Off to L.A.

25 July 2007 | Pacifica | Ernesto Aguilar

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 two major programming threads: one that favors reliance on local programming and another that favors increased national programming. In that context, there are a number of competing interests, from budgets to pay for national programming to communities that would be displaced with program changes. Pacifica.org should be streaming the national meetings for this session. I hope to liveblog the Friday session too; it’ll be difficult as a participant, but I hope to give you coverage.

Pacifica Executive Director Greg Guma will be giving one of his last reports Friday night at the board meeting. Earlier this year, Guma announced he was stepping down from his post. If you’ve met Greg before or are familiar with him, his humanity and vision are qualities you notice immediately. He will solely be missed.

KPFT has a number of volunteer opportunities this week.

Phone Trainings for the upcoming Summer Sizzle pledge drive are scheduled for Thursday, July 26th @ 6:00 p.m. and Sunday, July 29th @ 11:00 a.m. Both happen at KPFT studios (419 Lovett).

This Saturday’s Watermelon Festival also needs volunteers. Contact Eddie Garcia at volunteer@kpft.org to participate.