Mission

WHYS-FM is an independent, progressive, community radio station broadcasting music, culture, news, and information programming for the Eau Claire, Wisconsin area. WHYS is a volunteer-operated, non-commercial radio station financed by listener, donor, and non-profit grant support.

WHYS provides space for the representation of progressive voices, issues, and perspectives largely ignored, misrepresented, marginalized, and denigrated by mainstream commercial and non-commercial media, while seeking to foster values of human emancipation, substantive democracy, social and economic justice, global peace, ecological sustainability, and respect as well as appreciation for human and natural diversity.

WHYS seeks to help contribute toward overcoming inequalities along lines of class, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexuality, age, and mental and physical (dis)ability, as well as between human culture and the natural world. WHYS will promote local and regional music, cultural events, and issues affecting residents to help reclaim a sense of community. WHYS further strives to help empower Eau Claire area citizens in seeking media reform by challenging, critiquing, and demanding accountability from media controlled by corporate interests as well as by enabling these same people to become active participants rather than passive spectators in shaping the content, form, and purpose of media.