Question Seven: How should the Pacifica Foundation find a wider audience?

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

KPFK Staff candidates

From what i can find out, no programming from KPFK has ever reached any of our affiliates. Staff has grown from one to three, with no change in income. Should the Pacifica Foundation try to acquire additional radio stations? Yes. More signals within our KPFK signal area is very attractive, if we allow a new fund-listener base to spawn. Thousands of square miles, millions of alternative language listeners can support more transmitters. The 59 signals we are up against enter the market through brokers. Mexico now has maybe 60 total.

Chicago, Ill. has a good slot or two. Belize and Mieorka?

When Bylaws committee met at my house for more than a year, my goal was structuring the bylaws to bring in additional radio stations on an equal footing with the present five.

Loosing that Short Wave station from Costa Rica was a mistake.

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Don Bustany

no answer submitted

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Agustin Cebada

no answer submitted

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Shawn Casey O’Brien

Get our new GM out into the community. Make a goodwill tour of all the community's grassroots groups, churches, social services and let them know that our soapbox is their soapbox.

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Margaret Prescod

Outreach, outreach outreach. Take advantage of the new technologies out there that will redefine radio as we know it; Open up more airtime to youth and other voices on line, for example; Further develop our web capacity and services; Provide adequate resources for local as well as national programming; Give Pacifica a branding that will be recognized everywhere; Use our web capacity to build not only local and national but international audiences; support Spanish language programming, grassroots and other diverse voices. We are not NPR and if we act like we are we will not succeed, we need to build our own brand. We need community bases and community support, most importantly from youth. Resources should be made available for programming done from diverse communities throughout the Southland where youth can host and produce and report stories, perform and more, that can go directly onto Pacifica’s airwaves and/or on our online station. There are a wealth of things that can be done, but it will take good will and collaboration.

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Steve Pride

Today, the Pacifica network consists of five stations owned by the Pacifica Foundation, one associate station, and 84 affiliates. While I would love to have a sister station in Minneapolis, Chicago or another Midwestern city, I am not convinced it would be a sound fiscal move at this particular time. So I would instead push to strengthen our ties to our affiliate stations and grow our online internet audio streams.

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