WMMT

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WMMT is the non-commercial community radio service of the Appalshop in Whitesburg, KY.  Our mission is to be a 24 hour voice of mountain people’s music, culture, and social issues, to provide broadcast space for creative expression and community involvement in making radio, and to be an active participant in discussion of public policy that will benefit coalfield communities and the Appalachian region as a whole.   

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Caption: Main Street, McRoberts, KY.
8 Pieces

Natural gas drilling in southwest Virginia and eastern Kentucky is the subject of a new radio documentary from WMMT, Appalshop’s public, community radio station in Whitesburg, Kentucky. “Fractured Appalachia” is a one-hour program, also available as seven short features, that examines legal and environmental facets of the region’s burgeoning new energy industry.

  • From: WMMT
  • Updated: May 04, 2012
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9 Pieces

Making Connections is a project for sharing news, stories, and information highlighting opportunities and challenges for building a healthy future for Appalachia's land and people. http://www.makingconnectionsnews.org/

  • From: WMMT
  • Updated: Oct 18, 2012
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25 Pieces

A series of free 30-second PSAs attempting to lay out some of the major changes brought by the Affordable Care Act. More info about the issues discussed and the project as a whole can be found at http://www.acaexplained.org.

  • From: WMMT
  • Updated: Aug 29, 2013

Latest Pieces

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Coverage of an Arbor Day event on Friday, April 15, on a former strip mine on the Wise – Dickenson County line. We hear from some of the sponsors ...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2016
  • Length: 07:43
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In the 1960s Anthropologist Helen Lewis established one of the first Appalachian Studies programs in the country, at what was then Clinch Valley Co...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2016
  • Length: 08:39
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Since January, thousands of coal miners have been laid off in Central Appalachia. We’ve heard a lot of opinions about the causes of this decline an...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2016
  • Length: 11:30
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The Howard-Oldfield family has been farming in Morgan County, KY for over 100 hundred years. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t ready to try someth...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2016
  • Length: 08:52
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The Federal Communications Commission’s Eighth Broadband Progress Report finds approximately 19 million Americans, mostly rural, lack access to hig...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2016
  • Length: 12:00
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All Appalachians know our region is rich in music – but this doesn’t always translate in to money for local residents. Yet the Crooked Road, south...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2016
  • Length: 11:20
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Though we often hear in the coalfields that job creation and environmental protection are two things that can't happen at the same time, a growing ...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2016
  • Length: 18:16
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Over 4,000 eastern Kentucky miners have lost their jobs since 2011, and many fear these coal jobs aren’t coming back. Now folks in the coalfields a...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2016
  • Length: 09:28
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Central Appalachia loses more than 130 acres of forestland everyday, as economic pressures force families to clear their land. Nearly 90 percent o...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2016
  • Length: 10:28
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In Appalachia, the total area of surface mined land is estimated to be around 1.5 million acres. Much of this land is non-forested and unused. B...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2016
  • Length: 15:20