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November 29, 2021 8:59 AM

Radio Indígena is an Oxnard radio station whose target audience is central California farm workers. It broadcasts news, commentary, and live DJs for 40 hours a week, currently in Spanish and at least nine Mexican languages (Mixtec, Zapotec, and Purépecha). Evenings and weekends feature curated, diverse music playlists. You can listen to it in a web browser, using a phone app, and at 94.1 MHz FM in the Central Valley. Their COVID reporting, in particular, has received some some English language press.
posted by eotvos (5 comments total)

After posting, I immediately realized that calling Oxnard "central valley" is probably wrong and at the very least debatable. Sorry. My knowledge of California geography is decaying.
posted by eotvos at 9:23 AM on November 29, 2021 [1 favorite]

Central? Sorta. Valley? No. But there's a lot of agriculture around Oxnard, both along the coast and back into the Santa Paula Valley.
posted by LionIndex at 9:27 AM on November 29, 2021 [1 favorite]

> After posting, I immediately realized that calling Oxnard "central valley" is probably wrong and at the very least debatable. Sorry. My knowledge of California geography is decaying.

Good catch, definitely not central valley, it's in the Oxnard Plain, which most people would just call "over by Ventura". The Transverse Ranges to the north separate it from the Central/San Joaquin Valley and mean this signal won't reach Bakersfield (where it would be drowned out by Hot 94.1 playing Top 40 anyways)
posted by JauntyFedora at 9:28 AM on November 29, 2021 [2 favorites]

Thanks for this from someone who grew up in nearby Ventura.
posted by johngoren at 1:18 PM on November 29, 2021

Oh yes there is La Campesina over here, ( Bakersfield, Central Valley) and The Forge doings of The Chavez foundation.
posted by Oyéah at 3:21 PM on November 29, 2021 [2 favorites]