C89.5

Great station for EDM! Sometimes they have other genres as well.

Hands down best station in all the land

I listen to 89.5 religiously. It’s the best in the area for my EDM fix which is never ending. I’ve literally been listening to this station for over a decade and I’ll keep supporting them and listening in to some of the newest hits and even throwbacks from the late 80s and 90s and my personal favorite the early 2000 hits. Tune in if you want to hear awesome music and feel free to donate/​support since these guys keep their lights on with donations. Long story short a great community based radio station.

C89.5 is my favorite radio station. I listen to it anytime I’m in the car and it’s the default station for anytime of day.
I love EDM, techno, rave, house and the 80’s which are played on Thursday mornings.
The high school students that run the station are learning their craft and sometimes there’s a hiccup in timing, speech or sound but this is part of their education. The morning show is terrible and the goofy hashtag contests they have could go away, but I don’t listen to the station for those things. I come for the music.
Sunday nights is the show where a lot of «out there» music is played and bands that are incredibly famous around the world except the US are played like VNV Nation and Covenant. We need more VNV played the rest of the week.
Don’t think something’s wrong with your radio or computer when you hear southern gospel choirs blasting on Sunday mornings. They play gospel a couple hours then. The rest of the time it’s all dance music.
I was part of a radio listening study for another station recently, and I kept choosing C89.5 for my answers.

I have listened to this channel since the early 90s, it been one of my favorites. I do have a couple small complaints.
1) high school kids– monotone, nasally, stuttering, when they comment about not knowing about things from 5 years ago, as if only important things occurred within their lifetime. I understand wanting to help out kids and learn, but keep the pro DJs and let them help out, like any other teenage position.
2) Seem to play Top 40 pop songs during peak hours, if you want any variety you’ll need to listen at odd hours, which is really too bad, cause most of its better than the day stuff. I’m not listening as much cause I’m getting tired of the same 10 songs on repeat.
3) Enough with the clinical trials for gay men. Seriously this is annoying and I have to change the channel.

My #1 Fav (commercial free) station since 1999. I love the remixes they play and the new music they introduce.…They were playing Lady Gaga in 2005 before anyone else. I love them and they love their listeners. The only slight draw back would be it gets a little repetitive but that is probably because I never change the channel.
I also love that they have Listener appreciation parties, support positive community initiatives and education.
The little station that could.

C89.5 is one of the reasons I moved to Seattle. Seriously.
I came here for on a business trip in June 2007, stayed for 2 weeks and fell in love with this city. I listened to C89.5 on my way to the office and checked out their website and was very impressed that a city in the US could support such a healthy EDM scene. Granted, I don’t always like everything they play on here, but I do notice that they premier tracks that sometimes don’t hit other cities for months (LA in particular).
It’s a community-​driven station, and it’s helping students discover their passions, and helping me jam out on my morning drive to work.

This has been my go-​to station for the last 7 or 8 years, and now I got the opportunity to help take pledges for the spring pledge drive!
If you feel like supporting an excellent edm station please call and pledge! Everything helps!

I often listen to these guys when driving around. I enjoy the music and little advertising. Sometimes I hear the same song over and over, but it is usually one I like so I can tolerate it.

Just take a moment and marvel at this station. It has been around since the 70’s and been a sonic landmark in Seattle ever since. The station is publicly funded meaning you don’t have to deal with silly commercials or annoying djs. Furthermore it’s home to one, if not the only, industrial music shows in the nation. The dj, Paul, has had this show for over 20 years! They have also broke some if the biggest names I’m pop music. Rihanna and Lady Gaga both did shows at the school long before anyone knew who they were. Pretty amazing for a high school radio station. Oh, did I mention that? Yep. A Seattle public high school. Support it. We are lucky to have it.

Good music mixes. I especially love it when they play classics on the weekdays.
I love that c89.5 plays new dance tracks before other stations. They are also listener supported!

One of the best stations. I don’t even live in Seattle, but stream it online. Great mix of music and awesome dj’s.

I enjoy their diverse music any time of the day. Great music to feel upbeat about, to perk up and just do whatever. I don’t like dubstep, but almost everything else I enjoy tuning into. Great staff of students holding it down like a boss for decades and hopefully more to come.

C89.5 is «Seattle’s Hottest Music.» It’s so hot I listen online from my new home in Portland, Ore.
Want to hear pop artists breaking through (as long as we’re talking urban/​CHR/​dance-​pop) months or even YEARS before they cross mainstream station playlists? This is the station for you. Oh yeah? No commercials, too.
C89.5 is a hybrid of high school student operators and a few dedicated volunteers. Some of my favorite highlights on the station are when Trent Von hosts Tuesday nights from 8 pm to midnight, they play a «90s flashback» replay of a Drive @ 5 from the decade. On Thursdays, Trent is back from 7 – 9 am with «Save the Wave,» which seems to be the only source of 80s alternative music left in Seattle.
Oh yeah, they’re a public station that gets no funding from the school district beyond having «Mr. D» teach and occasionally run the Drive @ 5 and Noon Workout mixes, so won’t you consider giving them a call at fall or spring pledge drive?
The station also plays gospel music on Sunday mornings from 6 am to 2 pm, which is a bit odd to me, but I’m sure it also helps pay the bills. The part I do like about this is the station provides the only source (as far as I know) of gospel/​African-​American influenced music in the city. While Seattle has smaller minority populations, I’m glad a station gives them a voice.

While it’s better than a lot of the options, I’m just not a fan of the majority of the pop music during the day. I can understand why some people like it and I can even understand why they play it, but it’s a lot of bubblegum dance pop to me.
Then at night when the format changes to a DJ oriented one the station becomes great. No more playlisted tracks. Just DJs mixing solid music with shows that span various genres. Now that’s something I can really get behind, even if the day programing leaves me feeling bored with the station.

One of my favorite radio stations in Seattle. The dance music radio format is interesting. It is kind of the station to tune into before songs become mainstream hits. For instance, Lady Gaga was played on C89.5 before she hit it big. There is an interesting mix of songs here. While you might hear a song daily, it does not become repetitive like KISS and the Top 40 format.
Other things going for C89.5 are that it is a listener supported station, there are hardly any commercials and the music playlist is diverse. There are several programs that run during the evenings focused on certain genres like the Wednesday night trance show.
Interestingly there is gospel music on Sunday mornings which kind of does not mix, but I get it is a community station that is student run. And sometimes that word «student» comes to mind. Specifically when the occasional news report segment comes up. It comes off as amateurish when the reporters stumble with their words while Seattle listens. But cut the person reporting some slack because it is for classroom learning.
Being a student run station, C89.5 is impressive with its great music selection and for the most part competes well with the other stations on the dial trying to gain my attention.

Hands down, the best dance station in the US. If you live around or are visitng Seattle, tune your radio to 89.5 FM and get ready for some great music! You can also catch the station streaming on the web, so you can listen to it wherever in the world you may be.
An awesome student-​run radio station, you’ve gotta check it out. You’ll be dancing away to their catchy music for a long time.

I am f**king addicted. ADDICTED.
It’s one of those gems you find when you move to a new city. You start exploring the city, doing as the locals do, and of course, browse the dial. I used to be a radio dj during college, so I am naturally gravitated to the left side of the dial.
c89.5 is run by high school students, which gains a lot of respect from me.
I have since moved away from Seattle, but still listen via the internet. Their forums are great, I wish I made it to the LAP!

How many times will they play lady ga ga ga ga ga ga ga ga ga ga ga ga ga ga ga ga ga ga ga ga ga ga
I am still ga-​ga over you c-89.keep the music playing

Say what you want about me… I dig dance music. It’s always happy, and almost always about love or going to a party, and who can’t get behind that?
A little known fact for those of you that are scoffing right now… but thanks to it’s webcast, this local high school radio station was voted the best dance music station in New York city!
Suck it, dance on it, and then spew out a pile of love all over the sky!
You heard me.