Our Minutes

June 27, 2006 APPROVED

Present: Brian Edwards-Tiekert (for Aileen), Vini, Lemlem, Dev, Veronica, Shahrahm, Anthony, Nick, Sepideh, Brian Absent: Luis, Amelia, Kris, Mary B, Joe, Annie, Mary P. Facilitator: Tracy

I - Announcements/Agenda/Administrative

Approved June 20 minutes with one small modifications: correction of on-air time of the Gay Pride program on June 25th from 11-5 to 11-4.

Re-approved June 13 minutes with the following addendum: Decision on America's Back 40 lacked a clear majority and will be revisited when the music director returns from a three week vacation on July 11th.

Agreed by consensus that program council will not meet on Tuesday July 4th.

II - Evaluations

Unable to proceed with Saturday Talkies evaluation as it wasn't ready.

Requested self-evaluation form received from Youth Radio. PA Directors to meet with them to review completed form, and discuss evaluation results and report back to full program council.

III - One-time Programming

Behind the Screens (30 minute pilot program from the film department at CSU-Monterey that turned out not to be available as an on-going program) to air Sunday July 2nd at 7:30 pm.

IV - On-going Programming

Explorations was contacted regarding re-runs and on-air problems. Producers to begin clearly date-labeling files to prevent airing of the wrong show by accident. Michio Kaku's book tour concluded so show should not continue playing re-run episodes.

Discussed obscenity standards in response to concerns raised by KFCF. Vini and Lemlem reiterated the policy regarding obscenity. Policy is well within and to some degree, exceeds current FCC policy. Policy to be distributed and explained throughout the station, to all programmers. Some discussion of FCC history, Pacifica history w/obscenity standards and the current fine structure.

Discussed June 8th broadcast of the Morning Show and segment with Village Voice movie critic who wrote book on the history of video games. Segment focused heavily on the military’s free downloadable game, America's Army. Some concern that the segment could have done much more in discussing militarization and densensitizing to violence.

It turned out that the pilot for the national 30 minute daily Spanish language news show has been available on Audio port since July 12th. Demo to be loaded on wiki - program council members fluent in Spanish to listen. Others encouraged to use friends/relatives/neighbors to sample the program and pass on their impressions.

V - Long-Term Issues

Sepideh and Brian S. to do some preliminary planning for a Program Council Q+A/Open House structure and report back to the Program Council on their initial ideas.

Adjourned @7.55 pm

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