KPFK 90.7 FM

Fall Fund Drive

KPFK's October on-air membership and fund-raising drive is underway.

Your support is critical to keeping community-oriented, people-powered radio on the air!

Call to support free speech and freedom of cultural expression, your favorite music, arts, or public affairs programming and locally-produced news: 818-985-5735 press option 2 or click here.

Democracy Now Newsfeed

  • "The Apprentice": New Film Opens Despite Trump's Attempts to Block Anyone from Seeing It

    We speak with the director of The Apprentice, “the movie Trump doesn’t want you to see,” which opens today in theaters despite legal threats from the former president. The film looks at how Trump was mentored by Roy Cohn, former chief counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Red Scare. He went on to represent Trump as he built his New York real estate empire, and “was the person who sort of built Trump, as a person, as a brand, as an identity,” says Abbasi.

  • Atomic Bomb Survivors Win Nobel Peace Prize, Say Gaza Today Is Like Japan 80 Years Ago

    A Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors, Nihon Hidankyo, has won the Nobel Peace Prize as fears grow of a new nuclear arms race. The head of the group has compared Gaza today to Japan 80 years ago when the U.S. bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We feature a Democracy Now! interview with Setsuko Thurlow, a survivor of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and an anti-nuclear activist, and get response from Joseph Gerson, president of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security, a U.S. nuclear disarmament activist who has spent decades working closely with the group.

KPFK's Rebel Alliance News

KPFK's Rebel Alliance News is our nightly weekday English-language locally produced newscast, your uncensored source of progressive news, information and commentary, with international, national, state-wide and local coverage. Interim news director Ziri Rideaux has recruited a team of unpaid newsgatherers, reporters, commentators and anchors to cover local, state, national and international news, including Angela Birdsong, Jack Kennedy, Polina Vasiliev, Ann Garrison, Don DeBar, Dan Nowman, Marcy Winograd and others. We are looking for more beat reporters and volunteer stringers from OC, San Diego, and covering local government, housing and policing issues in Southern California including LA City and County and other municipalities. Email news@kpfk.org

Programming Highlights

          The BradBlog

The BradBlog

  • Milton's Mess, FL's U.S. House Liars, Trump's Made-in-China Bibles: 'BradCast' 10/10/2024

    When it rains, it pours on today's BradCast. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.] Among the muck we wade through today... Hurricane Milton walloped much of central Florida after coming ashore as a Cat 3 om Wednesday night, just south of a worst-case-scenario direct hit on Tampa Bay. But, as we've learned since covering Hurricane [...]

  • 'Green News Report' - October 10, 2024

    Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Hurricane Milton pummels Florida; FEMA grapples with Republican disinformation and funding shortages from back-to-back climate change-fueled disasters; PLUS: Biden EPA issues landmark rule to replace every lead water pipe in America... All that and more in today's Green News Report! Click here to listen [...]

Rising Up with Sonali  

 

 

 



Sonali Kolhatkar can be heard Tuesdays at 3:00 PM on KPFK. Rising Up with Sonali is now a project of Yes! where she is an editor.

Rising Up With Sonali, presented by Yes! Magazine

  • Report from Hurricane Helene Recovery Efforts in Asheville

    Hurricane Helene has wrought untold devastation across several Southeastern states, and is the deadliest to have hit the United States since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. So far more than 200 people are confirmed dead and the estimated damage could be as high as $200 billion worth. 

  • A Progress 2025 Vision of Climate Justice

    An August 2024 study determined that if all of the document’s climate-related recommendations were implemented, the U.S. would spew an additional 2.7 billion tons of climate-heating emissions into the atmosphere by 2030. 

Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod

Currently heard Tuesdays at 7am on KPFK
Archives of the program can be found HERE
Sojourner Truth w Margaret Prescod

Somethings Happening honoring Roy Of Hollywood

Somethings Happening is KPFK's long-running overnight program midnight to 6:00 AM Tuesday-Friday with segments of holistic health, meditation, psychology, philosophy, political economy, science fiction and fact, old radio and more, created and long curated by the late Roy of Hollywood, Roy Tuckman. KPFK has been maintaining it since he passed in his honor and memory and in the framework and format he developed and evolved over the decades, which continues to evolve.

Monday overnight to Tuesday features political economy, including Le Show, with Harry Shearer now on at midnight with real-life absurdities from the headlines. Equal Rights and Justice from WBAI also airs at 3:00 AM in that early morning. 

Tuesday overnight to Wednesday is holistic health, with Street Sankofa with Dr. Ife Jie, dealing with mental liberation as HipHop artivist and scholar, Herbal Highway from sister station KPFA, Food Sleuth Radio from the Pacifica affiliates unit, and Whole Mother about pregnancy, childbirth and child-rearing from sister station KPFT.

Wednesday overnight to Thursday features an anti-fascist focus, with programming from David Emory's "For the Record," the Grayzone Radio from Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate', also developed for radio on KPFK's initiative, Final Straw Radio from young anti-authoritarians from the Pacifica affiliates unit, and Out-FM from sister station WBAI in New York.

Thursday overnight to Friday focuses on philosophy, psychology and consciousness/enlightenment, with Alan Watts,  The Magical Mystery Tour with Tonio Epstein from the Pacifica affiliates unit, an old radio break with drama, mystery, science fiction and comedy, and at 3:00 AM, Caroline Casey, the Visionary Activist from sister station KPFA in Berkeley, a long-running feature on Something's Happening. We have also been running occasional lectures from the "History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps" from Kings College in London.

Each hour is separately posted on the station's archives for easy listening - Somethings Happening A hours 1-3, and Somethings Happening B hours 1-3 each overnight. Check it out! Dynamite radio for night people also available 24-7 on kpfk.org (for listening, not download).

 

KPFK Needs Your Input to Grow, Improve & Better Serve the Community - Take Our Survey Now!

KPFK's ability to serve the community and the cause of free speech & cultural expression, peace and justice, depends on your input and involvement. Please click here to take our listener survey!

If you can volunteer for assisting in social media promotion and marketing, video production and editing, or news gathering and beat reporting for KPFK, fill out this form to apply.

 

KPFK's Community Underwriting Information and Intake Form

KPFK, under a policy adopted by the Pacifica National Board, is now accepting underwriting from local businesses, community organizations, and other non-profits, that are aligned with Pacifica’s Mission Statement. Underwriters will receive weekly on-air announcements acknowledging their support for KPFK, listing on a dedicated page on our website, and a rotated listing in KPFK’s weekly Dispatch newsletter emailed to over 17,000 of our listeners. KPFK has the strongest broadcast signal in Southern California, with listeners from Santa Barbara to San Diego to the greater Palm Springs area, and online at KPFK.org. We are listener-sponsored, commercial-free Pacifica Radio for all of Southern California.

For more details about how you can become an underwriter of KPFK, email mnovick@kpfk.org with your contact info and "Underwriting" in the subject line or click this link to fill out the preliminary contact form: https://kpfk.org/community-underwriting-intake-form

We will send you more information about the program and what it offers.

News from KPFK and Pacifica

Fall Refresher Programming Changes on KPFK
Not many leaves change color in the autumn in Southern California, and this fall seems to hold a change from El Nino climate conditions to La Nina. But KPFK is continuing to refresh our programming to better meet community needs.
     Voices from the Frontlines decided to take a break from regular weekly programming on Friday mornings at 7:00 AM, and The Constituency, a public affairs interview program focusing on how local government is dealing with houselessness and other issues has moved into that time slot, expanding to an hour in the process. Its place on Tuesdays at 2:30 PM will be taken for now by Green Street, which has been running as part of Something's Happening overnight -- it focuses on environmental health and justice.

     Vic Gerami is back on the morning schedule with The Blunt Post with Vic, on the first, second and fifth Thursdays of the month at 7:00 AM.
Vic is currently at a conference in Armenia and will be coming back with some important content. Rootwork with Thandisizwe Chimurenga continues on the 3rd & 4th Thursdays of the month at 7:00 AM. Dr. Ife Jie, who was in that time period with Street Sankofa, has moved to Tuesday midnight overnight to Wednesday as part of Something's Happening. You can check it out on the archives if you are not a night person.

      Creative Frontline, a program focusing on Indigenous land and water protection, sovereignty and anti-extractivism, land and water protection will also be moving up from Something's Happening to Mondays at 4 PM to strengthen and extend our environmental strip at that hour, including Be a Better Relative (Eagle and the Condor), XR Now!  from Extinction Rebellion L.A., and EcoJustice Radio
 
Le Show with Harry Shearer, which has been running at 1:00 AM Tuesdays, will move up to midnight, and CodePINK, which had been running
at 4 PM on Mondays, the slot Creative Frontline is moving to, will switch to Somethings Happening at 1:00 AM Tuesdays after Le Show.

     Saturday morning at 9:00 AM, On the Ground, voices of resistance from the nation's capital with Esther Iverem from our sister station WPFW in Washington DC has joined our lineup.
   
Delegate Elections for 2024 -- Quorum reached!

Voting has been completed in the elections at all five stations for delegates of the listener-sponsors and the (paid and unpaid) staff members to serve on the governance of each station and of the Pacifica Foundation. About 14% of our listener members (exceeding the 10% quorum) and almost 1/3 of our staff members (exceeding the 25% quorum) cast ballots. Thanks to everyone who participated, and to all the candidates!

National Election Supervisor Renee Peñaloza can be reached at nes@pacifica.org. She is supervising the vote tallying by electionbuddy, and will be issuing a report with the results of the elections shortly.

NEWLY ELECTED DELEGATES WILL BE SEATED IN DECEMBER ON THE LOCAL STATION BOARD.

2024 ANNUAL EEO PUBLIC FILE REPORT
Pacifica Foundation Inc.
Station: KPFK 
Community of License: Los Angeles, CA 
Reporting Period: July 22nd 2023–July 21st 2024

Click here for 2024 EEO Report
KPFK’s Online Public File

Pacifica designated agent to receive notice of claimed infringements:

 

KPFK LSB, CAB, & PNB Info and Committee Schedule

CLICK HERE FOR KPFK LOCAL STATION BOARD INFORMATION AND NEWS

Members and Officers of the Local Station Board, 2024

Rodrigo Argueta Vargas

Christina Avalos

Doug Barnett

Veronica Becerra

Mike Bressler

Tatanka Bricca, Chair

Rachel Bruhnke

John Cromshow

Ace Estwick

Vic Gerami

Aryana Gladney

Jan Goodman, listener director

Wendell Handy

Nikki Haun, Vice chair

Michael Heiss

Sue Cohen-Johnson

Evelia Jones, listener director

Oye Oyeyipo

Robert Payne

Nancy Pearlman

Myla Reson, staff director

Oscar Ulloa

Harvey Wasserman, listener director

Carlos Zavala

Ex officio, non-voting: Michael Novick, interim General manager

Secretary: Position open - email LSB@kpfk.org if interested - you need not be a member of the LSB to serve in this position.

Treasurer: Steven Meeks (serves ex officio on PNB's National Finance Committee)

Pacifica National Board and Local Station Board meetings, as well as those of their committees can be found here:

 

Pacifica Foundation Info can be found on the foundation's website at www.pacifica.org.

The Pacifica National Board (PNB) can be reached by email at PNB@pacifica.org.

The Local Station Board (LSB) can be reached by email at LSB@kpfk.org.

Information about governance meetings can be found at https://kpftx.org

PNB Directors' Reports are now on a blog - click on blogs on the top navigation menu above.

 

Thanks to everyone for pledging support for the station during the drive.
Your support of KPFK helps make special broadcasts like this possible. Please consider utilizing the number of other ways you can support KPFK through a Donor Advisory FundStocks or Mutual Funds, Charitable IRALeaving A Bequest or Vehicle Donation, and you can pledge for select gifts you've heard mentioned during the current fund drive HERE.

If you prefer, you can make checks or money orders payable to "KPFK" and mail them to:

KPFK, PO Box 748419,  Los Angeles CA 90074-8419

Jobs at KPFK and Pacifica

KPFA Radio Berkeley - UpFront Producer Sought -

UpFront is a mostly-live morning public affairs show that delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through engaging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors. We broadcast Monday to Friday from 7 to 8 am on 94.1 FM and at kpfa.org. This producer will have primary responsibility for setting up most days’ shows, with help from the show’s host and interns. More info here

KPFK is seeking to fill several pro bono (unpaid) interim management and coordinator positions.

These include:

interim unpaid development director to form and guide a development task force to raise funds for the station;

interim unpaid social media marketing manager to coordinate social media promotion efforts at and by the station;

interim unpaid volunteer coordinator to recruit and supervise volunteers for diverse tasks at the station.

Those interested in applying for these unpaid interim positions, please contact interim GM Michael Novick at gm@kpfk.org.

Pacifica Foundation Radio seeks an experienced leader for the position of
General Manager of its Los Angeles station, KPFK 90.7 FM 
For more information and to apply, click
HERE or see http://pacifica.org/jobs_kpfk.php

Now Playing & Upcoming

  • Pocho Hour of Power

    3:00pm - 4:00pm

    News, Music, Comedy & Cultural Arts Variety Show & "Non-Stop Afternoon Party"

  • La Raza Radio

    4:00pm - 5:00pm

    La Raza Radio with Matt Sedillo, Dr. Vanessa Bustamante, and Ernesto Ayala

  • Flashpoints

    5:00pm - 6:00pm

    A front-line investigative news magazine, focusing on human, civil and workers right, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues.

  • KPFK Rebel Alliance News

    6:00pm - 7:00pm

    KPFK Rebel Alliance News

KPFK Public File and related information

Pledge Now!
KPFK is a progressive media outlet challenging corporate media perspectives and providing a voice to voiceless communities. Help keep KPFK a strong and independent source of music, arts, news and information.

 

If you prefer, you can make checks or money orders payable to "KPFK" and mail them to:

KPFK, PO Box 748419,  Los Angeles CA 90074-8419

or donate via paypal -- @kpfkpledge

Now Playing

  

 

Schedule

  • Pocho Hour of Power

    3:00pm - 4:00pm

    News, Music, Comedy & Cultural Arts Variety Show & "Non-Stop Afternoon Party"

  • La Raza Radio

    4:00pm - 5:00pm

    La Raza Radio with Matt Sedillo, Dr. Vanessa Bustamante, and Ernesto Ayala

  • Flashpoints

    5:00pm - 6:00pm

    A front-line investigative news magazine, focusing on human, civil and workers right, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues.

  • KPFK Rebel Alliance News

    6:00pm - 7:00pm

    KPFK Rebel Alliance News

  • Soul Rebel Radio

    7:00pm - 8:00pm

    Soul Rebel Radio is a cutting edge youth based radio program hitting on topics as well as current events through comedy, youth voices, and interviews. SoulRebel Radio also plays a wide variety of music that young people get denied by mainstream radio.

Events

KPFK Dispatch

Sign Up to receive KPFK's email newsletter. Get the latest updates, event info and more
Dispatch

Follow us on Social Media

 

Today's Weather

  • Los Angeles Area Forecast

    Sunny intervals

    High: 82°F | Low: 59°F

Weather Forecast

  • Fri

    82°F

  • Sat

    81°F

  • Sun

    75°F

  • Mon

    75°F

  • Tue

    72°F