Brief snippet from KPFK local station board meeting of June 19th.
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KPFK’s Friendly Volunteer Coordinator
The public comment session from KPFK’s March 20th local station board meeting. The primary speaker is general manager Leslie Radford’s roommate and the station’s new volunteer coordinator Adam Rice, who is addressing the board during public comment. The final speaker is Safe Harbor host Chrisanne Eastwood who explains that motherfuckers is a vernacular term that means “you guys” or “dude” and is not meant to be derogatory.
Special Programming Gone Wrong
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.
Treasurer’s Report From KPFK Local Board Meeting 2-21
KPFK Local board member Myla Reson videotaped the treasurer’s report from the KPFK local station board meeting, after a brief interruption when bookkeeper and gadfly Bella De Soto tried to knock the camera out of her hand.
The videotape includes treasurer Fred Blair’s report and follow-up comments by former treasurer Kim Kaufman. which are trenchant, on-point and very worth your time to listen to.
Lockdown
Berkeley-Within days of the seating of the new KPFK local station board after the landslide victory of the Committee to Strengthen KPFK, GM Leslie Radford and roommate Adam Rice suggested to staff members the LA station was in “lockdown” after banning volunteer receptionist (and one of the Committee’s staffer candidates), Allan Coie from the station. Coie, a retired attorney, stated the reasons for his firing were that he gave out the number of the Pacifica National Office to a caller and gave program director Alan Minsky listener complaints that were called in about the substituion of Something’s Happening in the M-Th midnight to 3am hours. Coie said Radford told him the listener complaints were “personal to her”. Rice then fired him and told him he would no longer be admitted on station premises. Continue reading Lockdown
Emails To KPFK About Roy Of Hollywood Cut
Here’s a sampling of the emails flooding into KPFK after “Safe Harbor” replaced the first three hours of “Something’s Happening” Continue reading Emails To KPFK About Roy Of Hollywood Cut
Landslide in Los Angeles
Berkeley-Pacifica’s 2015 board elections ended with a bang when the KPFK election delivered a huge supermajority (17 out of 24 seats) for the Committee to Strengthen KPFK/Candidate Slate group in a stinging rebuke for the majority Siegel/Brazon faction. The last time any Pacifica local board had a supermajority was more than five years ago. Continue reading Landslide in Los Angeles
“Sex Education Baybee” or “The Phone Guy is Falling Asleep”
As Safe Harbor grinds along into its third episode, Wednesday morning brought us sex education featuring stripper poles, a Section 8 stud and a sleepy phone booth guy. Continue reading “Sex Education Baybee” or “The Phone Guy is Falling Asleep”
Potty Mouth KPFK
Sounding a bit like stoned preteens with access to the liquor cabinet while their parents are away, the “new KPFK” premiered Safe Harbor last night in the time formerly curated by Roy of Hollywood in what used to be the most listened to late late night program in the nation’s 2nd largest radio market.
KPFK Cuts Roy of Hollywood
Apparently wary of solvency, KPFK general manager Leslie Radford has changed midnight to 3am programming Monday to Thursday nights from the long-running and popular Something’s Happening hosted by Roy Tuckman a.k.a Roy of Hollywood. Continue reading KPFK Cuts Roy of Hollywood