Active Radio: Pacifica's Brash ExperimentU of Minnesota Press, 1994 - 179 páginas In April 1949, KPFA in Berkeley, California went on the air. From the beginning, the station broadcast an utterly new combination of political commentary and cultural discussion that reflected founder Lewis Hill's vision of a radio station dedicated to creative expression and dissent. In this fascinating account, Jeff Land tells the heroic story of the Pacifica radio network, exploring not only its role in the culture and politics of the postwar world, but also the practical model it pioneered for liberatory alternatives to commercial mass media. A network of five stations (in Berkeley, Los Angeles, Houston, New York City, and Washington, D.C.), Pacifica has been a participant in nearly every progressive political movement of the past fifty years. The network has risked the loss of its licenses, had its transmitters bombed, seen its personnel arrested and jailed, and made errors of judgment and taste. Yet it has pioneered a number of media innovations, listener sponsorship and call-in radio among them. It has also made history: on Pacifica stations, Seymour Hersch broke the My Lai story; the FBI's illegal internal surveillance program was first publicly revealed; the Firesign Theater gave its first performance; and Bob Dylan's "Blowing in the Wind" made its public debut. Using tape archives of radio programs, interviews with participants, and unpublished material on Pacifica, Land chronicles the turmoils and triumphs of this radio network that served as a model for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting System. Rich in anecdote, Active Radio is both an engaging account of Pacifica's past and an assessment of its significance to postwar culture in the United States. |
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... States would rest contained but a single reference to advertising : any pro- gram sponsored by a business must identify that enterprise by name , so that wily , unnamed advertisers could not “ subliminally seduce ” the audience IX Preface.
... audience ” for their sponsors . Broadcasters have shunned not only Bolshevism but most contro- versial or complicated topics that might jeopardize their audience share . Critics from the 1920s to the 1990s have observed that the world ...
... audience an eclectic if erudite schedule that provided for an all too brief moment a viable, partial alternative to the entertain- ment of the corporate media.1 In his important work Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy, Robert ...
... audience subscriptions would be free from both network and advertising exi- gencies. This in turn might open the ether to controversial political issues and the creative imagination of individual programmers. Hill's single-minded ...
... audience of more than a half million listen- ers in the late sixties , was the most successful outlet in Pacifica's history . At the cusp of the seventies , Third World , feminist , gay and lesbian , ecological , and new social ...
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1 The Rise of Corporate Broadcasting | 11 |
2 Lew Hills Passion and the Origins of Pacifica | 27 |
3 ListenerSponsored Radicalism on KPFA | 39 |
4 The Development of the Pacifica Network | 63 |
5 Free Speech Radio | 91 |
6 WBAI and the Explosion of Live Radio | 113 |
7 Beloved Community | 133 |
Conclusion | 143 |
Notes | 149 |
Bibliography | 161 |
Pacifica Programs | 169 |
Index | 173 |