KPFT-FM
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| City of license | Houston, Texas |
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| Broadcast area | Greater Houston |
| Branding | "KPFT 90.1" |
| Slogan | Radio For Peace |
| First air date | March 1, 1970 |
| Frequency | 90.1 MHz |
| Format | Public Radio |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| Class | C1 |
| Callsign meaning | K PaciFica Texas |
| Affiliations | Pacifica Radio |
| Owner | Pacifica Radio |
| Website | www.kpft.org |
KPFT is a listener-sponsored community radio station in Houston, Texas, which went on the air on March 1, 1970 as the fourth station in the Pacifica radio family. Larry Lee sold the idea to Pacifica to establish listener-supported radio in Houston as an alternative to main-stream broadcasting.
KPFT commenced broadcasting on the 90.1 FM frequency with the song "Here Comes the Sun" from the then-brand-new Abbey Road album by The Beatles.
[edit] The bombings
The station's transmitter was bombed and destroyed on May 12, 1970, two months after going on the air. The new station was off the air for three weeks until repairs could be made. Five months later, on October 6, 1970, while the station was broadcasting Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant," the transmitter was bombed yet again and the damage was significantly more extensive. The second bombing took KPFT off the air for three months.
On January 21, 1971, KPFT management invited Guthrie to visit the Houston studios, where he performed "Alice's Restaurant" live as the station commenced transmitting yet again.
After months of inactivity by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and local police, Pacifica took the initiative to mount a media campaign designed to draw attention to the unsolved case and seek support for pressuring authorities to act. Federal agents ultimately arrested a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Jimmy Dale Hutto, and charged him with the KPFT bombings, as well as with plotting to blow up radio stations KPFA and KPFK. Hutto was convicted and imprisoned in 1971.
[edit] External links
- KPFT
- Rare movie concerning the dynamiting of the KPFT transmitter in 1970
- Video of bombing
- KPFT News Contributor -- Houston Not-For-Profit News
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