RADIO INTIFADA (Pacifica Radio gets worse. 800 number to call)

Greg Yardley ^ | 8/01/03 | FrontPageMagazine.com

[weegee]

Pacifica is on the air in Moscow (Idaho)!

[weegee]

Pacifica's five stations receive more than $1,200,000 of taxpayers' money every year from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the same group that funds NPR and PBS. worth repeating...

BUMP.

[risk]

>>>> Pacifica is a left end dial radio network, it is not college radio.

I first heard it on a college station. They pipe their programming out in a kind of syndicate for socialists, evidently.

[Bernard Marx]

"KAOS may refuse to accept underwriting from companies, businesses, organizations, or any other entities deemed to be inconsistent with KAOS's core values and mission, not of interest to KAOS listeners, or that could be detrimental to the welfare and image of the station."

It would be interesting if a non-Left Wing public service law firm could force KAOS go public with statements on just what its "core values and mission" are, or what sort of underwriting (money!) would "be detrimental to the welfare and image of the station." This is the kind of thing CPB is designed to do, of course, but doesn't. It just doles out more money to keep the Communists in business with the tacit approval of Congress.

[Drango]

I first heard it on a college station. They pipe their programming out in a kind of syndicate for socialists, evidently.

I think your right. There are only 5(?)ALL Pacifica stations but I'm guessing. The affiliates in post #11 are typically college stations that play one or two programs (feeds)that originate under the Pacifica umbrella.

[BlazingArizona]

Well. It's nice to know that leftist radicals are just as nasty to themselves as they are to the rest of us.

Fascinating account. Brings back a lot of memories of my time at U of California during the Sixties.

[Drango]

Any serious attempt in Congress to defund this nonsense? If there one person leading the charge? Any person?

Not since the Gingrich effort to defund the left. During that time, the phone rang off the hook as people called the representatives complaining that Republicans were trying to kill Big Bird. The right beat a shift retreat...

I don't want to scare you, but take a look at my home page (click on my name) and scroll down. Names of 100+ Republicans who refused to reduce their funding 1%.

So the battle is a slow one. Dropping a letter, sending an email or making a phone call to your local congress critter is a start.

[Calpernia]

I've been trying to figure out how to get a plan B, C, or D off the ground.

My handicap is I don't know legal. And my plans need legal input.

[mhking]

That map is not complete. It does not include Houston's KPFT.

Actually it is complete - the map doesn't include the O&O's, only the affiliated stations. KPFT (as are the Berkeley, LA, NY & DC stations) is mentioned as Pacifica-owned in the original article above.

[weegee]

If PBS got some of the licensing money from Big Bird/Barney items, they might not need a handout from the gub'mint.

[Dr.Deth]

LOL! I see from the map on Post 11 that the The Evergreen State College's KAOS

And to balance out on the East Coast, Atlanta has WREK.

[DPB101]

So the battle is a slow one.

LBJ may have been a flagitious,venal SOB but he wasn't stupid. He set up Public Broadcasting so it would be very difficult for congress to end it.

[B-Chan]

Back in my liberal days, I lived in L.A., and I listened to KPFK frequently, but even I had to stop after a while -- it was just too loony. For example, the station had a late-afternoon show hosted by these two diesels called “The Revolutionary Hour” or something like that. The shoe featured lengthy rants about the glory of Cuba under Castro, sympathy pleas for money, and ringing calls for ”the people” the rise up and take control. The best part was their theme song: the show opened and closed with a rousing rendition of the “Internationale”, as performed by the North Korean People's Juche Chorale or the Young Communist League of Brooklyn Heights Glee Club or some such outfit. Even as a hard-lefter myself I rolled my eyes at that.

[DPB101]

You were a member of the hive? It was the times, wasn't it? The social thing to do was be on the left.

[jodorowsky]

Any conservatives at college stations?

At your service, though in Canada ;^)

[DPB101]

Think we can pick you up on a skip? Where would we look?