Management Change at KPFK-FM
Los Angeles
February 27, 2017
Los Angeles – KPFK-FM will have a new general manager, effective immediately.
Senior Producer Christine Blosdale will be stepping into the general manager role temporarily, for a period anticipated to be 4-8 weeks, until a longer-term interim general manager is selected. Blosdale has been a long-time employee of the station, and her success in fundraising for KPFK has been widely noted.
Interim Executive Director Bill Crosier commented: “KPFK is an important part of the Pacifica Foundation, and is our biggest and most powerful station in the second largest media market in the United States. The station has been through some difficult times recently. I want KPFK to take a leadership role, both within our radio network as it recovers, and in the Southern California media landscape as the country meets the challenges presented by the Trump administration. This change will position KPFK to do so”.
KPFK joined the 5-station Pacifica network in 1959, the second radio station to be acquired by the nonprofit founded in Berkeley, CA in 1946, and is the most powerful public radio station in the Western United States. Pacifica's independent news, information, and cultural programming provides perspectives rarely heard in mainstream broadcast media and features the voices of artists, activists and public intellectuals.
Bill Crosier, Interim Executive Director
Is it true Chris? Is the reign of Radford truly over? Is there in fact no 'Safe Harbor' for L. Radford?
ReplyDeleteI don't doubt the veracity of this press release, but I'm not sure how safe that harbor will be for Radford. Now that she is gone, I hope they are working to obliterate her footprints... they might even use her broom :)
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ReplyDeleteBearing in mind that Pacifica event news is about as reliable as Oscar Best Picture announcements, could it be that somehow the convoluted democratic governance structure has managed to snatch Pacifica from the jaws of doom?
Time will tell (there might be another envelope out there) but recent developments have been interesting.
We'll know things are on the right path when they dump Reimers, though expect such an action to be followed with protests of racism ("purging people of color", regardless of the skin tone of the replacements) and possibly lawsuits.
Speaking of 'powerful stations" has WBAI been turning down transmitter power?
Seems reception here in the burbs has degraded noticeably especially at night.
(First noticed this at least a month ago)
Maybe the rats in the wheel employed to keep the Con Ed bill down are getting tired.
Not yet snatched, but this is a good start—as you suggest, kicking Reimers out has to be around the corner—and Pacifica should seek reparations. Yes, I agree that dumping the do-nothing $110,000-a-year leech will produce a deck of race cards, but so be it. I just hope they don't do a Blosdale and replace the jerk with Tony Bates.
DeleteBTW, he worked with Bonnie Faulkner this morning to introduce a new tabloid-like piece of fake news: John Wilkes Booth was an operative of financial mercenaries and assassinated Lincoln at the behest of Rothchild. Rich Jews killed the American president. It's in a new book that both Faulkner and Bates seem to blindly endorse. People like that really need to be shown the door as soon as possible.
My first reaction to this was, "Boy, that was easy." Then I thought, "Why wasn't Reimers also fired?" Sadly, a con woman like Blosdale gets the iiGM (interim interim General Manager) spot, but I imagine it's about her money sucking abilities. And don't worry about cries of "racism," they shall pour forth, since that and "fascism" are all that loonie lefties have in their repertoire these days. They like to keep the political discourse simple, very simple.
ReplyDeleteI have also noticed a degrading in the WBAI signal for a short while now, even here in western Queens. I have to turn the antenna in certain ways or I get some noise in the audio. Maybe the transmitter isn't running well, or perhaps it's a money saving measure, turning down the power. No idea. I do know how last summer the transmitter was popping off a lot.
Finally, the Lincoln assassination conspiracy you mention is old ultra-right wing stuff that has been eaten up by the left in recent years and regurgitated as if it is their own. Gary Null loves the old ultra-right conspiracies. I still say listen to Null and Alex Jones one after the other and see how similar the conspiratorial right and left are.
Finally, if anyone knows the tech of it. Can a station's FM transmitter have both SCA and HD channels emanating from it, or is it one or the other, because they may need to use the same sub-carriers? I ask because I just purchased a Sangean HDR-16 HD/FM/AM Radio, and the question popped into my head. FYI: there isn't anything much worth a listen on HD in the NY market, as I discovered.
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The WBAI signal is definitely weaker than it used to be—I also have to manipulate the antenna do minimize the extraneous noise. Could it be that the ESB is reacting to the growing arrears Reimers has generated? I hope he's next to get the boot. As I said, Tony Bates needs to be kicked out, too, but his pitches seem to be working, so he might stay. He is as annoying as Blosdale, but far more deceitful. I wonder if he watched the PBS program on Africa this evening—Gates did a good job, I think, and it authoritatively contradicts the fairy tales "Dr. Ben" and Henrik Clarke concocted before they croaked.
DeleteThe Lincoln conspiracy is on again as U post this—totally unchallenged by Faulkner and Bates, neither of whom seems to have any moral ground to slither on. I didn't realize that this is an old fantasy.
BTW, the dumping of Radford is already having a positive affect at KPFK. Roy of Hollywood is back and the foul-mouthed, bird brained "Safe Harbor" group is apparently out.
First, I should have types "interim Finally" and "Finally." Oops...
DeleteI know the WBAI transmitter isn't in the best shape, so i don't know if it has to run on lower power or not.
The Remnants are fanatics, and fanatics are open to any sort of silly conspiracy theories. They want to be the first kid on the block to see behind the wizard's curtain, but many curtains have nothing behind them (ask Monty Hall). They don't care, however, as they are true believers and want those absolute answers and resolutions to questions, regardless of "truth." They will believe.
I read a bunch of the old ultra-right wing conspiracy books of the 1960s to 1980s when I was younger. All that stuff you now hear from the left about the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, international banking and capitalism, behind the scenes machinations, etc. all were originally old (and still alive) ultra-right wing conspiracies. Good compendiums of this tripe were written by Des Griffin (4th Reich of the Rich and Descent into Slavery?). Read the original theories then listen to the left and you'll wonder where any difference is between the left and right.
I'm going to listen to guest Kevin Mitnick on AM Coast to Coast on WOR 710 AM now. He's always interesting. I bet Emanuelle Goldstein will be listening too, like a good fanboy.
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Left, right orin-between—nuts are nuts.
DeleteJust wanted to let y'all know that WNYC began its fundraising drive yesterday. How long will it go? 3 weeks? 4 weeks? 5 weeks? Nah, 4 and a half days. At 9 am, they were shooting to get $600,000 by 7 pm in order to unlock a $100,000 matching pledge. So in other words, even disregarding the matching pledge, they will bring in far more money in 10 hours than WBAI will bring in over 5 weeks. Oh, and there was no premium.
ReplyDeleteHD radio and SCA can co-exist...it is done all the time. I'm guessing the WBAI transmitter is a tube type transmitter and the tube may be weak. One thing to remember is that even 50% power is unnoticeable to most listeners so the power must be VERY low if you guys are noticing even in the city. It is more likely that atmospherics are affecting reception.
ReplyDeleteI used to scoff at conspiracy theories too but after considering the JFK assassination and 911 WTC/Pentagon attacks, I'm not so certain. Do YOU believe what the government has told us about either event?
Even if you are skeptical about the government, what makes you think the lunatic axe-grinders on WBAI have any credibility? There may or may not be conspiracies, but I am not going to take the word of anyone on WBAI about an alleged conspiracy (nor would I take the word of the Orangutan In Chief).
DeleteIf they subscribe to the simplistic "them Jews did it" theories...no. Regarding JFK, Dulles, CIA chief fired by JFK, and LBJ are prime suspects. Nixon and GH Bush also may be complicit. I'm agnostic regarding these claims but it needs to be investigated further.
DeleteThe reason we need community radio, WBAI, and Pacifica, is so these claims CAN be investigated because the mainstrean media isn't going to do it. But we need REAL investigations...not witch hunts and crazy (to use a john mccain descriptor) whack-a doodles shredding all credibility of the station(s).That seems to be what has become of WBAI. All the credibility of the 60s has given way to mentally unstable people hawking magic elixirs...
I do NOT trust ANY authority, governmental, religious, or political and our society MUST depend on organizations like Pacifica to root out the MSM bull shit. We also depend on blogs like this to root out the BS at Pacifica and WBAI. Thanks for listening and keeping the board functional!
But WBAI is now 99.9% bullshit. Therefore, it no longer serves any useful purpose.
ReplyDeleteThe super secret master plan is working Chris. First, Lydia then a bogus affiliate director, now Radford. Who's next?
ReplyDeleteBTW We need to stop Taylor. He's telling them everything.. except about LBJ. He wasn't part of it. The big guy was running scared. He thought he was next.
Well..LBJ was known to be paranoid. Considering what a shithead he was I'm surprised someone didn't put a bullet through his thick head.
DeleteI guess I'm now considered intellectually inferior for even broaching the subject. I'll go back to my KellyAnne Conway biography. Sorry I bothered you guys....
Relax Tom. I was actually having a little fun with all the Pacifica drama playing like a soap opera. You're actually not too far off IMO regarding the JFK assassination except for LBJ.
DeleteAnother interesting development -- the "Aaron Faction" is looking to unseat both Adriana Casenave and Cerene Roberts -- this according to Bill Campisi, speaking at the KPFA LSB meeting on Saturday.
ReplyDeleteIt's either the 'Aaron Faction' or it's the 'ear infection', my ears play tricks.
Jim
Go to the top of this page for a brief audio clip of Campisi at the Saturday meeting.
DeleteRemind me not to hire Campisi to be my lawyer. He's spilling more secrets than Julian Assange. Oh well. Its not like the JUC reads this blog right?
DeleteThe JFK hit was actually a live facade in the tradition of the Grand Guignol. JFK wasn't even actually shot. It was staged with special effects. The alternative facts are that he had to go to the hospital for some treatment due to a little gift he received from a female admirer. The assassination was to be a cover up, and he would be announced as surviving. However, unbeknownst to JFK, a Rothschild inspired conspiracy was afoot behind the scenes where, instead of curing his ailment, he was taken into a soundproof room and shot in the head by the same gun later planted to make LHO look guilty.
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I went looking for WBAI videos on youtube and am in absolute hysterics. Check these out and notice how I am the only response on any of them!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0l1X_8WlIE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ypMInYezmY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgstATDZsII
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tklLVpqj7Tg
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