A station that plays the thing that does not exist yet.
91khz started as a question: what would you listen to if the station could make anything, and the only thing it needed from you was one sentence?
Old radio was constrained by what existed. A station could only play the records it had, in the order someone decided, for everyone at once. That constraint produced something lovely — shared time — and something frustrating: you never quite got what you wanted, at the moment you wanted it.
91khz keeps the shared shape and drops the constraint. Four frequencies, each doing one thing properly: jokes, music, stories, advice. Browse what came through today, or call the request line and describe the song, the story or the question nobody has written for you yet.
We are not here to replace comedians, songwriters, novelists or the friend who gives good counsel. We are here for 11pm on a Tuesday, when none of them are available and you want something anyway — a laugh, four minutes of music, a story the length of a bath, a straight answer.
Would you pass it on?
That is the only bar that matters here. A joke you would retell, a song you would send to one specific person, an answer you would actually take. Anything that does not clear it is not worth putting on air.
Short beats clever
Three minutes, five minutes, one line. Nothing on 91khz needs a second read to land, and nothing asks you to stay longer than the thing is good for.
No feed, no streak
There is no algorithm learning what keeps you here, no notifications, no account to abandon. You come, you take something, you go and live your evening.
Made for one person at a time
The request line is the point. A song for your sister’s driving test is better than a song for everyone, because it was only ever meant for one room.
How it is made
Written by a model, held to a human standard.
The words on 91khz are written by a language model. We are not coy about that, and we are not proud of it either — it is a tool, the way a drum machine is a tool. What matters is whether the thing it made is any good.
So the standard is the one above: would you pass it on? A punchline that lands, a lyric worth singing badly in a car, an answer that respects the question. If it does not clear that bar, ask again — the cost of another take is a few seconds, and the version you keep is the only one that counts.
The dial
Where to start
91.1 FM
Jokes
Punchlines on tap
Short, sharp and endlessly refreshable. One-liners and absurd premises, built to be retold badly at a dinner table.
91.3 FM
Music
Songs written on request
Original lyrics and arrangements built around a mood, a genre, or a person you are trying to embarrass at a party.
91.5 FM
Stories
Fiction, on the fly
Five-minute fiction that starts with a single line from you. Bedtime, sci-fi, noir, or something nobody has named yet.
91.7 FM
Advice
A second opinion, always awake
Thoughtful, unhurried answers to the questions that keep you up. No hot takes, no judgement, no waiting room.
On air now
The request line is open
Tell us the mood, the occasion, or the exact thing you cannot stop thinking about. We will make something for it.