Obit: Ida Honorof, 93; crusading radio host on KPFK-FM

[CrankyYankee]

Ida Honorof, an environmental crusader who won plaudits for her investigative reports on pesticide contamination of lettuce in the early 1970s, died of natural causes March 5 in Eureka. She was 93.

For 20 years until the late 1980s, Honorof was known as the host of "Report to the Consumer," a hard-hitting weekly radio program on KPFK-FM (90.7) in Los Angeles, where she produced the show as an unpaid volunteer.

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-honorof18mar18,0,7226426.story?coll=la-home-obituaries

 

[ercjncpr]

Boy do I remember her! She was lots of fun and very interesting to listen to. To me those were the golden days of KPFK. Anyone remember also Tom Ritt (spelling) who came on in the mornings in the 1970s.

 

[davideduardo]

Boy do I remember her! She was lots of fun and very interesting to listen to. To me those were the golden days of KPFK. Anyone remember also Tom Ritt (spelling) who came on in the mornings in the 1970s.

Today, that station is tied for 47th in Arbitron, and has less than 150,000 total listeners in a radio market of nearly 11,000,000.

 

[SuperRadioFan]

Re: KPFK's 150,000 listeners

Well David, there's only so many people in SoCal who are into the Symbionese Liberation Army, Eldridge Cleaver, Huey Newton, Angela Davis, Hugo Chavez, MoveOn.org, Michael Moore, Fidel Castro, Cindy Sheehan, Che Guevara and the like LOL!!

 

[davideduardo]

Re: KPFK's 150,000 listeners

Well David, there's only so many people in SoCal who are into the Symbionese Liberation Army, Eldridge Cleaver, Huey Newton, Angela Davis, Hugo Chavez, MoveOn.org, Michael Moore, Fidel Castro, Cindy Sheehan, Che Guevara and the like LOL!!

Apparently not. I had the impression that the station had more listenership in the past, so I went as far back as I could which is to 1998... and the audience size is nearly identical to that of today. Of course, I can not go back to prior decades, which may show a totally different picture.

I have one anecdote about KPFK that probably colors my thinking. For a time, I enjoyed a Thai restaurant that is next door to KPFK... One evening, getting into my SUV (I was OM at KKHJ and KWIZ and used it to do remotes), I was jeered for my envirnmental lack of sensitivity. by a group of KPFKers who were in front of the station. It was "insult first" and discover the facts later.

 

[ercjncpr]

hmmm....an awful lot of right wing stereotypers around here!

 

[ercjncpr]

Boy do I remember her! She was lots of fun and very interesting to listen to. To me those were the golden days of KPFK. Anyone remember also Tom Ritt (spelling) who came on in the mornings in the 1970s.

Today, that station is tied for 47th in Arbitron, and has less than 150,000 total listeners in a radio market of nearly 11,000,000.

Non Profit, as in, who cares about your silly diaries!

 

[davideduardo]

Today, that station is tied for 47th in Arbitron, and has less than 150,000 total listeners in a radio market of nearly 11,000,000.

Non Profit, as in, who cares about your silly diaries!

Most full signal non-coms are subscribed to Arbitron, as the data is used in programming and fund raising.

And, commercial or not, the purpose of a station is to send a message of some kind to other people. KPFK does not reach very many people.

 

[SuperRadioFan]

hmmm....an awful lot of right wing stereotypers around here!

Not me, pal. I'm a Registered Democrat who voted for Clinton twice and Al Gore. Mighty broad brush you got there. Couldn't see my exagerated point, huh?