Gotta admit a huge amount of skepticism toward Jeff Abrams' long suffering Boise Community Radio Project. If seems to have been a long series of meetings and fund raisers. That said, friend and word master Rick Overton is currently involved so it is time to take a new look. Here is a bit of the response I received when I ask Rick about The Boise Radio Project. . . "> Boise Community Radio Project Boiseradio.org is the front for the Boise Community Radio Project, which about 10 months from now expects to get a fair hearing from the FCC in application for a new public affairs station license. Within six months of that, if everything goes well, there should be the aural equivalent of the old KBSU back on the local airwaves (70 percent music, 30 percent talk). The engineering is done, the application is all but ready, the legal mumbo has been jumbo'd, and we're just waiting for the application window to open. Boise has the nation's largest radio market NOT already served by a KPFA-style public affairs station.
In the meantime, we stream. My show ran this morning and tomorrow morning from 9-11a, and it's a broad mix of country rock, bluegrass, emerging americana, and an eclectic grab at some of the dustier corners of popular music from the last fifty years (Today's playlist is attached). Think of a backbone of artists like Johnny Cash, Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Uncle Tupelo, Lucinda Williams, Robert Earl Keen, and John Hiatt, with about fifty percent of every set being brand new music, much of it from artists otherwise unknown to this market. That's The Virgil Caine Show.
It would be wonderful if this project could take to the airwaves after all the years of trying. Maybe the technology of the web will take over and we won't need radio stations at all!