{{Short description|Italian pirate radio station}} {{for|U.S. radio stations called "Alice,"|KALC|KALZ|KLCA|KLLC}} '''Radio Alice''' was an Italian free radio broadcasting from Bologna at the end of the 1970s. It started transmitting on 9 February 1976 using an ex-military transmitter on a frequency of 100.6 MHz. The station founders were associated with the Italian counter-culture movement of 1977<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iwPX23VameIC&pg=PA206|title=Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media|last1=Downing|first1=John D. H.|last2=Downing|first2=John Derek Hall|date=2011|publisher=SAGE|isbn=9780761926887|pages=206|language=en}}</ref> and drew inspiration from the Situationists and Dada.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Briziarelli|first=Marco|date=2016-07-02|title=Tripping Down the (Media) Rabbit Hole: Radio Alice and the Insurgent Socialization of Airwaves|journal=Journal of Radio & Audio Media|volume=23|issue=2|pages=349–363|doi=10.1080/19376529.2016.1224428|s2cid=151699909|issn=1937-6529}}</ref> Franco "Bifo" Berardi, one of the founders, described Radio Alice as a "mix between a classical medium of militant information and a sort of art experiment in media sabotage."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/radio-alice-franco-berardi/capsula|title=RADIOACTIVITY #1 Radio Alice|last=Berardi|first=Franco|website=Ràdio Web MACBA|access-date=2019-08-27}}</ref>
The station was closed by the ''carabinieri'' on 12 March 1977. Radio Alice then re-opened again for two years and became politically aligned with the autonomism movement. After closure, the frequency was then given by the state to Radio Radicale. Radio Alice's output covered a myriad of subjects: labor protests, poetry, yoga lessons, political analysis, love declarations, cooking recipes, Jefferson Airplane, Area or Beethoven music. Participants in the station included Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Maurizio Torrealta, Filippo Scòzzari, Paolo Ricci and Carlo Rovelli. In 2002 some former staff members participated in the founding of Orfeo TV, the first Telestreet unlicensed TV.
The work of Radio Alice inspired the founders of Novara Media.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUUUpGok68s |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211219/RUUUpGok68s |archive-date=2021-12-19 |url-status=live|title=Fully Automated Luxury Communism? {{!}} Ash Sarkar meets Franco 'Bifo' Berardi|website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
== See also ==
*Autonomism *''Working Slowly (Radio Alice)'', a 2004 Italian film about Radio Alice by Guido Chiesa *Wu Ming
== References == {{Reflist}}
== Sources == *''Alice è il diavolo - Storia di una radio sovversiva'', 1976, L'Erba Voglio (2002, Shake Edizioni)
== External links == *[https://archive.org/details/lavorare_con_lentezza_radio_alice Watch ''Lavorare con lentezza''] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20060427110009/http://www.planetmedia.it/tfml.htm ''Le Radio Locali: una esperienza comunicativa per il pubblico giovanile (1975-77)''] by Massimo Lualdi (Italian) *[http://www.connexions.org/RedMenace/Docs/RM3-RadioAlice.htm 'a day in the life of Radio Alice'] *[http://zgpress.com/?p=36 Interview with Bifo about the Radio] *[https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3472378 Il corrispondente operaio, a newsletter published by Radio Alice]
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