Runner-up: KRKZ Hits 94.3 FM Chinook / Astoria

Honorable Mention: KLMY Clammy 99.7 FM Long Beach

KMUN is a true community radio station. Unlike public radio stations that have a lot of employees, KMUN has only three employees and some 100 volunteers. This explains why the programmers are your friends and neighbors. In fact, it’s likely that few people in our area don’t know a KMUN volunteer or two.

According to industry data, KMUN is also the most-listened to radio station in its listening area, which stretches from Raymond, Washington to Pacific City. That may be because there’s something for just about everybody, whether you like blues, psychedelic folk music, news and commentary, opera, gardening, yoga, the arts — you name it.

Of course, KMUN also does the things that small town stations should do, like lost pets, bedtime stories, and community events. And the station produces local shows like “Talk of Our Towns” or the quintessential Astoria program, “The Ship Report.”

Station manager Joanne Rideout is proud that KMUN is more financially resilient than in the past, and that the station has been building relationships with emergency services since the Great Coastal Gale of 2007. Most of all, she says, “I’m proud that KMUN is dear to the hearts of the people.”

Tune in to Coast Community Radio on your radio, or listen online at coastradio.org