, which was to create an outlet for music and art enthusiasts to gain access to the airwaves.[ citation needed ]

Between January and April 2015, Freeform Portland hosted benefit shows and prepared for the launch of their Indiegogo campaign. Ken Freedman, general manager of WFMU, recorded a video in support of Freeform Portland during the initial fundraising period of the station, stressing the importance of the community building aspect of the genre. [6]

May 2015 saw Freeform Portland kicking off their Indiegogo campaign to purchase station equipment. They had over 20 volunteers and their overall station goal was to raise $7,500 in donations. [7] The fundraiser surpassed its goal and raised $11,500.

Freeform Portland continued to search for a future home during the months of June through October 2015. During that October, Freeform Portland were introduced to Jen and Mark Pendergrass, who run the Baker Building at 5511 N Albina Ave in North Portland. By November, Freeform Portland set up their studios within the historic 1912 landmark.

On April 1, 2016, Freeform Portland had its soft launch via online streaming only and on April 15, 2016, Freeform Portland threw its launch party, during which their radio engineer, Dave Fulton, flipped the transmitter switch.

Freeform Portland is the only freeform radio station in Portland.

Related Research Articles

WFMU is a listener-supported, independent community radio station, licensed to East Orange, New Jersey. Since 1998, it has been headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey. It broadcasts locally at 91.1 Mhz FM, in the Hudson Valley, the Lower Catskills, western New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania from Mount Hope, New York at 90.1 WMFU, and to New York City and Rockland County at 91.9 FM. It is the longest-running free-form radio station in the U.S. The station's main terrestrial transmitter is located in West Orange, New Jersey.

Free-form, or free-form radio, is a radio station programming format in which the disc jockey is given wide or total control over what music to play, regardless of music genre or commercial interests. Freeform radio stands in contrast to most commercial radio stations, in which DJs have little or no influence over programming structure or playlists. In the United States, freeform DJs are still bound by Federal Communications Commission regulations.

WCBN-FM is the student-run radio station of the University of Michigan. Its format is primarily freeform. It broadcasts at 88.3 MHz FM in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

WGOT-LP was a low power FM radio station that broadcast from Gainesville, Florida, United States. WGOT-LP was last operated as a community radio station by the Civic Media Center, a non-profit library in Gainesville.

WCNI is a radio station broadcasting a freeform format and licensed to New London, Connecticut, serving the New London area. The station is owned by Connecticut College Community Radio, Inc. and is operated by students and members of the community. The station features eclectic musical genres that are less often heard on the majority of radio stations.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">KNDS-LP</span> Radio station

KNDS-LP is a low power radio station broadcasting on 96.3 FM in Fargo, North Dakota. The station is operated by the student broadcasting club at North Dakota State University (NDSU) in Fargo, North Dakota.

WVEW-LP is a radio station licensed to Brattleboro, Vermont. The license to operate the station is held by Vermont Earth Works. The broadcast radius is from 3 to 5 miles. There are 56 volunteers on the staff.

KXRY is a non-commercial class D radio station in Portland, Oregon, United States, operating under the name XRAY.fm. It is a mixed-format progressive, independent radio station which broadcasts progressive talk radio, cultural programs, and music of a wide variety of genres played by its disc jockeys. Its broadcast license is owned by Cascade Educational Broadcast Service. KXRY streams online at xray.fm.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">WHAV-LP</span> Radio station in Haverhill, Massachusetts

WHAV-LP – branded 97.9 WHAV – is a non-commercial low-power radio station licensed to serve Haverhill, Massachusetts. Owned by Public Media of New England, Inc., WHAV-LP services the immediate Merrimack Valley and considers itself the successor station to the original WHAV, also licensed to Haverhill, and transmits from WHAV's original 1947 transmitter site; however, the original WHAV continues operations to this day as WCCM. Besides a standard analog transmission, WHAV-LP's audio is also carried, in part, by a number of public, educational, and government access (PEG) cable television stations, and is available online.

WCRS-LP is a North American community radio station in Columbus, Ohio, area. It broadcasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week and has an online stream available 24/7. WCRS-LP broadcasts on 92.7 and on translator station W252AY 98.3 FM in most of Franklin County, licensed to Marble Cliff. WCRS-LP is owned by The Neighborhood Network and is affiliated with the Pacifica Radio Network.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Radio23</span> Radio station

Radio23 was a non-commercial, freeform radio station founded by Programming Director Jeff Hylton Simmons and launched in 2009. It was shut down in July 2015. The successor called Freeform Portland went on air in April 2016. Based out of Portland, Oregon, where it supported the local artists and community, the station's goal was to provide an international artistic platform for home broadcasters around the world, and to teach anyone around the world how to create radio with a computer and an internet connection. Radio23 is connected with radio stations that include Cascade Community Radio, Hearth Music, WFMU, KDVS, CKUT-FM, KZME, KBOO, Error FM, and Willamette Radio, and also with the magazine War, Semen and Grooviness.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">WAYO-LP</span> Radio station in Rochester, New York

WAYO-LP is a listener-supported community low-power radio station based in Rochester, New York.

WXNA-LP is a community-oriented 501(c)(3) low-powered FM radio station that is licensed to and located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. The freeform-formatted station operates with an effective radiated power of 100 watts. WXNA was voted "Best Radio Station" by the readers of the Nashville Scene in the 2017 "Best of Nashville" issue.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">WSFM-LP</span> Radio station in Asheville, North Carolina

WSFM-LP, known as 103.3 Asheville FM, is a low-power radio station licensed to Asheville, North Carolina that began broadcasting over the air on May 18, 2015.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">WRML-LP</span> Radio station of Atlantic Cape Community College in Mays Landing, New Jersey

WRML-LP is a low-power college FM radio station licensed to the Mays Landing section of Hamilton Township, Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, transmitting on an FM frequency of 107.9 megahertz. It is owned by Atlantic Cape Community College, with staff running daily behind-the-scenes operations. Live programming is produced and presented entirely by current student volunteers.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">KXRW-LP</span> Community radio station in Vancouver, Washington, United States

KXRW-LP 99.9 FM Community Radio is a low-power FM non-commercial radio station broadcasting in Vancouver, Washington. The station is licensed to the Media Institute for Social Change, an Oregon-based nonprofit organization. As of March 2017, KXRW-LP relays programming from KXRY, branded as XRAY.FM in Portland, Oregon.

KVRU-LP is a low-power local radio station in southeast Seattle, Washington. The station was formerly named Rainier Valley Radio after the Rainier Valley area, where it broadcasts. It is owned by Southeast Effective Development (SEED), a non-profit economic development agency serving southeastern Seattle, which raised $400,000 to fund the station. The station broadcasts from studios in the Rainier Square Plaza housing development. KVRU began broadcasting online in 2015 and launched on the FM frequency in September 2017.

KBMF-LP is a non-commercial low-power community radio station that broadcasts terrestrially from a transmitter atop the historic Carpenters' Union Hall in Uptown Butte, Montana.

KNUM-LP is a low-power FM radio station broadcasting on 96.7 FM in Portland, Oregon, United States. It is owned by the Community Alliance of Tenants and is known as "96.7 The Numberz", airing a rap and hip-hop format. In 2017, a series of strange noises heard from the station gained popular social media attention and speculation, but has since been reclassified into the rap/hip-hop station it is today.

KXSF-LP is a low-power community radio station in San Francisco, California. It is owned by San Francisco Community Radio, Inc., sharing the frequency with KSFP-LP, the station of the SF Public Press. It broadcasts from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. from Light Rail Studio in San Francisco. KXSF-LP and KSFP-LP are broadcast from the second level of Mount Sutro.

References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for KFFP-LP". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ "About - Freeform Portland". Freeform Portland. Retrieved 2016-11-18.
  3. ↑ "Turn the Dial to Freeform Portland, the City's Newest Community Radio Station". Portland Mercury. Retrieved 2016-11-18.
  4. ↑ "LCD 21 | A Brief History of Freeform Radio". www.wfmu.org. Retrieved 2016-11-23.
  5. ↑ "Common Frequency". Common Frequency. Retrieved 2016-11-29.
  6. ↑ Freeform Portland (2015-05-13), WFMU + Freeform Portland = BFF 📻❤️ , retrieved 2016-11-23
  7. ↑ "Freeform Portland: Low-Power FM Radio That's Fun!". Indiegogo. Retrieved 2016-11-29.

45°33′34″N122°39′15″W / 45.55944°N 122.65417°W / 45.55944; -122.65417

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.