WRFI Community Radio

01/06/2026

Want to know what you're listening to with WRFI? Visit WRFI.org/program schedule for our current broadcast schedule, and scroll down for links to our locally hosted shows and syndicated programs.

Explore WRFI.org/localprograms to explore our 70+ locally hosted talk and music shows, and discover your favorites.

Tune in to local voices, free-form music, and independent media every day on your FREE community-run radio station WRFI Community Radio.

01/06/2026

Counterspin Media airs on WRFI Community Radio every Monday morning from 9-9:30am.

Find recent episodes at WRFI.org/archives, and tune in live at 88.1 FM Ithaca, 89.7 FM Southern Finger Lakes, and 91.9 FM Watkins Glen. News & Talk every morning from 6am-12pm, and music from 12pm to midnight.

JUST IN - CDC SHRINKS ROUTINE CHILDHOOD VACCINE SCHEDULE BY ~55 DOSES

The CDC just cut the ROUTINE childhood schedule from ~84–88 DOSES down to ~30. Here's what changed 👇

❌ REMOVED from “Routine for All Children”
• COVID
• Influenza
• Hep A
• Hep B (birth dose)
• Rotavirus
• Meningococcal (ACWY/B)
🔄 Reassigned to CDC categories:
• Shared clinical decision-making
• High-risk populations only

✅ These vaccines remain ROUTINE:
MMR, DTaP, Polio, Hib, Pneumococcal, Varicella
🔻 HPV reduced: 2 doses → 1

This is the largest rollback of ROUTINE childhood vaccination in U.S. history.

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-cdc-shrinks-routine-childhood

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01/06/2026

Support for WRFI comes from listeners, locally owned businesses, community events, and non-profits operating in our listening areas.

This January we want to extend our gratitude to our recent underwriters who have helped support the radio programming we bring you daily:
Ithaca Underground
Finger Lakes ReUse
South Hill Cider
Wide Awake Bakery
Contemporary Trends
Cornell Concert Series
The Cherry Arts
Resident Noise
Woodpepper Bread
Sustainable Finger Lakes

Learn about underwriting with WRFI Community Radio at WRFI.org/business-sponsors or reach out to [email protected] to learn more.
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Tune in at 88.1 FM Ithaca, 89.7 FM Southern Finger Lakes, 91.9 FM Watkins Glen, or stream at WRFI.org/Listen or with the Radio ReThink app (iOS only).

01/05/2026

Tune in to Thom Hartmann on WRFI Community Radio Tuesday-Friday mornings from 6-7am.

Listen at 88.1 FM Ithaca, 89.7 FM Southern Finger Lakes, 91.9 FM Watkins Glen, or tune in from anywhere with the Radio Rethink app (iOS only), or at WRFI.org/listen

A quiet USPS postmark change could turn “on time” ballots into “too late” ballots by the millions…

01/05/2026

Law and Disorder Radio airs on WRFI Community Radio Tuesday mornings from 9-10am.

Listen at 88.1 FM Ithaca, 89.7 FM Southern Finger Lakes, 91.9 FM Watkins Glen, or tune in from anywhere with the Radio Rethink app (iOS only), or at WRFI.org/listen

On Monday, January 5, 2026 and throughout next week co-hosts Heidi Boghosian and Stephen Rohde are joined by former legal counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Lisa Graves to discuss her explosive new book, Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights.

Hosts devote the entire show to learn more about Lisa's work as she breaks down how over the last 20 years, Roberts has turned the Supreme Court into the legal arm of the conservative wing of Republican Party reshaping constitutional law and gradually chipping away at hard-won civil rights and civil liberties.

The cohosts of Law and Disorder Radio

Please support Law and Disorder here. Your donations are very much appreciated
https://lawanddisorder.org/donate-to-law-and-disorder-radio/

01/05/2026

If you missed it, you can still listen to this week's The Joe Show on WRFI at WRFI.org/archives

All radio shows are available at the link above for two weeks after their first broadcast.

Every Sunday at 1 PM ET, The Joe Show goes on a musical exploration of a single theme.

This week, we begin 2026 with our first show of the year, so we thought it fitting that we play nothing but songs that were the first songs on their albums: our theme, is album OPENERS !

Tune in at 88.1 FM in Ithaca
and 89.7 FM across the Southern Finger Lakes!!
Or, stream the show live at

https://www.radiorethink.com/tuner/index.cfm?stationCode=wrfi&launchedFrom=secureStreamRedirect&ath=

So as we mark the start of another year of the Joe Show, we thank you for listening. Let’s rock our way into in 2026 together!!

01/02/2026

Tune in for the Laura Flanders & Friends airing on WRFI Community Radio Saturday mornings from 6:30am-7am weekly.

Find us at 88.1 FM Ithaca, 89.7 FM Southern Finger Lakes, 91.9 FM Watkins Glen. Listen anytime online at WRFI.org/Listen or with the Radio ReThink app (iOS devices only).

12/31/2025

We are WRFI. At least this generation of it.

As you ring in the new year, be it rowdy, relaxing, joyful, gentle, reflective, or pensive we hope our 365 days of broadcasting over 2025 is part of your own reflections on the year.

We've been with you at 88.1 FM Ithaca, 89.7 FM Southern Finger Lakes, 91.9 FM Watkins Glen every day of 2025 bringing you independent news, local conversations, and as much music as our hosts can discover in the deep recesses of the music libraries and their own memories.

As you reflect on the highs and lows of the year, we hope WRFI shines bright as a space that kept you informed, kept you connected to the community, and kept you inspired through the endless creative abundance of music.

12/31/2025

Listen to Alternative Radio Sundays from 7-8am on WRFI Community Radio, and find past episodes at wrfi.org/archives for at alternativeradio.org.

Explore all our Syndicated programs at https://www.wrfi.org/syndicated-programs/

Genocide is the most heinous of crimes and it connects to settler colonialism. Historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz says, “Settler colonialism requires genocidal violence to attain its goal” of acquiring land. In North America and elsewhere this meant the Indigenous population was targeted for mass mu...

12/30/2025

The Thom Hartmann Program airs on WRFI Community Radio weekday mornings Tuesday-Friday from 6-7am.

You can listen to us at 88.1 FM Ithaca, 89.7 FM Southern Finger Lakes, and 91.9 FM Watkins Glen, or stream from anywhere at WRFI.org/listen

From 50-year mortgages to paywalled car features, the rental economy is replacing ownership with lifelong monthly bills...

12/30/2025

Listen to Laura Flanders & Friends Saturday mornings from 6:30-7am.

You can listen to us at 88.1 FM Ithaca, 89.7 FM Southern Finger Lakes, and 91.9 FM Watkins Glen, or stream from anywhere at WRFI.org/listen

12/30/2025

You can listen to us at 88.1 FM Ithaca, 89.7 FM Southern Finger Lakes, and 91.9 FM Watkins Glen, or stream from anywhere at WRFI.org/listen

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
News organizations cannot function under corrupt corporate control, answering to billionaire bosses and politicians. When that happens, democracy dies, and dictators r...