What exactly is ‘public’ radio? Listeners dial in to music, community on KRVM

Radio is one of our oldest forms of electronic mass communication. While its concept is quite old, radio itself didn’t enter most American households until the late 1920s. Once introduced, it caught on quickly.

Mass communication has been multiplied and honed unceasingly in the last century, but, through it all, simple little radio remains largely unchanged.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) governs all electronic communication transmission in America.

Two categories

The FCC classifies radio into…