The Dial · Shows
24 pop shows on 14 U.S. college, community and independent stations, each read off the station's own published schedule with the night and hour it airs.
Pop on this dial is mostly a evening format: 12 of the 24 shows here go out in the evening, 50 per cent of them, with 7 more in the afternoon. That is worth knowing before you write, because a host filling a evening slot is picking for a different room than a daytime one, and the show's own hour is the only clue most stations publish about it.
The deepest pop programming sits at KMSU in Mankato with 4, KSRQ in Thief River Falls with 4, WMCN in St. Paul with 3. Of the 14 stations carrying these shows, 9 are accepting music right now and 7 are freeform, meaning they lock no genre at all and a pop record is as welcome as anything else. Among the same stations, 3 state a clean-edit rule, 2 ask for lossless audio, 1 weigh local artists, so read the row before you send.
Every show below was read off that station's own published schedule. Where a station publishes no genre for a show, it is not on this page: guessing what a programme plays is how a record reaches the wrong room.
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.
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