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Pacifica Foundation Highlights 2002-2004
In January 2002 a new Pacifica National Board and executive
staff assumed leadership at the nation’s oldest listener
sponsored radio network. Thus began a remarkable two-year
reform journey aimed at restoring financial stability to the
network and turning Pacifica into the nation’s first
democratically-run national media organization.
The reform administration of the interim Pacifica National
Board will now come to an end with the seating of a new permanent
Pacific National Board on the weekend of March 12-14 in Berkeley,
California. Special thanks to members of the outgoing
iPNB for all their efforts. They leave behind an important
record of achievement that will foster the media and democracy
movement for years to come. Under their leadership, staff,
listeners and board members came together and:
- Rewrote the Pacifica Radio bylaws
in a community-driven process.
- Ran nationwide elections
for five Pacifica Local Station Boards. Some 100,000 active
members received ballots for 317 candidates running for
120 Local Station Board seats. More than 16,000 listeners
and staff cast ballots.
- Turned network finances around, from a FY01 deficit of
$4.4 million to a FY03 surplus of $1.8 million, according
to audited figures.
- Rallied to embrace and strengthen the nation’s heritage
by doubling the historic Pacifica Radio Archive budget over
the last two years.
- Rebuilt the entire Pacifica affiliate network, with nearly
50 official affiliates today, up from 17 in Jan. 2002.
- Settled more than a dozen separate complex, and emotional,
pieces of litigation.
- Installed new transmitters at KPFA & KPFK, built master
control studies at KPFK, upgraded WPFW transmitter, launched
three translators at KPFT, and won grants for the digital
conversion of two other transmitters.
- Provided comprehensive coverage of the national anti-war
mobilization and 72-hours of continuous live reporting on
the outbreak of the Iraq war.
- Moved the Pacifica national office from Washington, D.C.,
back to its original home in Berkeley, California
- Built from scratch a strong and competent national finance
team.
- Completed the FY03 audit on schedule, the first time in
many years.
- Raised more than $400,000 in listener support at the national
level in FY03.
- Set one month’s operating surplus this fiscal as
a network objective and launched fiscal management steps
to reach that objective.
- Embraced new technologies and fortified Internet presence
network-wide.
- Prepared KPFA First Voice apprenticeship and training
program, a 25-year old hands-on initiative aimed at under-represented
communities, for a national roll-out to all Pacifica stations.
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