Coyote Radio offers a unique, exciting, and successful format: Local Music of the Inland Empire. We love our local artists and apparently so do our listeners. Coyote Radio listenership currently tops 16,000 monthly listeners!
Local Content
In 2009 MTV ranked Coyote Radio as the best interest college station in America and the third best of all stations. The station’s mix of music includes Southern California’s greatest unsigned and independent new musical artists, such as: Lakin, Kunceal, The VP, Daise, Reyna Roberts, and AG. No other station in California is currently offering a totally local band format like this. We are, and we LOVE it!
Audience
The music of Southern California and the message of CSUSB and Coyote Radio is carried on KVCR/PBS Channel 24 with the program Musicology and to the entire campus audience via the CSUSB/Coyote Radio website and to millions of other listeners due to Coyote Radio’s listing as an official iTunes-recommended college station. Coyote Radio is heard 24 hours a day.
Educational Emphasis
Coyote Radio serves as one of the West Coast’s most respected broadcast media learning laboratories. As of 2019, Coyote Radio’s staff has served as consultants for institutions such as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, NPR, PBS, the University of La Verne in La Verne, CA, Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, California State University, Los Angeles, and the Latino Public Radio Consortium. Coyote Radio is a professional setting that offers students real-world experience in programming, marketing, promotions, administrative and digital production skills. Coyote Radio has also placed students into paid broadcast and media careers at organizations such as Disney, CBS, Anaheim Broadcasting Corporation, MTV, The America First Radio Network, Clear Channel Communications, PBS, and Nickelodeon.