Talk:KRAB

KRAB Seattle
KRAB had previously been the call letters of a Seattle radio station during the 1960s and 70s. At 107.7 FM, it played a wide variety of noncommercial content. I remember this station growing up, but the only written piece I could find on it is this by Jonathan Larson in Reclaim the Media:


 * "The Northwest’s primary contribution to radical radio history, however, was Seattle’s trailblazing community station KRAB. In 1962, community broadcasting pioneers Lorenzo Milam, Jeremy Lansman and Gary Margason founded the fiercely independent station, one of the original spawning grounds for freeform programming and, according to some, the very first modern community radio station. Milam (who chronicled his radio adventures in several books including the deservedly well-read Sex and Broadcasting) left the station in 1968, but he and his colleagues spread across the country, Johnny Appleseed-fashion, birthing a dozen or so more community stations based on the KRAB model. Most of these stations, which formed the “KRAB Nebula,” are now defunct (the most prominent exceptions are Madison’s WORT and Portland’s KBOO). In 1973, some of these stations sent representatives to Seattle, to talk about the need for a more formal advocacy organization representing the interests of grassroots radio stations. These discussions led to the founding of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters two years later. KRAB itself continued for several more years before selling its Seattle frequency, using the proceeds to underwrite the launch of KSER-Everett and the non-profit Jack Straw audio production facility in Seattle, where former KRAB staffer Joan Rabinowitz is currently executive director."

Sluggoster (talk) 12:15, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

There is actually a great deal written about KRAB, Seattle, with much of it published at the online archive www.krab.fm Awakestoemptiness (talk) 18:38, 28 June 2015 (UTC)