We Want The Airwaves: The WFNX Story

After 30 years as Boston's fiercely independent Alternative music station, WFNX announces that it is being sold to Clear Channel Communications, and news of the sale rattles generations of music fans who had grown to believe that WFNX would always exist at 101.7 on their FM dial. As the station counts down its last sixty days on the air, current and former WFNX employees reminisce about the station's rich history and reflect on what the sale of this perennial David in a land of radio Goliaths says about the changing ways we relate to music and media.

Loading countdown...
Half-Life in Fukushima

Half-Life in Fukushima

2016

The Illustrated Protocols Of Zion

2014

The Zionist Matrix of Power

2010

João do Vale, Muita Gente Desconhece

João do Vale, Muita Gente Desconhece

2005

Meet the Pioneers

Meet the Pioneers

1948

Keep Me Safe

2014

Cachila

Cachila

2008

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel: Live from Lincoln Center

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel: Live from Lincoln Center

2013

Beethoven - Symphonies 1-9 (Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle)

Beethoven - Symphonies 1-9 (Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle)

2016

Petra's Poem

Petra's Poem

2013

Robber of the Cruel Streets

Robber of the Cruel Streets

2006

Epica: Retrospect - 10th Anniversary

Epica: Retrospect - 10th Anniversary

2013

Lullaby

Lullaby

1994

Among Men: Gay in East Germany

Among Men: Gay in East Germany

2012

Living the Utopia

Living the Utopia

1997

City of Photographers

City of Photographers

2006

Twixt: A Documentary

Twixt: A Documentary

2013

A Short History of the Highrise

2013

Virgin School

Virgin School

2007

0.56% What happened to Mexico?

0.56% What happened to Mexico?

2011