Rustbelt Radio

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| show_name = Rustbelt Radio

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| format = News, Current affairs

| runtime = 1 hour

| producer = Pittsburgh Indymedia collective members

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| home_station = WRCT 88.3FM Pittsburgh

| syndicates = WPTS-FM, WDUQ-LP, WNJR, WIUP-FM, WKCO-FM, WOBC-FM

| first_aired = May 2004

| last_aired = present

| num_episodes = 150+

| website = http://radio.indypgh.org

| podcast = [http://www.indypgh.org/syn/rustbelt-podcast.xml Rustbelt Radio]

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Rustbelt Radio is the Pittsburgh Independent Media Center's weekly radio program which introduces itself as "news from the grassroots, news overlooked by the corporate media".{{Cite book |last=Staggenborg |first=Suzanne |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KdX7DwAAQBAJ |title=Grassroots Environmentalism |date=2020-10-15 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-47848-9 |page=94 |language=en |quote=He later heard about a Marcellus Protest general assembly after listening to Rustbelt Radio, the local Indymedia station.}}{{cite thesis |last1=O'Baoill |first1=Andrew |date=2009 |title=Broadcasting in an On-Demand World Creating Community Radio in the Era of Podcasting and Webcasting |id={{ProQuest|304897886}} |oclc=740441737 |quote=The second was a workshop focused on the internet-based production process in use at Rustbelt Radio, based out of the Independent Media Center in Pittsburgh.}}

Production

Rustbelt Radio is produced by a volunteer collective working primarily in the Pittsburgh area. Volunteers conduct interviews and record events. They then edit the audio using Audacity, a free and open-source digital audio editor. The show is organized each week using a wiki in a collaborative process. The show is produced, recorded and aired live on Monday evenings from the studios of WRCT-FM.

Rustbelt Radio

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