Tag: Pacifica
Embattled Pacifica director to exit immediately
The financially troubled Pacifica Foundation has new interim leadership following an Aug. 16 vote by its national board to immediately replace Executive ...Pacifica budget cuts delayed
Leaders of the Pacifica Foundation will seek a new executive director and are asking stations for financial information before ordering across-the-board cuts ...Pacifica Foundation Board won’t renew contracts for two top executives
The national board of the Pacifica Foundation voted Sunday (July 22) to begin a search for two new top executives. The board ...Pacifica orders austerity cuts after grim auditors’ report
Responding to a June 15 auditors’ report expressing “substantial doubt” that the Pacifica Foundation has the financial wherewithal “to continue as a ...Film explores influence of WBAI freeform pioneer Bob Fass
A documentary examines the legacy of the countercultural legend.Pacifica Foundation By-laws, 1955
Pacifica began operation of its first and flagship station, KPFA in Berkeley, Calif., April 15, 1949. These are early bylaws of the ...Cost of democratic safeguards is steep, Pacifica discovers
Pacifica’s transition to a listener-elected board of directors carried an unexpectedly high price tag, and network executives are exploring cheaper alternatives. Last year ...Radio that’s representative: Listeners control vote for Pacifica boards
Pacifica Radio is emerging from bitter years of factional struggle with new bylaws that may make it the world’s most democratic media ...Pacifica Foundation Bylaws, 2003
After an all-out legal and public-relations war for control of the five-station Pacifica Radio chain and its national network, the winning activists ...Pacifica Foundation By-Laws, 1999
These are the bylaws of the governing body of Pacifica Radio, originally adopted Sept. 30, 1961, with revisions through Feb. 28, 1999. ...With Abu-Jamal coming on, WRTI drops Pacifica
The prospect of radio commentaries by a controversial death-row inmate “accelerated” Temple University’s decision to pull Pacifica news off WRTI, the university ...Pacifica reporter found murdered in Los Angeles
Michael Taylor, a reporter for Pacifica station KPFK in Los Angeles, has been murdered. Friends believe the execution-style shooting may have been ...FCC v. Pacifica Foundation et al., 1978
438 U.S. 726 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION v. PACIFICA FOUNDATION ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT ...
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