Community Radio in Seattle Fights Back Against Corporate Behemoths and Mainstream Christian Programming

by Amber Cortes
Engineer Pete Tridish is buried in wires. He's sitting at a table at Hollow Earth Radio in the Central District, holding a soldering iron, surrounded by a tangle of cables, tiny screwdrivers, and duct tape—and eating half a taco wrapped in tin foil from the truck across the street. It looks like a mess.
"This? A mess? No. Wires are cooperative. They eventually bend to your will. But people... not so much," he jokes.
Tridish describes himself as a radio engineer, media polic