Quarterly Music Beat

THE STORY BEHIND THE STATION

BURNING DOG RADIO IS MENOMONIE’S ONLY COLLEGE RADIO STATION 

AN UPDATE FROM OUR FRIENDS AT BURNING DOG RADIO TUNE INTO 101.7 FM 

Greetings! We are Burning Dog Radio. For those of you reading who are new to UW-Stout or Menomonie, welcome to the community! We hope you can call it home like we do. We are a small station catering to college students like you. We’ve been around since the late 1990s with a few name changes. We started off as SLAM Radio (Street Level AM) and then switched to FM with the name Jesus Rock Radio. Nowadays, we are Burning Dog Radio 101.7 FM. 

We exist for the ministry of the Gospel of Jesus. We’re a branch of Street Level Ministries, a Christian community and UW-Stout organization. Our goal as a station is to spread the Gospel through our programming and service at the station. We play a variety of music and impactful Bible teachings to share the hope of Jesus with the UW-Stout and Menomonie community. Our song selection is made with the intention that it’ll help you find artists that write songs with real depth and meaning that points to the goodness of God. We also play the kind of good secular music that won’t upset your mom if you blast it in the car. God made music to give Him glory, so we serve God and our community by playing great music. 

Many young adults serve (or volunteer) at the station. This is a way for young Christians to learn how to serve God in a practical setting while in college or working. This could look like setting up a live broadcast outside the Memorial Student Center at UW-Stout and interviewing students about their life. It could also look like recording a voiceover and producing a radio ad for Word on the Street Magazine to be put on the air and heard by thousands. It can look a lot of different ways, but in the end, the goal is to learn how to love others while working alongside them with patience and humility as we serve Jesus together. 

You can tune in anywhere in Menomonie to 101.7 FM to hear us. You can also follow us on social media and Spotify. Just search Burning Dog Radio. Anyone can get involved in the station. If you’re interested, check out streetlevelministries.com. Have a great school year!