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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Fractured Appalachia 
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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Making Connections 
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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The ACA Explained 
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

Power + Plan for Appalachian Renewal
From: WMMT
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The calls to bring new investment to a region that has contributed so much to the nation’s security and prosperity have been heard. To help Central...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2016
  • Length: 13:19
Rural Up! Code Academy – Intro to Tech Careers
From: WMMT
Series: Making Connections
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Most folks agree that rural Appalachia needs high speed, broadband internet to create a new economy in the region. But if such a network is built, ...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2016
  • Length: 04:27
Scott County Telephone Cooperative
From: WMMT
Series: Making Connections
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Across the country, rural areas are either enjoying broadband internet access or trying hard to get it. Often that involves waiting for one of the ...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2016
  • Length: 11:32
Williamson Solar Event
From: WMMT
Series: Making Connections
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Williamson, West Virginia proudly bills itself as “the heart of the billion-dollar coalfield,” so it’s perhaps an unusual place to find an alternat...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 09, 2016
  • Length: 07:14
  • Purchases: 1
The Avian Aqua Miser: An Automatic Chicken Waterer
From: WMMT
Series: Making Connections
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By Rich Kirby -- A portrait of Mark Hamilton and Anna Hess, farmers in Scott County, Virginia, who have used the internet to create a thriving mark...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2016
  • Length: 05:32
A Community Comes Together to Fight Acid Mine Drainage in WV
From: WMMT
Caption: Mike King of the Morris Creek Watershed Association working on a homemade treatment system for Acid Mine Drainage, responsible for the orange muck polluting Morris Creek
Residents near Montgomery, WV take it upon themselves to figure out how to treat the Acid Mine Drainage that for decades had polluted the creek alo...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 12:45
From a Crumbling Coal Tipple to an Outdoor Classroom in Lee County, Va.
From: WMMT
Caption: Carol Doss and Bruce Miles plant a tree at the Stone Creek Outdoor Classroom near St. Charles, Va.
In the mountains of southwest Virginia, a broad coalition of individuals & organizations came together to transform a falling-apart coal tipple com...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 12:28
  • Purchases: 1
Preserving Water Quality and Empowering Students at Wetlands Estonoa
From: WMMT
Caption: Terry Vencil, teacher at Castlewood HS (Va.) who helps oversee the Wetlands Estonoa Learning Center
A student-driven project in the coalfields of southwest Virginia maintains and learns from a functioning wetland, helping maintain the unique biodi...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 09:33
12 - Care for Immigrants (Spanish)
From: WMMT
Series: The ACA Explained
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A 30-second PSA, recorded in Spanish, that outlines very briefly how the Affordable Care Act affects immigrant care.

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Aug 29, 2013
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
11- Native American Care (Spanish)
From: WMMT
Series: The ACA Explained
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A 30-second PSA, recorded in Spanish, briefly explaining some of the changes the Affordable Care Act will have on Native American health care.

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Aug 29, 2013
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1

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Mimi Pickering (Admin)
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Tea Wimer (Admin)
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