Word: pacifica
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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California's Pacifica Foundation, which operates radio stations in the San Francisco area, Los Angeles and New York, is a sort of low-frequency Hyde Park Speakers' Corner, providing broadcasting facilities for almost anyone who wants to express any point of view. Graphic sexology and earnest Communism often reach the air through Pacifica stations, plus smatterings of scatology and black magic, not to mention any number of broadcasts of the plays of Shakespeare, the works of Wagner, and the theological sentiments of people like George Herbert and John Donne...
Last week WBAI-FM began broadcasting under new ownership-California's Pacifica Foundation-and Donor Schweitzer's ideal was getting a good run for his money. The station's program is crowded with excellent music, also makes room for viewpoints that would make many a network executive's brush cut burst into flame...
...Volunteer. Like Pacifica's other two radio stations (San Francisco's ten-year-old KPFA and Los Angeles' six-month-old KPFK), New York's WBAI now operates entirely without commercials, depends on listener contributions to meet its expenses. With a basic subscription of $12, Pacifica has 7,500 contributors in San Francisco; 5,000 have already joined up in Los Angeles. At week's end, after seven days as a noncommercial station, WBAI had 700 subscribers...
...vain. Asked for his picture, he supplies one of himself at the age of one year (see cut), says: "I was bald then and I'm bald now." His dome will be familiar around WBAI for only one month, and then he will leave the station entirely to Pacifica. "I have to keep a free hand," he said last week, "so I can do new things...