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Pacifica offers flexible and affordable services that help
strengthen your station. Through America's network for independent radio broadcasting,
you gain access to station-builder services and the nation's foremost radio
production addressing issues of social justice and culture. We bring you breaking
news and analysis for today's world events - as well as hope.
We value the uniqueness of every radio station in our network. We are dedicated
to supporting your station on its own terms. We listen carefully to what
matters to you. We offer administrative, promotional, and operational support
services to help you build loyal listeners, financial prosperity, and sound
infrastructure.
Our administrative and technical staff is at your service to assist daily operations
and to help connect you to others in the network. Through our online AudioPort, we
will also distribute any programs originating at your station that seek a larger audience.
There are many reasons to join our network. Ten features most often cited are:
1. Pacifica AudioPort
Our own web-based distribution system for receiving and exchanging
audio content from throughout the network. Broadcast-quality sound files are
available for download and broadcast at your convenience, as well as Internet
streams of our satellite . Also a perfect tool for distributing your programs
natioanally throughout the Pacifica Network. For
more information on the AudioPort,click here.
2. National and International News
Unembedded, uncensored, grassroots, and breaking. News magazines
like: Democracy Now! and
Flashpoints. Newscasts like:
Free Speech Radio News, and Pacifica
Headline News.
3. High Quality Programs
Award-winning grassroots public affairs and cultural programs, as well as actualities
- for you own production use - of speeches, interviews, and breaking events.
For more information about programs distributed by Pacifica, click here .
4. Access to Pacifica Radio Archives
More than 50 years of historic recordings of pivotal, speeches, interviews
and music, and culture. Pacifica affiliates have free access to the Pacifica
Radio Archives, one of the world's oldest and most important audio archives
for broadcast and can purchase CD's at a low cost, to sell as premiums.
5. Live In-Depth Coverage of Important National and International Events
Our special
coverage of wars, demonstrations, governmental hearings, conferences - even
concerts - is live and un-embedded. In the Pacifica tradition of giving voice
to the voiceless, we cover large events from the perspective of real people
who are most affected but may get less representation in other media.
6. Station-builder fund-raising and promotional assistance
Proven fund-raisers from Pacifica as premium CD's with detailed instructions,
live fund-raising events, assistance with on-air pitching, and custom-made promotional
PSA's. Affiliates report that Pacifica programming itself raises their profiles,
increases listenership, and helps greatly to bring in financial support from
listeners. Some cite Pacifica programming as their primary fund-raising resource.
7. Flexible Reception Options
Content is distributed by our KU
satellite or via Internet with the Pacifica
AudioPort, which offers broadcast-quality sound files and streaming.
8. Opportunities to Collaborate With Talented and Accomplished Radio People
Radio workers across the country and throughout the world, find each other
and collaborate to improve programming, share sound files of breaking stories,
create new programs, train their producers, and create new professional communities
based on similar interests and geography. Novice producers easily meet
highly-regarded veterans of the profession at radio stations throughout the
network. Collaboration is facilitated by the Pacifica AudioPort, liaison services
provided by the Pacifrica Affiliates Coordinator, regular conference calls for
affiliates, working list serves, sister station projects, and Sprouts,
a weekly program ditributed and coordinated by Pacifica that showcases stations'
local production.
9. Administrative and technical support
Pacifica
staff are on call to help solve technical problems, administrative, and
legal problems. Our affiliates coordinator, satellite engineers, and Internet
staff answer questions, share new information and resources, and facilitate
collaboration between the many experts throughout the network at many of the
Pacifica affiliated stations, for solving technical problems.
10. A National Audience for Production From Your Own Station
Joining the Pacifica Network is a partnership that serves to raise your local
voices and talent to a national - even international platform. Aspiring producers
at your station deserve opportunities to grow and encouragement from the radio
world. Your community voices are important. We bring you to the big table.
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