WHITESBURG, Ky. (LEX 18) — Appalshop's radio station WMMT FM has been a source of mountain music and culture for decades. It was flooded with around five feet of water during this summer's flash ...

Radio IQ will begin airing “Appalachian Vibes,” a new locally produced hour dedicated to the stories behind local and regional musicians. The show will air Saturdays at 8 p.m. beginning July 10. It ...

In 2025, public radio reporters from across Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia captured scenes of harrowing destruction from tornadoes, floods and ice storms; the joy of a child re-learning how to ...

The Appalachian Arts Alliance joined forces with Mountain Broadcasting Service’s WSGS 101.1 for its fourth annual Radio Takeover Day on Tuesday, October 17. The event, aimed at supporting local arts ...

Dr. Enkeshi El-Amin, a researcher, lecturer, and cultural worker at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and William Isom, director of the Black in Appalachia project at East Tennessee PBS, were ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Jody Herndon gets wound up when he starts talking about New Appalachian music, the music he says people in West Virginia are mostly listening to, even if they don’t know ...

In June 2023, RBR+TVBR readers first became familiar with Roger Bouldin, the Corporate General Manager for Bristol Broadcasting Company and the founder of his own Bouldin Radio, thanks to his purchase ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. After the 2016 election, the calls and emails rolled into West Virginia, as the press scrambled to make sense of a place that ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. As far back as Kelli Haywood can remember, Appalshop has been a part of her life. The storied arts, media, and education center ...

Appalachia has become a familiar shorthand for rural, white Americans, typically in poverty. But in reality, the region has a rich ethnic history... Children in sepia-toned clothes with dirt-smeared ...

Sex education in parts of Appalachia stresses abstinence. A nonprofit group there that offered a more comprehensive approach has now suspended operations after its members received violent threats.