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Note: For a list of feminist radio shows see a compilation by Sarah Glover on our women's media page: http://wifp.org/womensmedia.html#wrs

Banat Wa Bas
Egypt
Contact: Founder, Amani Al-Tunisy
Telephone: 011-22266-83
E-mail: banat9bas[no.spam*]hotmail.com
Website: http://www.banat9bass.com/
Description: "Banat wa Bas" is the only radio station in the Arab world that focusses on adolescent girls' and women's issues. It broadcasts online daily. All shows are run by women, except one that explores the perception of women in Egyptian and Arab society.

BFAWomen Radio (By For and About Women Radio)
5934 Jaegerglen
Lithia, FL 33547
USA
Telephone: 813-481-1025
E-mail: SHOW[no.spam*]bfawomenradio.com
Website: http://www.byforandaboutwomen.com/
Description: By For and About Women Radio is an innovative internet media company that was launched in 2005. It began as a single internet radio show delivered in a convenient on demand archived format designed for women. Today, By For and About Women Radio is an internet radio network offering a diverse mix of programs and content delivered live via streaming, on-demand archived, or in downloadable mp3 "podcast" formats. With listeners in over 35 different countries we are adding new shows, topics and resources each month.
By For and About Women Radio

CFUV Women's Radio Collective
CFUV FM
Attn: Women's Radio Collective
PO Box 3035
University of Victoria
Victoria, BC V8W 3P3
Canada
Telephone: 250-721-8607 (Station Manager Randy Gelling)
Email: cfuvwoa[no.spam*]uvic.ca
Website: http://cfuv.uvic.ca/women/
Description: Dedicated to promoting the representation of women and women's issues in radio.

KPFK Women’s Coalition
Feminist Magazine
3729 Cahuenga Blvd. West
North Hollywood, CA 91604
USA
Telephone: 818-985-2711
Fax: 818-763-7526
Website: http://feministmagazine.org/
Description: Collective that produces Feminist Magazine, the weekly Southern California radio show of news, views, politics and culture with a feminist perspective. Listen Wednesday evenings from 7PM to 8PM in Los Angeles on 90.7 FM, on 98.7 FM in Santa Barbara, and streaming live on KPFK.org.

Meow 104.8
India
Contact: Anil Srivatsa, Chief Operating Officer
E-mail: srivatsa[no.spam*]meowfm.com
Website: http://meowfm.com/
Description: India's only just-for-women radio station has expanded to reach listeners in Delhi, Kolkata, and Mumbai. Its live internet stream allows it to reach an international audience. The station emphasizes interactivity to ensure that the station reflects what women want and focuses its on-air discussions on women's issues.

National Radio Project: The Women's Desk
Studio address:
1904 Franklin Street
Suite 405
Oakland, CA 94612
USA
Mailing address:
1714 Franklin Street
#100-251
Oakland, CA 94612
USA
Telephone: 510-251-1332 or toll free at 800-529-5736
Email: lrudman[no.spam*]radioproject.org
Website: http://www.radioproject.org/desks/women.html
Description: The Women’s Desk produces programming that explores the issues and perspectives of women with a particular focus on the intersections of gender, race, class and sexuality.

Radio Al-Mahabba
Iraq
E-mail: info[no.spam*]radioam.org
Website: http://www.radioalmahabba.com/
Broadcast: 96FM, Iraq and Eutelsat 13° East 12 476 Mhz across North Africa & Europe
Description: Radio Al-Mahabba is the first independent women's radio station in Iraq. Located in Baghdad and launched with the support of NGO UNIFEM in 2005, the station features stories on women's human rights by local volunteers and women journalists and is an effective tool not only to reach out to women all over the country to raise awareness, but also to encourage greater female participation in the electoral processes underway.

Radio Internacional Feminista, FIRE: Feminist International Radio Endeavour
P.O. Box 239
Ciudad Colon
Costa Rica
Teléfono: 506-249-1319
Fax: 506-2491319
Email: oficina[no.spam*]radiofeminista.net
Website: http://www.fire.or.cr/
Description: FIRE es una estación de Radio por Internet de difusión en vivo que produce informes multimedia mensualmente pudiendo ser oídos en www.fire.org. También produce la revista Voices On FIRE, una revista biannual destacando los informes de la Radio por Internet para aquellos que no tienen acceso a Internet. Es bilingüe en español en Inglés.
Description: FIRE is an Internet Radio Station in the makings, that broadcasts live, and produced multimedia monthly reports that can be heard at www.fire.org. It also produces the magazine Voices On FIRE, a bi-annual magazine featuring the Internet Radio Reports for thoses who do not have access to the Internet. It is bilingual in Spanish and English.

SmartWomen Radio
551 Valley Road #158
Montclair, NJ 07043
USA
Email: patti[no.spam*]smartwomen.org
Website: http://www.smartwomen.org
Description: SmartWomen promotes the empowerment and education of women through digital dialogue, socializing, networking and activism. Our goal is to provide women-focused dialogue, events, inspiration, information based and musical webcasts.

Something About the Women Collective
c/o WMFO-FM
PO Box 65
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155
USA
Contact: Sue Edelman
Website: http://www.satwomen.com
Description: Something About the Women Collective produces a weekly radio program featuring music by women artists across a variety of musical genres. We're dedicated to playing music by women who don't get a lot of exposure on commercial radio. Broadcasting from Tufts University on WMFO 91.5 FM in Medford, MA, the show airs Saturdays from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Eastern time. During the broadcast, you can listen online from the WMFO web site and watch the studio webcam. Listen to previous shows in the Archives. Collectively run since 1975.

WINGS:  Women's International News Gathering Service
Frieda Werden, Producer
Box 95090
Vancouver BC V5T 4T8
Canada
Telephone: 604-876-6994
Email: wings[no.spam*]wings.org
Website: http://www.wings.org
Description: WINGS is an all-women independent radio production company that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world. Frieda Werden, producer of WINGS, immigrated from Texas to Canada on November 13, 2002. She continues to produce and distribute WINGS. You are encouraged to submit stories or order tapes, CDs and subscriptions. A WINGS editing crew also remains in Austin, Texas, and will continue to produce and archive materials there.

Women's Ave Online Radio Show
Telephone: 704-276-9311
Website: www.womensaveradio.com
Description: Women's Ave Radio's mission is to provide quality information from experts in many fields, to help small and home-based businesses grow and succeed.

WomensRadio.com and WomensRadio Channel
Women's Online Media and Education Network World Headquarters
2533 N. Carson Street, Suite 3003
Carson City, NV 89706
Telephone: 888-658-4635
Email: goladies[no.spam*]womensradio.com
Website: http://www.womensradio.com
Description: WomensRadio produces a rich Website and syndicates web-based programming for women. As WomensRadio progresses, it will be using not only the Web, but also terrestrial radio, digital radio, audio channels of digital TV, private channels in the transportation field, and soon wireless, to target and deliver this specialty market segment.

Women’s Parliamentary Radio
Telephone: 07703-716961
E-mail: Enquiries[no.spam*]wpradio.co.uk
Website: http://www.wpradio.co.uk/index.html
Description: WPR is the Women's Hour of Westminster, reporting fairly and accurately on policy issues of concern to women and their families.

Women's Radio Fund
PO Box 242048
Memphis, TN 38124
USA
Contact: Dorothy Abbott, Founder
Phone/Fax: 901-685-6950
Email: dorothy[no.spam*]womensradiofund.org
Website: http://www.womensradiofund.org
Description: The mission of the Women's Radio Fund is to build a support network for women radio producers and broadcasters worldwide.

Women's Radio Group
27 Churchfield Road
London, W3 6BH
UK
Email: wrg[no.spam*]womeninradio.org.uk
Website: http://www.womeninradio.org.uk
Description: Women's Radio group is an arts charity committed to providing training for women in all areas of radio production.

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