Radio Free Keene News 2012-05-12

by | May 12, 2012 | 0 comments

Radio TowerRadio Free Keene News is a five minute newscast which is available as a podcast and also will air at the top of some hours on LRN.FM.

Topics covered include the imprisoning of Derrick J and Beau and a man smoking cannabis legally in the state house. Here’s the archive:

You can add Radio Free Keene News to your podcast client via this RSS feed. Please note, this is a new feed, so update your podcast clients appropriately. As you may have noticed, we’re now hosting RFKN on Soundcloud.

Radio Free Keene News – 2012-04-22

by | Apr 22, 2012 | 0 comments

Radio TowerRadio Free Keene News is a five minute newscast which is available as a podcast and also will air at the top of some hours on LRN.FM.

You can download the edition for this week here. Topics covered include the police shooting a fleeing alleged robber, the latest on Jason Talley’s court case, and the liquor commission banning multiple activists from all state liquor stores.

You can add Radio Free Keene News to your podcast client via this RSS feed.

Keene’s “Free Talk Live”, Ranked #52 on TALKERS’ “Heavy Hundred”!

by | Apr 19, 2012 | 4 comments

My little radio show, Free Talk Live, based here in Keene at the LRN.FM studio, was just ranked at #52 of 100 (up from #79 last year!) in the TALKERS Magazine “Heavy Hundred” yearly list of the “most influential talk radio hosts”. Thank you to all our listeners and stations and supporters who helped make this possible!

Sadly, it is only heard in Keene on WKBK radio on Saturday nights, and that’s when baseball isn’t on. Perhaps someday Monadnock Radio Group will expand our coverage in Keene, considering we scored better on the list than did Boston conservaclone Howie Carr, who ranks at #56, as well as Wall St. Journal’s Michael Castner who is #61.

Full Scanner Audio of KPD Robbery Chase/Killing

by | Apr 19, 2012 | 48 comments

This nearly 24 minute audio includes all the radio traffic the KPD scanner received between 10pm and Midnight on April 17th, 2012. It’s everything from the initial report from Diversified Computers of noise on the roof, to the shooting of the suspect on Marlboro St., to the manhunt for the other two suspects, to the afterwards.

The Keene police scanner audio reveals that the two suspects were taken into custody AFTER the police shot the third man to death. The Sentinel’s report makes it sound like the reverse happened:

At least one person was on the roof of the building when police arrived. He and another man were taken into custody after a short pursuit, authorities said.
A man who was not captured allegedly left the area in a car and led police on a pursuit to Marlboro Street.

Their mis-reporting led FK’s Ademo to write his opinion piece, in which he assumed the Sentinel got it right and therefore makes several mistaken conclusions. Remember, as you listen to this audio, the blank spaces have been mostly excised from the piece to make it easier to listen. In the full audio, it’s more than ten minutes before officer Jennifer Uhas (118) announces she has the first suspect in custody. Less than a minute later, the second suspect is in custody as well. In their report, the Sentinel claims to have their own scanner – so why the botched reporting?

The audio is pretty intense, and Keene police for the most part, do the best they can to bring aggressors to justice, backed by four state troopers, a couple of county sheriffs, and mutual aid units from Winchester, Dublin, and Troy. Sadly, some officers opted to use deadly force to stop the third suspect from running, which seems entirely inappropriate and even reckless (more…)