KMUD is a community radio

Community radio

Community radio is a type of radio service, that offers a third model of radio broadcasting beyond commercial broadcasting and public broadcasting. Community stations can serve geographic communities and communities of interest...

 station

Radio station

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 broadcasting a Variety

Variety (radio)

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 format. Licensed to Garberville

Garberville, California

Garberville is a census-designated place in Humboldt County, California. It is located on the South Fork of the Eel River south-southeast of Eureka, at an elevation of 535 feet . The population was 913 at the 2010 United States Census...

, California

California

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, USA, the station serves Humboldt

Humboldt County, California

Humboldt County is a county in the U.S. state of California, located on the far North Coast 200 miles north of San Francisco. According to 2010 Census Data, the county’s population was 134,623...

, Northern Mendocino

Mendocino County, California

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, and Western Trinity

Trinity County, California

Trinity County is a large, rugged and mountainous, heavily forested county located in the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of California, along the Trinity River and within the Salmon/Klamath Mountains. It covers an area of over two million acres , and as of the 2010 census its population...

 counties in Northwestern California. KMUD is owned by Redwood Community Radio, Inc. and its studios are in Redway, California.

KMUD simulcasts

Simulcast

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 its programming on two full-time FM stations: KMUE

KMUE

KMUE is a radio station broadcasting a Variety format. Licensed to Eureka, California, USA, it serves the Eureka area. The station is owned by Redwood Community Radio, Inc. KMUE is a repeater for KMUD....

 88.3 in Eureka

Eureka, California

Eureka is the principal city and the county seat of Humboldt County, California, United States. Its population was 27,191 at the 2010 census, up from 26,128 at the 2000 census....

 and KLAI 90.3 in Laytonville

Laytonville, California

Laytonville is a census-designated place in Mendocino County, California, United States. Laytonville, is located north-northwest of Willits, at an elevation of 1670 feet...

. It also maintains a translator

Broadcast relay station

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at 99.5 FM in Shelter Cove, California.

KMUD is host of the 2010 Grassroots Radio Conference