WEFT Champaign 90.1FM 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 in Champaign, Illinois

Champaign, Illinois

Champaign is a city in Champaign County, Illinois, in the United States. The city is located south of Chicago, west of Indianapolis, Indiana, and 178 miles northeast of St. Louis, Missouri. Though surrounded by farm communities, Champaign is notable for sharing the campus of the University of...

, founded in 1981 and owned by Prairie Air, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation. It has a wide range of programming, including music from nearly every genre, public affairs discussion, theater and arts, and more. WEFT's mission is to be "an accessible, responsible, and responsive radio alternative, serving the diverse communities of radio listeners in East-Central Illinois".http://weft.org/about/wefts-mission

Programming

Some individual shows are listed below. You can also access the full schedule on WEFT's website.

• The Bachelor Pad
• East of Zero
• Fanfare for the Speeding Bullet!
• Francophiliacs
• Close to the Fire! hosted by Kyram "Kiwi" Singleton
• From Bard to Verse hosted by C. G. Estabrook and Mindy Manolakes
• The Illinois Labor Hour hosted by Bill Gorrell and Peter Miller
• Liberación! hosted and produced by Antonia Darder and the Liberación Radio Collective
• mediageek
• News from Neptune hosted by C. G. Estabrook and Paul Mueth
• Otaku
• The Prairie Monk hosted by David Monk
• WEFT Sessions / Champaign Local 901
• modbit hosted by Alex Lazarevich