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July 2005
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Super local radio station
Call it hoodcasting: operating with a transmitter only slightly more powerful than a garage door opener, Neighborhood Public Radio (NPR—yes, it is confusing) is the most compelling alternative to radio station standardization in recent memory. The audio equivalent of a blog, erratic, nomadic NPR recently set up shop in the storefront window of Artists' Television Access headquarters on Valencia Street at 21st Street. Passersby could peer into the studio and even (with a bit of fortuitous reception at 88.9 FM) hear the talk show-type natterings on sex and politics. While NPR has since gone on the road to Chicago and then to Serbia, rumors have begun spreading that the underground station will soon return to its Mission home. Don't touch that dial. conceptualart.org/npr.
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