Local Pacifica Radio station KPFK-FM (90.7) got a little help from its friends last week in an effort to complete the long overdue installation of transmission and studio equipment.
The four other Pacifica stations agreed to join KPFK in a fund drive on Feb. 28 in an effort to raise the $350,000 needed to get the station's two new transmitters up and running. KPFK has been broadcasting at less than one-third of its capacity for months due to financial problems within the Pacifica Foundation, which manages the five stations.
"Every, single penny" raised by the drive would be used on the station's transmitters and studios, said Steven Starr, interim general manager of KPFK. The station must boost its transmission power by April 25 under a temporary authorization granted by the Federal Communications Commission.
"We will make the deadline," Starr vowed.
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