KPFT (90.1 FM), said it would play the Dixie Chicks now more than ever.

Houton Chronicle ^ | 3/15/2003 | LOUIS B. PARKS

[MigrantOkie]

In Houston, listener-sponsored Pacifica radio station KPFT (90.1 FM), said it would play the Dixie Chicks now more than ever.

"I just heard about it an hour ago from a caller who said there is some kind of boycott against the Dixie Chicks," said Wendy Schroell, KPFT administrative assistant. "That is the craziest thing I have ever heard. We are going to be playing them all the time.

[MigrantOkie]

Come on Freepers lay it ole Wendy.

[egarvue]

Ahhh, Pacifica. IIRC, this is a lefty-leaning radio network. Kind of like the "Alter-net" news wire for "alternative" newspapers. Or CBS for television. Take your pick...

[gcruse]

Pacifica? Isn't that the group that broke away from NPR because NPR wasn't leftist enough? And does a Pacifica station play country music? Too surreal.

[MigrantOkie]

These people might be beyond help this is from their web site:

"KPFT, one of the five stations owned by the Pacifica Foundation, like her sister stations in New York City, Washington DC, Los Angeles and Berkeley, California, accepts no corporate underwriting or advertising.

KPFT's Mission is Pacifica's Mission: we seek to educate, to encourage and provide outlets for the creative skills and energies of the community. We seek to contribute to a lasting understanding between nations and between the individuals of all nations, races, creeds and colors. And, we seek to promote full distribution of public information.

With over 30 Music Programs and 35 Public Affairs shows, KPFT is for people who actively seek alternatives to music and public affairs programming. There's not another station on the FM dial here in Houston with more programming diversity than KPFT, 90.1 FM.

KPFT is radio with a vision. Check us out at 90.1 FM on your dial or listen live on the web. You can also visit us in person. We're located in the heart of Montrose in Houston."

In the middle of queer Montrose.Maybe the Admin should delete this one.

[hole_n_one]

I'm sure you have something to add to this fast breaking news story.......

[Theresa]

This is easy, just kill two birds with one stone....boycot KPTF.

[Jewels1091]

Just emailed them!

[F-117A]

This is good. The Chix will drive their regular listeners away so no body will be listening to them. Heard they'll then change their call sign to KPUT!

[MigrantOkie]

thank you :-) what the heck maybe we can crash an email server tonight ;-)

[hole_n_one]

You sweet talker, you!

[bradactor]

Believe it or not I have tuned to this station from time to time and they play different kinds of music. I am definitely not a faithful listener to it. It is bad enought I cannot get am radio directly where I work and sometimes have to listen to NPR in the morning yuck because Fm is all I can get. But I do have the internet and can get the local conservative talk radio stations online.
Brad

[McGruff]

You're not going to be around long.

[TLBSHOW]

what is your problem

[MigrantOkie]

Oh my GOD! This is their list of talk shows!

Talk shows :

Whole Mother
Go Vegan Texas
Earth 101
Naked Lunch
Amnesty International
Connect the Dots
People of Earth
Border Crossings
Tresholds
Latino Voices
LivingArt
African Journal
CPR
Community Dialogue
Queer Voices
Nuestra Palabra
Proyecto Lation Americano
Sexto Sol
Technology Bytes
Arab Voices
The Progressive Forum
Women's Collective
Voices at Work
The Prison Show
Cultural Baggage
The other Side
After Hours
Open journal
Manager's report
Irish Aires
New Capital
Open Journal

I'm sorry guys but these guys are just beyond the pale. I had no idea. I'm only visiting Houston for work and not much longer at that. I didn't know. There's no convincing these guys to see the light of patriotism. I'm going to go throw up now.

[CheneyChick]

I'd say "Welcome to FR", but potty mouths aren't welcome around here. Clean up or go away.

[bradactor]

I sent them an email in their feedback form and told them how ludicrous it was for a leftist station to even play country and western music. But what can one expect from a so called "foundation" station.
Brad

[dougherty]

KPFT is a joke. Not many Houstonians know it even exists. I was with a friend in their car and they were channel surfing on the radio and came across KPFT's prison show. The families of convicts can call the show up and talk over the air to their relatives that are listening in prison or jail. Anyway, this one woman called in to say hi to her two sons that were locked up and wanted to say how proud she was of them. We had a good laugh over that one.

[shadowman99]

>> Pacifica? Isn't that the group that broke away from NPR because NPR wasn't leftist enough?

No, that can't be. The left keeps telling us they need a liberal radio network, so how can these guys already be liberal? If they had a radio network it would already be a raging success, because their word is more enlightened than ours. And the liberal Rush would have shut down our Rush by now, most certainly. So, no, they can't be liberal.

Because if Pacifica is liberal, that means somebody is lying to us.

[isthisnickcool]

This is easy, just kill two birds with one stone....boycot KPTF.

The "two birds" would be the two people that listen to KPFT.

LOL! LOL! LOL! As a native Houstonian I can assure everyone here that any announcement from KPFT about ANYTHING is about as important as belly-button lint. KPFT is run by a combination of old hippies, 60's "radicals", homosexuals, bi-sexuals, things there is not a name for yet and people that have numerous tattoos and body piercings.

KPFT is so far left you can't find them. Don't waste your time on them. But they would love the attention. Because they have not got any since the 70's when their transmitter was blown up. Supposedly by the KKK.

If you do contact them your best bet is to keep in mind that you are dealing with types that are basically just like Cheech & Chong.

[Hank Rearden]

"I just heard about it an hour ago from a caller who said there is some kind of boycott against the Dixie Chicks," said Wendy Schroell, KPFT administrative assistant. "That is the craziest thing I have ever heard. We are going to be playing them all the time.

"administrative assistant" = office secretary.

Sounds pretty authoritative, all right.

[isthisnickcool]

KPFT's prison show

That is HILARIOUS! I've heard it. I think that old queer Ray Hill is the host. It's a real hoot:

Mom: Billy? Billy? This is mom. How are you? We got the Chevy running! How are you honey?

Billy: I'm ok. Hi! The Chevy? That's great!

etc,etc,etc

[JakeINJoisey]

The thought of Pacifica "listeners" being deluged with Vichy Chicks music makes me giggle...

[MigrantOkie]

LOL! I'm glad that we can at least have a good laugh about this post.

[Movemout]

I wonder where Pacifica Foundation gets their money. The operating expenses for five stations isn't trivial and they apparently don't run corporate ads.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Go Vegan Texas

as in git along little carrots?

[KneelBeforeZod]

if anyone can change the minds of a Pacifica radio station... let us know, becuase you'd be able to make every liberal in congress go conservative.

[MigrantOkie]

It's a PBS business model which does imply that there are some Corporate sponsers since viewers/listeners NEVER provide all the funds.

[null and void]

I'm going to go throw up now.

Put it in a baggie and send it to them...

[Movemout]

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[Movemout]

This is kind of interesting:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 7, 1999

CONTACT:
Andrea Buffa 415-546-6334 x309

PACIFICA FOUNDATION TURNS OVER FIGURES TO CALIFORNIA LEGISLATORS

Foundation admits spending $500,000 to shut down KPFA as censorship campaign escalates at KPFK, Pacifica's Los Angeles station.

Under threat of subpoena the Pacifica Foundation today handed over financial records to the California Joint Legislative Audit Committee, chaired by Scott Wildman, D-Glendale. The committee requested the documents as part of an investigation into Pacifica's compliance with non-profit regulations, undertaken at the urging of Assemblymember Dion Aroner, D-Berkeley.

Pacifica Executive Director Lynn Chadwick turned over documentation of the foundation's recent expenditures to Wildman's office. Pacifica controls the license of KPFA, the nation's oldest listener-sponsored radio station, as well as the licenses of four other progressive community sponsored stations across the country. The foundation closed down KPFA for 23 days this summer, locking out staff and broadcasting canned programming in place of the station's usual lively mix of local and national news and music.

As many staff and community supporters of KPFA had feared, Chadwick revealed that Pacifica has spent half a million dollars on armed guards and a high-priced public relations firm in its campaign to silence local programmers. According to Chadwick's figures, Pacifica spent over $380,000 on guards alone.

"For Pacifica to spend $500,000 of listener funds to carry out a hostile take-over at KPFA in the face of principled and non-violent community opposition is clearly in violation of organization's mission," said Media Alliance executive director Andrea Buffa. "This is more evidence that Pacifica's leadership, including Lynn Chadwick and board chair Dr. Mary Frances Berry, is incapable of leading the network out of this crisis and must step down."

Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, KPFK management canceled the city's only non-commercial Spanish language public affairs program because it mentioned the crisis spreading through the Pacifica network.

"This is a community station, paid for by the contributions of people who want to hear coverage that is free and uncensored," said Enfoque Latino Executive Producer Rubén Tapia. "Management is acting as if it is completely unaccountable to its listeners."

The cancellation of Enfoque Latino comes just days after another KPFK journalist, Robin Urevich, was banned from the station for writing about the conflict between Pacifica and its stations in an alternative newspaper.

85% of Pacifica's revenues come from its listener-sponsors. Long known as a bastion of free speech, Pacifica's national management and board leadership have recently censored and arrested journalists in Northern California, threatened to sell its Berkeley or New York stations, and censored reporters at its Los Angeles and Washington D.C. stations.

For background information, see http://www.savepacifica.net or www.radio4all.org/freepacifica.

[capitan_refugio]

I don't know, but "Naked Lunch" sounds interesting.
It would be just my luck if the show was about raw vegetables.

[MigrantOkie]

Looking at one of their audits Here. KPFT appears to be ENTIRELY funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The Pacifica Foundation is almost entirely funded by the same. The broadcasting license for KPFT and four of the other five stations were obtained at no cost.

[Movemout]

I too just scanned through a couple of audits, which are PDF of course. It looks like they have burned up a lot of money in intercene in-fighting. They were struggling financially but then there is this:

Anti-War Sentiment Fuels Record Pacifica Radio Fund Drives

March 4, 2003 Contact: danc@pacifica.org
Pacifica Radio Release

 

WASHINGTON, DC (Mar. 4) – Fueled by growing anti-war sentiment nationwide, the five-station Pacifica Radio network surged to its highest ever fund-drive totals, posting more than four million dollars in listener contributions this winter, Pacifica announced today.

Three Pacifica stations registered on-air fund-drives of more than one million dollars each and, overall, the network raised more than $4.1 million in listener pledges.

“Listeners are responding to Pacifica’s alternative war coverage,” said Dan Coughlin, the Executive Director of Pacifica Radio, which was founded 54-years ago by pacifists. “The big media giants have been cheerleaders for war and Pacifica, the only national non-commercial broadcaster in the country, is providing a real diversity of views which includes perspectives on peace.”

WBAI 99.5 FM in New York City led the way with a record $1.2 million pledged. The network’s original, flagship station KPFA 94.1FM in Berkeley, California, raised some $1.12 million. And for the first time in its 44-year history, Pacifica station KPFK 90.7 FM posted more than a million dollars in a single fund-drive, registering $1.02 million in pledges.

Pacifica station WPFW 89.3 FM registered $440,000 in pledges and KPFT 90.1FM in Houston blew by its fund-drive goal of $300,000, posting $354,000 in on-air pledges. This marks the third straight fund-drive that the Houston station has raised more than $300,000.

Listeners responded strongly to Pacifica’s news and public affairs programming, including live coverage of the historic coast-to-coast peace marches this fall and winter. National programs like Democracy Now!, Flashpoints, Free Speech Radio News, and Peacewatch performed particularly well during the winter drive. Democracy Now!, which is known for its hard-hitting political coverage, raised more than $800,000 in listener pledges at the five Pacifica stations.

Pacifica’s mission is to engage in any activity that shall contribute to a lasting understanding between nations and between the individuals of all nations, races, creeds and colors; to gather and disseminate information on the causes of conflict between any and all of such groups; and through any and all means compatible with the purposes of this corporation to promote the study of political and economic problems and of the causes of religious, philosophical and racial antagonisms.

[Movemout]

Internecine?

[GOPcapitalist]

Isn't that the group that broke away from NPR because NPR wasn't leftist enough?

Yep. They're to the left of the radical left. Pacifica, for those who do not know, is run by Mary Fances Berry - the race baiting chairman of US Civil Rights Commission infamy.

[Movemout]

I am amazed that a bunch of losers could last 54 years. There has to be a modicum of competence somewhere in the mix. I guess, to some extent, poor managers can be compensated for by a surfeit of cash.

[Flyer]

Uh oh, does this mean I have to change my profile page??

[wolficatZ]

Billboard Top 10- Dixie Chicks "Landslide" is number 7.
Where will it be next week, I wonder?

[KneelBeforeZod]

CMT: Earlier this year, Natalie Maines said in an interview that she hated your song "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue." Our CMT.com message boards went crazy after that. Do you think comments like that can get blown out of proportion?

Toby Keith: I think the only thing that got blown out of proportion is that they said there was a feud. I barely even commented on the situation. I've been told that she went in some major publications and made four or five [comments] like we were lobbing the ball back and forth. But it's America. She can think what she wants to about me; I don't care.

If she makes it a big war, I'll bury her. She can think about my song what she wants to. If she wants to get personal about it, then I'll be her Huckleberry. She said what she said, and hey … . The greatest thing that I find in it that's funny is that usually when somebody says something about this song, they open their blowhole and something flies out. They realize real quick, in just a few days, that they probably bit off more than they could chew. Because they start feeling the heat from the military, from families who have sons and daughters preparing to go to Iraq and who are in Afghanistan already and all the conflicts that we're in.

That's where I underestimated this song when I wrote it. It was just feelings that I felt, but I didn't realize that it was an anthem for the military people and how much it's meant to them. You step on their ground, they starting fighting back at you. So when somebody steps up and throws something out there at random just out of their blowhole that's really unnecessary, the next time you hear a statement out of them, it's a little lighter and then it's retracted a little lighter and a little lighter. Then Country Weekly comes out that we've got a feud. We don't have no feud. I haven't made it a feud yet.

It's a great way to sell magazines, but there's no truth in it. Somebody asked me one time what I thought about it. I said, 'Look, you're asking Barry Bonds, a super hit-maker songwriter. That's what I do, I write songs. I've had a string of No. 1's that I don't think anybody can take away from me, no matter who you are. I have been BMI songwriter of the year. I am a big-time songwriter, and first and foremost songwriter, so I'm in the big league of that. By you asking me my opinion on what I think of what she said about me, that's like asking Barry Bonds what he thought about what a softball player said about his swing. You don't do that. She's not a songwriter, so we can't discuss the mechanics of the song. Why don't you just go down on Second Avenue and pick one of those homeless guys and ask him what he thinks about it? To me it's the same. And that's all I've commented on. I haven't said anything about her song "Goodbye Earl" or any of that stuff.

[Flyer]

"Landslide" might be appropriate.

[WarSlut]

The thought of Pacifica "listeners" being deluged with Vichy Chicks music makes me giggle...

Now that you put it like that... me too.

[chemicalman]

That list is grounds for boycotting the station!...lol

[CroftonFreeper]

KPFT Studio, Request & Pledge Line	713-526-KPFT (713-526-5738)
Business Line	713-526-4000
Fax	713-526-5750
Membership Information	713-526-4000 ext.315
Mailing Address	KPFT 90.1FM Pacifica Radio 419 Lovett Blvd. Houston, Texas 77006

KPFT Staff		All numbers at 713-526-4000
Name	Title	Email	Phone Ext.
Duane Bradley	General Manager	dbradley@kpft.org	310
Otis Maclay	Program Director		311
Donna Platt	Development Director	dplatt@kpft.org	315
Steve Brightwell	Chief Engineer	sbrightwell@kpft.org	304
Markisha Venzant	Business Manager	markisha@kpft.org	307
Lisa Carter	Membership Coordinator	membership@kpft.org	314
Roark Smith	Promotions Director	roark@kpft.org	316
Phil Edwards	Music Director	phil@kpft.org	313
Wendy Schroell	Administrative Assistant	wendy@kpft.org	301
Jackson & Renée	News Directors	news@kpft.org	309
Christiane Van den Abeele	Web Administrator	webadm@kpft.org	303
Shannon Young	Production/Training	shannon@kpft.org	n/a
Clif Smith	Music Library/Archives	music@kpft.org	n/a

Other useful contacts
News Department: news@kpft.org
Listener comments and questions: commentsandquestions@kpft.org
For music related questions: music@kpft.org
For volunteer Issues: volunteers@kpft.org

[Paul_B]

Pacifica

You tax dollars at play.

[irish guard]

Remember, every radio station below 92 on the radio dial has to be a Not for profit....these are just lefties that used to have a country western format to attract listeners.....their true beliefs just came out......call in and ask them to move on up to 95 on the dial and they will have to tell the truth.....and, noone will listen to them

[wgeorge2001]

FM? Ohhh yeah. Do people still listen to FM channels?

[InfraRed]

In Houston, listener-sponsored Pacifica radio station KPFT (90.1 FM), said it would play the Dixie Chicks now more than ever.

This should be welcome news to both of the KPooFTer listeners.

[Tax Government]

KPFT, one of the five stations owned by the Pacifica Foundation, like her sister stations in New York City, Washington DC, Los Angeles and Berkeley, California, accepts no corporate underwriting or advertising.

Pacifica is discriminating against corporate persons by denying them the right to advertise. Corporate persons, like natural ones, have legal rights. And for Pacifica to deny a class of people the right to advertise might be grounds for a lawsuit.

[mewzilla]

Forget talking/writing the station. Contact its advertisers. That will send a message.