Maybe. We’re reminded often of KEXP, The Goat, a most unusual station that has a huge influence in the local Seattle music scene. KEXP FM hosts from their studio location a few hundred live music events a year, and bands still drop off CDs at the front desk in hopes of making it big in the local music scene. In the decade that we’ve known KEXP and been a part of its operation, this indie station has increased its global reach to over 200,000 weekly listeners online, on-air, and more than 3 million YouTube subscribers.

KEXP isn’t the only station making waves in a more competitive world of younger listeners and shortened attention spans. The Resourceful Territory FM, like so many stations we worked with in 2025, proves that community radio still rocks, and that, with the right approach, can most definitely grab and keep the attention of college-aged listeners.

By the way, as a broadcast equipment manufacturer, we also benefit from the technology of the times. We’re able to connect better (watch our Studio Master Class Connecting Locations and Systems and read WheatNet IP Salvo Solved This PITA), create more (read What’s in a Radio Console) and manage more (read Count Your Audio Drivers) because of all those advances in technology.