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​BLUEGRASS & OLD TIME MUSIC RADIO STATIONS & PROGRAMS

This list is based on the recommendations of other listeners as well as my own listening experiences.
I'll add additional suggestions sent to <bgsignal@comcast.net>.
Please note that some programming is not be available because of station closures in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
 
11 STATIONS with multiple bluegrass and old time programs

Bluegrass Country - https://bluegrasscountry.org
Bell Buckle Radio - https://live365.com/station/Bell-Buckle-Radio-a26730
The Bluegrass Jamboree - https://thebluegrassjamboree.com
Bluegrass Junction on SiriusXm - https://www.siriusxm.com/bluegrassjunction
WNCW - https://www.wncw.org
WBCN - https://www.birthplaceofcountrymusic.org/radio
WDVX - https://wdvx.com
WPAQ - https://www.wpaq740.com
WNRV - http://www.wnrvbluegrassradio.com
WBZI - https://realrootsradio.com
WMMT - https://www.wmmt.org


78 bluegrass and/or old time (and related) radio PROGRAMS. NOTE: all times are local. 

Amarillo Highway with Richard “Professor Purple” Howard
Tue: 9 am; KZMU (Moab, UT) - https://www.kzmu.org

America's Back 40 with Mary Tilson
Sun: 1 pm; KPFA (Berkeley, CA) - http://www.kpfa.org

American Anecdotes with Paul Peck
Thur: 6 pm; KAOS (Olympia, WA) - https://www.kaosradio.org

Americana Backroads with Rik James
Sat: 9 am; KGLT (Bozeman, MT) - http://www.kglt.net

An American Sampler with Ken Batista
Sun: 5 pm; WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA) - http://wyep.org

The Back Porch with Al Kniola & Norm Mast
Sun: 7 pm; WVPE (Elkhart, IN) - https://www.wvpe.org

Back To the Country with Bill Malone
Wed: 9 am; WORT (Madison, WI) - https://www.wortfm.org

Back Up and Push with Annette Kastner
Mon: 4 pm; WTJU (Charlottesville, VA) - https://www.wtju.net

Backroads with Chris Jong or Jeff Emery
Sun: noon; KZSC (Santa Cruz, CA) - http://www.kzsc.org 

Backroads Bluegrass & Beyond with Todd Tyson
Sun: 7 pm; WFVR (South Royalton, VT) - http://www.royaltonradio.org

Banjo Signal with Trudy Heffernan
alternate Wed: 8 pm; KUAC (Fairbanks, AK) - https://fm.kuac.org

Best Of Bluegrass with Bob Mitchell
Sun: 7 am; WIUP (Louisville, KY) - http://www.wiupfm.org
Sun: 9 pm: WFPK (Louisville, KY) - https://wfpk.org

Best of Bluegrass with Trevor Ruffell
Tue: 3 pm; Radio Kidnappers (Hastings, NZ) - https://www.radiokidnappers.org.nz

Blue Grass Time with Buddy Merriman
Wed: 6 pm; WUSB (Stony Brook, NY) - https://www.wusb.fm

Bluegrass and Beyond with Veta Gumber
Tue: 4 pm; KAFM (Grand Junction, CO) - https://kafmradio.org

Bluegrass & Old Time Music Hour with Mark Hogan
Mon: 7 pm; KOWS (Occidental, CA) - http://kows107-3.org 

Bluegrass Borderline with Michelle Lee
Sun: noon; WOBL (Oberlin, OH) - https://woblradio.com

Bluegrass Breakdown with Becky Johnson
Wed: 2 pm; WCOM (Carrboro, NC) - https://wcomfm.org

Bluegrass Breakdown with Walter & Willa Volz
Sun: noon; KDHX (St. Louis, MO) - https://kdhx.org
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Bluegrass Café with Amy Orlomoski
Sun: 4 pm; WHUS (Storrs, CT) - https://whus.org

The Bluegrass Horizon with Mike Wuerstle        
Mon: 7 pm; WDVR (Sergeantsville, NJ) - https://www.wdvrvolunteers.org

Bluegrass Jam Session with Bruce Mountjoy
Sun: 8 pm; WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA) - http://wyep.org

The Bluegrass Hour with Edgar Duguay
Sat: 10 am; CHRQ (Listuguj, Quebec) - https://chrq1069.com/

Bluegrass Junction with Tom Banyai    
Tue: 7 pm; WICN (Worcester, MA) - https://www.wicn.org

Bluegrass Ramble with Bill Knowlton
Sun: 9 pm; WCNY (Syracuse, NY) - http://www.wcny.org

Bluegrass Ramble with Various
Sun: noon; KBCS (Bellevue, WA) - https://www.kbcs.fm

Bluegrass Ramble with Various
Sat: 8 pm; WOSU (Columbus, OH) - https://radio.wosu.org

Bluegrass Review with Frank A. Pearsall
Sun: 3 pm; WSQL (Brevard, NC) - http://wsqlradio.info

Bluegrass Saturday with Various
Sat: noon; WXPR (Rhinelander, WI) - https://www.wxpr.org

Bluegrass Saturday Morning with Phil Nusbaum
Sat: 7 am; KBEM (Minneapolis, MN) - http://www.jazz88.fm

Bluegrass Signal with Peter Thompson
Sat: 6:30 pm; KALW (San Francisco, CA) - http://kalw.org
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Bluegrass Time with Nick Barr
Sat: 10:00 pm; WAMC (Albany, NY) - https://www.wamc.org

Bronzewound with Various
Thur: 8 pm; WERU (Blue Hill, ME) - https://weru.org

Coast Ridge Ramble with Rachel Goodman
Sun: 1 pm; KSQD (Santa Cruz, CA) - https://ksqd.org

County Line Bluegrass with Eric Rice
Sat: 10 am; KVMR (Nevada City, CA) - http://www.kvmr.org

D-28+5 with Various
Sun: 1 pm; WOUB (Athens, OH) - https://woub.org

Daybreak In Dixie with David Blakney
Sun: 8 am; CJAM (Windsor, ON) - http://www.cjam.ca

Down Home Bluegrass with Various
Sat: 8 pm; WYSO (Yellow Springs, OH) - https://www.wyso.org

Down Home Harmonies with Marty Scarbrough
Sun: noon; KASU (Jonesboro, AR) - https://www.kasu.org

Down Yonder with Keith Dudding    
Sat: 11 am; KDHX (St. Louis, MO) - https://kdhx.org

Fire on the Mountain with Carl Goldstein
Sat: 10 am; WVUD (Newark, DE) - http://www.wvud.org

Hardly Strictly with Fred Frawley
Thur: 8:30 am; WMPG (Portland, ME) - https://www.wmpg.org

In the Pines with Various
Sun: 2:30 pm; CFRO (Vancouver, BC) - https://www.coopradio.org

Into the Blue with Terry Herd
syndicated: http://www.bluegrassradio.com/index.html

The Iron Skillet with Joseph Hnilo
Sat: noon; KZSU (Stanford, CA) - http://kzsu.stanford.edu

Ken Till Ten with Ken Cartwright
M-F: 6 am; KYAC (Mill City, OR) - https://www.kyacfm.org

Knee-Deep In Bluegrass with Cindy Baucom
syndicated: https://kneedeepinbluegrass.com

Miles of Bluegrass with Ramblin’ Robert Paslay
Mon: 7 pm; KRVM (Eugene, OR) - https://krvm.org

Monday Night Bluegrass with Various

Mon: 6 pm; KKUP (Cupertino, CA) - http://www.kkup.com

Monticello Maine with Stu Fleischhaker 
Fri: 7 pm, Sat: 6 pm, Sun: noon; WBCQ (Monticello, ME) - http://www.wbcq.com via KIXX (West Lebanon, NH) - http://www.kixx.com

Music For the Mountain Bluegrass with Jon “Chip” Colcord 
syndicated - http://www.musicforthemountain.com

Music From the True Vine with Various
Sat: 9 am; KBOO (Portland, OR) - https://kboo.fm

Music You Can’t Hear On the Radio with John Weingart
Sun: 7 pm; WPRB (Princeton, NJ) - http://wprb.com

My Own House with Sharon Wiggins
Sun: 9 am; WRFG (Atlanta, GA) - https://wrfg.org

Nevada City Limits with Dennis Brunnenmeyer 
Mon: 10 am; KVMR (Nevada City, CA) - http://www.kvmr.org

Old Grass Gnu Grass with Various 
Sat: 9 am; KGNU (Boulder, CO) - https://www.kgnu.org

Old Time Music Hour with Bill Smedley
available on demand: https://padlet.com/newtchaser/OTMH

Orange Blossom Special with Trish "the Dish” Seeberg
Wed: 8 am; KBUT (Crested Butte, CO) - https://kbut.org 

Pacific Pickin’ with Arthur & Andrea Berman
Tue: 6 am; CiTR (Vancouver, BC) - https://www.citr.ca

Panhandle Country with Tom Diamant
Sun: 3 pm; KPFA (Berkeley, CA) - http://www.kpfa.org

Pig in a Pen with Ray Edlund
Sun: 3 pm; KPFA (Berkeley, CA) - http://www.kpfa.org

Rezbilly Breakdown with Stephanie & Patrick Dressen 
Tue: 6:30 pm; KDUR (Durango, CO) - https://www.kdur.org

Rise When the Rooster Crows with Amy Luncan
Sun: 6 am; WYSO (Yellow Springs, OH) - https://www.wyso.org
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Rocky Mountain Breakdown with Andrea Bradstreet
KFRC (Ft. Collins, CO) - https://www.krfcfm.org

Rocky Mt. Bluegrass with Jerry Mills    
Sun: 10 am; KRAN (Warren AFB, WY) - http://1033therange.com

Runs On Grassoline with Leigh Hill & Paul Hein
Sat: 2 pm; KSQD (Santa Cruz, CA) - https://ksqd.org

Rural Free Delivery with John Lupton & George Mercer
Sat: noon; WVUD (Newark, DE) - http://www.wvud.org

Sally Goodin with ​Jennifer Kitchen
Mon: 10 am; KFJC (Los Altos, CA) - http://www.kfjc.org

Salt Creek with Various
Sun: 6 am; WVBR (Ithaca, NY) - https://www.wvbr.com

Shorty's Bunkhouse with Lil' Shorty 
Thur: 6:30 pm; KWMR (Point Reyes, CA) - http://www.kwmr.org
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Smokin’ Bluegrass with Jim Marino
Sat: noon; CFMU (Hamilton, ON) - https://cfmu.ca

Strictly Bluegrass with Various 
Sun: 10 am; KOOP (Austin, TX) - https://www.koop.org

String Fever with Barb Heller
Thur: 3 pm; NCPR (Canton, NY) - https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org

Studio B with Luke Church
Sun: 2 pm; WVTF (Roanoke, VA) - https://www.wvtf.org

That's Not Bluegrass with Sarah Bellum
Tue: 1 pm; KZSU (Stanford, CA) - http://kzsu.stanford.edu

The I, The IV, and The V with Greg Priddy
Sat: 9 pm; WJCU (Cleveland, OH) - http://www.wjcu.org

UH Radio Bluegrass with Brian Burness    
Sat: 9 am; WWUH (West Hartford, CT) - http://www.wwuh.org

Whiskey Before Breakfast with Richard Gordon
Wed: 11 am; WRCT (Pittsburgh, PA) - http://www.wrct.org
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