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RAG RADIO TODAY!
2-3 p.m. (CT) Friday, March 22, 2019
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Radio Gurus
Larry Yurdin
The Legacy of KPFT
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Thorne Dreyer, left, and Larry Yurdin,
KOOP studios, Austin.
Photo by Greg Ciotti.
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On the weekend of February 13-15, 2019, more than 50 youngsters who worked at KPFT-FM, the Pacifica-owned radio station in Houston, during the 1970s, gathered at several Houston sites, including the historic Anderson Fair acoustic venue, to hold a reunion. It was a raucous gathering and a rousing success. During the '70s, KPFT was one of the most radical and innovative radio stations in the United States, breaking from the traditional Pacifica radio format.
Today on Rag Radio, radio gurus Larry Yurdin and Marty Manning join Rag Radio's Thorne Dreyer to discuss the glory years of KPFT and
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Marty Manning, 2019 KPFT Reunion. Photo by
F. Carter Smith.
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the evolution of radio and the new media forms. Yurdin, Manning, and Dreyer all served as general managers of KPFT during the 1970s.
KPFT -- whose innovative format included a base of roots and what would be called Americana music interwoven with news and information programming, also played -- with its "Cosmic Cowboy" concerts featuring Willie Nelson, Jerry Jeff Walker, Michael Murphy, Leon Russell, and Kinky Friedman -- a major role in giving voice to the new "redneck rock"/progressive country musical phenomenon.
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Environmental Activist Bruce Melton
and The Band Climate Change
 Against the backdrop of SXSW -- and dedicated to the worldwide struggle against global warming -- Rag Radio presents The Band Climate Change in performance. Led by Bruce Melton, Rag Radio environmental correspondent, the band also features George Hadash, Philip Fulton, Ken Atwater, and Tom Williams.
Listen to the podcast of this show.
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Rag Radio is produced in the studios of KOOP-91.7 FM -- an all-volunteer, cooperatively-run, solar-powered community radio station in Austin, Texas -- in association with The Rag Blog and the New Journalism Project.
Rag Radio can be heard on:
- KOOP 91.7-FM in Austin, Friday, 2-3 p.m. (CT) and streamed here,
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WFTE 90.3-FM in Mt. Cobb, PA &
105.7-FM in Scranton, PA, Sunday, 10-11 a.m. (ET) and streamed
here,
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KPFT HD-3 90.1 (Pacifica Radio) in Houston, Wednesday, 1-2 p.m. (CT) and streamed
here.
- KKRN 88.5-FM in Round Mountain, CA, Mondays, 5:30-6:30 a.m. (PT), and streamed here.
- WALHRadio.com in Wilmington, OH. Streamed Thursdays at 8 p.m. and midnight (ET) here.
- RADIO FREE AMERICA. Streamed live here.
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INTERNET ARCHIVE. Listen to Rag Radio podcasts here.
- THE RAG BLOG. Find links to all Rag Radio podcasts at the Rag Radio page.
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AUDIOPORT.ORG.
For Pacifica stations and Pacifica affiliates only: Here.
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Rag Radio
Host and producer: Thorne Dreyer
Co-producer and engineer: Tracey Schultz
Rag Radio features hour-long in-depth interviews and discussion about progressive politics, culture, and history. Guests include newsmakers, artists, leading thinkers, and public figures -- from Austin, Texas, and around the world.
Host
Thorne Dreyer was a founding editor of Austin's historic Sixties underground newspaper,
The Rag, a founding editor of
Space City! in Houston, an editor at LNS in New York, and a former station manager of KPFT-FM (Pacifica) in Houston. He now edits
The Rag Blog and is on the board of directors of the New Journalism Project.
The Rag Radio team: Thorne Dreyer, Tracey Schulz, Alice Embree, Roger Baker, Suzy Shelor, Glenn Smith, and Evan Hearn (Apprentice).
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Celebrating The Rag:
Austin's Iconic Underground Newspaper
Edited by Thorne Dreyer,
Alice Embree &
Richard Croxdale
"A raucous, absorbing excursion back to the 1960s and '70s."
--Kirkus Reviews
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