Listener Comments From June 11 KPFA Board Meeting

KPFA has real problems, but losing listeners is not one of them. KPFA is consistently bringing in increasing numbers of listeners -- in fact, KPFA's listeners have doubled since 1995. That's an astounding figure. While listenership falls for radio in the US as a whole, it is increasing for at KPFA. Additionally, the station continues to pull in $1 million fund drives. So while you can legitimately criticize KPFA for all sorts of internal problems, let's keep things accurate.

Where do you gather your listener data from? The fund drive number of 1 million seems to be accurate (with at least one large donation coming from a single individual)
Has KPFA bothered to use pledge drive forms to poll program popularity?

I recently helped as a volunteer during the last KPFA fund drive. KPFA has incredible support from a diverse and committed audience. Donations were many, and were both big and small. Most listeners are quite savvy about rocky politics at KPFA but give to it because they believe in the station and its mission. They know that KPFA is a natuural lightening rod for controversy, and they trust the station will sort out its problems.

Stay tuned....

Dont forget Free Radio Santa Cruz
http://www.freakradio.org or better yet start yer own station..

brightpathvideo, where do you get YOUR information? I was at the meeting for the general manager's report and the treasurer's report -- i think you failed to get your sit in so you were already gone by then. New subscriber numbers are up by several thousand, and total subscriber/membership is just under 30,000.

people who do not bother to attend to meetings until someone with an agenda needs a roomful for political purposes are easily led astray.

I note that nobody mentions that Ms. Enteen refused to support a Town Hall meeting on violence and other station/community issues. Of course, it was NOT Peoples Radio that proposed one. Surprised?

for consistently progressive/leftist incisive grassroots news analysis.

Slave Revolt Radio is a progressive Liberal-Free Zone!

Slave Revolt is *SERIOUS*: you won't hear any liberal or DemoPublican pablum there.

(For example, listen to what SRR has to say about Marla Ruzicka vs. what you'd hear on most of KPFA or KALW. Hear what SRR has to say about "Support the Troops" nonsense.)

SRR has a *great* website chocked full of audio and video archived gems, as well as a blog.

"Slave Revolt Radio" airs locally on Berkeley Liberation Radio at 104.1fm, every Friday evening from 6:30/6:35pm to 8:00+pm.

All programs are, otherwise, audio archived.

"Slave Revolt Radio" (or as James calls it, "Slave"), until recently, used to air on KPFT, the Pacifica Houston station, but you would never hear Tracey James & SRR on KPFA. In fact, it's just recently been taken off the Houston station, whose general manager & axis forces down there have started gutting public affairs programming and trying to turn the Houston station into much more a music station.

(KPFA is already 60% music with 2 and 3 hour times slots, sometimes back-to-back, according to a recent study, and some music programmers are *complaining* that that's hardly enough!)

The Santa Cruz community radio station

-- Free Radio Santa Cruz, which can also be heard online http://www.freakradio.org --

(as well as several other community radio stations elsewhere) also carry "Slave", every Tuesday from 3:00-5:00pm, as well as a very interesting archived interview with Tracey James.

Also archived at http://www.freakradio.org/slaverevolt.html

And see program grid at http://www.freakradio.org/schedule.html

. . . . for Deadhead marathons, apparently

http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/01/1714246_comment.php

http://www.trufun.com/dttw/marathon.050219.html

(KPFA is already 60% music with 2 and 3 hour times slots, sometimes back-to-back, according to a recent study, and some music programmers are *complaining* that that's hardly enough!)

way good, this slave revolt radio!!

Riva Enteen, I believe it was, proposed permitting LSB members to answer public comments. This was because (in this instance) members were protesting violence at the station & wanted LSB to answer, during their public comment period.
Hernandez made a counter proposal which in effect put off this discussion to a proposed town hall meeting to discuss the violence, within 90 days.
It passed. May it be so!
Riva & others voted against this counterproposal because they wanted the
answers not to be put off! Too bad this failed to pass.
(Unfortunately the video doesn't seem to be archived, or we coulld go back & check this.)
Please support People's Radio - they are the defenders of a democratic KPFA & Pacifica. They also have periodic public meetings concerning KPFA & Pacifica.

--- Jared Ball <Tables [at] mac.com <>> wrote:

> To: Thomas Gomez <adjustmentdisorder2000 [at] yahoo.com <>>,
> Mark <KasBa110 [at] aol.com <>>,
> Shani O'Neal <shanijamila [at] hotmail.com <>>,
> Lester B. Wallace lll < ;lbwallace [at] Howard.edu <>>,
> thomas ruffin <iska666 [at] earthlink.net <>>
> From: Jared Ball <Tables [at] mac.com <>>
> Subject: Fwd: WPFW Troubles...
> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:09:06 -0400
>
> Hello everyone,
>
>
> Ron (Pinchback GM WPFW) emailed me back saying he
could not comment on
> the issue we
> discussed the other day nor could he allow Tom on
> the airwaves since
> formal complaints have been filed. He asked for my
> cooperation and i
> agreed.
>
> j
>
The Blackademics (a show on WPFW) had interviewed
three of us includind a local board member Attorney
Thomas Ruffin, former Mt. Pleasant ANC Commisioner
Marco Del Fuego. and myself about the issues in the
comp;aint and planned to broadcast it tuesday
evening.This action was retaliatory for my filling of
the original Discrimination on basis of National
Origin complaint scheduled to be heard before the
Human Right Commission on July 19 10:30 am.
I have so charged to Mr. Phil Oseganda the investigator
handling this for Pacifica, and further notified the foundation
it will be included in the complaint itself.