Station Updates

The next meeting of the WMNF Development Committee will be at 1210 E. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, Tampa, FL 33603 at 6:30pm. The date is Thursday, September 22 and open to the public.

Each week WMNF gets about 60 or more cds in that bands and labels want the station to play. Our dedicated team of quality music ears (that would be the Music Office with Randy, Flea...

“It was Seattle circa 1984, I had an early version of Life Elsewhere on KCMU (now KEXP) radio. A teenage listener would call my show regularly, he’d say, “Can you play that Folk Devils record again? That young...

It’s been said that “it’s better to try and fail than to not try at all”—which means of course there is lot of risk involved in doing this because you are taking chances on whether...

WMNF has musicians here at the station on the air almost every day of the week. Sometimes they are touring bands stopping in to talk about their show, and other times they are local bands...

20th Anniversary of Welfare Reform This week marks the 20th anniversary of former President Bill Clinton’s welfare reform…when open-ended assistance to the needy changed to a time-limited performance based assistance. Bill Clinton said “It ended...

Want to track the storm brewing in the Atlantic or the Gulf? It is easy to do with your smartphone or tablet with the Florida Public Radio storm tracking app. And it works outside of...

Keith Moon’s explosive drumming propelled The Who through their first intoxicating, and intoxicated years. His death cemented the rock’n’roll legend. We remember him on the Freak Show. What songs by the Who would you like...

On Monday’s Sustainable Living program we talked about healthy, locally produced food. In April of this year the Tampa Bay Times published a series of articles about local food, farmers markets and restaurants that were...

The Freak Show will be broadcasting LIVE this coming Tuesday, Aug 16th, from The Woodstock Music and Arts Fair in Bethel, NY. I know what you’re thinking, how could the warp of time allow this...

Steve Schale knows Florida politics as well as any strategist going. He was one of the architects for Barack Obama’s victory in the Sunshine State in 2008, and assisted in his 2012 reelection bid as...

How many times since the opening ceremony in Rio have your heard “The Girl from Ipanema?” Do you know more about archery than you ever wanted to know?  It’s hard not to get caught up...