The Pacifica Network is the only U.S. radio network with a democratically-elected governance structure. Our noncommercial broadcasting is Listener-supported, and supported as well by more than 1000 staff members nationwide, most of them unpaid staff. This network has survived McCarthyite repression, investigation by the House Un-American Activities Committee, and attacks from reactionary forces in this [...]
You may have heard the announcement during Duane Bradley’s report to the Pacifica National Board, but in case you missed it, KPFT now officially broadcasts in HD. KPFT is the first Pacifica station to broadcast in HD.
HD Radio is unique because it allows stations to deliver high-quality audio as well as additional FM channels, but [...]
Hopefully you have an opportunity to listen to Greg Guma’s report at Friday’s open of the Pacifica National Board meeting. In it, he blasts the ongoing lawsuits against Pacifica as aimed at crippling the organization. He received rousing applause for his remarks. Earlier in the month, this open letter was released on one of the [...]
The Media Justice Fund of the Funding Exchange explores the changing landscape in its new journal, Imagining the (UN)Thinkable: Community Media Over the Next Five Years. This collection of essays pushes the boundaries of current research on media policy and provides critical information on the potential power of the internet, radio, and community-access TV [...]
Duane Bradley opens with the idea of national and local programming. Notes that Houston consciously made a choice to import Pacifica stations’ programming. Programming needs to be branded and something we can be proud of. Duane notes KPFT is collaborating with a number of stations, as well as producing many specials.
Sasha Lilley (KPFA) discusses programming [...]
I am headed to Los Angeles this week for a staff discussion with our national board about the role of national and local programming. “Who We Are as a Network: the relationship between local and national programming” happens starting at 2 p.m. Pacific (4 Central). This should be an intriguing discussion that, implicitly, touches upon [...]
The lawsuit filed by Ken Freeland (with Robert Graham and Robert “Bob” Carter as interveners) against Jane Tucker Bradley, Les Radke and KPFT General Manager Duane Bradley was recently dismissed. A copy of the dismissal is available here.
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Job Title: Project Manager
Start Date: August 15, 2007
End Date: April 15, 2008 (position may be renewed at that time to end of
2008)
Reports to: Communications Director
Supervises: Intern
Salary: half-time temporary position, $2,000/month
Location: Washington, DC
About FMC: The Future of Music Coalition is a not-for-profit collaboration between members of the music, technology, public policy and intellectual property law communities. [...]
Dear Colleagues:
More details of the NPR/CPB meeting with SoundExchange have been finalized and are provided for your information. As stated earlier, no agreement has been reached on a substitute for the March 2nd decision of the Copyright Royalty Board. Discussions about the structure and amount of the fee over the base rate are ongoing. [...]
WTXX Waterbury, Conn. was admonished for airing a show with an extra 60-second commercial in it–the FCC limits ads in kids shows to 10.5 minutes on weekends and 12 minutes on weekdays–as well as for three program-length commercials, including the Pokemon E-Reader.
The FCC also Monday [...]
Pacifica National Board Meeting
July 27-29, 2007
Los Angeles Downtown Marriott
333 S. Figueroa, Los Angeles, CA
Friday, July 27, 2007
9:30 – 1:00 Executive Session (3 hours, 30 minutes)
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A week and a half ago, the negotiating committee of SoundExchange offered a “compromise solution” to webcasters: They announced at a House subcommittee hearing (and in a synchronized press release) an offer to limit the CRB judges’ $500-per-channel minimum to a maximum of $2,500 per service. This supposed “solution” is a bizarre one for several [...]
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By Keith Olbermann
Anchor, ‘Countdown’
“I didn’t vote for him,” an American once said, “But he’s my president, and I hope he does a good job.”
That—on this eve of the 4th of July—is the essence of this democracy, in 17 words. And that is what President Bush threw away yesterday in commuting the sentence of [...]
Eddie Garcia, who has served as KPFT’s Volunteer Coordinator, has been selected as our new Events and Outreach Coordinator. Welcome to Eddie and thanks to all the candidates who participated this process.
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Google’s “Health Advertising Team” is trying to sell the health industry on buying ads to be shown opposite searches for Sicko. The idea is to counter Michael Moore’s amazing, enraging, must-see indictment of the health industry’s grip on American society by running ads over search results for Sicko.
Another approach would be to reform the [...]
The U.S. Senate lacked the appropriate political leadership to approve fair and humane immigration reform as desired by the millions of immigrants that live, work, study, and pray in thousands of cities across the length and breadth of America. The legislation, S.1639 authored by Senators Ted Kennedy and John Kyle, proved to be too [...]
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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