Question Twelve: What can be done to improve our signal strength?

You can find all of the staff candidate's answers to Question Twelve on this page.

KPFA Staff candidates

Shahram Aghmir

I am not familiar with the details of what is needed to bring about such improvements. However, this is an important issue that needs to be studied, and its costs and benefits need to be clearly identified since a stronger signal could lead to a larger number of listeners.

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Mary Berg

no answer submitted

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Chris Brown

This is an issue I am not familiar with. Would the FCC allow our signal to get stronger? If so, are there other companies that would be opposed to this?

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Brian Edwards-Tiekert

In the past year, we've installed a booster on Mount Diablo, oriented to push our signal into the Stockton area and the southern Sacramento valley. We've secured permission from the FCC to set up a translator in Auburn, which would extend our signal along the I-80 corridor from the fringes of Sacramento up into the Sierra foothills. That project should move full steam ahead.

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Jeannine Etter

I think that more advertisement is the key to strengthen the listenership. We have many people within our local communities who are not in the loop. Clear Channel has too many of listeners who would greatly benefit from our programming. We need to make efforts to pull them in.

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