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• Nov. 2024 General Manager's Report to the Local Station Board

  Posted by Michael Novick at Saturday, November 9, 2024 at 2:55 PM

  Bilingue.Bilingual Looking at programming, physical plant, financing and other issues, and developments over the past month.

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• Oct. 2024 General manager's Report to the LSB

  Posted by Michael Novick at Sunday, October 13, 2024 at 9:30 AM

  Technical and financial challenges are being overcome; the move to new quarters has been completed, but as the building sale no longer will have us moving back, additional work will be needed at the new location. The GM will do an on-air report to the listeners, taking calls, on Saturday Oct. 19, at 11:00 AM.

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• Sept. 2024 GM Report to the Local Station Board

  Posted by Michael Novick at Saturday, September 7, 2024 at 6:11 PM

  Fcaing and overcoming technical, financial, staffing, regulatory compliance, and other challenges

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• General Manager's Monthly Report to LSB

  Posted by Michael Novick at Saturday, July 13, 2024 at 9:27 PM

  Latest news about the station's move, finances, delegate elections, community engagement and other matters

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• 2024-06 GM Report to Local Station Board

  Posted by Michael Novick at Saturday, June 8, 2024 at 7:19 PM

  Technical challenges arise and are being overcome. New revenue streams are being developed. Technically in the black the first two quarters of the fiscal year; but challenges arise from the costs of the move when escrow has still not closed on the old building

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• 2024-05 GM Report to the Local Station Board

  Posted by Michael Novick at Saturday, May 11, 2024 at 10:50 PM

  Monthly report on tech issues, finances, governance, and progress on the move

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  Interim General Manager Michael Novick at the mic

• GM Report to the Local Station Board - April 2024 - en espa~nol abajo

  Posted by Michael Novick at Saturday, April 13, 2024 at 7:15 PM

  Overcoming technical challenges both related and unrelated to the move, an improving financial picture, need for community outreach and engagement, social media promotion; commemorating the Armenian Genocide. En espa~nol abajo.

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• GM Report to the Local Station Board - March 2024

  Posted by Michael Novick at Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 8:52 AM

  Monthly report on technical, financial and programming issues - espcially the upcoming move

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• Strategic overview of KPFK's move and the coming year

  Posted by Michael Novick at Sunday, February 4, 2024 at 10:21 AM

  The necessary temporary move of KPFK out of 3729 Cahuenga Blvd West and back again after the building is rnovated is an opportuniy to think and act strategically to strengthen the station and rebuild our audience and impact for peace and justice.

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• 2024-01 iGM Report to the Local Station Board

  Posted by Michael Novick at Saturday, January 6, 2024 at 8:16 PM

  News on the move, finances and upcoming station events

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• GM monthly report to the LSB 1-15-23

  Posted by Michael Novick at Monday, January 23, 2023 at 3:22 PM

  General manager's monthly report about the state of the station

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• General Manager Report

  Posted by Michael Novick at Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 8:56 AM

  The new interim GM, Michael Novick, will be on-air with a report to and dialogue with the listeners on Thursday, November 17 at 6 AM taking your calls, comments and questions. But here's written report about what's happening at the station

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• 2020 Year End Review

  Posted by Anyel Z Fields at Thursday, December 31, 2020 at 12:00 AM

  As 2020 unfolded with evolving challenges and change, public media found itself navigating an unprecedented landscape. This has made it more difficult for KPFK and Pacifica to rebound. These trying times, exacerbated by financial and organizational challenges, have underscored our need to adapt to face current and long-term problems.

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• Fall Feedback Survey

  Posted by Anyel Z Fields at Monday, December 14, 2020 at 7:52 AM

  We recently conducted a feedback survey to help us better understand our audience and members. The survey covered programming, reasons for supporting KPFK, audience listening habits, and how the expanded 6 PM news is rated.

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• The Future of the KPFK 6 PM News

  Posted by Anyel Z Fields at Tuesday, October 20, 2020 at 12:19 PM

  To continue our service in Southern California with Pacifica quality news, we will be adding news from...

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• How They’ve Wanted to Stop Us

  Posted by Anyel Z Fields at Tuesday, August 4, 2020 at 11:28 AM

  Oh, how they’ve wanted to stop us. Every day KPFK opens up a new controversy, a new societal pain point, a new cultural, political or community insight, and new revelations about everything that means something in your life. We can’t help it. It’s who we are and what we do. And we won’t stop.

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• We're Trying Something New

  Posted by Anyel Z Fields at Thursday, April 30, 2020 at 10:24 AM

  Community media, news, services, and journalism are all cornerstones of our democracy and are more critical than ever. Many community organizations, publications, and independent media companies will become casualties of the pandemic. Our world has changed profoundly and KPFK is adapting to it, so we can still be here for you.

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• There Is No Replacement For An Activist State

  Posted by Anyel Z Fields at Monday, April 20, 2020 at 11:07 AM

  We are watching how our long battle in bringing a progressive vision to our democracy is finally beginning to take hold. We were here long before Bernie Sanders and the New York Times shifted the conversation from liberal to progressive thinking.

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• California Was Once a Mostly Conservative State

  Posted by Anyel Z. Fields at Monday, March 2, 2020 at 1:25 PM

  I often meet people who, in some way, were influenced by our programming over our long history.

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• The Price for KPFK

  Posted by Anyel Z. Fields at Tuesday, February 4, 2020 at 12:00 AM

  The past few weeks have been eventful with the historic Impeachment trails, a rise in unsheltered Angelenos, the loss of Lila Garrett, and elections season is ramping up with the Iowa caucuses that KPFK and Pacifica covered.

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• End Of Year - Thank You

  Posted by Anyel Z. Fields at Tuesday, December 31, 2019 at 8:00 PM

  From myself and all the programmers and staff at KPFK, Have a wonderful New Years' Eve celebration. May your pursuit of happiness and efforts for a saner world be fruitful in the year to come. 

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• Listener Appreciation

  Posted by Anyel Z. Fields at Friday, May 31, 2019 at 12:00 AM

  I want to extend my gratitude and appreciation to all who have helped and supported KPFK and the Pacifica Foundation during our fund drive. A special thanks to those that have been there for KPFK including its listeners through thick and thin. It was a tough decision to preempt our regular programming in May so that we could meet our goal to fund KPFK's operations.

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