Radio Free Brooklyn

Specialties

Radio Free Brooklyn is a non-​commercial community Internet radio station, streaming original content by the artists and residents of NYC’s most populous borough 24-​hours a day, 7 days a week.

RFB also provides audio production services including podcast recording and editing.

History

Established in 2015.

Once upon a time, radio was a tool for empowerment, a medium that provided a voice to the unheard and brought communities together. Today, we live in an age in which the media is too often used as a means to constrain and restrict rather than express. Radio Free Brooklyn aims to build a communication infrastructure to strengthen the community of artists who have been driven from the Manhattan neighborhoods we once called home before being scattered to the corners of the outer boroughs. Gone are the cheap storefronts we once inhabited, so now we inhabit a virtual space, one that can be accessed with the click of a mouse or a swipe of a screen. But we are still here.

We choose Internet radio not only because it is the most accessible medium for many, but because radio can be so many things: a subversive apparatus, a political cudgel, a prank, a ritual, a bond. We are inspired by the radio pioneers of the past and gratefully acknowledge their shoulders on which we stand: Radio Caroline,

Meet the Business Owner

Tom T.

Business Owner

Tom Tenney is the founder and Director of the annual RE/​Mixed Media Festival in NYC. He has been producing theatrical events since the 1980’s and ran a performance venue called SPACE in the East Village from 2001 – 2003. His long-​running late-​night series Grindhouse-​A-​Go-​Go! was the flagship show at Surf Reality’s House of Urban Savages on the Lower East Side from 1998 – 2002. As a producer, he’s worked with a diverse group of artists — from Robert Wilson to Seka — and his sound pieces have been heard on PRX Remix Radio, GMFE Sound Experience in Chicago, Toronto’s 2011 Deep Wireless Festival and Streaming Festival, Sixth Edition. He got his M.A. in Media Studies from the New School in NYC and his B.F.A. (Bachelor of Fun Arts) from Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey Clown College. He has been a guest lecturer at the School of Visual Arts (SVA), currently teaches media theory at Hofstra University. Tom is the host of Frequency Theory on Radio Free Brooklyn.