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Pacifica Radio KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles
Truthdig Radio Moves to Thursdays at 4pm on 90.7 KPFK
KPFK launches a Friday afternoon comedy block featuring the political comedy of David Feldman, Jimmy Dore, and Lalo Alcaraz; Al Jazeera News moves to weekdays at 2pm; and a new auxiliary transmitter is installed on Mount Wilson
January 18, 2012 – North Hollywood, CA. Pacifica Radio KPFK announces a series of changes to its mid-afternoon weekday schedule that begins today and includes the move of Truthdig Radio to Thursdays at 4pm. Produced by the team at the award-winning website Truthdig.com, each week the radio show features segments on some of the stories found on the website, alongside original reports generated for the radio show.
Anchored by Truthdig editor Peter Scheer, the segments are hosted by a range of regular Truthdig contributors, including Robert Scheer, Kasia Anderson, producer Joshua Sheer and award-winning cartoonist Mr. Fish. Truthdig's regular columnists, some of whom are among the most popular in the American blogosphere – among them, Chris Hedges, Larry Gross, Madison Shockley, and Bob Scheer himself – also appear regularly on the show as guests or commentators. Truthdig.com is three-time winner of the Webby for best political blog, most recently ahead of the Huffington Post and the NY Times.
Says KPFK’s Program Director, Alan Minsky: “Truthdig Radio is a great addition to our afternoon drive time line-up. Like the website, the radio show aligns with the Pacifica Radio Mission, not only in the way it provides excellent journalism, but in the way it delivers engaging radio that asks the challenging questions that need to be asked and seeks social justice-oriented solutions.”
Other KPFK programming schedule updates of note are:
· Pacifica Radio’s Al Jazeera News moves to 2pm Monday through Friday, providing Southern California radio listeners with the earliest-available daily global news wrap up from one of the most influential broadcast news outlets in the world;
· Alternative Radio returns, hosted by radical journalist David Barsamian on Tuesdays at 3pm;
· KPFK unites its political comedy shows in a comedy block Fridays from 2:30pm to 5pm. The line-up starts with the David Feldman Show, hosted by multiple Emmy award-winning comedy writer David Feldman and featuring a troupe of comics well known in the stand-up and sketch comedy world; followed by the Jimmy Dore Show at 3pm, hosted by one of America's sharpest political comedians, Jimmy Dore, who was featured in the hit Comedy Central special Citizen Jimmy; and is anchored by the Pocho Hour of Power at 4pm, hosted by Lalo Alcaraz, the creator of the nationally-syndicated daily comic strip La Cucaracha and a team of local comics, presenting political analysis, comedy, and music.
KPFK is making these afternoon programming changes at an important moment in its recent history. The station has experienced a series of broadcast interruptions due to aging equipment at its 110,000-watt Mount Wilson transmitter and power outages to the transmission site. As of late last week, KPFK is proud to announce that a new auxiliary transmitter and a new back-up generator system have been installed on Mount Wilson, ensuring a regular, continuous broadcast signal.
Contacts:
Alan Minsky, Program Director
(818) 749-9497
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