Gil Sedillo L.A. Council Member is interviewed by Pocho Hour of Power
Feb27
Category Archives: KPFK
Feb27
Tony Bates, Lila Garrett, Don Bustany
“A black guy, a Jew and an Arab walked in to KPFK . . . “
Feb27
Enfoque Latino show
Feb27
North Hollywood
Feb27
Feb27
Mason and Hamlin
Feb27
KPFK is 55+
Feb26
KPFK Brochure
| KPFK is one of five radio stations in the United States that are licensed to the Pacifica Foundation, a non-profit, 501 (c) (3) organization. Pacifica was founded in 1949 by pacifist Lewis Hill, in Berkeley, California. Pacifica’s principles focus on promoting world peace through greater sharing of information and cultures. Pacifica’s Mission Statement reads, in part: |
To encourage and provide outlets for the creative skills and energies of the community… which will serve the cultural welfare of the community; to engage in any activity that shall contribute to a lasting understanding between nations and between the individuals of all nations, races, creeds, and colors… and to promote the study of political and economic problems and of the causes of religious, philosophical, and racial antagonisms; and to promote the full distribution of public information; to obtain access to sources of news not commonly brought together in the same medium and employ such varied sources in the public presentation of accurate, objective, comprehensive news and public affairs on all matters vitally affecting the community.
KPFK has followed these principles since first going on the air in 1959, presenting ideas and information that have often included the radical and the controversial. KPFK’s air has also featured music reflecting human diversity, and straight talk on alternative ways of taking care of your health and the environment; without the intrusion of ads from commercial sponsors. Many KPFK programs are produced locally by volunteers.
KPFK operates 24 hours a day. Licensed to broadcast at 112,000 watts, we have the most powerful FM signal in Southern California, reaching from Santa Barbara to the Mexican border, and to the San Bernardino mountains. KPFK may also be heard around the world via streaming audio from our Web site, kpfk.org.
KPFK’s source of income is our listeners, who send money directly to the station. To join in with your support, please fill out the coupon from the back of a KPFK bumper sticker (or simply write out your name, address, e-mail, and phone number), and send it with your check or money order payable to KPFK, or your credit card number, to:
KPFK Membership Department
3729 Cahuenga Blvd West
North Hollywood, CA 91604
(or you may use one of our pre-addressed envelopes)
Our yearly membership rate is $25, but we gladly accept donations of any amount.
Our current program schedule up-to-date information, may be obtained at http://www.kpfk.org.
KPFK has 5 sister Pacifica stations across the country.
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90.7 FM LOS ANGELES |
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93.7 FM SAN DIEGO
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818-985-2711 fax: 818-763-7526
No amount is too small, or too large. My slogan is “Social Justice and Promotion of Cultures”. Or The Voice of the People
Feb26
KPFK table at an event
Feb26
Sue in Master Control
Feb26
Support KPFK song with piano
Feb26
KPFK’s tapestry
Feb26
When KPCC put their billboard almost on top of KPFK bldg
KPFK’s person painted over it.
Feb26
KPFK Dispatch Address
Feb20
From the “Opposite” Point of View (2003)
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=16971
Here’s an excerpt:
. . . ”
If there’s one small blessing in the whole Pacifica crisis, it’s that things haven’t yet degenerated to the Pacifica of the early 1990s, when Nation of Islam lieutenant Steve Cokely claimed Jewish doctors were inoculating babies with the AIDS virus. There’s still time to nip the new wave of bigotry in the bud; listeners appalled by the new Pacifica do have options. Pacifica’s five stations receive more than $1,200,000 of taxpayers’ money every year from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the same group that funds NPR and PBS. In 1992, Congress required the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to report on the quality, objectivity, and balance of the public broadcasting programs it funds, and take this into account when making grants. Yet KPFK slants so far Left, it considers The Nation conservative and Jewish hosts are leaving rather than hear anti-Semitic slander on the air. When the head “Feminist Magazine” claims Pacifica’s news coverage is “one-sided to the point of actually distorting the facts,” it’s clear there’s a serious problem. Fortunately, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has established an e-mail address – comments@cpb.org – and a toll-free phone number – 1-800-272-2190 – to take comments on taxpayer-funded public broadcasting. When large numbers of complaints are received on the balance and objectivity of a program, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is compelled to investigate.
Pacifica’s staff and supporters can hear the anti-Semitism on their stations for themselves. They know that people at their stations have been fired or removed from the airwaves for political reasons, and not just by previous boards. They know their stations aren’t being run democratically, and they know they serve the programmer more than the listening audience. They are repeating every misstep allegedly made by the board they ousted. They’ve become what they hate, or rather, what they pretended to hate, because their long struggle to take control of the board wasn’t really about democracy, or censorship, or “serving the community.” We see from their actions now the term “democracy” merely shielded the ugly politics their fight was really about, a crude racial identity politics based on hatred of whites, Jews and America itself. Their is a politics based on raw anger. Now that they’re in power, the radicals at Pacifica will maintain the façade of democracy just enough to attract donations, as their newly-established committees of “inclusion” ensure everyone attached to the station thinks in lock-step with their leaders – or suffers the consequences.
From all accounts, KPFK-FM is no longer a very pleasant place to work, and less appealing to listen to. John Davis, host of the cancelled Heartfelt Music, said the new management was “strident, with no sense of humor.” Although he had worked with leftists so extreme they went to jail rather than turn over communications from the Symbionese Liberation Army to the police, John could still get along with them, still work with them – but not these leftists. Last year was the first time in 32 years that John felt he was sacrificing his principles by working with extremists. John thinks the programming changes are a mistake; his own listeners, many of whom share the station’s left-wing slant, told him they didn’t want political rhetoric seven days a week. In a long departing missive, Tom Nixon seemed to concur. The day his show of 29 years, “The Nixon Tapes,” was cancelled, he was given a business card at an art show. On it was written this: “As soon as an imperative is placed on art (it should be political, it should be beautiful, it should be subversive), one has already robbed it of its freedom.” It appears Pacifica, through its insistence on hard-edged radicalism and tolerance for anti-Semitic extremism, is draining art of its freedom before attempting the same things on the United States. ”
Nov27
KPFK Audio: A tribute in recognition of the tenth anniversary of Bob Young’s death (11/15/2004):
Published on Nov 16, 2014 A random pick from his radio comedy (“The Adventures of Huckleberry Bush #60” 4/23/2004), some Dead (“Brokedown Palace”) and a coda from The East Village Opera Company (“As You Were Then”) Made by Lucia Chappelle, thank you
Oct29
Banner added to KPFK building, built in 1971
Oct24
Essay by a friend on Gyromantic Informicon
Post by a friend:
http://studhalter.blogspot.com/
22 October 2014
Progressivism
“As anyone who knows me knows, I am a through and through Progressive. Not a socialist, but I do believe that many things are best done with public ownership and resources, or at least on a regulated nonprofit basis, including public energy grids, health care, large scale transportation systems, scientific research in areas where there is no immediate profit motive, and environmental protection.
Of course, being a pragmatic citizen of the USA, I am a Democrat.
But let me be clear. I would abandon the Democratic Party in a heartbeat, in favor of a real Progressive Party; or, on the other hand, become a much more enthusiastic supporter of a renewed Democratic Party, were it to become that party. Such a party would support as immediate policy priorites:
- An immediate dedication to the “moral equivalent of war” —a super Apollo Project to achieve renewable energy and develop sustainable energy resources for the future, including finding alternatives to all fossil fuel use as soon as humanly achievable; and including a commitment to free technology sharing to ensure that these new technologies are spread throughout the world; and including buybacks and decommissioning on as accelerated a schedule as possible of all fossil fuel systems
- Universal Free Public Education including higher education and vocational education as a fundamental right
- Universal Health Care as a right, not a privilege, with transition to a much strengthened Medicare for All, on an accelerated schedule
- Huge investments in other public infrastructure, including sustainable agriculture, to make a livable and sustainable economy a reality
- Greatly increased taxes on corporate profits, wealth and highest incomes to pay for the necessary public investments
- Dedication to freedom of information and the internet
- Financial Reform with teeth, including greatly strengthened anti-Trust activity
Other progressive reforms are certainly doable and desirable, but these will do for starters.
But Where, I ask… Where is the Progressive movement in this country demanding these reforms, and now? Because the time is late, the clock is ticking, and the unsustainable energy and economic system we are all blindly following off the cliff is just not going to work. The world is literally dying under its onslaught, and the time for the people to take back their government and demand that a new paradigm be put in place is NOW, not later.
In contrast, the pathetic, indeed virtually non-existent, policy program of even the Democratic Party in this country is completely inadequate to the very real challenges that face our civilization. We the people must demand much more, and now. “
Oct15
Disclaimer, Basics
One of the beating hearts of KPFK
I worked at KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles / 98.7 FM Santa Barbara One of 5 Pacifica Stations & about 180 affiliates in the U.S.
93.7 FM North San Diego County – 99.5 FM Ridgecrest/China Lake
3729 Cahuenga Blvd. West – N. Hollywood, CA 91604
3729 Cahuenga Blvd. West – N. Hollywood, CA 91604
818-985-2711
Click on your favorite STATION or UNIT along the right-
Don’t forget to donate to KPFK or your station! PLEASE post your submissions and thoughts on here, just let me know so I can put it up: 3rd1000Yrs@gmail.com TO BROWSE BACK, PLEASE CLICK ON PAST MONTH IN ARCHIVE.
| Berkeley, California (San Francisco Bay Area) |
KPFA–94.1 | 1949 |
| KPFB–89.3 | 1954 | |
| Los Angeles | KPFK–90.7 | 1959 [10] |
| New York City | WBAI–99.5 | 1960 [12][13] |
| Houston | KPFT–90.1 | 1970 |
| Washington, D. C. | WPFW–89.3 | 1977 [11] |
DISCLAIMER: This is not an official Pacifica Foundation website nor an official website of any of the five Pacifica Radio Stations (KPFA Radio, KPFK Radio, KPFT Radio, WBAI Radio, WPFW Radio). Opinions and facts alleged on this site belong to the author(s) of the website only and should NOT be assumed to be true or to reflect the editorial stance or policy of the Pacifica Foundation, or any of the five Pacifica Radio Stations (KPFA Radio, KPFK Radio, KPFT Radio, WBAI Radio, WPFW Radio), or the opinions of its management, Pacifica National Board, station staff or other listener members.
Sep14
On Support
Dear Fellow KPFK Supporters,
BRANDING AND MARKETING are not evil, for us-they are EXULTING in what you are.
If you think Fundraising is an annoying chore you don’t want to think about, you don’t understand.
If you think this is irrelevant DETAIL then you don’t understand what we are, and what makes us what we are.
There’s no shame in being an outgrowth of the roots of the communities, the needs of the communities. We are ONE ARM OF THE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITIES. They/we need information/culture along with FOOD, SHELTER, etc.
Some of us are not on board with the understanding that listener-sponsorship is the ESSENCE of what we are. It’s what created us (Lewis Hill), what continues us, our life blood.
It sets us apart from, and ABOVE, everyone else. Fund Drives and other listener funding are our lives, our roots. I am PROUD to be part of Fund Drives because that’s what we are.
Listener-sponsorship or listener support is what EMPOWERS us, what enables us. It is our joy of existence.
Fund Drives should be a joyful celebration of what we are.
Are you proud to be A PART OF SOMETHING GREAT?
The Spirit of FunDrives should be:
They’re difficult, they may require every bit of strength and enthusiasm you have at that moment. But that makes them exhilarating and exhausting at the same time. They can be like reaching the top of a mountain, like a CRISIS surmounted, a climax.
From the heart, I love KPFK, how about you? Do all of us even know it’s our birthday?
We should ‘BLOW OUR OWN HORN’ a little, by MARKETING ourselves. We’re at the same time blowing the horn of the people of Southern California.
KPFK is an expression of the needs of the communities. We’re doing that EXPRESSION if we’re doing our mission right. We should be the VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.
We’re not just helping to express their/our needs but also trying to help to FIGHT FOR them and their needs.
We get not just the money from the communities, but the direction, the mission, the PURPOSE, the responsibility. That’s what we’re here for. We’re all on the same team as each other, and with the communities, and should work together (not that you don’t already).
Keep the Faith, y’all, the Spirit, SCJ
Are you proud to say you’ve been listening to KPFK for ___ years? But have you donated? If not, you’re not a supporter, really, just in name only.
Sep14
KPFK’s Studio B, the main, on-air, speakers’ table
Sep14
KPFK, how to come and get involved
KPFK Pacifica public radio 90.7 FM Los Angeles 818-985-2711
3729 Cahuenga Bl., West
North Hollywood CA 91604
KPFK is near the Universal City station of the Metro Red Line. When you get off, walk under the freeway, cross to the far (straight ahead) side, cross again to the left, on Cahuenga Blvd. West, and walk 1/2 a block to the red brick building on the right or West side of the street.
Or drive up the Hollywood, 101 freeway and exit at Lankershim, left under the freeway, and left again onto Cahuenga.
The Expo line and the Blue line enter this map from the bottom. They connect with the Red Line at 7th Street station. The Gold Line connects with the Red Line at Union Station from the Right side of this map.
Jul16
We Occupy Their Billboard over our KPFK building
http://www.pocho.com/kpcc-radio-billboard-occupied-by-kpfk-radio-listener/ Pocho Hour of Power is a bilingual show outside the Spanish language weeknight strip.
KPCC radio billboard ‘Occupied’ by KPFK radio listener
Much L.A. radio hay was made over the placing of a KPCC 89.3 FM billboard advertising its “Ideas not ideology” slogan practically on top my radio station’s studios at KPFK 90.7 FM, where I host the Pocho Hour of Power every Friday at 4 PM.
As I walked in today, I was alerted that someone had replaced the KPCC billboard with our own KPFK billboard. Didn’t know we had such a substantial advertising budget.
Nice job! (above photo by KPFK’s Ernesto Arce) Here’s the before picture:
Jul16
Note – KPFK has a car show still
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/11/john_retsek_creator_of_th.php
John Retsek, creator of ‘The Car Show’ and KCET veteran
Saturday morning on one of Los Angeles’ longest-running radio programs, the hosts will announce the death of John Retsek, who created The Car Show on KPFK in 1973. They will talk about John and possibly take calls from the legions of listeners who have listened to the show or been guests in its nearly four decades on the air — the odd duck among the politically charged news, talk and revolutionary rhetoric at the Pacifica-owned radio station. They don’t do politics on “The Car Show.” It’s just the one place in the vast Los Angeles media web for people who like to drive, buy, race or look at cars. It might be the most natively Southern California program on the air, which may be why it has lasted 39 years.
Retsek died in his sleep during the night on Wednesday, according to co-host Dave Kunz. I don’t have his age or any other details. He lived in San Pedro and raced sailboats in addition to being a a car guy. (Added: Retsek was 75.)
Retsek’s story is an LA media story. He was working at TV station KCET, and doing an occasional car story on the air, when consumer reporter Wina Sturgeon invited him onto her KPFK talk show to give people tips. Ruth Seymour, who later made KCRW into what it is today, ran KPFK then. She invited Retsek to take a regular slot, which he did with co-host Jack Kirkpatrick, a friend and the head mechanic for the California Highway Patrol. A series of co-hosts followed, including the late Leonard Frank for more than a decade. The current hosts are Kunz, who is also the automotive reporter for KABC-TV, and Art Gould, who started guesting on the show around 1990.
In 2003, KPFK threatened to take “The Car Show” off the air, but screams could be heard across the region and cooler heads prevailed. The show stayed on the air, cut back to an hour.
“Ruth Seymour has approached us on a couple of occasions to go down to KCRW, but I’ve always managed to work with The Regime,” Retsek told interviewers at LA Car.com some years ago. “Some people perceived The Car Show as problematic because it carried voices from the entire political spectrum. Even people from the far right were on The Car Show. On the other hand, we are raising some pretty significant money for the station….Some of the high rollers at the station were interested in cars and supported the show. So I get a call back, ‘I’m sorry but we want you back. But we can only give you an hour because we scheduled something else in your time.’ They were begging.”
Retsek retired recently after 43 years at KCET, much of the time as an art director and archivist, with a bunch of Emmys on his shelf. The one time we met, I had run into him in a back passageway on the KCET lot on Sunset Boulevard. He invited me up to see his office, located in an upstairs corner of the storied old former movie studio, off by itself. I remember thinking this had to be one of the coolest offices in LA. He didn’t make the station’s move over to Burbank.
I haven’t actually heard “The Car Show” much since it moved earlier in the morning. I’m not a car buff at all — I enjoy open-road driving but that’s about it. Still, I wrote in 2003 as an admirer of listening to people I didn’t know reveling in their passion.
Planting my garden Saturday I listened to all two hours of The Car Show on KPFK (90.7 FM) and I don’t care anything about cars except you turn the key and they go. But The Car Show is like eavesdropping on a conversation between well-informed, friendly aficionados discussing their passion, and that can always be compelling. This week, two professors from Cal Tech came on and dissected everything about hydrogen and fuel cells. Even the phone calls were smart and on point. Now I get it. It reminded me why the show has been on the air in Los Angeles for thirty years, and on KPFK no less, without a shred of political content.
“The Car Show” airs on KPFK, 90.7 FM, from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Photo: Retsek on the old KCET lot from LA Car.com
Apr2
KPFK from the program director’s seat-article from Truthdig
How Pacifica Can Become the Media That We Need
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/how_pacifica_can_become_the_media_that_we_need_20140402
Editor’s note: Pacifica is America’s first public radio network. It was founded in 1949, about 22 years before National Public Radio….Alan Minsky has worked at KPFK, Southern California’s Pacifica radio station and the home of Truthdig Radio, for over a decade. Since July 2009, he has been KPFK’s interim program director. He is the author of a positive vision for Pacifica’s stabilization and growth, and he has agreed to share that document, along with an introduction, with our readers.
PacificaKPFK2014History.com 