The best radio station on the planet! And no commercials!…read more You can give them money through Amazon charities or PayPal.

I found this gem of a radio station years and years ago on a trip from Seattle to Portland. Now I…read morelive in the Midwest but I can still listen to KBRD on the internet.

Love all of the folks on this station. I wish they could put out…read morea stronger signal as I lose it going into downtown Tacoma, but other than that it beats the other stations from Seattle by a ton!!

Country Music for the South Sound! KAYO 96.9FM is broadcasting from the Olympia,WA area and plays…read moremostly Country Music from the 1990's but does play some newer Country songs. Very good morning show, and probably the best Country Music station around!

Bay Area music radio sucks. To a certain extent, most music radio sucks these days, but when you…read morecompare the Bay Area's selection of stations (corporate, college, NPR, etc.) to, say, what you can hear in L.A. County, it's not even close--L.A. wins every time. I grew up and went to college in L.A. County, and I spent way more time driving and, thus, listening to the radio in the 1990s and very early 2000s than I do in the Bay Area. Put another way, when I lived in Southern California, I had radio presets on my car. I've lived in San Francisco since 2003 and have had three cars over that time, and I've never bothered with radio presets, because aside from KQED, KALW, and KPFA (none of which are really music stations), it's generally not worth listening to the radio for music here. Until 2024, that is. I was running errands for an upcoming weekend trip, and I happened upon 92.7 FM, which is technically KEXC but which is just a repeater of 90.3 KEXP in Seattle. Whatever show I caught was really cool and eclectic, a combination of a college-radio station and Santa Monica's KCRW. The music was familiar and new at the same time, and the DJ sounded like a very polished college DJ. Over the next few months, I continued to listen to KEXP whenever I drove, and then, when I wasn't driving as much, I started streaming it. It's an amazing station with a long, interesting history in Seattle. Its current iteration is nonprofit, but it's not an NPR affiliate, as far as I can tell, and while it is still somehow connected to the University of Washington, it's not purely owned by the university. If they play anything other than music, I've never heard it. Not all the shows are the same, and some DJs are more interesting than others, but it's generally worth listening to at any time of the day. They have some Bay Area sponsors and ads as well, and while I generally abhor ads, most of them are for small businesses both here and in Seattle, so it feels like real community radio.

Came to KEXP just to get a Caffe Vita Del Sol and walked into a space that did not exist the last…read moretime I was around. It's gorgeous/huge and people are actually using it. I'm genuinely glad it's here. Brazil vs. Japan is on FIFA, my coffee is perfect, I grabbed a new Sub Pop tee because my old one is basically a thread, and my friend and I somehow scored the good leather seats. I walked straight into bliss and found myself in one of Seattle's best places to just exist for a minute.

A few years ago, this would have been a five star review…read more First the good: I've been listening to Mixx 96 since the day they went on the air, years ago. The DJs are amazing. I love Dave, Ann, RP and Jennifer. I really like their banter, their good rapport with each other and their laughter. Their community involvement is good, with great events and public service announcements. I love the good mix of music, old and new. They have good contests and giveaways. I even love that they sprinkle in holiday music at the right times, not too much but enough to keep in the spirit. They are still my favorite radio station - after all they are LOCAL to our Thurston county area. Now for the not so good: The news reports should lead with more LOCAL news, and then maybe a bit of the national. I guarantee we've heard enough of the shootings in Paris, or California through many other news reports, but there is so little on the LOCAL big sports, school, theater or music events, and so little coverage on the new events right here in Thurston county. Need to LEAD with LOCAL news. They also need to keep up their social media pages a bit more, many of us now turn to that for more information since they don't have to answer the phone which they are often too busy to do, but can update their pages with info. And now for the ugly: The traffic reports. This is why I tune in to Mixx 96, as my listening time is during my commute, most days. This is my highest priority in radio, thus the two stars in my review since this is my reason for listening. As I said, I've been part of their audience since they went on the air years ago and was lucky enough to be listening when they had the REAL Freeway Hero, who was on the ground, on the LOCAL roads and out there actually seeing our LOCAL traffic, accidents and road news right here in Thurston county. They had the BEST traffic reports back then, it was one of the reasons Mixx was so highly rated. (YOU remember, don't you?) Then the bad economy happened and they got rid of that LOCAL traffic program, and hired some city yahoos sitting up in Seattle (SEATTLE!) to look at cameras, (guess what guys, we can get the cameras on our own phones now, doesn't tell us much, we need a real report) and these Seattle guys try to guess what is going on in our county in less than a two minute broadcast. And of course, THEY DON'T! Almost 80% of the time the traffic reports are what is going on UP IN THE SEATTLE AREA! Whassisname leads with what's happening in Federal Way, or even worse, talks about some accident that is blocking Pacific and turns out nope, it's not our Pacific exit on I-5 in Lacey, here in our LOCAL area, it is some Pacific up in Tacoma close to Federal Way and nothing to do with us and now we're confused. I've listened every single day and almost every single day they might say one tiny thing about the Olympia area, at the END of the traffic report but they rarely get the info I need, which is the accident that just happened and is causing a backup that I need to know about so I can take a different route so I'm not late for work. Far too often the Seattle guys say nothing about our county, and I'm left wishing I had known to get off at the state capitol exit because now I'm sitting for half an hour because of an accident I didn't know about. Or they say our county roads are all fine, and I'm shaking my head because I'm sitting in a backup they obviously missed because they aren't LOCAL! Those Seattle guys don't even know we HAVE a State Capitol exit and our own Pacific exit. Don't get me wrong, it is fine to do a little bit of traffic up north or down south because yes, some people are driving that way and probably are interested, though they could switch to a Seattle station for that if they needed it and were traveling outside our county. But news flash! This is Thurston County, and the majority of people listening to OUR radio station here in Olympia want OUR LOCAL traffic to be right here in Thurston county. We want someone back on the road, driving around seeing what is going on, and yes, viewing the cameras HERE to see what they can't see from the Freeway Hero van, and yes, getting calls from local people to give you updates on side roads (ANSWER THE PHONE!) - but mostly we want OUR LOCAL commute info, which 80% of your listeners are LOCAL drivers and most of us listen to your station during our commute to get LOCAL traffic while we are trying to get to work. C'mon Mixx 96. The good economy is coming back and we want our Freeway Hero to return to the LOCAL streets and the Thurston county roads, and our LOCAL traffic reports back again as it used to be. I think some budget shifting needs to happen here. I'll be happy to update my review to a 5 stars,if that happens. Because the DJs and the rest of the broadcast deserves it. And because I'll still be listening, because this is my LOCAL radio station.

A much better station to listen to than Warm 106.9, in my opinion. Mixx 96.1's playlist is a lot…read moremore wider, and more variety. Songs by Mariah Carey, Phil Collins, etc. that Warm would never touch. The personalities are OK as well. I live a lot more north than I used to - so KXXO mixes with 96.1 out of Vancouver, BC (CHKG) which is mainly Asian programming. I used to listen to KXXO even out of their listening range (Bellevue) since they were less predictable than KRWM. Streaming is great!

I have always been a 'smooth jazz' fan, and I accidentally tuned in 102.9, and when my alarm went…read moreoff at 6:00am I thought OMG! That music if so good, and the DJ's voice was just as good as the music....and no constant interruptions! What a great way to start my day! I didn't get out of bed till the music stopped (it was actually the alarm that stopped, but I just turned it back on) Kudos for the great music choices, and its bye, bye 88.5! Katye

This station is great! Has a local South Sound feel and is based right out of Tacoma. It is family…read morefriendly. You will see the staff out in places like Shelton, Olympia, etc.

The Sound! This college radio station serves University of…read morePuget Sound in Tacoma Washington. I love listening to college stations, and they broadcast on TuneIn! I listen to it all the way in San Antonio, and love it! They're apt to follow a Bob Marley song with a synth pop song. They play grunge polka, flaccid jazz, retro fusion pop, and all the hits! They have award winning talk shows, all put on by students, and DJs who know their stuff. There are no commercials, since it's a community radio station. Instead they play public service announcements about how lobsters have feelings too! Super varied music, with funny weird DJs!

Great when on! Usually, off! However, this June past students time around classrooms someone, or…read moresomebodies, have upgraded the programming to mimic a real commercial radio station! If it had regular dependable hours, I would be overjoyed. See if this diverse programming lasts through the summer and into next fall and beyond. One day at a time is the best hope, or, more likely one hour at a time without deadtime.

Really don't like changes to the on-air content that started 3/9/26. Music is a bit different,…read moretoo. Listeners who may have missed any explanation that may have been given on the 9th deserve an explanation. Maybe post it on your Facebook page....