[FFCF-PNA] FW: Gates hearings to be national

[Vic Bedoian]

Hi Folks, 

I thought I'd forward Sasha's thoughts to you.  I'm going to give the
Pacifica Archive show a deeper listening.  Maybe we could take the half-hour
version of the Archives show and put it on the first Friday of the month at
3 pm - we don't have a local show at that time since Earth First moved to
their current slot.  Then we could put Alternative Radio on the 1 pm
Thursday slot.  

What do you all think?

If we are in agreement, I would like to start on the first of the year with
the new programs.

Best,
Vic 

-----Original Message-----
From: Sasha Lilley [mailto:ipd at kpfa.org] 
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 7:02 PM
To: vbedoian at kfcf.org
Subject: RE: Gates hearings to be national

Hi Vic,

Thanks for your email.  I hear your concerns about the Herbal Highway --
they are concerns that we have also discussed recently here.  It sounds to
me like your reasons for dropping it are well thought out (and I echo your
sentiments about narrow-casting, which we seem to do a lot of on KPFA).

By the way, I haven't been that impressed with From the Vault --
particularly the hour long version.  The half hour version seems decently
produced, but they seem to put some odd things in the full hour to stretch
it out.  That's just my opinion, of course, to be taken with a grain of
salt.

Best,
Sasha

> Hi Sasha,
>
> OK thanks for the heads up on Weds. Everything cool here.
>
> On another subject:
>
> The Pacifica Archive days were great.  It definitely shows the best 
> side of Pacifica.  I've been  thinking, and our Program Committee 
> concurs, of running the Archives weekly show.  It is superb stuff.  We 
> are going to put it in the time slot that is now Herbal Highway.  I 
> don't know how you feel about that program, but several of us here 
> have had reservations about it.
> Basically, we feel (including a physician and a biologist) that 
> prescribing medicine, which is what the host regularly does, is a 
> dicey proposition.
> Also I feel the program is usually boring, monotone, with one voice 
> often telephone quality.  I'm definitely not against herbal remedies 
> or herbal lore, quite the contrary, but the program has had a long run 
> and there aren't very many other slots we could place the Pacifica 
> show.  For the general audience it's a superior program.  I guess I'm 
> not a fan of so much narrowcasting and more of a generalist.  I'm also 
> a history buff.  There are Herbal fans in our audience and I'll take 
> some hits for doing this, but it's worth it.  Let me know what you 
> think if you feel like it.
>
> Best Wishes,
> Vic
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sasha Lilley [mailto:ipd at kpfa.org]
> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 7:06 PM
> To: vbedoian at kfcf.org
> Subject: Gates hearings to be national
>
> Hi Vic,
>
> I wanted to let you know that we just got word that the Gates Hearings 
> will now be a national broadcast as KPFT and KPFK have agreed to take 
> it.
> It will run from 6am-3pm PST (although there is always a chance of it 
> not ending on time) on this Tuesday, December 5th.  There is a chance 
> that it will go two days, extending to Wednesday the 6th.
>
> Best,
> Sasha
>
> Sasha Lilley
> Interim Program Director
> KPFA Radio 94.1 FM
> 1929 Martin Luther King Jr Way
> Berkeley, CA 94704
> 510 848-6767 ext 209
> www.kpfa.org
>
>
>
> Sasha Lilley
> Interim Program Director
> KPFA Radio 94.1 FM
> 1929 Martin Luther King Jr Way
> Berkeley, CA 94704
> 510 848-6767 ext 209
> www.kpfa.org
>


Sasha Lilley
Interim Program Director
KPFA Radio 94.1 FM
1929 Martin Luther King Jr Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
510 848-6767 ext 209
www.kpfa.org