Ken Freedman is the Owner of Auricle Communications, overseeing all broadcast, development, financial, IT, and physical operations for WFMU 91.1 and WMFU 90. As President and Project Manager of Congera Public Benefit Corporation since February 2014, Freedman is developing the Audience Engine, an open-source platform designed to support community building, crowdfunding, and digital publishing for various content creators. Freedman has served as General Manager of WFMU since 1985 and held the position of Director at the National Federation of Community Broadcasters from December 2004 to June 2008, as well as Director at New Brunswick Scientific from May 2001 to May 2008. Freedman holds a Bachelor's degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan, earned between 1977 and 1982.
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WFMU-FM is a listener-supported, non-commercial radio station broadcasting at 91.1 Mhz FM in Jersey City, NJ, right across the Hudson from lower Manhattan. It is currently the longest running freeform radio station in the United States. The station also broadcasts to the Hudson Valley and Lower Catskills in New York, Western New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania via it's 90.1 signal at WXHD in Mount Hope, NY. The station maintains an extensive online presence at WFMU.ORG which includes live audio streaming in several formats, over 8 years of audio archives, podcasts and a popular blog. Rolling Stone Magazine, The Village Voice, CMJ and the New York Press have all at one time or another called WFMU "the best radio station in the country" and the station has also been the subject of feature stories in The New York Times and on the BBC. In recent years the station has gained a large international following due it's online operations and counts Simpson's creator Matt Groening, film director Jim Jarmusch and Velvet Underground founder Lou Reed, among others, as devoted fans of the station. WFMU's programming ranges from flat-out uncategorizable strangeness to rock and roll, experimental music, 78 RPM Records, jazz, psychedelia, hip-hop, electronica, hand-cranked wax cylinders, punk rock, gospel, exotica, R&B, radio improvisation, cooking instructions, classic radio airchecks, found sound, dopey call-in shows, interviews with obscure radio personalities and notable science-world luminaries, spoken word collages, Andrew Lloyd Webber soundtracks in languages other than English as well as Country and western music.
