KPFK

KPFK
Broadcast area	Los Angeles, California
Branding	Pacifica Radio
Slogan	"Radio powered by the people"
Frequency	90.7 (MHz)
Repeater(s)	KPFK-FM1 Malibu, California
First air date	July 26, 1959
Format	Public Radio
ERP	110,000 watts
HAAT	863.0 meters (2,831.4 ft)
Class	B
Facility ID	51252
Transmitter coordinates	34°13′45″N 118°4′3″W / 34.22917°N 118.06750°W / 34.22917; -118.06750
Callsign meaning	K PaciFiC (K)a
Owner	Pacifica Foundation, inc.
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	http://www.kpfk.org/

KPFK (90.7 FM) is a listener-sponsored radio station based in North Hollywood, California, United States, which serves the Southern California, and also streams 24 hours a day via the Internet. It was the second of five stations in the non-commercial, listener-sponsored Pacifica Foundation network.

KPFK 90.7 FM began broadcasting in April 1959,^[1] 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. KPFK also broadcasts on KPFK-FM1 along the Malibu coast, K258BS (99.5 MHz) in China Lake, California, K254AH (98.7 MHz) in Santa Barbara, California.

With its 110,000-watt main transmitter atop Mount Wilson, KPFK is one of the most powerful FM stations in the western United States. The station can be heard from the California/Mexico border to Santa Barbara to Ridgecrest/China Lake. A second 10-watt translator is licensed in Isla Vista, California, a census-designated place outside of Santa Barbara. The transmitter for that station is located atop Gibraltar Peak, allowing its broadcast to be heard over a large portion of southern Santa Barbara County.

Funding

The station is part of the Pacifica Network which has 5 radio stations besides KPFK, and provides programming to over 150 affiliates.

Operating costs are covered primarily by donations from listener-sponsors and sponsored events. The 501(c)3 non-profit station runs no paid commercial advertisements or sponsored programming. Memberships at a minimum donation of $25 allow participation in the election of Local Station Board members.

Local Station Board [LSB]

In two years during a 3-year cycle, station members and staff elect the Local Station Board (LSB) as required by the Pacifica Foundation Bylaws.^[2] The KPFK LSB elects members from its body to the Pacifica Foundation board of directors and has support and advisory duties for the station. The full LSB meets monthly, and committees of the LSB meet on both regular and ad hoc bases.

Programming

Like all Pacifica stations, KPFK has, since its inception run an eclectic schedule of performing arts, public affairs, and news. Many programs are available through the Pacifica Network ^[3] for rebroadcast to affiliate stations and are streamed for a limited period on the Online Archives.^[4]

Maintaining its adherence to Pacifica founder Lew Hill's Mission,^[5] KPFK focuses on news, public affairs, and performance of local interest, while blending in nationally- and internationally-focused programming. Programming includes twelve hours broadcast in Spanish from 9:00 p.m.-midnight. With the rest of the Pacifica Foundation stations and in accord with the Mission's commitment to dialogue, KPFK maintains community access to the airwaves "to serve the cultural welfare of the community.... to contribute to a lasting understanding between nations and between the individuals of all nations, races, creeds and colors; to gather and disseminate information on the causes of conflict between any and all of such groups; and through any and all means compatible with the purposes of this corporation to promote the study of political and economic problems and of the causes of religious, philosophical and racial antagonisms. In radio broadcasting operations to promote the full distribution of public information; to obtain access to sources of news not commonly brought together in the same medium; and to employ such varied sources in the public presentation of accurate, objective, comprehensive news on all matters vitally affecting the community."

History

1959: The Pacifica Foundation begins its second station — KPFK. Terry Drinkwater is its first General Manager.
1961: KPFK wins Pacifica's second George Foster Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting.
1962: The FCC withholds the license renewals of KPFA, KPFB, and KPFK pending its investigation into "communist affiliations." Pacifica was never cited (see The Investigator).
1963: KPFK runs the very first Renaissance Faire as a fundraiser (the event is managed by Theme Events Limited Renaissance fair#History of the fairs in America).
July 24, 1966: The first broadcast of Radio Free Oz by The Firesign Theatre.
1974: The Symbionese Liberation Army delivers the Patty Hearst tapes to KPFA and KPFK. The KPFK manager is jailed for refusing to turn the tapes over to the FBI.
August 31, 1986: Jerker, a Robert Chesley play dramatizes the reflections of a man dying of AIDS, airs on Pacifica station KPFK. Because it included graphic sexual language, the FCC ruled that it violated an indecency policy.
1987: Ladysmith Black Mambazo makes their first live U.S. radio appearance on KPFK.
1992: CPB Board member Victor Gold targets KPFK for strident African American programming and controversial speech aired during Black History month, by filing an FCC complaint.

Translators

In addition to the main station, KPFK is relayed by an additional three translators to widen its broadcast area.

Call sign	Frequency (MHz)	City of license	ERP W	Class	FCC info
K258BS	99.5	China Lake, Kern County, California	9	D	FCC
K254AH	98.7	Isla Vista, California	10	D	FCC
K229BO	93.7	Rancho Bernardo, San Diego, California	10	D	FCC
KPFK-FM1	90.7	Malibu, California	1500	D	FCC

References

↑ "About Pacifica - A Short History". Pacifica.org. Retrieved 2012-02-22.
↑ http://pacifica.org/pnb_bylaws.php
↑ http://pacificanetwork.org/
↑ http://archive.kpfk.org/
↑ http://pacifica.org/about_mission.php

External links

Query the FCC's FM station database for KPFK

Radio-Locator information on KPFK

Pacifica Radio Network

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Personnel

Current	Dennis Bernstein Blase Bonpane Don Bustany Deepa Fernandes Jack Foley Jim Freund Amy Goodman Juan González Doug Henwood Michio Kaku Sasha Lilley Mwiza Munthali Jeremy Scahill Roy Tuckman Rickey Vincent

Former	Margot Adler Aimee Allison Charles Amirkhanian Erik Bauersfeld Larry Bensky Mary Frances Berry Jerry Brown Pratap Chatterjee Marc Cooper Bob Fass Laurie Garrett Adi Gevins Aaron Glantz Dorothy Healey Lewis Hill Stephen Hill Pauline Kael Saul Landau Sharon Maeda Julianne Malveaux William Mandel Richard Pryor Kenneth Rexroth Nicole Sawaya Susan Stone Chris Strachwitz Elsa Knight Thompson Alan Watts

Radio stations in the Los Angeles, California market

By AM frequency	570 590 600 640² 670 710 740 760 790 830 870 900 930 980 1020 1070² 1110 1150 1190 1220 1230 1240 1260 1280 1290 1300 1330 1350 1370 1390 1410 1430 1440 1460 1480 1520 1540 1560 1570 1580 1600 1630³ 1650 1670 Orange County 830 1190 1480

By FM frequency	87.7¹ 88.1 88.5 88.7 88.7 88.9 88.9 89.3 89.9 90.1 90.3 90.7 91.3 91.5 91.9 92.3 92.7 93.1 93.5 93.9 94.3 94.7 95.5 95.9 96.3 96.7 97.1 97.9 98.3 98.7 99.5 100.3 101.1 101.9 102.3 102.7 103.1 103.5 103.9 104.3 104.7 105.1 105.5 105.9 106.7 107.1 107.5 Orange County 88.5 88.9 90.1 92.7 94.3 95.9 96.7 103.1 106.3 107.9

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.4 162.45 162.525 162.55

Digital radio	640 980 1070 88.1-1 88.1-2 88.1-3 88.5-1 88.5-2 89.3-1 89.9-1 89.9-2 91.5-1 92.3-1 92.3-2 92.3-3 93.1-1 93.1-2 93.9-1 94.7-1 94.7-2 95.5-1 95.5-2 96.7-1 97.1-1 97.1-2 98.7-1 98.7-2 100.3-1 100.3-2 101.1-1 101.1-2 102.7-1 102.7-2 103.1-1 103.5-1 103.5-2 104.3-1 104.3-2 105.1-1 105.1-2 105.1-3 105.9-1 105.9-2 106.7-1 106.7-2 107.1-1 107.5-1 107.5-2 107.5-3 107.9-1

By callsign	KABC KAMP-FM KAHZ KALI KALI-FM KAZN KBIG KBOQ KBPK KBRT KBUE KBUA KCAA KCAL KCBS-FM KCRW KCSN KDAY KDIS KDLD KDLE KEIB KEZY KFI KFMB KFNY KFRN KFSH-FM KFWB KGBN KHJ KHPY KHTS KIEV KIIS-FM KIRN KISL KJLH KKDD KKGO KKJZ KKLA-FM KKZZ KLAA KLAC KLAX-FM KLOS KLTX KLVE KMPC KMRB KNX² KOCP KOGO KOST KPCC KPFK KPRO KPWR KRCD KRCV KRLA KROQ-FM KRRL KRTH KSAK KSBR KSCA KSPA KSPC KSPN KSSE KSWD KTDD KTIE KTLW KTNQ KTWV KTYM KUCI KUSC KVNR KWIZ KWKW KWO37 KWRM KWVE-FM KXLU KXOL-FM KXOS KXSC KYLA KYPA KYSR WWG21 WNG584 WZ2505 "KCHUNG"³

Defunct	KACD/KBCD KACE KEDG KFAC KIBB KIIS KIQQ KKBT KKDJ KKHR KMET KMJR/KNJR KMPC KNAC KNHS KNOB KNX-FM KODJ KPPC KQLZ KRBV KSKQ KSKQ-FM KUTE KWST-FM KFSG KZAB/KZBA KZLA-FM KIEV KPOL KTZN KXED KXMG KYMS

Satellite radio local traffic/weather XM Channel 222 Sirius Channel 150 Nearby radio markets Bakersfield High Desert/Eastern Sierra Oxnard–Ventura Riverside/San Bernardino San Diego Santa Barbara Victor Valley See also List of radio stations in California ¹ Audio for TV channel 6 (KSFV-CA/Religious) ² Clear-channel stations with extended nighttime coverage. ³ Notable Part 15 station

Radio stations in the Santa Barbara, California market

By FM frequency	88.7 89.5/90.9 89.9 90.3 90.5/91.5 91.1 91.9 92.9 93.7 94.5 95.1 95.9 97.5 98.3 98.7 99.9 100.7 101.7 102.3 103.3 104.7 105.9 106.9 107.7

By AM frequency	990 1070 1090 1250 1290 1340 1490

By callsign	K213AR K218CP K295AH KBBY-FM KCAQ KCLU KCLU-FM KCSB KDAR KDB KDRW KDSC KFYZ KHAY KIST-FM KJEE KLFF KMRO KNX KOCP KPFK KRAZ KSBL KSBX KSPE KTMS KTYD KVYB KYGA KZER KZSB XEPRS

Defunct	KVRY-LP 96.3

Nearby radio markets Bakersfield Los Angeles Oxnard–Ventura San Diego Santa Maria-Lompoc See also List of radio stations in California

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