Rustbelt Radio

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".^[1][2]

Rustbelt Radio

Genre	News, Current affairs
Running time	1 hour
Home station	WRCT 88.3FM Pittsburgh
Syndicates	WPTS-FM, WDUQ-LP, WNJR, WIUP-FM, WKCO-FM, WOBC-FM
Produced by	Pittsburgh Indymedia collective members
Original release	May 2004 – present
No. of episodes	150+
Website	http://radio.indypgh.org
Podcast	Rustbelt Radio

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.

References

1. Staggenborg, Suzanne (2020-10-15). Grassroots Environmentalism. Cambridge University Press. p. 94. ISBN 978-1-108-47848-9. He later heard about a Marcellus Protest general assembly after listening to Rustbelt Radio, the local Indymedia station.
2. O'Baoill, Andrew (2009). Broadcasting in an On-Demand World Creating Community Radio in the Era of Podcasting and Webcasting (Thesis). OCLC 740441737. ProQuest 304897886. 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.

Further reading

• Daley-Maurer, Lauren (24 July 2013). "Rusted Out: Rustbelt Radio goes off the air". Pittsburgh City Paper.
• Daley-Maurer, Lauren (9 January 2013). "On the Record with Rustbelt Radio reporter Don Carpenter". Pittsburgh City Paper.
• "Pittsburgh Indymedia's Rustbelt Radio expands to weekly schedule and is picked up by a second station in West Virginia" (PDF) (Press release). Pittsburgh Independent Media Center.