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Harry Belafonte Sold-Out KPFA Benefit
KPFA expects to broadcast this event early in December -- listen for time announcements
Hosted by Davey D
plus tributes by Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Dr. Mona Scott, and Al Young.
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Community Advisory Board Listener Survey
Please take a few moments to take our survey -- tell us what interests you, your favorite radio programs, what you like about KPFA, how can KPFA be better.
KPFA's Community Advisory Board advises the Local Station Board and station management -- is independent and sets its own agenda. The purpose of the CAB is to provide a vehicle for community input to the station about station programming, community service and impact on the community from the station's major policy decisions.
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Notes from Arlene Engelhardt, Pacifica Executive Director
Programming -- The  Pacifica National Board has passed a resolution in support of Occupy Wall Street. All five Pacifica stations are producing local programming covering this historic movement, as well as coordinating national coverage with leadership from KPFA's interim Manager Andrew Phillips. While the mainstream media either ignores it or distorts its coverage, Pacifica is here to bring you on the ground news and analysis from this diverse and growing movement.
We are also planning our 2012 election coverage to bring you the issues of concern to the 99% -- as we have always done -- not just the "horse race." Stay tuned!
Pacifica finances -- I'm relieved to report that our unaudited financial reports for the fiscal year that ended September 30th show that the Pacifica network as a whole essentially broke even for the year -- showing net operating income of about $7.9k overall. These figures remain to be audited, but the year was a MAJOR turnaround for the network after suffering more than $5 million in losses since 2006 -- including a $2 million loss in FY 2010, $2.7 million loss in FY 2009.
All five Pacifica stations saw improvements over the past year, with new managers at KPFK in Los Angeles, and WPFW in Washington, DC., as well as Andrew Phillips as the new interim manager at KPFA in Berkeley.
However, due to our 2007-2010 losses we are still carrying about $1 million in debts from prior years and are suffering from periodic cash flow shortages throughout the network.
Looking forward -- Thanks to careful financial stewardship this past year by our station managers, Chief Financial Officer LaVarn Williams, and our National Finance Committee led by Board Treasurer Tracy Rosenberg -- we're still here to look forward!
In our changing media environment we are expanding our internet presence and web-streaming capacities, as well as our Affiliates Network of over 160 community, college, and LPFM stations that carry Pacifica programming across the country in these perilous times.
In Peace,
Arlene Engelhardt
Pacifica Executive Director
tel: 510-849-2590 ext. 208
email: Arlene@pacifica.org
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Greetings!
We're instituting a twice monthly e-newsletter here at KPFA to bring you programming highlights, and a view into our plans and the people & items of interest around the station. We hope you'll enjoy it, but if you don't want to subscribe, please use the unsubscribe button at the bottom of this email.
We're grateful for your support this past year, as we've worked to bring new community voices to our airwaves & to turnaround our finances. We're looking forward to a great year in 2012. Your comments & feedback are always welcome.
Sincerely,
Andrew Leslie Phillips General Manager (Interim) tel: 510-848-6767 ext. 203 |
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KPFA Covers the Occupied Movement
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Occupy Oakland |
Since day one KPFA has been on the Occupy story. With near daily coverage from Mitch Jesserich on Letters & Politics at 10 am, Davey D & Anita Johson on Hard Knock Radio at 4 pm, and Dennis Bernstein on Flashpoints at 5 pm -- as well as frequent reports on Democracy Now! at 7 & 9 am, The Morning Mix at 8 am, Free Speech Radio News at 3:30 pm and the The Pacifica Evening News at 6 pm -- we have opened up space for the Occupy community to broadcast on our airwaves. And we will continue to cover the most important movement to explode on the scene in many years.
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Dennis Bernstein, Davey D & engineer Dev Ross (left) broadcasting live from Occupy Oakland General Strike Nov 2 |
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Renee Yang Geesler (KPFA Apprentice Program Director) & Mitch Jesserich (Letters & Politics) at Occupy Oakland Nov 2 |
At Pacifica station WBAI in New York City, there is a new daily program Occupy Wall Street Radio. The Occupy movement offers KPFA and Pacifica a new audience; and we offer the movement more than 60 years of experience covering social change movements in the U.S. and around the world.
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41st Annual
KPFA Crafts Fair
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New Program Highlights
Twit Wit Radio - Sundays at 7 pmProduced & Directed by George Coates ....
 A new entertainment program featuring a cast of improvisational comic actors and an online writing staff of listener humorists aka "Twit Wits." A live Twitter feed lets listeners post much of the script performed by the cast, live, in real time, in the studio.
Show host regulars include Kurt Reinhardt, Lorrie Holt, Mantra Plonsey, Galen Corr and MiddleFingazUp. Online Twit Wits include SF International Comedy Competition finalist Tim Wiggins and Bay Area musicians Michael Hauser and Dan Plonsey.
Listeners will be invited to "Tweet Truth To Power With Humor and Wit" on a range of topics listed at the show website. See for yourself here -- kpfa.twitwitradio.com
Producer/Director George Coates describes the show as a disruptive challenge to mainstream media, "When consumers of media entertainment become its producers, on air personalities can serve as the peoples sock puppets for a change."
The Week Starts Here - Sundays 7:30 - 9 pm
Produced & Hosted by Veronica Faisant
Provides an inspirational, empowering environment to serve as a platform to build a sustainable community experience.
People need to feel "heard" -- we open the phone lines to listen and dialogue. Listeners interact via the program's Facebook Page and other social media. People are empowered when they feel they can "make a difference". Community based projects will be identified and listeners invited to create community meetings to strategize and form work groups using the program as point of departure. This is interactive radio. |
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KPFA's Financial Recovery
With your help, we made real progress this year. Although we showed about a $38k operating loss, this was a BIG improvement over the previous two years.
We did it without starting our Fall 2011 fund drive in September as we had to do in 2009 & 2010 when we ran out of cash in September.
(Because our fiscal year ends September 30th, this means we did it this year with 3-1/2 major fund drives -- half of Fall 2010 + Winter, Spring & Summer 2011 -- rather than the usual 4 major drives because of the income distribution across fiscal years. In 2009 we actually had 4-1/2 major fund drives -- Fall 2008 + Winter, Spring & Summer 2009 + half of Fall 2009. In 2010 we had 4 major fund drives -- half of Fall 2009 + Winter, Spring & Summer 2010 + half of Fall 2010.)
While the staff reductions and belt tightening have been hard on all of us -- and the cause of some contention around here -- we are hopeful that we've turned the corner and that this fiscal year will end in the black. With your generous support and the hard work of our great paid and unpaid staff & volunteers, we're showing that we can do more with less in these lean times.
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KPFA Income & Expenses | |
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For 12 Months Ending | |
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9/30/09 |
9/30/10 |
9/30/11 | |
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(Audited) |
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Thousands |
Thousands |
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Income |
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Listener Support/Donations |
$2,832.5 |
$2,932.0 |
$2,849.5 | |
Corp. for Public Broadcasting |
300.0 |
339.2 |
255.7 | |
All Other Income |
429.4 |
297.2 |
365.6 | |
Total Income |
$3,561.9 |
$3,568.4 |
$3,470.9 | |
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Operating Expense |
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Salaries & Related Expense |
$2,466.2 |
$2,277.4 |
$1,863.8 | |
Shared Network Expense |
516.6 |
504.9 |
507.2 | |
All Other Expense |
1,521.0 |
1,373.3 |
1,136.7 | |
Total Expense |
$4,503.8 |
$4,155.6 |
$3,507.7 | |
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Net Operating
Income/(Loss) |
$(941.9) |
$(587.2) |
$(36.8) | |
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An overview of the past decade shows that the major problem has been a precipitous drop in listener support income from just over $4 million in 2005 to a little under $3 million for the past three years.
Unfortunately, we waited too long to take the painful step of reducing our payroll. The payroll grew with income in the first half of the last decade, but was not reduced as income started declining in 2006. The payroll peaked in 2009 at almost $2.5 million. Over the past two years we've cut back to about $1.9 million -- bringing our expenses more in line with our income.
However, because KPFA lost over $1.4 million in 2009 & 2010, we used up all of our reserves and ran up considerable debt. So, for the next couple of years we not only need to raise enough money to cover our expenses, we also must raise money to pay down our debts. So the tight belts will continue for the foreseeable future.
Your contributions are what insure that we will be here covering the Occupy movement and so much more in the coming years. KPFA accepts no underwriting or corporate sponsorships.
Please give as generously as you can, and consider making an extra year-end tax deductible contribution.
Thank you! |
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