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Pacifica or NPR?
Pacifica 33%  33%  [ 2 ]
NPR 67%  67%  [ 4 ]
Total votes : 6

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24 Mar 2010, 2:18 pm

Which radio network do you like better?


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24 Mar 2010, 10:01 pm

Never heard of Pacifica. What is that?

At present I listen to just about only NPR when it comes to the radio.
Occasionally the nationally renowned KEXP, though.



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24 Mar 2010, 10:11 pm

Neither...



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25 Mar 2010, 12:44 am

where i live, out in the sticks, we are lucky to get NPR very fuzzily on the radio. never have been able to receive any pacifica broadcasts. pacifica was brave to be the first to broadcast the unexpurgated "7 words you can't say on tv" [carlin] but they got the mean green weenie from the fcc/supreme court for their trouble.



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26 Mar 2010, 3:07 pm

I think NPR may get more votes due to there only being 5 Pacifica stations (Los Angeles, Berkeley, Houston, Washington DC, and New York).


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26 Mar 2010, 3:22 pm

Never heard of Pacifica, so I didn't vote. I listen to NPR a little but Alan Chartock usually ruins it for me on the call in programs where he can't even let people finishing asking their questions before he hurries of to the next caller ("that's a great question but sorry there's other people on the line waiting"), only taking time with calls he's personally interested in. :wall:


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26 Mar 2010, 10:00 pm

There's NPR (Center-Left) and Pacifica (left-field)...;) It's sort of activist, progressive. It was on for a very short while in NC, but hasn't been heard in years.


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27 Mar 2010, 10:42 am

I'm embarrassed to say I haven't heard of Pacifica either. But maybe that's a good thing that I am more centered that way. But I would like to check Pacifica out and become familiar with it. I listen to NPR a lot. I use to love watching the PBS channel on TV. But I haven't watched any TV in three years.