Summer Tunes: Music and Festivals, Live and On the Air
As the summer solstice is here, the music moves outdoors. And community stations offer support, sponsorship, and an audience. This week, we’re featuring five station/festival collaborations for your summer listening. Continue Reading →
WYAP-LP 101.7FM: Yap Radio is Clay County, West Virginia’s Voice for Change
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world… I stop somewhere, waiting for you. —Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself,” Leaves of Grass In 1855, Walt Whitman, poet Continue Reading →
KWVH Is Now Broadcasting With An FCC Emergency License Through July 3, 2015
Over Memorial Day weekend, massive flooding devastated parts of Texas along the Blanco River, including Wimberley, Texas, where, as of June 9, nine lives have been claimed in the area, with Continue Reading →
Pacifica Remembers Its Pacifist Roots
Each Memorial Day, Americans mourn, remember and honor those who have lost their lives to war. Lewis Hill and the small group of pacifists who founded Pacifica sought to do Continue Reading →
Richard Owen Moore: 1920-2015
Richard Owen Moore was one of the original founders of listener-supported KPFA, along with Lewis Hill and Eleanor McKinney, in Berkeley, California—the first station in what is now the Pacifica Foundation. Continue Reading →
Reading on the Radio: Pacifica Affiliates Broadcast Books
“Tell me a story”: All literature springs from oral tradition, and radio may be the medium best suited to foster that tradition in a technological age. Today, we feature affiliate Continue Reading →