KPFA On The Air.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Selver, Veronica, director, producer.

Walker, Alice, 1944- narrator.

California Newsreel (Firm), publisher.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

KPFA (Radio station : Berkeley, Calif.).

Radio stations--California--Berkeley.

Radio stations.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (57 minutes)

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 2000.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

KPFA On the Air pays tribute to the oldest and most ambitious independent, community-based media in the world, KPFA radio. Novelist Alice Walker narrates the vibrant and stormy history of the first listener-sponsored station. KPFA grew out of the conviction of Lew Hill and a small group of fellow World War II pacifists that the best hope for peace in the dawning nuclear age was open dialogue between people of different points of view. They actualized these ideals in a listener-supported radio station which would offer ideas not products. Broadcasting for the first time in April 1949, KPFA became a rare voice for cultural and ideological pluralism during McCarthyism and the conformist 1950s. KPFA On the Air is a presentation of the Indpendent Television Service (ITVS).

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed June 1, 2021).

OCLC:

1249106900

Publisher Number:

ASP5119138/marc