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KRCB Natural Heroes Season Seven Debut
KBBF Weekly News: We are proud to announce a brand new original program on our air waves: “KBBF Weekly News.” We got a head start on one of our main goals for 2016, which was to create our own bilingual news bureau. KBBF Weekly News is a half-hour bilingual local news show produced by Francisco Lozano and Edgar Avila, with the help of various KBBF volunteers. The English portion of the show airs Fridays at 11:30 AM, which is right after Ring of Fire for our English-speaking listeners, and the Spanish portion airs directly after that, preceding Linea Abierta for our Spanish speaking audience. The show focuses on local news stories, many of them written by our very own journalists, who have already
managed at this early stage to
break some exclusive stories.
We are extremely proud to be
running a volunteer local news
program; those familiar with
journalism know what a feat
this is! If you have any local
news tips you’d like to share
with us, feel free to send email
to our news team at francsico.
lozano@kbbf-fm.org.
On-Air Fund Drive:
Season Seven of the KRCB produced Emmy® Award--winning series NATURAL HEROES debuts in the Bay Area on KRCB Public Media, then Nationwide in January.
KRCB Public Television is proud to announce Season Seven of NATURAL HEROES began December 21 at 7:30 pm. NATURAL HEROES is produced locally by KRCB, distributed nationally, and is the winner of seven Emmy® awards.
KBBF Board Directors Santos Molina, David Janda and A licia Sanchez talk to listeners about the importance of community radio.
TERRA FIRMA is an independent film featured on NATURAL HEROES that Landes is especially excited about sharing with viewers. “TERRA FIRMA redefines who we think of as a Natural Hero,” she says. This powerful film features three female veterans who come home from war very changed by the experience. They each find farming is their path towards healing. Explains one veteran who now feeds the hungry in her hometown, “I can’t fight in wars anymore, but I can fight hunger. And I can be a hero in my community by being a farmer.”
Beginning on Dec. 11th, KBBF
had a 3-day weekend on-air
fund drive. Our goal was to
raise money to revamp our web presence so that we can stream KBBF on the Internet. For 24 hours a day, we talked to our listeners about the importance of community radio, taking donation pledges and giving out t-shirts and grocery bags as thank-you gifts to donors. Middle-of-the-night listeners were treated with a rare opportunity to listen to live programming from the KBBF studio all night long (since we typically play a remote feed of music programs during the night and early morning hours). A highlight moment in the weekend campaign was getting a call from Arnoldo Casillas, attorney for the family of Andy Lopez. He pledged a matching donation of $1,000, which was soon matched
The new season kicks off with QUEEN OF THE SUN, an engaging look at the global bee crisis. “Four out of every ten bites of food you consume, you would not consume if not for the work of the honeybee,” says author and activist Michael Pollan. The film shares the eye-opening struggles of pollination when people get involved, and what we can do to help.
by a listener for a total of $2,000. The campaign ended on an emotional note, when KBBF Board of Directors president Alicia Sanchez made a matching pledge of $25, asking 5 people to send in $5 each. To her surprise, an old friend of the station, who sold fresh tamales to Alicia for many years, donated $50 in response.
In The Community: KBBF was very involved in this year’s annual Virgin Mary pilgrimage from Santa Rosa to Windsor. An estimated 1,500 people of all ages gathered Friday night at St. Rose Church in Santa Rosa to walk more than 8 miles to Windsor. The yearly religious ceremony began right before midnight and was led by KBBF radio personality Luis Gutierrez and his Aztec dancers in 40-degree weather. Volunteers offered hot chocolate and other snacks to the parishioners. KBBF brought live, on-the-air reports of the pilgrimage.
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The series also profiles local heroes like Sonoma County musician and nature sound scientist, Dr. Bernie Krause, in NATURE’S ORCHESTRA. Krause has recorded the sounds of over 15,000 species, and we travel with him to the Arctic to record natural sounds, creating a marriage of science and art. “Natural soundscapes connect us with where we are, and with our deeper selves.”
The seventh season of this 13--part, half--hour anthology series features independent films highlighting people making positive environmental changes. Series Producer Valerie A. Landes enjoys the challenge of searching for the best independent, environmentally-themed films to feature. “It’s the rare person that’s inspired by doom and gloom. The filmmakers who create the films featured on NATURAL HEROES bring some hope and encouragement to the environmental movement!”
Beyond the television series, there is also a robust web site www.naturalheroes. org where viewers can continue their learning experience by connecting with causes, learning more, downloading the extensive project--based learning guide, and watching full episodes online.
KRCB Public Television broadcasts from studios in Rohnert Park, California, on digital channels 22.1, 22.2 & 22.3 and is seen over-the-air throughout much of the San Francisco Bay Area. KRCB is also seen on Channel 22 via Comcast. Cable, AT&T U-verse, Dish and DirecTV satellite services across the entire San Francisco Bay Area.