Maine Internet Radio is a company based on a simple concept: deliver great local radio programming using state of the art technology. Here's what we believe: Radio is meant to be programmed locally with the community, listeners and advertisers in mind. Over the years that concept has been largely lost. We also believe you should not have to pay for radio. So Maine Internet radio streams will always be free.
20 watts at 110 feet in downtown Minneapolis. For 103 days, Minneapolis listeners enjoyed a unique dance music station -- an exciting, original and invigorating radio station programmed in Minneapolis for Minneapolis and unlike any of its neighbors on the dial. 20 years later, Beat Radio is silent at 97.7, and the perfectly usable frequency for a low-power station goes to waste because a group of other Twin Cities stations (and a station *in Rochester, 80 miles away*), flexed their collective influence with the FCC, who responded by seizing essential equipment on November 1, 1996. The launch of beatworld.com coincides with the birth of Beat Radio. November 1997 -- Beat Radio returns to the air for 3 hours a week over community station KFAI, 90.3/106.7 FM, Sunday nights overnight from 2 am to 5 am in the Twin Cities. This continues into June 1998. February 18, 1998 -- Beat Radio goes nationwide every night live for 12 hours on 10 stations of Children's Broadcasting Corporation, originating from Minneapolis. The stations and cities are: Minneapolis/St. Paul: WWTC 1280 AM