WDNA 88.9FM Announces New Program
The Grateful Dead Hour with David Gans Sundays 3pm–4pm
MIAMI, FLORIDA – October 20, 2025 – WDNA is proud to announce the launch of a new Sunday afternoon program, The Grateful Dead Hour.
Hosted by guitarist, songwriter, journalist, author and radio producer David Gans since 1987, The Grateful Dead Hour is a nationally syndicated radio program that airs weekly on more than 90 public, community, college, and commercial radio stations. The program features live concerts from the Grateful Dead’s vault, as well as music influenced by the Dead, live studio performances, in-depth interviews with core Dead members, and more. The Grateful Dead Hour is the only authorized weekly program of Grateful Dead music. Produced under exclusive license from Grateful Dead Productions, the program regularly features gems from the Dead’s inexhaustible stash of concert tapes (going back to 1966).
Host David Gans is based in Oakland, California and has been writing and performing his own music since he was a teenager. His path of self-education also led to a ten-year career as a music journalist followed by 35 years and counting as an expert in the music of the Grateful Dead. He’s had four books about the band published including Playing in the Band: An Oral and Visual Portrait of the Grateful Dead; Conversations with the Dead; Not Fade Away: The Online World Remembers Jerry Garcia; and (with Blair Jackson) This Is All A Dream We Dreamed, An Oral History of the Grateful Dead.
WDNA can be heard on 88.9FM in Miami, via the WDNA app and streaming worldwide at WDNA.org.
About WDNA
WDNA, a listener-supported public radio station broadcasting on 88.9FM, is based in Miami, Florida. Licensed in 1977 by the FCC to the Bascomb Memorial Broadcasting Foundation, Inc, the station was the first non-governmental public radio station in the Miami market. With a focus on jazz, blues, Afro- Caribbean, South American, and world music, WDNA also features the WDNA Jazz Gallery, hosting performances by renowned artists, as well as students and faculty from local universities. The station’s operations are funded through grants, listener donations, corporate underwriting and partnerships. For more info visit wdna.org.
