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KPFK (90.7 FM) is a listener-sponsored radio station based in North Hollywood, California, United States, which serves the Greater Los Angeles Area, and also streams 24 hours a day via the Internet. It was the second of five stations in the non-commercial, listener-sponsored Pacifica Radio network. KPFK began broadcasting in April 1959,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About Pacifica - A Short History )〕 twelve years after the Pacifica Foundation was created by pacifist Lewis Hill, and ten years after the network's flagship station, KPFA, was founded in Berkeley. KPFK also broadcasts on KPFK-FM1 along the Malibu coast, K258BS (99.5 MHz FM) in China Lake, California, K254AH (98.7 MHz FM) in Santa Barbara, California. With its 110,000 watt main transmitter atop Mount Wilson, KPFK is one of the most powerful FM stations in the western United States. The station can be heard from the California/Mexico border to Santa Barbara to Ridgecrest/China Lake. A second 10-watt translator is licensed in Isla Vista, California, a census-designated place outside of Santa Barbara. The transmitter for that station is located atop Gibraltar Peak, allowing its broadcast to be heard over a large portion of southern Santa Barbara County. ==Funding== The station is part of the ''Pacifica Network'' which has 4 additional radio stations in Berkeley, California, Houston, Texas, New York, New York, and Washington, D.C. As part of the ''Pacifica Network'' the station receives some funding from charitable organizations such as the Ford Foundation and government funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, but operating costs are primarily covered by listener-sponsors, as the station runs no regular advertisements or other commercial programming. Pacifica says they have no "sponsors" of a commercial type and are solely supported by their listeners. Frequent On-air fund drives to support the station financially occur more than 3 times a year. There are also other occasional drives held for special circumstances. For example, after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, KPFK held a special fund drive to raise money for survivors of the catastrophe. Contributors to sustain KPFK generally donate a minimum of $25 for a year-long membership. Larger donations are requested and are rewarded with DVDs, CDs, and books or downloads = that are called "premiums". The person donating money to the radio station selects the "premium" they heard on-air or noted from the website listings that has a fixed $ number - the "premium" to be later sent to them. Due to the state of the economy in the United States, fund drive frequency has increased. There are often concerns about the interruption of regular programming on KPFK by those who listen frequently and regularly. According to on-air announcements, KPFK derives as much as 90% of its financial support from listener-sponsors. Film Club: For people that contribute $150 at other than fund times or $100 when pledging during the pledge drives with another pledge, there is the KPFK Film Club. This benefit allows those who are subscribers to attend various film screenings throughout the year. Films are announced on air and the donor calls into the station to enter their name on a will-call list. The film club screens art films, documentaries, film classics, and even current first-run films. Although the film club promises a minimum of 12 films per year, there are usually more than 100 free film screenings. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KPFK」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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