[Imc-summaries] KOPN Hangs in There: A Small Community Radio Station Struggles to Survive

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KOPN is one of the nation's oldest listener-sponsored, community-access radio stations. In the late '70s it flourished as the center of Mid-Missouri's alternative universe. However, by 1997 KOPN was on the verge of financial collapse. Community activists rescued it at the last moment. Now, four years later, they are fighting an uphill battle to revive the station.

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