Classic soul and R&B with a honky-tonk streak.
FA2 is KFAI's second channel, carried on the HD2 subcarrier beside the 90.3 signal and streamed on its own. The main grid has been full since 1978 — dozens of weekly programs built by volunteers, in ten languages, with a waiting list behind them — so the second stream is where the station puts whatever needs more room than an hour: marathons, premieres, live remotes, and the ideas a host would rather spend an entire day on than squeeze into a one-hour slot somewhere on a Tuesday.
Most hours are an automated run of Motown soul and eighties R&B, with blocks of country and metal. Every 12 July it runs Disco Never Died Day, marking the anniversary of Disco Demolition Night with a full rotation of DJs, and other years have brought 24 Hours of Frenchness, Twin Cities New Wave Day, a twenty-five-hour Black History Month takeover, and a live broadcast of the whole Drone Not Drones marathon.
Where the marathons live.
