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KPFA was the first station to broadcast a radio show specializing in space music, with the debut of Stephen Hill and Anna Turner's Music from the Hearts of Space in 1973. Ten years later, the show – now known by the shorter title Hearts of Space – was syndicated in the U.S. to NPR stations, while remaining at its first home at KPFA.
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.
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.
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
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).
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.
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.
It was the second of five stations in the non-commercial, listener-sponsored Pacifica Radio network. KPFK 90.7 FM began broadcasting in April 1959, [2] [3] twelve years after the Pacifica Foundation was created by pacifist Lewis Hill, and ten years after the network's flagship station, KPFA, was founded in Berkeley.