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KRAS PRQGRAm GUJDf- JUII·18Zl·_·· .. , THE 10 HAS 8 WHAT YOU o NEED TO o CONCOCT K THOUGHT &IOEAS. ,5 o zst· ......... 1. 5V R E -uYr~ m trw EartfJ J'9 S "Be J{en.).jOw . .. _.3.33 j{efie/ if !fit War-<jdt1 on. -.. -.1.9S' who/! ::Eart/V hll.sUjJpkmlWt. 1.tm 'Dr1&s cr But~ .... ' ..... .:z,+S 1408 N.E. +.2. MEZ.:> G3+t. OPEN LAn:. PI81111 SQIIIII ~""'L..60N ~'_eou-n_ c:u.a.'~.L,-,- PVQSil; c::ooo...~~~ C:W. 1()!5~'«IA"" SE!A~ MU2.-'_S PROGRAM GUIDE NUMBER TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN published by the Jack Straw Memorial Foundation , operators of: KRAB f.m. 9029 Roosevelt Way N. E. Seattle, Washington, 981 15 LA2 - slll on your telephone 107.7 on your radio No . 1 in your heart Jack Straw also takes credit for: KBOO f. m. 234 S.W. Salmon Street, Portland, Oregon 227-1294 A subscription to KRAB is transferrable t o KBOO, as well as to KTAO , Los Gatos, California; KDNA , i n old St. Loo , and, I think , KPFT , Ho us t on. o KRAB has received $9000 from the Corporat ion for Public Broadcasting this year. The money will be used for programming improvement, specifically, hiring a full time ' news' man (Ted Garfield) , buying more remote taping units, buying f oreign records , and increasing the production f und. o We also just received $30 from Classical ~l usic Supporters , Inc. , for the purchase of cl assical music recordings. M. Wiater, program director , STAPH hasn ' t yet decided what to spend it on , but we heartily thank C.~l . S. for their interes t an d Station ~lanager Gregory L. Pa l me r support and we hope to put the money t o good Program Director Mi chael Wiater c l assical use . Music Director Bob Friede Production Manager Bi 11 Seymour Production Assistant Nick Whitmer Engineering Director Benjamin F. Dawson Chief Engineer Steve Menasian Morning ~lan Phi 1 t->lunger Guide Layout Lorna Dawson Gorilla Janos Prohaska Guide Overseer Phil Bannon Bookkeeping C. Ralph Palmer Subscriptions Trudi Friede Legal Relief H. Bader and P. Personnel He nry H. Fowler and: boo gwynne , bruce herbert , jeff boyce , byron ohashi, steve smith , les price , chuck davies , steve putnam, tiny freeman , peter hogue , john finnegan, simon m' pondo , sid brown , barry wes t nancy keith , helen no r ton , john prothero , dick parker, bruce bubatz , doug campbel l, june m. garre , ginny etter, pasco rose', doug hosner , jerry rahn , joanne wiater, david macdonald , gary margas on , byron coney , s . roswell smith, raymond serebrin , bob wes t, mike duffy , earl smith , hal sherlock , raymond jarvi , susan marsliall , richard e . t . white , james mish ' alani, ivars mikelson , randy francisco , mi chael scarbor ough , roger veinus , joyce mikelson , paul a silvermann, jay stickler, val golding , steve br own, jeffrey winston , roger sale , malcolm griffith, yul et i de yarmul ka yabronsky (sic], bob cost e llo, frank krasnowsky , robert gar fias , dick shurman , anna louise strong brigade , herb hannum, crazy bruce, dick kamp , sasha bley, and other s who ' s name s are listed in the annal s . media-ogre productions SOME REMARKS ON THE NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO CONFERENCE by Ben Dawson Wh at can you say about the ' Lew IIi 11 Theory of' Lis tener-Supported Radio ' th at Lew Hi 11 -<fidn' t say? Lew Hill ' s visi on , of radio stations free t o broadcast the unfamiliar and unpopular by virtue of their f r eedom f'rom financial dependency on advertising or on institutional budgets, may have been the most i nsidious r evolutionary phenomenon in radio since the invention of the commercial . Hi 11 's t heor y works . It isn't flaw less- stations like KRAB and KBOO suffer from severe pr ivati ons but they do exi st , and provide their audiences wi th material that cannot be gotten from any other source . As part of the organization of the ,Tack Strali Foundation, which owns the stations, t hey are classified l egally as ' educational' stations, complying wi th a set of regulations more stringent than those imposed on commercial stations . TIley also can , because of this classification, qualify for some kinds of' aid do l ed out by public agencies (chiefly federally funded) such as the Corporation for Public Bor adcast ing. KRAB receives such funds . KBOO does not . The r easons for this distinction have t o do wi t h arbitrary and largely irrelevant standards imposed by CPB involving the number of paid emp l oyees and the kinds of physical facilities employed by the stations- and having nothing at all to do with the standards of communi ty service and local needs which were the concern of the independent report Ivhich led to the formation of the CPB by, of all people, the U.S. Congress. In May the CPB and its stepchild, the ' National Pub lic Radio Ne twork, ' sponsored a confer e nce in Was hington . I attended the Conference as the Jack Strali Foundation's r epresentative, off into the li il derness of Washington D. C., a city only lately recovered from mass arr est s and littered I"ith cast-off military medals. He r e , hard by the Potomac, a legion of ' educational' radio station executives , almost to a man from state colleges and uni versi ties or big-ci ty school districts, convened , a nd talked about two things dear to the hearts of all radio men- programs and money . The things they said about programs were b ad enough :" We fee 1 we need to carry Presi denti al speeches "- never mind the -lac l L la l every commercial network station in the country does it already- "we need to have shorter segments of music in network programming"- to fit in silly ten second ' public service ' spots that communi cate noth ing and accomplish nothing. The thing that really appalled me was what was said about money . I nstit u tional stations - the kind run by big Universities and school districts- aren't happy with tax mo ney- oh no- they I"ant to supp lemen t thei r b loated budgets wi th subs cri ption money- asking the list ener to pay for the sort of programming blandness th at only a Uni versi ty administ ra tion can provide . Even more appal ling, they have, with the active encouragement of the Corporation for Public Broadcasti ng , s olici t ed charitable agencies in the ir local communiti~s t o pay for the privilege of running programs - pro grams that should be run as a matter of moral obligation by educationa l stations. Say you're the exe cutive director of the S labtown Gay Lib, or League of Women Voters, or Salvation Army . Here ' s the Slair town State U. radio station guy, asking you f'or $35 an hour, each lieek , so that you can tal k t o his audience about your agency, and what you're doing for Slabtown . To a man these 'professional ' edl1(,l1- tional radio station people don't know, and can ' t ever expect to knOli, how to run a station 15 or ]6 hours a day , seven days a week, with at l eas t an hour a day and sometimes five times that much lucal, topical public affairs programming , to say nothing of unique music and drama , for anything l ess than six or seven thousand dollars a month . KRAB has done it for year s , and so has KBOO, sometimes , lihen money ' s tight, for less than a thousand dollars a month. If anybody thinks I"e ' re about to go out and ask the Red Cross for $35 an hour to run programs they're crazy . The Red Cross or anybody else liho has something to say gets their hour from us for free BECAUSE WE OWE IT TO 11 [El·[ AND TO OUR LI STENERS . And so does everybody else who pretends to be an educational broadcaster. It ' s a matt er of legal obli gation as well, stemming from the basic lali of broadcasting in the U.S . , the Communications Ac t of 1934. And I"hy , you ask, should you be expected to send ten dollars a year , or even ten cents, t o suppor t stations run by state or local governmental agencies? Go ahead- send $ 10 to t he station run by the private college- they probably need it, because they can't get money from the s t ate or the Fe de ral Government . But why in the world should you be asked to send money to stations which have t o answe r every budgetary period to an agency of the state- a fact t hat cannot but have a numbing effect on pro gramming, and I don't mean just political or news programming. Plenty of state l egislators t hink tha t nobody should play Katchaturi an on the radi 0 because he's a Communis t . How the he 11 do you thi nk t hey feel about Pete Seeger- or a speech by Kunstler, or Abbie Hoffman- or even George Wald , or Fr ed Schwartz? I ' m glad we can have the access to a senate hearing live or nearly so that a Na t ional Pub lic Radio provides . I ' m glad we can get grant money to do some things we coul dn ' t otheTl"ise , pr oduce some programs , pay some help, buy some obscure and beautiful r ecords we couldn ' t otheTl"ise afford.