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WPKN 89.5 FM Community Radio

Founded in 1963 and located in Bridgeport Connecticut, WPKN is a 10,000-watt listener-supported community radio station broadcasting at 89.5 FM. We are also streaming live online here at WPKN.org, the TuneIn Radio app or the Radio Garden app. WPKN’s terrestrial signal now reaches to a listenership of 1.5 million people in Connecticut, Long Island, parts of New York and Massachusetts. Operating 24/7 and largely run by volunteers, WPKN offers a unique and eclectic mix of live and recorded music, news, public affairs, spoken word, arts & culture and other free-form programming which defy genre. We are proud to be listener-supported, commercial-free, community-driven radio available to the public at no cost, any time, day or night. We are here for YOU, any time, day or night.

Our Mission, at WPKN independent community radio station, is to strengthen and enrich our community through programming that is provocative, innovative, and free from commercial influence and promotes diversity, tolerance, and freedom of expression.

Join us for the first of many pop up record sales with prices made to MOVE!

SATURDAY 9/21 11AM-4PM $2 12-inch records, $1 CDs, $.50 cent 45s

SUNDAY 9/22 11AM-1PM just $10 for ANY AMOUNT you can haul out!

WPKN Presents The Psychedelic Furs & The Jesus and Mary Chain in concert at College Street Music Hall in New Haven

Tuesday, October 1st at 7PM – in partnership with Premier Concerts & Manic Presents

Two influential post-punk bands celebrate 40 years in rock ‘n’ roll with support from the modern art-pop music of Frankie Rose.

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