Tell KPFA to cover the 40th anniversary of the Black Panther Party with live broadcasts!

by adrienne

Sun, Oct 8, 2006 2:03PM

Some KPFA programmers had planning for live broadcasts from the BPP Reunion events (Oct. 13-15 in Oakland). It looks like they may not be able to do so. Please let KPFA know you want this kind of programming.

Whether or not you can attend the BPP 40th anniversary conference, having the events broadcast on KPFA is very important. Please contact KPFA General Manager Lemlem Rijio and let her know you want to hear the live broadcasts!

Phone: (510) 848-6767, ext. 255
Email: generalmanager [at] kpfa.org

For those of us who cannot be in the Bay Area at this time, KPFA serves an especially important purpose. If KPA doesn't cover this historic event, who will? KPOO might, but they don't have the archives or reach that KPFA does. For many researchers and activists around the country, this event is of paramount importance, particularly at this time. We need KPFA's live broadcasts. And, as SF Bay View editors Mary and Willie Ratcliff say, "the Party was born and grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, right in KPFA’s back yard."

I will ardently urge my friends and colleagues to contribute to the fund drive if KPFA continues with the plans to broadcast live from the BPP reunion events from Oct. 13-15.

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§Another Clueless Radio Wannabe

by Bay Area Inside

Sun, Oct 8, 2006 8:52PM

It's always interesting to see people with no knowledge or concept on how public radio works try and impose their own agenda on public radio.

Going live interrupts fundraising, which KPFA needs to stay on the air. To broadcast live is a lot of dead air, waiting for people to speak, listening to applause, and mostly just "dead air" of nothing of interest.

Instead, KPFA should record the event, edit out the 'dead air' and also conduct in-depth interviews that otherwise would not be able to be heard in a live broadcast.

Broadcast the edited version, then sell theuncut recording as a premium with the edited special.

Twice the revenue, all the history, and recognition of an existing bit of history.

Not this idiocy of "must do everything live so that there is no time or space to raise funds to stay on the air".

Every time some uneducated radio poseur does this, it merely paints them as the self-serving idiots that they are.

Don't believe it? Ask Willy Ratcliff if his paper is going to publish a 'special edition' that will cost more and go into his pockets.

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§Dear Insider

by a reader

Sun, Oct 8, 2006 11:07PM

You say:
"Instead, KPFA should record the event, edit out the 'dead air' and also conduct in-depth interviews that otherwise would not be able to be heard in a live broadcast."

Well, your opinion sounds logical to me, but do you really have to be so disrespectful?

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§Fair question

by another listener

Mon, Oct 9, 2006 11:39PM

there's no reason to be disrespectful. but i missed democracy now because kpfa decided tdo o a live broadcast today from alcatraz that wasn't form alcatrax at all. i've heard was a pressure campaing to air live from alcatraz. but it wasn't live from alcatraz. it sounded to me like the hosts were having their own event on a pier.

can someone tell me what happened and if this is true why there should be another preemption?

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§Alcatraz

by Anonymous

Tue, Oct 10, 2006 9:46AM

In case you hadn't noticed, there is a labor action against Hornblower Yachts re: their acquisition of the Alcatraz ferry service. The Treaty Council did not go to Alcatraz in respect of the labor action and held the event at the pier, which KPFA recorded and covered. I thought they did an excellent job and it was a terrific start to non-Columnbus Day.

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