WFTE is a radio station

Radio station

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 licensed to serve Mount Cobb, Pennsylvania

Mount Cobb, Pennsylvania

Mount Cobb is a census-designated place in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,799 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Mount Cobb is located at ....

. The station's licensee is Community Radio Collective, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization.

WFTE Community Radio plans to go live on the air in February 2011. With translator W289AU on 105.7 FM, WFTE Community Radio will broadcast to around 300,000 residents in the greater Scranton, PA area.

WFTE Mission Statement

WFTE's mission is "to create and provide high quality, innovative and community-oriented programming serving communities, information, and ideas that are ignored, suppressed, overlooked, or underserved by the mainstream media."

WFTE's programming will be "dedicated to the progressive values of social justice

Social justice

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, economic justice, human rights

Human rights

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, multiculturalism

Multiculturalism

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, environmentalism

Environmentalism

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, freedom of expression, and democracy

Democracy

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