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10 unusual facts about KPFK


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#*First six tracks from a Spin Radio taping done at KPFK's studio in Los Angeles, CA in October 1985.

D Stevens

In early 1970, as Public Affairs Director KPFK-FM, Stevens won a Golden Mike award for exposing conditions at California's Soledad Prison and the cause of the "Soledad Brothers" including George Jackson.

Diana Meier

W Sportz, a women’s sports talk show on Cable; was the first woman to host women’s sports on the Fred Wallen Show; and hosted her own radio show, Women’s Sports Talk, for 5 years on KPFK.

Gene Youngblood

He was a reporter and film critic for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, reporter for KHJ-TV, arts commentator for KPFK, and from 1967 to 1970 he was associate editor and columnist for the Los Angeles Free Press, the first and largest of the underground newspapers of that era.

Marc Cooper

From 1980 to 1983, Cooper was the news and public affairs director of Pacifica station KPFK-FM, Los Angeles.

Mariam Matossian

2008: Named among KPFK’s “Best of 2008” for In the Light (by Yatrika Shah-Rais, Global Village)

Mark Ridley-Thomas

During that period he also hosted a public affairs program on Pacifica Radio station KPFK-FM in Los Angeles.

Robert Chesley

On August 31, 1986, his two-character play, Jerker, aired on the Pacifica Radio station KPFK's IMRU Program.

Terrence E. McNally

For more than 15 years, McNally has hosted Free Forum on Pacifica Radio stations KPFK and WBAI.

Terry Drinkwater

Drinkwater's first major break in broadcasting came when he was hired in 1959 as general manager of Pacifica Radio KPFK-FM, a public station in Los Angeles.


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