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The Dial · Texas

El Paso radio that takes independent music.

3 college, community and independent radio stations in El Paso, Texas that take music from independent artists. none with a confirmed open door yet.

3Stations
0Accepting now
0★ Dedicated forms
0HBCU

El Paso has 3 stations checked by hand. If you are based in El Paso, 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.

Stations in El Paso

KTEP · 88.5 FM
KTEP 88.5 FM · El Paso, TX · College
How they take music → Email · No submission page posted; [contact on your sheet] is the station's own published contact address. NPR member licensed to UTEP with heavy music programming: jazz overnight and nightly, Friday Night Blues, Folk Fury, Best of Gospel, The Latin Alternative and classical.
El Paso, TX
Jazz, Blues, Folk, Gospel, Latin
Likely accepting
KPJU-LP · 88.9 FM
KPJU-LP · El Paso, TX · LPFM
How they take music → See sheet · We found the station, not the door: no website, no social account and no published contact of any kind, licensed to South El Paso Hispanic Education Family Fundation
El Paso, TX
Freeform / all genres
Research
KAWU-LP · 97.1 FM
KAWU-LP (Radio Tierra Fronteriza) · El Paso, TX · LPFM
How they take music → See sheet · Community LPFM run by the Sin Fronteras Organizing Project at the Border Farmworkers Center. No submission route is posted and the licensee's old domain [link on your sheet] now 301 redirects to an unrelated organisation, so there is no live station site to read.
El Paso, TX
Freeform / all genres
Research

How El Paso stations want it sent

Take music by email1 of 3
Freeform, no genre lock2 of 3
Have their shows mapped1 of 3

Counted from the 3 El Paso 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, 27 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.

Open my sheet →

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 →

More on The Dial

All 263 stations in Texas → · How to submit music to college radio → · How to submit music to radio stations → · Every state and sound →

Checked by hand, not scraped · Last rechecked September 2026