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History

Launched in 1949, three years after the Pacifica Foundation was created by pacifist Lewis Hill, KPFA became the first station in the Pacifica Radio network and the first listener-supported radio broadcaster in the United States. Previously, non-commercial stations were licensed only to serve educational functions as extensions of high schools, colleges, and universities. This departure into listener-oriented programming brought many detractors as KPFA aired controversial programming. The first interview with anyone from the gay political movement was broadcast by KPFA, as well as Allen Ginsberg's ground-breaking poem Howl in the 1950s. In the 1960s KPFA and Pacifica were accused of being controlled by the Communist Party, and several challenges to its license were waged, none of them successful. Year 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lewis Hill (1919-1957) was the founder of Pacifica Radio, the first listener-supported radio station in the United States. ... Pacifica Radio Network. ... GAY can mean: Gay, a term referring to homosexual men or women The IATA code for Gaya Airport Category: ... Irwin Allen Ginsberg (IPA: ) (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet. ... Howl and Other Poems was published in the fall of 1956 as number four in the Pocket Poets Series from City Lights Books This article is about the poem by Allen Ginsberg. ... In modern usage, the term communist party is generally used to identify any political party which has adopted communist ideology. ...

KPFA was the first station to broadcast a radio show specializing in Space music, with the debut of Stephen Hill and Ann Turner's Music from the Hearts of Space in 1973. Later in 1981, the show was syndicated to NPR stations nationally and also remained at its first home at KPFA. Space music is a type of ambient music. ... Hearts of Space is a popular radio show featuring space music, a term that the program helped to popularize. ... NPR logo For other meanings of NPR see NPR (disambiguation) National Public Radio (NPR) is a private, not-for-profit corporation that sells programming to member radio stations; together they are a loosely organized public radio network in the United States. ...

Affiliates

KPFA sister stations are WBAI, KPFT, KPFK, and WPFW. Pacifica continues today to be a listener-supported network of stations. The main KPFA transmitter is a 59 kilowatt class B, though there are also two smaller boosters, KPFA-FM2 in Bonny Doon and KPFA-3 in Oakley. KPFB is a smaller station, also in Berkeley, that covers areas of Berkeley that KPFA can't reach. It also carries some separate programming specifically for its Berkeley audience. KPFA programs are also rebroadcast by KFCF in Fresno. KZFR in Chico also carries KPFA's programming from 2AM-6AM daily. In the Bay Area, Comcast carries KPFA's broadcasts on cable channel 967, as part of its digital radio offering. The channel is labelled "Variety/Berkeley". WBAI, a part of the Pacifica Radio Network, is a non-commercial, listener-supported radio station, broadcasting at 99. ... KPFT is a radio station in Houston, Texas which went on the air in 1970 as the fourth station in the Pacifica radio family. ... KPFK (90. ... wpfw ... The kilowatt (symbol: kW) is a unit for measuring power, equal to one thousand watts. ... This is the list of broadcast station classes. ... Bonny Doon, California is a small town on Ben Lomond Mountain, north of Santa Cruz, California. ... Oakley is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States. ... KFCF is an Associated Station of the Pacifica Radio network, based in Fresno, California. ... KZFR 90. ...

Further reading

• Lasar, Matthew (April, 2000) Pacifica Radio: The Rise of an Alternative Network (American Subjects Series). Temple University Press. ISBN 1-56639-777-4
• Lasar, Matthew (January, 2006) Uneasy Listening: Pacifica Radio's Civil War Black Apollo. ISBN 1-900355-45-0
• Walker, Jesse (June, 2004)"Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America".

See also

• Dennis Bernstein
• Laurie Garrett
• William Mandel
• Sep Ghadishah

Dennis Bernstein is a Jewish-American writer and activist who is notably critical of abusive and illegal policies of the Israeli government. ... Laurie Garrett is a writer, author of the popular book The Coming Plague which discussed the vulnerability of the world to disease due to the lack of attention and funding given to health. ... William Bill Mandel is a former fellow at Stanford Universitys Hoover Institute, broadcast journalist, political activist, and author of many books including Soviet Marxism and Social Science, Soviet Women, Soviet But Not Russian, and Saying No To Power. ... DJ Sep spinning at Dub Mission. ...

External links

• KPFA official site
• The Lengthening Shadow: Lewis Hill and the Origins of Listener-Sponsored Radio in America
• Query the FCC's FM station database for KPFA
• Radio Locator information on KPFA