Can Radical Radio Station KPFK-LA Avoid Signing Off for Good?
Updated: Sep 24, 2020
"We are listener sponsored radio," Margaret Prescod pleads during her show on Thursday morning. "We do not want to close our doors! That's how serious this is."
The KPFK 90.7 FM personality throws to a clip of Martin Luther King Jr. after urging listeners to pledge in exchange for an archival compilation of the social justice preacher's speeches. Phone room volunteers answer calls as they stream in steadily. Prescod's golden brown dreadlocks frame her face while the slow tenor of her voice reaches a frenzied pitch during Sojourner Truth Radio's last ten minutes.
The station is in full survival mode. Either it raises $300,000 dollars during a one-week emergency fund drive or it faces the harsh choice of locking the doors to the two-story red brick building in North Hollywood and going off the air to save money. Read more on my latest OC Weekly Heard Mentality Blog post:
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/heardmentality/2015/04/kpfk_fights_to_stay_on the_air.php