only 1 angry article against a staffer at KPFK discussing the selection of a GENERAL MANAGER at the station and then more silence ?

does anyone know what is going on in that non-transparent subscriber-owned station ?

Please help REVEAL INFORMATIOIN, SELECTIONS,
choices being made, by whom ?
the secrecy is deafening !

this is a good public space for sharing information,
not diatribes, not insults or propaganda, but actual
info. The KPFK website says nothing, as usual.
No calls ever answered either. Those "in the know" are mum or mummified. Why can't we who hold a $$$ stake and loyalty get to know more ?

the length of time that the deciding or selecting is taking is worse than US Govt bureaucracy style.

Help, tell us what you DO KNOW, please !

To send a message to KPFK that secrecy has no place in a democratic community, I dropped my membership four years ago. I haven't sent them any money since.

Every fund raiser, it looks like more people are doing as I did and not sending the money that they once did.

Despite long time falling contributions, KPFK management continues with business as usual. No one there seems to make a link between its conduct towards members and falling contributions.

The call for information in the post will go unanswered because the people running KPFK have the power to keep the information to themselves. There is no wiki leaks in KPFK/Pacafica. The community has no power over the operation.


I continue to believe that KPFK is a lost cause. The membership dosen't have the power to make the necessary reform. There is no true KPFK community.

The issue is when will it finally fail.

KPFK requires your support
Thursday, February 24, 2011 4:27 PM
From: "Michael Novick"
To:
KPFK, 90.7 FM in Los Angeles, 98.7 in Santa Barbara, is the listener sponsored, free speech community radio affiliate of the Pacifica Foundation, which owns and operates 5 such stations and dozens of affiliates around the US. I was recently elected to the station board on a platform of increasing the station's connection and relevance to grassroots struggles for survival and social change, a two-way communication with listeners, greater transparency in operations and decision making, and greater involvement of a new generation of creative expression, communal resistance and critical thought. However, in order to make any of those changes, the station must in the short term survive. Right now, KPFK is in the midst of (another) on-air fund drive, asking listeners to support its continued broadcast of an eclectic mix of public affairs, music, arts, health, spirituality and news programming. This current drive is once again falling short of goals. More than half way through the scheduled period, it has raised only about a third of its $1 million target.

I am sending out this appeal to various contacts and lists in hopes of getting you to immediately make a donation or take out a listener sponsorship subscription to the station. You can do so on-line at www.kpfk.org where you can connect to a list of available thank you gifts at various subscription/donation levels. Or you can call during the fund drive to the phone room at 818-985-5735 where listener and staff volunteers will take your pledge and let you know what thank-you gift you can take, preferably by using a credit card or electronic funds transfer to make the donation. If you're a frequent or occasional listener, you may have tuned out during the fund drive; listenership goes down when the pitching starts, and that's a big problem when the station needed five fund drives last year. The early summer drive fell short, and a late summer "mini-marathon" was needed. The fall fund drive also fell short, requiring another mini-drive in December, which did well. But here it is February, and people are paying off bills from the end of the year, and the economy is still in the toilet, and receipts are down again.

The long term cure for this is improving the station's outreach and relevance to much broader sectors, particularly young people who will sustain the station into the future. The long-term cure is also in reviving the social and political movements that energize masses of people to demand and support alternative sources of news, information, and cultural expression. The long term cure is getting a lot -- a really lot -- of people to make small donations and get their friends, family and co-workers to do the same. But the immediate solution is to turn this fund drive around and make it a success.

KPFK merits your support and needs it to grow better and stronger. If you haven't listened in a while, tune back in, or check it out on-line, where you can also access archived shows from the past few months. The station is trying to restore its local newscast, to add Al Jazeera English to its broadcast mix, and my commitment as a member of the station board is to increase listener participation in evaluating shows, shaping policy, and restoring passion and excitement to the station. I urge you again to donate NOW either over the phone or online. By doing so, you will also become a member of the only democratic broadcast media institution, in which listeners and staff, paid or unpaid, have a voice in the station's and the network's governance. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has been defunded by the new House of Representatives specifically to undermine such independent, non-commercial, non-corporate media and undercut their potential to educate and agitate about the pressing social, political, economic and environmental issues of our time. Donating now is one form of personal direct action you can take to overcome that strategy, whether or not they succeed in cutting CPB support.

Thanks! And please feel free to contact me personally with any feedback about the station and its programming!

Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action LA, UTLA-retired, GrassrootsKPFK

I have given up on trying to send a message to anyone at KPFK.