About me:
This site was established to promote and inform everyone about WDBX!!!
On a sunny, spring afternoon in 1992, Tom Egert drove home to Carbondale from St. Louis propelled by the sounds of reggae and salsa on his car radio. This enlivening musical mix broadcast by KDHX, St. Louis' community radio station, brought Tom happily within 20 miles of his home before he'd driven out of range of the station. Scanning the local radio dial, he could find no comparable musical programming and in that moment of frustration the idea of creating an invigorating, culturally diverse, community radio station in southern Illinois was born.
Heterodyne Broadcasting Company, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization was founded in 1993 and ground for the station building was broken in the fall of 1995. The first Volunteer recruitment meetings were held February 6, 1996. Over 100 people attended the two meetings that day; from those, 40 completed training and began regular operations about two weeks later. At first the station was on the air from 4-10pm daily and grew quickly from there. Currently, over 100 volunteers produce more than 80 weekly programs. Several have been on the air from the very beginning. The programming is a mirror of the diversity of our community, with music from across the street to around the world, as well as a vibrant section of local talk programming and more.
In August 2003, thanks to the efforts of our founder Tom Egert, the late US Senator Paul Simon, and the generous contributions of our listeners, we upgraded our broadcast power from 700 to 3,000 watts. WDBX now covers all of Jackson and Williamson counties, as well as most of Perry and Franklin, and parts of Union, Johnson and Saline counties. In all, our signal can reach over 100,000 southern Illinoisans.
In December 2005, thanks to member James Throgmorton and Neon Internet, we began streaming live on the web at
www.wdbx.org. And in March 2006, thanks to volunteer Lena Mörsch, we established this page on MySpace.
LIVE STREAMING AUDIO!!! CLICK ON THE LINK ABOVE! AGAIN ON THE SECURITY PROMPT! THEN ON LISTEN! You can come right back to MySpace even while the link loads!
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Who I'd like to meet:
Supporters, friends and listeners of WDBX, and other community radio stations around the world!
Most of our TOP FRIENDS are our DJs! Check out their pages too!
We'd love to hear from local musicians, but please note; out of fairness we usually do not post band ads or any other ads in our comments!
Comments
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Jan 1 2009 2:23 AM
ANITA~
Nov 4 2008 10:02 PM
Don't forget to vote!
Nov 4 2008 8:19 PM
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Sep 11 2008 4:32 PM
Man can those boys play.
Jul 17 2008 7:56 PM
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May 15 2008 2:01 PM
May 6 2008 6:21 PM
Here's to you all...
Apr 17 2008 5:02 AM
Thank you kindly!
The pledge is coming!
Apr 4 2008 7:28 PM
love,
Laurie
Apr 1 2008 8:06 PM
Mar 25 2008 7:22 PM
Mar 14 2008 9:17 PM
Love your MySpace makeover! Take care, and keep on bringing Southern Illinois the best radio programming around! You rock! :)
Lyrically yours,
Parsley & Sagebrush Band
Feb 17 2008 9:25 PM
I mean, I just spent four and a half hours inside you, it's not like we're strangers.
Sweet Action Keeping the faith.
Jan 17 2008 3:10 AM
Dec 15 2007 11:10 PM
Hope the bash was a success!! Much love and warm wishes.
Nov 18 2007 12:21 AM
Nov 5 2007 6:48 AM
SJ9B