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KPFA (94.1 FM) is a public, listener-funded talk radio and music radio station located in Berkeley, California, broadcasting to the San Francisco Bay Area.KPFA airs public news, public affairs, talk, and music programming.
Western U.S. affiliate stations Station Frequency Location KACR-LP 96.1 FM Alameda, California: KAKU-LP 88.5 FM Kahului, Hawaii: KAPY-LP 104.9 FM
Pacifica was founded in 1946 by pacifists E. John Lewis and Lewis Hill.During World War II, both of them had filed for conscientious objector status. [7] After the war, Lewis, Hill and a small group of former conscientious objectors created the Pacifica Foundation in the town of Pacifica, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Lewis Hill (May 1, 1919 – August 1, 1957) [1] was a co-founder of KPFA, the first listener-supported radio station in the United States, and the Pacifica Radio network. He was born in Kansas City, Kansas, on May 1, 1919. His father was an attorney who made his fortune by brokering a deal to sell an oil company to J.P. Morgan.
Flashpoints is a daily, politically progressive investigative news and public affairs program broadcast weekdays at 5 p.m. PST on Pacifica Radio station KPFA-FM (94.1) in Berkeley, California. The program is broadcast on Pacifica's national feed.
Over the Edge (or OTE) is a sound collage radio program hosted and produced in the United States by Jon Leidecker ("Wobbly") and Robert Cole ("KrOB"), who took over in 2015 after the death of longtime host Don Joyce.
The station began broadcasting as KPFZ 104.5LP-FM, and was the first station in California's radio history to be licensed as such (LP-FM). On April 25, 2005, a construction permit was issued for the broadcasting of KPFZ 88.1fm 'full-power' (100 watts, or more, of signal strength).
Ian Masters is an Australian-born, BBC-trained American broadcast journalist, commentator, author, screenwriter and documentary filmmaker. [1] [2]Masters [3] hosted the KPFK, Pacifica Radio program Background Briefing which deals with American politics, foreign policy as well as domestic American security issues.