Pacifica Radio Network.

Pacifica Radio is a network of five independent owned and operated, non-commercial, listener-supported radio stations, one associated station, and 90 affiliated radio stations in the United States that is known for its leftist and pacifist political views. Some other U.S. and Canadian community radio stations also carry some Pacifica programming. Pacifica was the first public radio network in the U.S. The network is run by the Pacifica Foundation (a.k.a. Pacifica Radio Foundation). Image File history File links Pacifica_Logo. ... Image File history File links Pacifica_Logo. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards and appeal to a wider international audience, this article may require cleanup. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Left-Right politics. ... Pacifism is the opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes. ...

Pacifica Radio's audio archive is the nation's oldest public radio archive, documenting 50 years of grassroots political and performing arts history. The Pacifica Radio Archive houses original recordings of interviews with John Coltrane, Lorraine Hansberry, and Langston Hughes, among many others. John Coltrane John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967), often known as Trane, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. ... Lorraine Hansberry Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an American playwright and painter. ... Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and newspaper columnist. ...

History

Pacifica was founded in 1946 by pacifist Lewis Hill. During World War II he filed as a conscientious objector. After the war he and a small group of ex-conscientious objectors created the Pacifica Foundation. The foundation's first project, KPFA in Berkeley, California, was inaugurated in 1949. KPFA (94. ... KPFA (94. ... KPFA (94. ... KPFA (94. ... KPFK (90. ... KPFK (90. ... KPFK (90. ... KPFK (90. ... KPFT is a radio station in Houston, Texas which went on the air in 1970 as the fourth station in the Pacifica radio family. ... KPFT is a radio station in Houston, Texas which went on the air in 1970 as the fourth station in the Pacifica radio family. ... KPFT is a radio station in Houston, Texas which went on the air in 1970 as the fourth station in the Pacifica radio family. ... KPFT is a radio station in Houston, Texas which went on the air in 1970 as the fourth station in the Pacifica radio family. ... WBAI, a part of the Pacifica Radio Network, is a non-commercial, listener-supported radio station, broadcasting at 99. ... WBAI, a part of the Pacifica Radio Network, is a non-commercial, listener-supported radio station, broadcasting at 99. ... WBAI, a part of the Pacifica Radio Network, is a non-commercial, listener-supported radio station, broadcasting at 99. ... WBAI, a part of the Pacifica Radio Network, is a non-commercial, listener-supported radio station, broadcasting at 99. ... wpfw ... wpfw ... wpfw ... wpfw ... WORT 89. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Lewis Hill (1919-1957) was the founder of Pacifica Radio, the first listener-supported radio station in the United States. ... Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead... A conscientious objector (CO) is an individual following the religious, moral or ethical dictates of his or her conscience that are incompatible with being a combatant in military service, or being part of the armed forces as a combatant organization. ... KPFA (94. ... Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern California, in the United States. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ...

For most of its history, Pacifica gave each of its stations independent control of programming. Then during the 1990s, a major controversy arose over rumors that the national Pacifica board was attempting to centralize control of content, in order to increase listenership. The rumors also included accusations that the board also proposed changing the network's funding model away from reliance on listener donations and toward corporate foundation funding. There were also accusations that the Board was considering selling both KPFA and WBAI, which operate on commercial broadcast channels. The frequencies were and are worth hundreds of millions of dollars. All of this led to years of conflict, including court cases, firings and strikes of station staff, and public demonstrations. Many listeners to the individual stations—especially KPFA in Berkeley, California and WBAI in New York City—objected to what they saw as an attempt to tone down the overtly political content on Pacifica stations. The controversy included highly publicized disputes between listener organizations and Mary Frances Berry, the radio network's chairman. See also 1990s, the band Germans dancing on the Berlin Wall in late 1989, the symbol of the cold war divide falls down as the world unites in the 1990s. ... KPFA (94. ... Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern California, in the United States. ... WBAI, a part of the Pacifica Radio Network, is a non-commercial, listener-supported radio station, broadcasting at 99. ... Nickname: Big Apple, City that never Sleeps Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... Mary Frances Berry is Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and the former chairwoman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. ...

The board eventually was embroiled in counter lawsuits by boardmembers and listener-sponsors, and after global settlement of the lawsuits in November, 2001, an interim board was formed to craft new bylaws, which it did in two tumultuous years of national debates among thousands of listener-sponsors and activists, finally giving listener-sponsors the right and responsibility to elect new local boards at each of the five Pacifica stations, whose boards in turn elect the national board, all of which are now subject to accountability and recall by the listener sponsors.

Pacifica National News Director Dan Coughlin was voted Interim Executive Director of the network in 2002. But the years of internal legal battles and financial mismanagement had taken a toll. As of late 2005, the network was still on somewhat shaky financial ground, and was operating with an interim executive director. In early 2006, Pacifica hired Greg Guma as the new executive director of the Pacifica Foundation. For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Programs

A show which has for years been considered the flagship of Pacifica Radio's national programming is Democracy Now!, a left wing oriented talk show that covers democracy, human rights and justice issues, and questions the motives of U.S. foreign and domestic policy, most recently the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, this program is a compilation of news, interviews, and documentaries. Democracy Now! is heard and seen on more than 400 radio and TV stations across the U.S., on satellite television networks on the left-leaning networks Free Speech TV and Link TV. Democracy Now! logo. ... In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms that refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially but not exclusively in the American sense of the word... Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ... J.L. Urban, statue of Lady Justice at court building in Olomouc, Czech Republic (1896-1901) Justice is the ideal, morally correct state of things and persons. ... This article regards the 2003 invasion of Iraq. ... Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! Amy Goodman (b. ... Juan Gonzalez is an American investigative journalist. ... Free Speech TV is a publicly-supported, independent, non-profit TV channel that is a project of Public Communicators, Inc. ... LinkTV is a free satellite television station in the United States which started as Worldlink TV in December 1999. ...

In 2002, further to the process of Pacifica's implementation of the new listener-sponsored-accountability structure begun that year, and in settlement of disputes between "Democracy Now" and the prior (then-ousted) national board of Pacifica, "Democracy Now" was spun off with substantial funding by Pacifica, and is now an independent production.

The Pacifica network, in addition to extensive community-based productions at its various stations around the United States, also features a daily newscast Free Speech Radio News. FSRN is a radio program founded by Pacifica Reporters Against Censorship, a group of reporters who went on strike against the Pacifica board policies of the late 1990s. Free Speech Radio News (FSRN) is a worker run collective that produces a half hour newscast each weekday. ... See also 1990s, the band Germans dancing on the Berlin Wall in late 1989, the symbol of the cold war divide falls down as the world unites in the 1990s. ...

Additional programming available to network stations and affiliates includes Explorations in Science with Dr. Michio Kaku, an hour long radio program on science, technology, politics, and the environment; Dennis Bernstein's FlashPoints a drive-time public affairs program; Pacifica Headline News 5-minute news breaks throughout the afternoon; and coverage of special U.S. Congressional hearings and other events such as Anti-War Rallies; and programs in the Pacifica Radio Archives. Professor Michio Kaku Michio Kaku(Kanji: 加來 道雄, born January 24, 1947 in the United States) is a Japanese American theoretical physicist, tenured professor, and co-creator of string field theory, a branch of string theory. ... Dennis Bernstein is a Jewish-American writer and activist who is notably critical of abusive and illegal policies of the Israeli government. ...

Stations

Pacifica Radio Network
Station	Dial Number	Location
WBAI	99.5 FM	New York City, New York
KPFA	94.1 FM	Berkeley, California
KPFK	90.7 FM	Los Angeles, California
KPFT	90.1 FM	Houston, Texas
WPFW	89.3 FM	Washington D.C.

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See also

• F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation
• List of Pacifica Radio Stations and Affiliates
• List of progressive organizations

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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 (October, 2005) "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".

External links

• Pacifica Radio Foundation
• Pacifica Network
• Pacifica Radio Archives
• Democracy Now!
• Free Speech Radio News
• Coalition for a Democratic Pacifica New York
• Concerned Friends of WBAI
• Save Pacifica
• [1] Lewis Hill and the Origins of Listener-Sponsored Broadcasting in America