Freeform radio: the movie.

AuthorWalker, Jesse
PositionBriefly Noted - Sex and Broadcasting - Movie review - Brief article

Tim K. Smith's documentary Sex and Broadcasting isn't actually about sex--it borrowed its name from Lorenzo Milam's book on the art of creative radio. The film's topic is WFMU, a legendarily freewheeling station in New Jersey. WFMU offers some of the most strange and eclectic programming available anywhere in the country, and it sustains itself without any commercials, underwriting, or government subsidies. It isn't even attached to a university that might help pay the bills. (It used to be owned by Upsala College, butthe school went bankrupt nearly two decades ago. Improbably...

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