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Fresno Free College Foundation Hires New Executive Director/ KFCF General Manager

 

The Fresno Free College Foundation, a Fresno based 501c(3) non-profit organization, is pleased to announce that Rychard Withers has been appointed as Executive Director of the Foundation and General Manager and Program Director of the Foundation's broadcast station KFCF-FM. Mr. Withers replaces Vic Bedoian, who is retiring.

Withers has served on the Foundation's Board of Directors for 15 years, as President, and brings a wealth of experience and knowledge of the Foundation to his new position. 
Gerry Bill, a Sociology Professor at Fresno City College will assume the role of President of the Foundation and Marc Scalzo will become vice-president.

Withers has previously worked as a broadcast engineer for Peak Broadcasting and CBS Radio, and has also worked in various on air, production, and news positions for area broadcasters for the past 33 years.

"My goal is to help the Foundation grow," says Withers, "and continue to be a part of the intellectual, artistic, and cultural communities." The Foundation, in addition to the operation of KFCF-FM, has served as an umbrella organization for many projects over the years, including The Fresno Poets Association, Keyboard Concerts, Orpheus concerts, The Ananda Fund and Tibetan Mountain Waters Project, among others.

"With the current economic climate, arts organizations and non-profits are feeling the effect of the tightening of people's finances", Withers said "and we plan to continue to be available, with news, arts, music, literature and to enrich our culture, but we also want to keep things within the means of our listeners and supporters. That is one of the great things about radio - it allows us to do that for everybody." 

 

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Budget Committee:  2nd Mon.in August at 7 p.m. at the 1449 N. Wishon Office
Fundraising and Outreach Committees:  1st Mon. at 6:30 p.m. at the Phoenecian Garden at 1025 E. Herndon (joint meeting)
Governance Committee:  4th Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the office (1449 N. Wishon)
Programming Committee:  2nd Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the office (1449 N. Wishon)
 

 

 

 

 

THE FRESNO BEE - TELEVISION - THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 2008

RICK BENTLEY

FRESNOBEE.COM

Valley stations have news bragging rights

Listen here: KFCF, FM 88.1, will broadcast a seven part monthly series with author William Saroyan starting at 8 p.m. April 15 and continuing through Oct. 14. The Saroyan radio series is part of this year's Saroyan Centennial celebration.

The first program in the series originally was broadcast in 1976 on both KPFA in Berkeley and KFCF in Fresno. KPFA's music director, Charles Amirkhanian, and Saroyan sat down in front of a tape recorder at his Fresno home.
The final program in October is an interview with Saroyan's close friend and collaborator, Fresno's Ed Hagopian.

 

 

 

 
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AMY GOODMAN: Civilization -- an idea whose time has come : --- Attorney General Michael Mukasey sipped his water nervously. It was the first time he was testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee since his controversial confirmation. At issue then and now: torture. Does he consider waterboarding torture? Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., made it personal: "Would waterboarding be torture if it was done to you?"

-::- Dr. Martin Luther King and the Greek classics : By Alexandros P. Mallias - This year will mark the 40th anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. His death on April 4, 1968, found my country in the midst of one of its darkest hours, as the one year anniversary of an oppressive military dictatorship neared. With my fellow citizens living under military rule and deprived of the very basic freedoms, I was inspired by the people of Birmingham, Ala., of Memphis and Atlanta, who, in a most dignified way, poured into the streets, standing up for what was rightly theirs.

 

 

The Terrestrial Gospel of Kazantzakis: Inspiration for Saving the Earth - “Good is this earth, it suits us” - Thanasis Maskaleris - Abstract - The terrestrial dimension in the work of Kazantzakis, crowned by the paeans he sang to the infinite beauty of the earth and to the human life rooted in the soil, is as intensely depicted as his momentous struggle to achieve spiritual ascent. Scattered in his writings we find innumerable passages on the fundamental importance of the material realm combined with his humanistic commitment to mankind's terrestrial habitat—to live and "flower" in it; and his spiritual growth, the ascent, is crucially linked with and depends on the material base.   More  >>>

 

 

AMY GOODMAN: NBC takes a swipe at democracy : -- One pundit called the Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas "a lovefest." It may well have been, but only because the corporate sponsor of the debate, General Electric-owned NBC News and its cable news channel MSNBC, rescinded its invitation to candidate Dennis Kucinich. NBC decided earlier to invite the top four Democratic candidates to the debate. Then New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson dropped out of the race, which elevated Kucinich to the fourth position.

 

AMY GOODMAN: FCC gives a Christmas gift to big media ---- On Dec. 18, the five commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission met in Washington, D.C., and passed, by a 3 to 2 vote, new regulations that would allow more media consolidation. This, despite the U.S. public's increasing concern over the nation's media being controlled by a few giant corporations. Dissident FCC Commissioner Michael Copps said of the decision: "We generously ask big media to sit on Santa's knee, tell us what it wants for Christmas, and then push through whatever of these wishes are politically and practically feasible. No test to see if anyone's been naughty or nice. Just another big, shiny present for the favored few who already hold an FCC license -- and a lump of coal for the rest of us. Happy holidays!"

AMY GOODMAN: No recovery in sight for global fever ---- The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded this week, in Oslo, Norway. Al Gore shared the prize with the United ations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which represents more than 2,500 scientists from 130 countries. The solemn ceremony took place as the United States is blocking meaningful progress at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia, and the ....

 

 

-::- KFCF: 30-Years of Alternative Programming - On June 9, 1975, the following announcement was reverberating throughout the Central Valley: “The signal of Pacifica Radio station, KPFA in Berkeley, can now be heard in the Central Valley.” It was a momentous development: a radio station that was listener-sponsored and not influenced by corporate advertisers or government funding. It would be the ...

 

 

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