RadiOpio Program Director Laura Civitello has the enviable job of running a youth radio station on the Hawaiian Island of Maui. From an upstairs perch at the beach side Pa’ ia Youth and Cultural Center, Civitello manages KOPO-LP, whose on-air hosts range in age from 9 to 19 years old. On this week’s show, Civitello tells the story of how RadiOpio came to be and talks about the unique role that this LPFM station is playing for young people in the town of Pa’ia.

Show Notes

• RadiOpio website
• Pa’ia Youth and Cultural Center
• best-little-radio-stations-in-the-us.html">The 40 Best Little Radio Stations in the U.S. (Paste Magazine)
• Radio Station Tours on Radio Survivor
• Mahalo to Mana’o Radio, Maui’s Community Radio Station
• Mana’o Radio website
• KOKO-LP
• KAKU-FM
• Free Speech Radio News Documentary – On Being Hawaiian and Homeless

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