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Berkeley residents will be among the first in the country to get access to an hour-long radio news show produced by the Al Jazeera network.The Pacifica Foundation announced on Monday that it would run the radio broadcasts on three of its stations – KPFA in Berkeley, WBAI in New York and WPFW in Washington DC.The show was broadcast today in Berkeley, will start on Tuesday in the other cities and will be expanded to the other Pacifica outlets, including Los Angeles in January.  Eventually, all 150 of Pacifica’s affiliates will have access to the radio shows.“Al Jazeera English’s news and...

After losing their jobs in a cost-cutting move Monday, employees at Berkeley's KPFA returned to the radio station studios Tuesday, taking over the airwaves with a renegade show. The unauthorized broadcast originated in a separate studio inside the station with the help of a remaining employee, said Pacifica Foundation Executive Director Arlene Engelhardt. The station had planned to broadcast a show from a sister station in Los Angeles to fill the time previously filled the morning show, but the staff member at the controls instead opened the microphones to the former employees who held their ground for two hours, Engelhardt...

About 100 people marched, held signs and sang union songs Thursday to protest layoffs at Berkeley-based radio station KPFA, the liberal bastion on the FM dial. Facing a drop of about $500,000 a year in listener donations and other funding for each of the past three years, KPFA's parent organization, Pacifica Foundation, plans to cut the equivalent of seven full-time jobs from a paid staff whose full- and part-time hours add up to about 30 full-time positions, said Tracy Rosenberg, a KPFA and Pacifica board member. Rosenberg said the station's budget this year is about $3.6 million, but the station...

We all know about NPR tote bags given as rewards during pledge week. The tax funded "public radio" station KPFA in Berkeley gives away "Marijuana Growers Guide" by Rosenthal for a $150 pledge. KPFA is part of "Pacifica", the ultra liberal, wackadoo radio network. And yes they are partially tax supported.