KALW Public Radio
For The Hiring Of A Grants Manager
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Amount$50,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/13/2008
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Term12 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
KALW 91.7FM San Francisco is the oldest public radio station west of the Mississippi River. KALW's broadcast coverage reaches San Francisco, the Peninsula, East Bay, and portions of Marin County with an estimated listening audience of 150,000 people. The station offers national and international reporting from NPR and BBC, as well as locally produced news coverage, and political and cultural programming. Since 2006 KALW has received Hewlett Foundation funding for its Public Service Reporting Project consisting of arts reporting that profiles local arts organizations and individual artists. The project has demonstrated success thus far in increasing listenership and membership. It has also increased the number of stories about local artists and arts organizations from 22 in 2004 to 40 in 2007 and music by local groups concludes everday’s news show. Support of this capacity building grant would allow KALW’s Holly Kernan, to hire a development associate to pursue insitutional funding opportunities and provide more time for Ms. Kernan to perform her primary responsibilties as the station’s chief programmer and News Director.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.kalw.org
Address
500 Mansell Street, San Francisco, CA, 94134-1858, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for arts programming
KALW 91.7FM provides more than 150,000 people in the San Francisco Bay Area with national and international reporting from NPR and BBC, as well as locally produced news and cultural programming. Bay Area arts reporting has emerged as a central component of KALW’s activity, with increased airtime devoted to programs such as Crosscurrents, which features stories about, and music from, local musicians. As print coverage of the arts decreases as regional newspapers falter, our support for this organization becomes more important to maintaining the visibility of Bay Area artists, arts organizations, and cultural activities. This grant to KALW would help the station maintain its arts coverage, continue to grow its digital media presence, and pilot exciting new artistic projects.
for arts programming
Broadcasting since 1941, KALW 91.7 FM is the oldest non-commercial FM signal west of the Mississippi, and reaches up to 150,000 listeners weekly. The public station offers national and international news from NPR and the BBC, as well as a host of local programming that includes the arts program Crosscurrents, airing more than 180 features annually on the Bay Area arts and culture community. A grant to KALW will support the expansion of its arts and culture reporting and the development of a new show, "Sights and Sounds," a multi-platform project highlighting the perspectives and creations of Bay Area artists, with an emphasis on creative people with roots in underserved communities. Likewise, KALW seeks to build upon its strengths in arts reporting, expanding a series of live events in underserved communities that draws upon stories and segments from the respective neighborhoods.
for arts programming
Broadcasting since 1941, KALW is the oldest non-commercial FM signal west of the Mississippi, and reaches as many as 150,000 listeners weekly through radio broadcasting and online streaming. In addition to offering national and international news from NPR and the BBC, KALW produces an array of local arts programming. Each year it airs more than 180 features on the Bay Area’s arts and culture community through programs including the daily news program Crosscurrents, and the weekly Sights and Sounds, which is both a broadcast show and live event series that features the work and perspectives of Bay Area artists.
