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Community station KNSJ plays an integral part in our neighborhoods. We talk to people and hear news and stories in our own community. Our stories are frequently ignored by corporate media whose owners have no ties to us here.

Community radio is a service—a third model of radio, a unique approach to building stations, providing an incredible diversity of radio stations on the air today serving geographic communities, local communities in a way that commercial media does not serve the local community.

As Bill Moyers, American journalist and political commentator, said years ago in a conversation with Senator Bernie Sanders,

…Take a look at this statistical snapshot of the media ecology that largely determines what you and I see, read, and hear. In 1983, 50 corporations controlled a majority of media in America. In 1990 the number had dropped to 23. In 1997, 10. And today, six. There you have it. The fistful of multinational conglomerates that own the majority of media in America. What do we call it when a few firms dominate the market? Oligopoly. Doesn’t quite rhyme with democracy…. — Bill Moyers