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SFGate: Youth Radio: Off the Streets, Onto the Air

By Lauren Friedman
February 19, 2010

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Courting youth: The radio industry is going nuts, worrying that younger listeners have abandoned the medium and consider it Squaresville, while they do their music listening on digital players, cell phones and online.

Try telling that to the thousands of youngsters who’ve graduated from Youth Radio, or to the two guys who are in the organization’s lobby in downtown Oakland, hunched over their applications, hoping to get into its tuition-free program.

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