Pacifica’s LA station KPFK’s intended coverage of a community meeting on suspicious activity reports was a hot mess with over ten minutes of chaos broadcast from Santa Barbara to Tijuana with apparently no oversight from anyone. In this 10 minute 45 second clip, Michael Jackson music blasts over the speakers, a fundraising cart runs right over the event the program is trying to cover and a recording of Dave Zirin’s Edge of Sports is broadcast simultaneously with two feeds going out over the air at the same time. The debacle is indicative of the station’s decline since Leslie Radford took over as GM in June of 2015. The station does not appear to have enough money to get through April with Radford reporting a bank account balance of only $85,000 less than a month after the station ended a 30-day fund drive with pledges of $602,000.
Did Roy of Hollywood get his time slot back yet? That other programming from 12-3 is so bad I turned it off in January and stopped donating after ten years of supporting the station.
I can’t believe people are still donating to KPFK. Leslie is doing a fine job imploding that station. What a shame.
Well, considering the PNB majority is allergic to financial reporting for the network, who knows where the money is going – or coming from?