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HISTORY OF THE GRASSROOTS RADIO CONFERENCE The Grassroots Radio Coalition was born in 1996, as a response to increasing pressure in the field for more a corporate and less grassroots model for of public radio, along with lack of support for volunteer-based stations.  It is an informal coalition that hosts a national conference in different places each year, and maintains an email listserve for ongoing networking.  Though not "founders" per se, Marty Durlin of KGNU, Boulder CO, and Cathy Melio of WERU East Orland, ME are generally recognized as "midwives" of the GRC.  They have said that the idea of the GRC was ready to be born; they just helped make it happen.  In 2000, they wrote a position paper about the conference and its relationship to grassroots radio as a medium. For nearly decades, different community radio stations have hosted the conference, and brought their own special flavor to it. 2024 - WHIV New Orleans 2023 - WTSQ Charleston 2020 - WXOX Louisville 2019 - WXIR, WAYO, and WEPL Rochester 2018 - KBOO Portland 2017 - WCAA Albany 2016 - KUHS Hot Springs 2015 - WLPP Palenville 2014 - KHOI Ames 2012 - WRFU Urbana 2011 - KKFI Kansas City 2010 - KMUD Garberville 2008 - KBOO Portland 2007 - WUML Lowell 2006 - WXOJ Northampton 2004 - KCSB Santa Barbara 2003 - KZMU Moab 2002 - WJFF Jeffersonville 2001 - KGNU Boulder 2000 - WORT Madison 1999 - WERU Bar Harbor 1998 - KGNU Boulder 1996 - KGNU Boulder

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