Title: pacifica radio foundation

URL: http://www.pacifica.org/

Collection: Tamiment-Wagner: Other Left Activism

Description: Pacifica Radio is the oldest public radio network in the United States, composed of over 100 affiliated stations and five independently operated, non-commercial, listener-supported radio stations and is known for its progressive political orientation. Many other U.S. and Canadian community radio stations also carry Pacifica on program to program basis. The first public radio network in the United States; it is operated by the Pacifica Foundation, with national headquarters adjoining station KPFA in Berkeley, California. Programs like Democracy Now and Free Speech Radio News are some of its most popular productions. Pacifica was founded in 1946 by pacifist Lewis Hill. During World War II Hill filed for conscientious objector status. After the war Hill and a small group of ex-conscientious-objectors created the Pacifica Foundation. On-air broadcasting at KPFA in Berkeley, California commenced in 1949. The Pacifica Radio Archives, housed at station KPFK in Los Angeles, is the nation's oldest public radio archive, documenting more than five decades of grassroots political, cultural, and performing arts history.

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Subject:   Pacifica Radio Foundation.,  Alternative mass media--United States.,  Alternative radio broadcasting--United States.,  Mass media criticism--United States.