They say "don't change horses mid-stream."

Well, WOWD isn't changing horses, but we are changing streams. Our internet stream, that is. It's now being provided by a third party, which specializes in that sort of thing!

If you access WOWD online through the PLAY button on our website, or through TuneIn, the switch to the new stream is automatic. But if you have saved our old streaming URL to a media player on your computer, you'll need to change it. The new stream URL is https://wowd.broadcasttool.stream/stream.

We thank David Klann of Broadcast Tool & Die and our own IT engineer Matt Toigo for facilitating the change.

WOWD celebrates and practices diversity in its programmers and its programming, and during February takes special note of the struggles and achievements of African-Americans.

Here are just some of the Black History Month features during our February programs:

BALLADS IN THE MORNING – Traditional Black spirituals and gospel music (2/11)

BLUES HALL OF FAME  – A Dick Lillard documentary about how Black blues and R&B revolutionized American popular music in the late ‘40s-mid ‘50s  (2/8, 2/22)

DERANGEMENT OF THE SENSES – Chicago jazz artists who were students of Black music educator Captain Walter Dyett (2/13)

DIVINO MARAVILHOSO – Music that manifests Black culture (2/5, 2/12, 2/19, 2/26)

EPIC CITY – Carolivia and two other African-American Jews discuss the recent Whoopi Goldberg controversy (2/8), writers from The Port of Harlem (2/15), Jewish African-American journalist Robin Washington (2/22)

GET UP – Interview with the author of White Lies, a book about early 20th century pioneering civil rights activist Walter White (2/7)

IN THE JAZZ KITCHEN – The life and music of Duke Ellington, with special guest jazz archivist Reuben Jackson (2/17)

INDIE PENCHANT  – Local African-American artists (2/24)

LOST TREASURES  – Black Poets and the Power of the Spoken Word (2/19)
MUSIC MATINEE – Films of African-American directors (2/17)

MUSICAL REMEDIES – All Black female artists (2/3)

RISE UP - Olivia features children’s music celebrating Black culture and artists (2/19)

 SOUND OF SOUL WITH D’NICOLE – Black inventors, entrepreneurs, and history-makers (2/6, 2/20)

THE BLUES COME CALLING – Black religious music and its influence on vintage blues (2/1)

THIS! MUSIC  – The music of iconic ancestor saxophonist David. S. Ware (2/5, 2/12, 2/19, 2/26) and the bluesy side of avant-garde (2/5)
WHAT YEAR IS THIS  – Music of Black artists from 1968 (2/3), 1977 (2/10), 1986 (2/17), 1994 (2/24)

WOWD / Takoma Radio’s broadcast studio is now known as the STUART MOORE STUDIO, in honor of our beloved IT engineer, who passed away in December after a long battle with cancer.

Stuart joined the WOWD Tech Team in 2015. He set up our streaming, archives, air check, and automation system and worked behind the scenes for years maintaining and improving our sound.

His work for WOWD is the culmination of a lifelong love of radio.

If you miss your favorite WOWD show - or just want to hear it again - you can listen to any episode for up to 14 days after its live broadcast.

And the good news is: now, the WOWD archives work as well on mobile devices as they do on computers.
So whether it's your desktop, your laptop, your iPhone, or your Android phone, go to TakomaRadio.org, click on Schedule & Archives, and select the recent show you'd like to hear from our schedule grid.

Takoma Radio -- your favorite shows at YOUR convenience!