KPFT
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| Radio station ( public radio ) | |
| Program type | Independent |
| reception | terrestrial ( VHF ), digital ( HD radio ), as an Internet live stream and in cable networks |
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Houston , Texas United States
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| Start of transmission | |
| owner | Pacifica radio |
| executive Director | 1970 |
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Coordinates: 29 ° 53 ′ 15 " N , 95 ° 31 ′ 22" W.
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KPFT is an American radio broadcaster and part of the Pacifica Radio Network . KPFT is a non-commercial , listener-sponsored station broadcasting in Houston , Texas on the 90.1 MHz frequency.
KPFT first went on air on March 1, 1970 with the Beatles song Here Comes the Sun from the then brand new Abbey Road album.
The station's slogan is Radio For Peace .
Violence against the radio broadcaster
The KPFT transmitter was destroyed by a bomb attack on May 12, 1970, two months after it was put into operation. The new transmitter then had to be shut down for three weeks. Five months later, on October 6, 1970, occurred during the broadcast of the song Alice's Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie again to a stop on the transmitter. This second attack caused considerably more damage than the first and resulted in a three-month broadcast interruption.
On January 21, 1971 Guthrie was invited to the KPFT studio , where he played the song Alice's Restaurant live when the broadcast resumed .
After the FBI and local police remained passive for months, Pacifica launched a media campaign to draw attention to the unsolved case and put pressure on the authorities. Eventually, Jimmy Dale Hutto, a member of the Ku Klux Klan , was arrested and sentenced to jail for the attacks on KPFT as well as for planned attacks on the KPFA in Berkeley and KPFK in Los Angeles.
In the early morning hours of August 13, 2007, a shot was fired into the studio that broke a window and narrowly missed a woman's head. There were no injuries. The event followed a fundraising week.
On July 16, 2008, a man requested entry into the KPFT studios. After being turned away, he smashed a window into the back door with a knife. The man was held without resistance and was immediately arrested.
On June 28, 2010, the power supply to the transmitter was cut, after which the transmitter could only be received online. Property damage amounted to approximately $ 10,000. The power supply was restored the next day and broadcasting operations resumed.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ About KPFT on kpft.org
- ^ Britannie Shey, The Day the KKK Bombed KPFT , Houston Press, May 12, 2010
- ^ Thomas Dreyer, The KKK in the News Again. And Back in Sixties Houston. ( Memento of the original from June 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Indymedia Houston, February 9, 2009
- ↑ Kevin Moran, No injuries when bullet busts window at KPFT radio , Houston Chronicle , August 13, 2007
- ↑ KPFT Targeted: Bullet Pierces Studio Window of Pacifica's Houston Station , Democracy Now , August 15, 2007
- ↑ Knife-wielding man arrested at radio station , KTRK-TV, July 16, 2008
- ↑ Pacifica's KPFT, Houston (90.1) is off the air after power line is cut ( memento of the original from September 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , radio-info.com, June 28, 2010
