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Radio Free World
RADIO FREE WORLD®
is a media guide and Webcaster dedicated to the idea
that people deserve to experience many alternatives when it comes to
entertainment and information.
Our programs feature eclectic music, comedy, and spoken word submitted
by independent* artists.
History
of RFW
Radio
Free World began in the early 1970's when Joey
Latimer received a wireless radio transmitter kit for Christmas
from his aunt and uncle. He built the kit, turned it on, and in the
very first broadcast in Downey, California declared, "This is Radio
Free World on the air!" This historic broadcast made it a few blocks
away to the house of one of his friends who was on the phone with Joey
and said, "I hear it!"
Joey wanted a broadcast kit because another of his friends, Fred Jones,
set up
some home built transmitters and began broadcasting under the name Radio
Free Downey...pirate radio in suburbia! According to Joey, "Hanging
out with Fred Jones in his garage studio one night (I'm not sure who
all was there,) we were bouncing cool 'Radio Free' station names off
each other until we agreed that 'Radio Free World' was the bee's knees
of Radio Free names...radio that reaches all over the world!"
Later, after graduating high school, Fred Jones went on to become a
DJ (General Birddog) at KNAC and being a Firesign Theater freak, eventually
produced an
album or two of them. Joey, Fred, and other high school drama friends,
including Ned Bernardin, Kevin Bray, and Cindi Johnson, created an improvisational
radio theater group called Radio Free World, with the intent on being
like the Firesign Theater. After many personnel changes and not much
to show except a lot of great ideas, RFW faded out after a few years.
Radio
Free World was revived when Joey lived at a large apartment complex
in Huntington Beach, California during the late 70's, called Huntington
Gardens. Huntington Gardens was broken into four thematic sections (like
the movie Westworld) with themes such as Polynesian, Roman, Greek, and
Tudor. Around the outside were "pods" made up of studio apartments
situated on stilts around circular staircases. Each living room in the
Huntington Gardens complex was equipped with a speaker and volume control,
which the management never used. Joey, who lived in a pod, came up with
the idea to hook a large Scott tube power amp up to the speaker leads
in his living room and began podcasting 'Radio Free World' over the
'Huntington Gardens Underground Radio Network.' Since people had volume
controls, they could choose to tune in or not. The management didn't
have a clue who was broadcasting, but it soon became the talk of the
neighborhood. The programs were made up mostly of comedy shows and funny
music, interspersed with L.A. Dodgers games, local weather, surf reports,
and improvisational bits created by Joey's friends when they dropped
by.
In the 1990's, when the Internet began to develop, Joey read some articles
about Internet broadcasting, and realizing that this could be a way
to revive RFW and send it across then entire planet, he started radiofreeworld.com
and began Internet broadcasting--you guessed it--comedy shows, funny
music, and bits created by friends as they dropped by. Realizing that
a Web site is also informational and part of the World Wide Web, Joey
also made radiofreeworld.com into a guide to connect people to other
cool sites around the world.
Link to our site by using the following page:
Radio Free World Home Page
http://www.radiofreeworld.com
* All material streamed is done so with the
permission of the Independent artists/composers who have submitted the
material for promotional purposes. We don't play CD's, DVD's, or digital
media from major record labels (ie. those associated with the Sound
Exchange or the RIAA.) We also no longer play music licensed by ASCAP,
BMI, or SESAC.
Privacy
Policy Statement:
This is the web site of Radio Free World. Our postal address is Post
Office Box 444 Idyllwild, CA, 92549-0444. Email
can be sent to the Webmaster.
For each visitor to our Web page, our Web server automatically recognizes
only the consumer's domain name, but not the e-mail address (where possible).
We collect only the domain name, but not the e-mail address of visitors
to our Web page, and information volunteered by the consumer, such as
survey information and/or site registrations.
The information we collect is used to notify consumers about updates
to our Web site.
With respect to cookies: We do not set any cookies.
If you do not want to receive e-mail from us in the future, please let
us know by sending us e-mail at the above address.
If you supply us with your postal address on-line you will only receive
the information for which you provided us your address.
Persons who supply us with their telephone numbers on-line will only
receive telephone contact from us with information regarding orders
they have placed on-line.
With respect to Ad Servers: To try and bring you offers that are of
interest to you, we have relationships with other companies that we
allow to place ads on our Web pages. As a result of your visit to our
site, ad server companies may collect information such as your domain
type, your IP address and clickstream information. For further information,
consult the privacy policies of:
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From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated
uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information
practices change at some time in the future we will contact you before
we use your data for these new purposes to notify you of the policy
change and to provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses.
Customers may prevent their information from being used for purposes
other than those for which it was originally collected by sending us
e-mail at the above address.
Upon request we provide site visitors with access to a description of
information that we maintain about them.
Upon request we offer visitors the ability to have inaccuracies corrected
in contact information.
Consumers can have this information corrected by sending us e-mail at
the above address.
With respect to security: We have appropriate security measures in place
in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration
of information that we have collected from you at our site.
If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy,
you may contact us at the above addresses.
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