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4 unusual facts about Pacifica Radio


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RRC airs several Rossland-based shows, like Sesn-a-tonin, as well as a few syndicated programs, like Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now!, and Kootenay Coop Radio's food-issues program Deconstructing Dinner.

Pacifica Radio

The controversy included highly publicized disputes between listener organizations and Mary Frances Berry, a former chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, who chaired the corporation's board at the time.

The archive includes original recordings of interviews with John Coltrane, James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, and Langston Hughes, among many others.

Sasha Lilley

Lilley is a co-founder and host of the Pacifica Radio program Against the Grain.


Adi Gevins

Much of her work has been done for the Pacifica Radio station KPFA in Berkeley, California, including "One Billion Seconds Later", which won the Ohio State Award and "Me and My Shadow", a documentary about Cointelpro's infiltration of the New Left.

B. Jill Carroll

For two years she co-hosted with Kym King a regular radio program called "Peaceful Coexistence" on Pacifica 90.1FM KPFT in Houston.

Deepa Fernandes

Fernandes has worked as a freelance producer for the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, InterWorld Radio and Pacifica Radio.

DJ Sun

DJ Sun started a radio show in 1995, Soular Grooves on KPFT 90.1 FM, Pacifica Network.

Khalil Bendib

In addition to his work as a cartoonist, Bendib also co-hosts a weekly one-hour radio program called Voices of the Middle East and North Africa on Pacifica Radio station KPFA (94.1 FM), in Berkeley, California.

KNSJ

Content includes locally-produced programs as well as news and information from the BBC and Pacifica Radio.

KRCL

Public affairs programing includes locally generated content as well as nationally syndicated programs such as Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now!.

Marc Cooper

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

Mark Ridley-Thomas

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

Radio Phoenix

Radio Phoenix is the Phoenix area's primary Pacifica Radio affiliate, and carries many of their national news and public affairs programming, including Democracy Now!, Al Jazeera English News, Free Speech Radio News, Sprouts, and The David Pakman Show.

Robert Chesley

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

Steve Chase

He coordinates the Pacifica Radio Programming Committee at WKNH Radio in Keene and moderates a listserve for the annual National Training for Trainers in Human Rights Education.

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.


see also

Larry Bensky

In 1972, he anchored and produced Pacifica Radio's coverage of the Democratic and Republican national conventions, both held in Miami, along with the attendant massive anti-war protests, dubbed "The Siege of Miami".

Roy Campanella II

In 2004, Campanella was named general manager of Pacifica radio station, KPFA in Berkeley, California.