What's Happening?

>> June 18, 2008 - Interim KRFC manager and former board member Chris Kennison is selected to be the next general manager. Kate Tarasenko expresses some opinions about the selection process, not the person, in KRFC hires permanent GM, Earth still round, and Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine offers this wisdom Boards and Leadership Transition: The Wrong Hire Can Derail a Healthy Organization.
>> June 14, 2008 - New Struggles at Pacifica. → Community radio reporters Felicitas Martínez and Teresa Bautista shot and killed. → It happens in Canada too: CKLN Radio vs. The New World Order
>> June 12, 2008 - Court-ordered mediatian date still not set.
>> June 12, 2008 - More on the Struggle at KRCL in Salt Lake City
>> May 28, 2008 - Another station struggles TERRIBLE RECEPTION FOR WYPR
May 28, 2008 - KRFC and SGR still searching for a court-ordered mediation date
May 12, 2008 - KRFC Chief Fuses Fun, Work in Coloradoan
Mar 26, 2008 - Press commentary "Help Save KRFC From Itself" in Fort Collins NOW
Mar 6, 2008 - Press coverage of our lawsuit: Rocky Mountain Chronicle, Coloradoan, Press Release
Feb 12, 2008 - Letter to editor about KRFC nixing Jim Hightower: SLIPPERY SUPPORT

Our Lawsuit - YOU BE THE JUDGE (member expulsion)

Should KRFC continue to spend individual and small business donations defending this lawsuit? Read our arguments about why we think members were expelled illegally and judge for yourself.

Program Changes, April 2, 2007

KRFC's new program schedule marginalizes progressive programming:

  • Free Speech Radio News, the daily half-hour evening-oriented news program is cancelled.
  • Democracy Now!, the daily one-hour morning-oriented news program is moved from 6pm to 7pm daily and will not air at all on Friday. Friday's show may be available at 5AM Saturday morning.
  • Counterspin, the weekly half-hour media criticism show is cancelled.
  • Alternative Radio, the weekly one-hour public affairs show is cancelled.

Quotes

"Community radio is where civil society speaks its mind about issues both local and global. Public, civic discourse is the essence of democratic behavior, and has been stifled by the current KRFC management. We are lesser, more impoverished for this change;"
- Sally Miles

"KRFC was founded as a democratically run station. This was very clear. What was unclear is what exactly that meant. Everybody had an opinion, volunteers, members and board. Instead of discussing this in an open manner, the board instead hired a manager who ended the discussion for them and sealed the station into what could be called a shotgun consensus model."
- Eddie Arthur, 2007, in the library > important letters

"Dialogue is a conversation between adults the outcome of which is unknown."
-Martin Buber

"The workings of KRFC have truly become a nightmare for anyone interested in a community radio station run in a democratic manner, or to be precise, "a community radio station that is listener supported and democratically managed." That's from the KRFC Mission Statement. [The] recent e-mails from the Station Manager and the President of the Board of Directors reveal, in my opinion, obvious violations of the KRFC Mission Statement."
- Jeff Rowan, 2005, in the library > important letters


"Grassroots radio fosters democracy, both in its programming and its governance."
from The Grassroots Radio Movement in the U.S.
- Marty Durlin, Cathy Melio


"It seems essential to first define what is meant by the terms "democracy" and "accountability" Here's what it means to me: (what does it mean to you?)

  1. The people affected by a decision are the ones who make it

  2. People who are doing work decide how they do that work.
  3. People doing work on behalf of others must be accountable to those others, and work on behalf of the needs of others as well as their own.


- Lyn Gerry, a founder of the FreePacifica movement in the mid 90's

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