GM Report to the Listeners with Steve di Costanzo brings you the information you can use in Bridgeport, CT - with events, sponsors, activities, local celebrities, and more. One of my fondest childhood memories was listening to the Top-40 AM station in Milwaukee- WOKY on a little transistor radio when I was a wee lad of 7. Boy did I love that pop coming from the UK… early Beatles, Hollies, Herman’s Hermits, how about Do the Freddy and Catch us if You Can by the Dave Clark 5. Musically, I came of age in the roaring early and mid-’70s. Learn More Listen on Soundcloud ...

Módulo Lunar // The Lunar Module is a monthly program that airs every third Thursday of the month from 4 to 7 pm hosted by Luis Luna, producer and community organizer. This show is a platform for diverse Latinx music from across the American Continent including the U.S. These sounds drape the acoustic stage to discuss and elevate social justice issues and collective liberation programming. Luis brings activists, organizers and members of the community from across Connecticut and the U.S. to amplify our collective voices. Abolition Transmission is a radio collaboration between incarcerated abolitionists and organizers on the outside. This program is meant to amplify the voices and experiences ...

Each week, host Scott Harris conducts interviews on a wide range of political, economic and social topics with individuals and representatives of organizations not ordinarily accessible in the mainstream media. Counterpoint is heard every Monday night on WPKN 89.5 FM, Bridgeport, Connecticut, at 8:00 PM, ET. You can listen live online at that time at WPKN. Some of the interview segments featured on Counterpoint are edited for re-broadcast on the syndicated Between The Lines radio news magazine. Visit Between The Lines‘ website for free downloadable (or streaming) MP3 audio and subscriptions to podcasts, program summaries and interview transcripts. An archive of past Counterpoint programs presented by segment can be accessed at Counterpoint Radio. The full program is accessible ...

Between The Lines is a weekly syndicated half-hour news magazine featuring progressive perspectives on national and international political, economic and social issues. Because Between The Lines is independent of all publications, media networks or political parties, we are able to bring a diversity of voices to the airwaves. This award-winning program provides a platform for individuals and organizations generally ignored or marginalized in corporate media. Each week, Between The Lines features: ▪   A five-minute summary of some of the week’s under-reported news stories gathered from the alternative press and other sources. ▪   Three in-depth interview segments focusing on significant international, national and regional issues. Our production staff includes journalists and community activists who have ...

Mic Check, Sunday, 5:30 PM — WPKN’s ½-hour weekly public affairs and community discussion program. Our diverse roster of hosts presents a wide range of topics for discussion: focusing on global, national, and regional issues and their effect on the local Connecticut community. Just as the phrase “Mic Check” was used to mobilize people to create a human microphone during the Occupy Movement, this weekly program will amplify our local community’s many concerns and voices and bring them to the air-waves. Join the conversation on-air at 203-336-9756. WPKN has been an essential part of my life for more than thirty years. I feel lucky to have moved ...

Bob Johnson produces the monthly Second Saturday Magazine show which features interviews with authors & LIVE performances of local musicians. Produces and Hosts a TV program on White Plains Community Media called Westchester Culture. Produces and hosts a monthly radio program on WPKN radio called Second Saturday Magazine. Learn More

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff. Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, New York City. Learn More

Mike Merli with host Mike Merli. Learn More Listen on Soundcloud

North Fork Works with Hazel Kahan broadcasts on the first Wednesday of the month at 7:30 p.m. North Fork Works grew out of an endless curiosity about my neighbors out here on the North Fork of the East End of Long Island: I wanted to know who they are and how they work. Now in its eighth year, North Fork Works has carried wonderful conversations about their work with bird, bee and tomato farmers, owners of a therapy dog, musicians, a carpenter, a mayor, a chimney sweep/educator, a sailor, a car mechanic/poet, authors, restaurant owners, a historian, and a maker of musical instruments, labor and environmental activists. They talk about what ...

Join us on November 3 from 8 PM to 11 PM for WPKN’s Alternative Election Coverage hosted by Scott Harris, Richard Hill and the Public Affairs team. While the main-stream media counts and prognosticates, we’ll be having in-depth discussions on a full range of issues from racism, labor, voter suppression, health care policy, and post-election movement building with a roster of guests from around the country including Ralph Nader, Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin, Daniel Ellsberg, labor economist Michael Zweig, economist Dr. Jack Rasmus and many more. We’ll also hear reports about turn-out, lines or problems at polling sites around Westchester County, on Long Island and in southern Connecticut. ...

Zanj Radio with Maud & Bertho Joseph on alternating Friday’s, 9 AM to Noon, focuses on Haitian rooted, multi-lingual broadcasting in French, Créole, and English. The Zanj Radio segment is Haitian friendly community programming and broadcasting designed to increase cultural competency amongst the WPKN community that favors classics and contemporary hits. Maud Joseph is honored with a Community Appreciation Award, for her community service with a special focus on her three WPKN radio programs. Presented April 2017, by The Haitian Voice, a Connecticut based English, Haitian Creole, and French newspaper & website. The Bridgeport City Council and City of Bridgeport Awards were presented in 2018. Learn More Zanj Radio, on ...

Vision Communautaire with Maud & Bertho Joseph. Sunday mornings, 5 to 7 AM. Maud Joseph is honored with a Community Appreciation Award, for her community service with a special focus on her three WPKN radio programs. Presented April 2017, by The Haitian Voice, a Connecticut based English, Haitian Creole, and French newspaper & website. The Bridgeport City Council and City of Bridgeport Awards were presented in 2018. Zanj Radio, on alternating Fridays, 9 AM to Noon, focuses on Haitian rooted, multi-lingual broadcasting in French, Créole, and English. The Zanj Radio segment is Haitian-friendly community programming and broadcasting designed to increase cultural competency amongst the WPKN community ...

This Way Out is the only internationally distributed weekly LGBTQ radio program, currently airing on some 200 local community radio stations around the world. The award-winning half-hour magazine-style program features a summary of some of the major news events in or affecting the queer community (NewsWrap), in-depth coverage of major events, interviews with key queer figures, plus music, literature, entertainment — all the information and culture of a community on the move! When This Way Out went on the air in 1988, most of the mainstream media believed that all of LGBTQ life, news and culture could be summed up in one word: AIDS. Even some progressive journalists and community radio stations worried ...

Ralph Nader Radio Hour with hosts Ralph Nader, Steve Skrovan and David Feldman is a weekly talk show broadcast on the Pacifica Radio Network, and is available as a podcast on iTunes. It’s a lively informative hour of interviews with some of the nation’s most influential movers and shakers, for thought-provoking discussions of the week’s news. Ralph Nader hosts Ralph Nader News Hour. Ralph is an American political activist of Lebanese origin, as well as an author, lecturer, and attorney. Areas of particular concern to Nader include consumer protection, humanitarianism, environmentalism, and democratic government. Learn More Steve Skrovan has worked as a stand-up comedian and ...

What’s Your Point with host Garnett Ankle. You come for the music and stay for the talk. On “What’s Your Point?,” Garnett Ankle interviews guests live in the studios, or on the telephone. The subjects vary from politics to music. He also gives listeners the opportunity to call-in and voice their opinions on issues of the day. It may be something you disagree with, or something else. You are entitled to your opinion and have a right to air it even though I may disagree with your point of view. A discussion of our differences is always preferable to physical conflict. In the end, we may have to agree ...

First Voices Radio with Tiokasin Ghosthorse. Today many Indigenous peoples are still excluded from society and often even deprived of their rights as autonomous Nations and recognition of approximately 397 valid Turtle Island Nation(s) to Nation-U.S. treaties. Nevertheless, they are determined to preserve, develop and transmit to future generations their ancestral territories and to address their issues as original Nations of Turtle Island; and to redress the returning of lands, territories, and resources of their Nations. Their continued existence as peoples is closely connected to their free will to influence their own fate and to live in accordance with their own cultural patterns, social institutions and legal systems. Indigenous ...

CounterSpin with Janine Jackson is FAIR’s weekly radio show, produced and hosted by Janine Jackson. It’s heard on more than 135 noncommercial stations across the United States and Canada. CounterSpin provides a critical examination of the major stories every week, and exposes what corporate media might have missed in their own coverage. CounterSpin highlights censored stories and exposes biased and inaccurate coverage, while examining the power of corporate influence and sexism, racism and homophobia in the news. Janine Jackson is the program director of FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) and the host and producer of FAIR's syndicated radio show CounterSpin—a weekly program of media criticism ...

The LGBTQ Community Show is hosted by Andrew S. Ross. Learn More Listen on Soundcloud

BPT Talks with Dayna Lindo – a podcast broadcasted on WPKN 89.5 radio highlighting the hidden gems and untold stories of everyday citizens in Bridgeport, Connecticut. BPT Talks shines a light on the city's current resurgence to provide local citizens w/ the inside scoop. Sponsored by: Dayna Lindo is a communications specialist who ventures outside the box to deliver exceptional results for her clients’ marketing goals. Visit her website. Learn More Listen on Soundcloud

Democracy Now! produces a daily, global, independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Our reporting includes breaking daily news headlines and in-depth interviews with people on the front lines of the world’s most pressing issues. On Democracy Now!, you’ll hear a diversity of voices speaking for themselves, providing a unique and sometimes provocative perspective on global events. Democracy Now! is broadcast daily across the United States and Canada as well as in countries around the world. Our program is on Pacifica, NPR, community, college and satellite radio stations; on PBS, public, community and satellite TV; and viewed by millions of people online each day. ...

Alternative Radio, established in 1986, by David Barsamian is a weekly one-hour public affairs program offered free to all public radio stations in the US, Canada, Europe and beyond. AR provides information, analyses and views that are frequently ignored or distorted in other media. Our program is carried by over 300 radio stations and heard by millions of listeners. Our headquarters are located in Boulder, Colorado. AR consists of David, Joe and a few volunteers working in a 400 sq ft office in Boulder where we do all our production and order fulfillment. David, in addition to his other duties, sends out the mail himself and he always tries ...

First Tuesday Rainy Day Radio with Richard Hill celebrates Jazz, Latin, African and Caribbean folkloric and pop, R&B, and Funk; as well as his obsession with public affairs. My life is divided between directing the band, doing radio at WPKN, teaching music and dance (Swing and Salsa), and teaching and hosting youth radio programming. Learn More Listen on Soundcloud

¡Barricada! is hosted by John Jairo Lugo. Somos un equipo de trabajo, multietnico, organizadores comunitarios, que buscamos a travez de Barricada, llegar a la comunidad latina con un mensaje alternativo. Nuestra meta es crear una red transnacional  de noticias para llevar semanalmente a nuestra audiencia lo mas reciente de los sucesos por los que atraviezan nuestros pueblos. Esos que estan al sur, al otro lado de la frontera. “We are a team of multiethnic, community organizers. We seek through “¡Barricada!“, to reach the Latino community with an alternative message. Our goal is to create a transnational news network which, weekly, presents to our audience recent events affecting our peoples. Those who are ...

The Resistance Roundtable with host Richard Hill and panelists Scott Harris, Ruthanne Baumgartner, & Guest/s. Following the 2017 Presidential Election, The Resistance Round Table, in the Armageddon Report, looks at issues raised by Donald Trump’s Presidency. Particularly on issues of concern to the WPKN Community— issues that receive little, or no, mainstream media coverage. My life is divided between directing the band, doing radio at WPKN, teaching music and dance (Swing and Salsa), and teaching and hosting youth radio programming. Learn More Scott has worked in radio since his college days when he served as a DJ and then manager of a small college radio station in Western Massachusetts. ...