Prog on the radio

In my area you never hear non- commercial prog on the radio.  There is plenty of Floyd, Tull, Yes, etc on the classic rock station, but no PG-era Genesis, KC, etc.

Just curious, are there stations that play that music?  I was thinking of emailing the college station near me and requesting that they have a weekly "prog night"  - say, 2-3 hours on a Saturday or  Sunday evening devoted to the genre.  Maybe there just isn't enough of a pull for that kind of show...

Last week I heard a Dream Theater track and this morning a Steven Wilson track.

If you have a radio station that plays prog and they stream online, please post the link! I never hear prog on the radio. 

In Austin, we're lucky to have a really broad range of radio stations, the best of which are KUT 90.5 and KVRX 91.7 FM. Makes sense that both great stations are broadcast from the University of Texas at Austin. I'll get lucky and hear some prog rock or jazz fusion on KUT every now and then, but KVRX doesn't have any station regulations, so they will and do play whatever they want. This doesn't mean it's a prog radio station but there are 2 or 3 weekly programs that regularly play prog, fusion, avant-garde, noise, krautrock and the like. You could call in and request a 15-minute track of straight noise from some obscure group, and they will gladly play it.

On KVRX, I've heard songs from Hawkwind, Faust, Egg, Zach Hill, Venetian Snares, Atomic Rooster, Syd Barrett, and that's just off the top of my head. You gotta love a station with the slogan "None of the hits, all of the time". Instead of a "Top 40", they have a "Topless 39". Plus, one of the sound engineers from KVRX attended one of my band's shows, and he came up to us afterwards and asked us to play on his program "Local Live". If you want to hear some songs from the show, the link is in my signature. KVRX also streams live online if you want to listen at kvrx.org.

In Belgium we've got Classic21. They had a special section for prog a few years ago ! THat was called "Brain Rock" :-) :-) Unhappily it's over.

Famous bands are quite often programmed, like Pink Floyd or Genesis (even PG-era), but it's rare to hear classic Yes, KC, ELP, Camel... Sad. Very sad.

I just found this thread.... There is no better online radio station than Delicious Agony Prog Rock Radio (I am not saying this just because I am the host of a show there ) @ http://deliciousagony.com/

Edited by ProgressiveAttic - November 17 2011 at 17:32

Ah, Portugal... So many flaws - but where else can you find a weekly hour-long show dedicated to progressive rock old and new broadcasted in national, state-owned radio?

http://www.progrockradio.com/ great site plays real prog bands 

Looks pretty promising that I'll have a weekly 2-hour prog-rock show (from 9-11 PM (Mountain Standard Time) on Sundays), probably starting in January on the local community station in Moab Utah:

KZMU.org

I'm planning on playing nothing but progressive rock, progressive folk, and jazz/rock fusion. So yeah, I know its just a small station in a small rural town (although it is a world-famous tourist destination), but it's also on the web so you can listen to it anywhere worldwide. I'll have more details forthcoming in the near future....

What about the 'Prog Radios' tab at the top of the progarchives.com home page? http://www.progarchives.com/ProgRadio.asp - all the best known ones are there, just click on the station images to open the sites, where stream URLs are usually easy to locate.