Starting Monday, the Pacifica station will be cutting back on daytime music programming and adding more news/talk, including shows from public radio, long considered the capitalist sellout enemy by hardcore Pacificistas, including PRI's "The Takeaway" and Tavis Smiley programs (which have been dropped from some mainstream NPR stations for being too "adovcacy journalism") and NPR's "Tell Me More"--needless to say, there are some angry on-air talent and listeners claiming "Sellout!":
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/...9/big-programming-changes-are-coming-to-wpfw/
Jesse Walker's book on "community radio" claims that the Pacifica stations were NPR members in that network's formative years but dropped out for differences with the style of NPR (although I have yet to see any program schedules that show "All Things Considered" on a Pacifica station's schedule in 1971 and 1972--PFW went on-air after this). Right now, the only major public radio series on a Pacifica station (and "Democracy Now!" doesn't count) is "This American Life" and BBC World Service on Houston's KPFT. During the great Pacifica Troubles of the late 90s and early millennium, KPFT started airing "TAL" and the Beeb, along with other PRI shows "Marketplace," "The World" and "World Cafe" (when it was a PRI show) and a AAA music format dubbed "The Sound of Texas." After the Troubles, when the hardcores regained control, all of those programs except "TAL" and the Beeb got dropped.
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/...9/big-programming-changes-are-coming-to-wpfw/
Jesse Walker's book on "community radio" claims that the Pacifica stations were NPR members in that network's formative years but dropped out for differences with the style of NPR (although I have yet to see any program schedules that show "All Things Considered" on a Pacifica station's schedule in 1971 and 1972--PFW went on-air after this). Right now, the only major public radio series on a Pacifica station (and "Democracy Now!" doesn't count) is "This American Life" and BBC World Service on Houston's KPFT. During the great Pacifica Troubles of the late 90s and early millennium, KPFT started airing "TAL" and the Beeb, along with other PRI shows "Marketplace," "The World" and "World Cafe" (when it was a PRI show) and a AAA music format dubbed "The Sound of Texas." After the Troubles, when the hardcores regained control, all of those programs except "TAL" and the Beeb got dropped.