4 college, community and independent radio stations in Bakersfield, California that take music from independent artists. 1 accepting right now.
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Bakersfield has 4 stations checked by hand, and 1 of them are accepting independent submissions right now. That includes KTQX on 90.1 FM. If you are based in Bakersfield, say so in the first line of your email: several stations here give weight to local artists, and it is the easiest advantage to claim. Each row shows what the station plays, whether it is accepting, and how it takes music. The exact submission contact and the rules it posts are on your Rotation sheet.
Radio Bilingue KTQX Bakersfield · Bakersfield, CA · Community
How they take music → Email · Radio Bilingue's contact page says to submit music for airplay contact [contact on your sheet]. This is the network's one music address serving all its stations including KUBO Calexico, so writing to it once reaches the same desk. Spanish-language public radio, mariachi, conjunto norteno and Caribbean sounds.
How they take music → Web page · No submission page is posted. This is the station's own contact form; it also lists 2223 White Lane, Bakersfield, and [phone on your sheet]. Spanish-language Christian station, so send Spanish-language faith music.
Radio la Redencion 103.3 · Bakersfield, CA · LPFM
How they take music → Email · No music submission page is posted. This is the station's own published contact address, a role address on the affiliated church domain, alongside phone [phone on your sheet] and [address on your sheet], Bakersfield,. The contact page carries a category link headed Interprete Solista o Grupo but gives no instructions for it. Spanish language Christian station.
How they take music → See sheet · No station website found and no submission route posted anywhere we could reach.
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Take music by email2 of 4
Submit through a form1 of 4
Freeform, no genre lock1 of 4
Have their shows mapped2 of 4
Counted from the 4 Bakersfield stations on this page, from what each one publishes itself. It is the fastest way to read a market before you build anything for it: an envelope market and an inbox market ask different work of you. Across them, 4 individual shows are mapped from the stations' own published schedules, with the night and hour each one airs.
Every door is on your sheet.
Pick your sound and region on Rotation and each of these stations shows its real submission contact and the exact rules it posts: clean edit, WAV, form or mail. Checked by hand and kept current. No station here paid to be listed.
A thin market is not a dead end. Radio is national and nothing about your sheet is limited to one state: 273 stations across the country have a door confirmed open right now, and a programmer two states away can play you exactly as easily as a local one. Radio is also not the only wall. The Doors is 100 verified places that are not radio, 43 of which can actually pay an artist. $9.99, and the radio side stays free either way. See what is in it →