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Highbrow Station For more than a year tiny, 550-watt Station KPFA had been fighting a losing game. Its highbrow FM programs were a big hit with a limited audience in Berkeley, home of the University of California. But without sponsors or commercials it had trouble making ends meet on the $10-a-year subscription fees paid by 300 of its listeners. Last August KPFA finally closed the doors of its two-studio station, regretfully fired its underpaid seven-man staff...
...Roger Sessions became KPFA sponsors. Dr. J. Raymond Cope, minister of Berkeley's First Unitarian Church, enrolled 250 volunteer fundraisers, who collected a total of $23,000 in contributions. And Raytheon Manufacturing Co. donated the components of a new 16,100-watt transmitter which can send an FM signal throughout the whole San Francisco Bay area...
Exodus. In Providence, the local Bible Institute announced that its FM station, which signs off nightly with the phrase, "This is WPTL, the station that operates by the grace of God," would stop operating at the end of June...
Music: Metropolitan Opera broadcasts (ABC), and Manhattan's FM station WABF "for making it possible to hear hour upon hour of the finest in fine music...
PUBLIC SERVICE: Chicago's station WBBM for documentaries on race relations, and Louisville's FM station WFPL for its Free Public Library program...