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Joe Frank on the Radio Dial and streaming simulcast online:

Updated: November 8th, 2022

State / City

Station

Schedule

California:

Covelo
Davis / Sacramento

Morro Bay
Paso Robles / Atascadero

KYBU 96.9

KDVS 90.3

KEBF 97.3

KZSR 107.9

Sun 11:00pm
Sun 10:00pm
bi-weekly starting 8/22/2021

Sun 10:00am
Sun 9:00pm

Sun 10:00am
Sun 9:00pm

Georgia:

Savannah

WRUU 107.5

Thurs 11:00pm

Illinois:

Carbondale

WDBX 91.1

Sat 12:00am

Missouri:

Cabool

KZGM 88.1

Sun 10:00pm

Nevada:

Carson City

KNVC 95.1

Sun 4:00pm

New Jersey:

Cape May

WCFA 101.5

Sat 8:00pm
Sun 10:00pm

New York:

Rochester

WAYO 104.3

Fri 1:00am

Pennsylvania:

East Stroudsburg

WESS 90.3

Mon 10:00pm

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Reviews of Joe’s Work

"Radio's Prince of Darkness Rules the Freeways. [Frank is] alternately dark, bizarre and very funny - but always hard to turn off."

The Wall Street Journal

"Frank wanders deeply into the unconscious, producing Dionysian stories with a fairy-tale intensity whose effect is often funny, disturbing and deeply memorable."

Salon Magazine

"Joe Frank is an invaluable warrior who stands in defense of our fears, our vanities and our forever-eroding sense of ourselves. He transforms the everyday banality of the human comedy into an inspired weirdness that feeds on pathos and irony, and feels a lot like revelation. Sartre would have called it nausea; Frank makes it art."

Spin Magazine

"Frank [is] the apostle of radio noire... His free-form radio dramas... are sometimes moving, often funny, but always manage to confound the listeners' expectations. A maestro of verité, Frank exploits the power of radio..."

Rolling Stone

"Joe Frank is an original whose work has helped form some of the most eccentric, dark and interesting parts of public radio's personality. "

Terry Gross, Fresh Air

"Although commonly categorized as radio drama, Frank's work bears very little resemblance to the stagy artifice of plays performed over air. Frank wanders deeply into the unconscious, producing Dionysian stories with a fairy-tale intensity whose effect is often funny, disturbing and deeply memorable."

Salon

"Mixing bizarre monologues, multi-sequenced dramatic vignettes and mock-solemn critiques, [Joe Frank's work] is both sophisticated and surreal. A sizable cult has been growing around Frank...a rare radio talent."

The Village Voice

"A strange, different, wondrously offbeat, frequently hilarious, altogether brilliant piece of work..There's never been anything quite like it...Joe Frank is an audio Fellini."

The Los Angeles Times

"The perfect Joe Frank experience is driving down an unfamiliar highway alone at night. You turn on your radio and are greeted by a lush, resonant voice that lulls you into a seemingly simple tale of love: a man at an airport saying goodbye to his wife over the phone, which abruptly turns into a vision of betrayal, alienation and death - often from obscure disease - all brought about by some profound personal failing, which is redeemed at the last moment by a nearly transcendent moment of joy."

Salon

"In an arena in which formats are sacrosanct, Joe Frank has charted new territory with his literate, frequently bizarre, wildly funny essays and parodies... He can be funny, poignant, serious and off the wall - sometimes within the framework of the same piece. Unique is one word to describe it. Brilliant is another."

Los Angeles Times