Starting today, KPFT begins coverage of the U.S. Social Forum from Atlanta, Georgia. Reporting starts today at 1, with our Summer Youth Program producing an hour on the Forum (replacing Exploration, which did not upload this week). At 10:30 to midnight each night, Thursday to Sunday, KPFT airs an hour in English and 30 minutes [...]
Pacifica Radio, America’s first listener-sponsored radio network, will join thousands of U.S. webcasters in a Day of Silence this Tuesday, June 26. Pacifica will silence its regular Internet broadcasts to draw attention to an impending royalty rate increase that, if implemented, would lead to the virtual shutdown of this country’s Internet radio industry.
A recent Copyright [...]
CPB has now posted a Request for Proposals for a Public Media Demonstration Project focusing on the 2008 elections. We intend to award a grant of up to $1 million for a project that demonstrates new, multi-media, collaborative models of public service around this
important national news event.
The challenge to be innovative, engaging and substantive [...]
Congress to Executives on Sirius/XM Merger: Just Say No
Washington - Jun 18, 2007 - A group of 72 congressmen signed a letter that was sent to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin and Federal Trade Commission Chairman Deborah Platt Majors. The focus of the letter states that the proposed XM/Sirius transaction [...]
Robin Lewis, KPFT’s Membership Coordinator, has been named its Interim Development Director. Congratulations to Robin and, of course, KPFT!
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Religious organizations, public interest advocates and community radio station owners will hold a national conference call to discuss new bipartisan legislation that would create hundreds of low-power, community radio stations in cities, towns and suburbs across the United States.
Low Power FM (LPFM) stations are community-based, noncommercial radio stations that broadcast to neighborhoods and small towns. [...]
Berkeley, June 1st - KPFA Radio 94.1 FM has hired award-winning journalist, broadcaster and documentary filmmaker Peter Laufer. Laufer will host the popular Sunday morning program, formerly called Sunday Salon, following Larry Bensky’s retirement. Laufer, who got his start in KPFA’s news room, has won many of the most prestigious awards in broadcast journalism including [...]
LA Times / May 24, 2007
The death sentence for a man who killed a former reporter and producer for KPFK radio in Los Angeles was upheld today by the California Supreme Court.
Andrew Lancaster was convicted of first-degree murder and kidnapping for fatally shooting Michael Taylor, 45, in April 1996.
The high court unanimously upheld his death [...]
Since our last expert consultation with Ed Wong (Jackson Brown’s sound engineer and preservationist), Adi Gevins, PRA Preservation and Access Project Coordinator, and John Austin of Sprague Magnetics, it was determined that we no longer can used the Otari 50/50 Reel-to-reel players for tape transfer as they now cause damage to our fragile and aging [...]
In just 48 hours, the FCC will stop taking public comment on Net Neutrality. Our window of opportunity is about to close - this is your last chance to tell them to Save the Internet!
So far, 22,453 Common Cause activists have told the FCC to protect Net Neutrality and stop the corporate division of the [...]
WCAL: A Trust Betrayed
Originally printed in City Pages
via Current
Nearly three years after St. Olaf sold its radio station to MPR for a pile of cash, it’s a long way from living the decision down.
by Jonathan Kaminsky
Ruth Sylte has spent almost her entire adult life as one of St. Olaf College’s most enthusiastic boosters. She attended [...]
Job Announcement: Morning Show Co-Host
RESPONSIBILITIES:
· Host and co-host a diverse variety of segments for a daily two-hour public affairs drive-time radio program, including brainstorming ideas, guests, and approach
· Monitor local, state, national, and international news and relevant publications for program ideas
· [...]
KPFT News reporter Rachel Clarke welcomes a new addition to the family! Jahara was born June 7 and weighed in at just over eight pounds. Congrats are in order on Rachel’s new baby.
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Pacifica reporters and trainers for the United States Social Forum have been announced and KPFT is proud to have two representatives headed to Atlanta later this month.
Renee Feltz will be training various folks on site, while Ann Raber will be reporting. Stay tuned for scheduling!
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KPFA-FM in Berkeley, California, was established in 1949 as the first listener-supported radio station in the U.S. It is the flagship station of the Pacifica Network, which is a mission-driven organization dedicated to free speech, peace, social justice, and cross-cultural understanding. Broadcasting at 59,000 watts, KPFA serves much of Northern and Central California with an [...]
Just a reminder that the national special on Palestine’s 40th’s anniversary of its invasion airs this evening at 6 p.m. I had an opportunity to hear Cages and Dreams last night. Very informative program, about half of which is produced right here at KPFT. Said Fattouh of Arab Voices delivers the initial piece, setting the [...]
Reporters Without Borders today voiced deep shock at the murder overnight of Zakia Zaki, a leading figure among Afghanistan’s independent journalists.
Two armed men broke into the family home of the head of radio Sada-e-Sulh (Peace Radio) in Jabalussaraj, in the northern province of Parwan, and gunned her down in front of her two-year-old son, firing [...]
TITLE:RADIO BUILDER CONSULTANT
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The Pacifica Foundation is a non-profit agency providing educational services. Its mission is to establish a foundation organized and operated exclusively for education purposes no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any member of the Foundation. [...]
Reacting to a new Free Press study on radio ownership released today, national women’s rights and civil rights leaders joined two Federal Communications Commissioners in condemning the FCC for its failure to address the low number of female and minority media owners.
“We found that women and people of color control just one-eighth of the country’s [...]
KMUD-FM, KMUE-FM, KLAI-FM has an exciting opportunity for a creative, experienced and innovative Program Director. This special person will be working at a dynamic, alternative, established community radio station (20 year anniversary!) that’s driven by a mission of public service. The Program Director will maintain RCR station identity and will be responsible for the daily [...]
Urban Unrest is a blog on new and old media, media justice, race, culture, politics and society and is hosted by Ernesto Aguilar, currently program director at Pacifica Radio KPFT in Houston.
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