It’s free. It’s easy to access by clicking on “Listen to our new streaming radio” on the MFSI website.

For the first time in our region, MFSI offers a free alternative to regular AM/FM radio choices - MFSI Radio. Our live stream radio is a freewheeling mix of all kinds of music, some of it in the Mvskoke language, gardening tips, Mvskoke language lessons and stories, progressive news, Native news, and much more.

We are extremely fortunate that Mark Madrid (Mvskoke) has taken this project on as his volunteer contribution to our work. His background, experience and expertise are invaluable to us and we extend to him a huge MVTO.

Mark, our DJ/station manager extraordinaire, had his beginnings in radio back in Tennessee on The Farm where he managed one of the earliest low-power radio stations in the country. In 1973 he and others put together a small radio station, WUTZ in Summertown, TN that was loaded down barb-wired fence and telephone wire for transmission. They later established an independent station in Lake Atilan in Solola, Guatamala providing communication for villages around the large, beautiful lake. The villages surrounding the lake had no electricity and had to walk out for news. This station was their first communication tool. Later, in the mid 70’s, he worked to create the first Native community radio station, Lakota KILI, the first all Indian radio outside the Navajo Radio station area and he helped Oneida Nation with their radio station. Then through the 80’s and 90’s Mark worked in television with the Seminole Tribe of Florida, trained with Florida Motion Picture and Television Advisory Council and worked on various movie sets and television programs for twenty years. In Florida, his team created a television cable channel for all five reservations in Florida and produced shows for the cable channel including a kids show called Nagen Mackv with language lessons in Miccosukee and Mvskoke. He had input on the development of the Seminole tribes radio station for the remote Big Cypress community which later turned over the licensing to the Immakalee Field Workers. Before moving back home to Oklahoma and Creek Country, he spent some more time at the Tennessee Farm station revitalizing its equipment, format, shows and programming.

MFSI is very lucky that Mark has taken an interest in our work and is now volunteering his time to make our webcast a reality. He is broadcasting 24 hours a day 7 days a week as MFSI Radio. It is live streaming on the internet from our “studio” in his home “studio city, high on the hill in Hectorville, Oklahoma.” You can hear an eclectic mix of independent Indian music, including Mvskoke songs and flute, rock, country, blues and folk. In between songs you will get Mvskoke language lessons, stories in Mvskoke language, gardening tips, Oklahoma farm news, progressive news, Democracy Now and much more.

It is easy to connect to the MFSI Webcast. Just go to the http://www.mvskokefood.org home page (click home in the side menubar). Click on “Click here to listen to our new streaming radio” and it will open in Windows Media Player or iTunes or what ever media application you use. If you need an application to listen, follow the instructions that pop up to install a media player application on your computer. All applications have a free version. If your application opens and doesn’t start playing, stop it and then hit play again and the broadcast should open and automatically play. If you can’t get it with these instructions, find a young person to help! So tune in soon and enjoy!!!