WRSE strives to entertain and inform the Elmhurst College community, plus eastern and central DuPage County, with student-run non-commercial music and talk programs.

The colleges and universities of Greater Boston offered a favorable venue for non-commercial music to be played.

After receiving funding from his parents, he decided to establish the record label as a serious venture, to promote non-commercial and experimental music which would not otherwise be heard.

WCPE was the first public radio station in the nation to broadcast its programming on the Internet and one of the few radio stations in the United States to broadcast a dedicated, non-commercial classical music format.

The programme includes interviews with contemporary musicians and people in the music industry, live sessions, recorded concerts and requests of commercial and non-commercial music alike.

The octet played only a few concerts in three years, as club owners were scared by the advanced non-commercial music.

The festival has grown from an original small scale event with only 100 people to Wales' largest non-commercial urban music and culture festival.

KRNN is a non-commercial (NPR) music radio station in Juneau, Alaska, broadcasting on 102.7 FM.

It took one evening on one stage ("Empty Hills" was 4 days and 4 stages with all kinds of different non-commercial music from blues and folk rock to rock-underground, jazz/fusion, progressive...).

At least there's someone trying to promote non-commercial music.