Radio Station Convenes Community Media Meeting Tonight In Sonoma

SONOMA VALLEY, CA — The local community media station recently launched a listener survey across Sonoma Valley.

Tonight, the station, KSVY Sonoma 91.3 FM, will be bringing those findings into focus at a community forum, where staff will discuss early findings from the survey and ask residents to help build a three-year strategic roadmap for local media.

The station is hosting the Community Media Forum at Sonoma Veterans Memorial Hall from 6 to 8 p.m.

The forum follows a recently completed listener survey that pulled responses from across Sonoma Valley, capturing how audiences view local radio, television, and storytelling. KSVY staff compile those insights into early themes that point to both demand and pressure on community-based media.

At the event, KSVY leaders present key survey takeaways and open the floor for public input. Attendees share ideas on how the station can strengthen news coverage, expand arts and cultural programming, improve emergency communication, and deepen community storytelling across platforms.

Organizers invite participation from across the community, including listeners, nonprofit leaders, business owners, artists, educators, and students, emphasizing that the planning process depends on broad representation and lived experience.

The forum functions as the first in a series of engagement sessions, with additional focus groups planned to refine priorities and translate community feedback into a formal roadmap.

The meeting comes amid mounting national pressure on local media outlets, where shrinking resources and shifting audiences challenge long-standing community stations. In Sonoma Valley, the organization frames its work as a commitment to connection—linking neighbors, amplifying local voices, and maintaining a trusted source of information across broadcast platforms.

KSVY Community Media (91.3 FM) runs on a community variety format, meaning its programming is built around local hosts, volunteer shows, music blocks, and talk segments that reflect Sonoma Valley’s cultural and civic life rather than a single commercial format.

Across the weekly schedule, from 6 a.m. to midnight, the station blends several consistent programming types.

Currrently, KSVY airs local morning drive shows, such as “The Morning Show,” alongside bilingual programming such as “Amanecer de mi Tierra / Dawn of My Land,” which anchors early-day broadcasting with community-focused content and music.

It also runs a wide range of talk and interview programs, where hosts cover topics like business, health, media, wine country life, and community issues—often featuring local guests, nonprofit leaders, and civic voices.

Music programming spans multiple genres rather than a single style, including folk, rock, jazz, Latin, dance, and eclectic specialty shows, with evening blocks often dedicated to genre-specific listening like jazz, vinyl sets, or curated music hours.

The station also features community and culture programming, including arts coverage, student and youth segments, interfaith discussions, and locally produced storytelling shows designed to spotlight Sonoma residents and organizations.

Specialty segments—such as sports updates, “Guys @ 5” community-drive talk/music blocks, and themed evening shows—fill out the schedule, reinforcing KSVY’s identity as a listener-supported, volunteer-driven station focused on local voices rather than commercial playlists. The station's website includes a calendar, SonomaValleyEvents.com, listed as a non-profit that is part of Sonoma Valley Community Communications and KSVY 91.3 FM.