KPFA Fund Drive Up Over 230K - Highest Daily Average in Three Years

KPFA's winter mini-fund drive, postponed due to hysteria after the layoffs of two staff members in November, continues to post daily totals far in excess of the totals for the previous 12 fund drives, the majority of which fell substantially short of their goals. Despite the absence of a locally produced morning show, listeners are swamping the Pacifica station with a heartening show of support through a difficult fiscal challenge.

Board faction Save KPFA claims it is holding an additional $25,000 ransom in exchange for the rehiring of two staffers, who are among 9 who left in early November. If that money is ever submitted to KPFA, the fundraising results should soar over $300,000 (or they may anyway, even without it), a significant improvement over last years 17-19 day fund drives, which in more than three weeks, never broke the $700,000 barrier, a daily average of less than $35,000.

It seems obvious that the survival of the station and the network is important to Bay Areans, and Save KPFA's bleak predictions of destruction were a bunch of garbage.

Stay tuned and ignore the carrying-on by those who wish the station ill.

And thank you, Bay Area, for doing the right thing despite that empty and destructive Save KFA misinformation campaign.

This is the most beautiful region in the country because we don't fall for that kind of nonsense.