It was 2 years ago on Thanksgiving, that the First Lady of Phoenix Rock Radio passed away. Her name was Nina Joy and her name reverberates into a smile for those that knew her and listened to her on the radio in the 70’s. RFP  invites you to join us for a special encore presentation of Our Tribute to Nina, this Saturday at November 18th at  5pm (AZ/Mountain time) and Sunday, November 19th at 12 noon

She came from Vermont and got her start in Arizona radio on KWFM in Tucson – a year later she was hired by Bill Compton and joined the staff of the underground KDKB. Her name was Nina Joy, Arizona’s celebrated first lady on FM radio. As one of the early female rock radio air talents, her distinctive style quickly garnered her a faithful following and earned her the status of “radio legend”.

Nina passed away in late November 2016 and we here at Radio Free Phoenix wish to honor her this weekend with a musical tribute to her life along with reflections from many of those that worked with Nina.

Nina will be fondly remembered by many of those that knew and worked with her including Janie Snyder (of KWFM), Scott Niccolson (KDKB’s evening DJ) Ted Stratton (KDKB news guy), Mark Mykanen (KDKB news director), Steve Zind (KCAC, KDKB & KWFM), Barry Everitt (KDKB morning host era 1976), Johnny D, Bob Boze Bell, Lee Powell, Hans Olson, Marty Manning, Jack Alves and many others. Join RFP for this moving tribute to the memory of Nina Joy as hosted by Andy Olson.

It’s a celebration of the life of Nina Joy this Saturday, January 30th at 5pm & an encore presentation Sunday, January 31st at 3pm Arizona Time on Radio Free Phoenix.

Listen to  “TRIBUTE TO NINA JOY” Below

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Just Nina...

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Nina & Herbie Hancock share a birthday!

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A Nina fan created this drawing with her hair made of text..

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This is the text in the picture of Nina

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Nina Joy - Radio Days

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Nina Joy Radio Poster!

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The cover of the Razz Revue with Nina Joy!

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Razz Revue story on Nina

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Just Nina Joy + Freedom

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Close up of fan art with Nina Joy's nickname - Ruby In The Dust

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Ruby In The Red Fan Art

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Fan art given to Nina from a fan!

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National Lampoon ad for KDKB with Nina Joy

 A note from Nina’s sister, Laura……

Join us for the 27th edition of “A Rock ‘N’ Roll Christmas” on Radio Free Phoenix! From 6:00 p.m. Christmas Eve through Christmas day at midnight. (Arizona time). Listen in for an incredible deep and outrageous mix of Rock N Roll Christmas tunes hosted by Andy Olson. This is the only show in the country that gathers together such an absolutely cool mix of Christmas Rock & Roll — Featuring Xmas Rock with an attitude along with a generous helping of parody & novelty holiday tunes. Since 1988 this show has been gracing the Phoenix Airwaves, first on KSLX, then KDKB, KZON and then back to KSLX and now on Radio Free Phoenix!

We have so  many great new Rock Christmas tunes in the mix this year along with old favorites from:

Jackson Browne – U2 – Adam Sandler – Greg Lake – Eagles – Pretenders – Dan Hicks – Sting – Jimi Hendrix – Smithereens – Blues Traveler – George Thorogood – Cheech & Chong – John Mellencamp – Old 97’s – Fountains of Wayne –  Big Star – Ramones – George Harrison – Dave Edmunds – Billy Squire – Band Aid – Graham Parker –  Heart – Payolas – Cheap Trick – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – XTC – John Lennon – Waitresses –  Jethro Tull – REM – Ringo Starr – Kinks – DB’s – Paul McCartney – Bruce Springsteen – NRBQ – T Rex – Adrian Belew – Weird Al Yankovic – Squirrel Nut Zippers – Ramones – Bob Rivers – Shawn Phillips – Crash Test Dummies – Slade – Elton Duck –  Leon Redbone – Tom Waits – Peter Murphy – Alice Cooper – Bobby Lloyd & The Skeletons – Mojo Nixon – Doug & The Slugs – Bruce Cockburn – Smoking Popes – Talking Meds – Andrew Gold – Keb’ Mo – Riders In The Sky – The Band – Aimee Mann & Michael Penn – Loudon Wainwright III – Smithereens – Andrew Gold – Band Aid – Fab Four – Brian Wilson – Blondie – Joan Jett – Brian Setzer – Chuck Berry – She & Him – Sex Pistols – Donovan – Shins – John Prine – Keith Richards – Billy Squire – Guster – Slade – Yello – Payolas – Roy Wood & Wizzard – Graham Parker – Dave Matthews – Flaming Lips – Jorma Kaukonen – and many more!

This is a truly  unique show unlike any other on AM/FM station nor the internet. A Rock “N” Roll Christmas has stood the test of time!

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We are proud to announce the BRAND NEW Radio Free Phoenix T-Shirt  featuring our Facebook logo as designed by artist, Amy Reynolds. This  is a limited pressing – Get yours today!  This colorful shirt represents all that is RFP! These excellent shirts were are provided and pressed by David Ogonowski of DogHouse Graphics. Order the new shirt HERE!

Plus you can still get the RFP Classic T-Shirt in all sizes available now. The Classic shirt design was created by artist Brian Brooks!

Show off your RFP and pick up the Classic RFP T-Shirt HERE! Click here to buy

(Each shirt is $18.00 plus $4.50 shipping)

National School Lunch Week was initiated in 1962 by then President John F. Kennedy. National School Lunch Week, abbreviated as NSLW, serves as a week long commemorative to appreciate and initiate a positive school lunch experience, town by city, county by county, and state by state.

National School Week runs for a school week every October, with this week running from the 12-16^th.

However,this week just reminds, schools, parents, educators, and students to take any week to reflect and embrace positive eating habits in the school lunch room setting. We had the opportunity to speak with Carol Weekly,RD, SNS Director of Child Nutrition Queen Creek Unified School District #95.

She spoke greatly into turning AZ School lunch room into a positive and healthy atmosphere.

Arizona represents over 53,000 individuals who are helping keep a positive commitment to child nutrition.

Mission statement from this years School Nutrition Association from School Nutriotion.org:

“The NSLW 2015 theme is “School Lunch Snapshot” It’s about sharing the best, real images of today’s school lunch—fresh fruits and veggies, whole grains, milk, and smiling students. It provides a great opportunity for School Nutrition Members to capitalize on using social media to promote your program to parents and students, too!”-

Story Produced and edited by Michael Thomas, Jr.

Music Used in Clip- ”Drive” by Oh Wonder

Radio Free Phoenix urgently needs a cash infusion to stay on the air. Our 2015 RFP Radiothon is running now through Monday. We are asking for your donations  so we can continue our mission of preserving this great music and sharing it with the world (while remaining commercial-free).  Please Donate HERE

* Radio Free Phoenix presents great music from the entire era of Rock N Roll with musical knowledgeable DJ’s along with many great specialty features and shows like Banned Rock Roll with Andy Olson, What You Need To Know with Michael Thomas Jr,  The Ripsnort Radio Hour with Jim Bachman, The Grateful Deep Hour with David Gans, Zappa Universe with Tom Tuerff , Acoustic Cafe with Rob Reinhart,  The Pirate Years with Paul Peters and many more.

* Help us stay commercial-free.  We will never sell-out by bombarding our listeners with 9-10 minute blocks of obnoxious commercials.

* Because our entire staff works on a volunteer basis, we have a very low overhead.  However, listeners must donate to cover the essentials such as server fees, music fees, electric bill, office rent, etc. Our only source of income is through CD & T-Shirt sales on-site and listener donations.

* Listeners can donate on a one time basis or with a 6 month subscription plan (such as $20, $40, $60,  $80 or $100 per month for six months). Every dollar raised goes to pay our basic operating expenses.

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You can can also send your donations to Radio Free Phoenix  591 S. Fourth St Globe, AZ 85501

Help preserve one of the last GREAT underground rock radio stations in the country!

Every Tuesday night at 8pm (AZ time) join Liz Boyle on RFP for 80’s Kickback – an entire hour of New Wave music from the 80’s – The kind of songs that were guaranteed regular airplay on early MTV and caused radio programmers to start watching MTV to see what videos were being played. These stations, worried about losing their listeners to MTV, added a lot of this music to their playlists. causing so many new artists and bands to be exposed to the masses – It was a great time for music!

Join us in welcoming Ken Michaels and his great Beatles show “Every Little Thing” to Radio Free Phoenix. Ken has been doing a Beatles specialty show in one form or another since 1982 when he launched The All-Request Beatles Show” This show ran on New Jersey rock station WDHA-FM  for 10 consecutive years (1983-1993). He joined XM Radio in 2003 and re-christened the show as “Every Little Thing.”

This program features an entirely fresh look at the Beatles, covering the four musicians’ complete catalog (group and solo) right up to their newest releases. His show debuts on RFP this Friday night at 8pm (Arizona Time) Also, check out his website HERE for more info and see his collection of great pics featuring genuine Beatles and the extended Beatles family and artists.

Join RFP Presents  every Saturday evening at 5 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m.  (Arizona Time) for a mixture of special programming featuring Music & Interview Specials from local and national acts along with our guest DJ show “Radio Freedom”  where you get to play 15 songs you’d like to hear on the radio. To be a Guest DJ, just send an email to freedom@radiofreephoenix.com along with your song list and why you’d like to be on the program. Those that are picked to be on Radio Freedom, can come down to the station and record the show.  A great opportunity to bring out the DJ in you! Check out the music list of those that have already done the show HERE

Starting this Monday on Radio Free Phoenix join us for “What You Need To Know” as hosted by Michael Thomas Jr.  Each day he will bring an amazing and interesting story about something in the news you might have missed. This will run four times a day at 1a & 1p and 7a & 7p on RFP with a best of mix throughout the weekend.

Michael is the newest staff member of RFP and earned a B.A. in  Broadcast Journalism from Columbia College Chicago. He’s a twenty-something year old from Chicago’s Northwest Side (Go Cub’s!) and grew up listening to oldies with greats such as Larry Lujack, Herb Kent, and Dick Biondi. Michael is a News Junkie, Cinephile, Audiophile and Sports Fanatic. He’s also a Vinyl Junkie who loves playing music on his vintage console and an all around ”old soul” who loves all things vintage, like mid-century audio, watching old foreign, silent, and independent films and is a big Frank Sinatra fan too! Michael is new to Arizona having moved to Scottsdale from Chicago in January 2015.

I guess you can call him the RFP News Guy. In addition to “What You Need To Know” he is also putting together the new Radio Free Phoenix Concert Calendar which starting Monday, will be heard 7 days a week on RFP!

Listen to the What You Need To Know Archives HERE