KSFP

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KSFP is a low power station in San Francisco, California that broadcasts on 102.5 FM and streams on KSFP.FM. We are on the air from 4 am to 10 am and 4 pm to 10 pm seven days a week. Our flagship program is "Civic" which explores under-covered topics, with a focus on under-served audiences. KSFP is the home station for "Out in the Bay" which examines LGBTQ issues and "News in Context" which explores modern journalism. We have also been the launching pad for radio play series by "The San Francisco Mime Troupe" and "Word for Wordcast." We share the 102.5 FM signal with KXSF which is sponsored by San Francisco Community Radio.

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Civic 
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“Civic” is the award-winning radio show and podcast of the San Francisco Public Press, a nonprofit news organization specializing in investigative and solutions journalism. The half-hour show engages listeners with coverage of the civic life of San Francisco and the greater Bay Area. We explore under-covered topics, with a focus on under-served audiences. “Civic” aims to inspire and empower listeners to become more involved with their communities.

  • From: KSFP
  • Updated: Oct 13, 2021
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Civic Presents: San Francisco and the Overdose Crisis 
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As San Francisco continues to search for solutions, our team at “Civic” is exploring the origins of the city’s opioid overdose crisis, what has been done to help and what might be making things worse.

  • From: KSFP
  • Updated: Oct 19, 2023

Latest Pieces

Not a citizen? You can still vote in school board elections — including the recall
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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Noncitizens in San Francisco are now guaranteed the vote in school board elections, including the upcoming recall election. We speak with some immi...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2022
  • Length: 26:10
Go to ‘DEFCON-N95?’ This doctor says case rates should drive behavior
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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With Omicron cases surging, we speak with Dr. Kim Rhoads, who has been working on community-led responses since the beginning of the pandemic. She ...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
This photographer says his portraits of homeless people in SF tell a national story
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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A San Francisco photographer shares the audio recordings of unhoused people he documented in his book "Division Street." Robert Gumpert said the bo...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
Women fought trafficking and created a refuge in this Chinatown building
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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We look at the history of the Cameron House in San Francisco's Chinatown. The women who founded the organization worked to rescue Chinese women and...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
Follow your recycling from bin to bale
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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Ride along with a sanitation worker who collects everything in San Francisco’s blue bins, and learn some dos and don’ts of recycling at a Recology ...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
SF is strengthening its buildings for the next big quake
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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While hundreds of soft-story buildings in San Francisco have been upgraded by their owners to survive a major quake, city officials said 700 such b...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2021
  • Length: 29:33
Signs of speculation, cause San Francisco leaders to spend millions to buy apartment buildings
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Worries that real estate investors are buying multi-unit housing properties in San Francisco, then evicting tenants to turn a quick buck. has promp...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
The Bay Area could add millions of people without using more water. Here’s how.
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Can the Bay Area address housing affordability and control water use in perpetually drought-stricken California at the same time? SPUR's Laura Fein...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
Indigenous organizers mark 52 years since the Alcatraz occupation — with the interior secretary
From: KSFP
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The first Native American Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, spoke to the activists who first occupied Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay in 1969. T...

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  • Added: Nov 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Performer’s conservatorship is over, but activists say she’s not the only one
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The end of Britney Spears' conservatorship raises questions about who gets "conserved" and why. "Civic" talks to mental health activists who are w...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2021
  • Length: 29:28

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Mel Baker (Admin)
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