WNRM is an Independent Rock Radio Station. We focus our energy only the best rock, indie, funk & punk. WNRM reports spins and adds to the trades, which means what we play matters! We champion indie, local, and unsung singer songwriters,
Where did WNRM come from, you ask? I (Laura Palmer or LP to most friends) grew up programming music for the people. As a kid in Los Angeles, I was in charge of selecting the music for several topless bars owned by my mother's boyfriend. He was an immigrant from Greece, he didn't know anything about American music. He would always notice me listening to Kasey Casem’s American Top 40 with my little Panasonic radio. To him, that made me an expert. After school, I would go into the bar, get some beer nuts and cherries, and a roll of quarters from behind the bar that he would leave for me to take to the arcade he owned next door. A couple of times a month a big guy in a suit would come into the bar with binders of music choices. I would sit at the bar with him and choose all of the music for all the jukeboxes.
This may have led me directly into a (not completely thought out) career in rock radio. Over the years I have been on the air at over 30 radio stations around the country both live and via voice tracking. All forms of rock, AOR, Mainstream, Classic, Alternative even the dreaded “soft” rock for a really long summer or so. In the middle of my fancy broadcasting years, my husband was diagnosed with stage 3 head and neck cancer. The world as we knew it, stopped. After months of sitting alone in the waiting rooms of University of Miami hospital and many others around South Florida, I looked up. I realized I had built a radio station.....part two coming out soon
That my friends, is a long story short.
* No husbands died in the making of this radio station.
* The marriage is belly up