KBFG 107.3 North Seattle

KBFG 107.3 North Seattle Volunteer run, Low-Power FM Community Radio for the Northwest Seattle communities.

Visit our website at http://kbfgseattle.com and Twitter at https://twitter.com/KBFG1073 We Envision…

• A low-power FM radio station for the Ballard, Fremont, Greenwood, Phinney and north Queen Anne/Magnolia communities, broadcasting with 100 watts or less and streaming online.

• A non-profit community radio station with mostly local programming, some non-English programming, some talk, some news

, and an eclectic blend of local, live performance, youth, and traditional music.

• Providing a platform for youth and under-served to learn and practice journalism and broadcasting skills.

• Interfacing with other community journalism efforts, like My Ballard.com and covering local events such as high school sports and neighborhood festivals.

• A forum for local educational, environmental, social, business, and political concerns and discussion.

10am July 4 2025 On today’s Mixed Media Madness we hear from public television’s legionary journalist Bill Moyers who di...
07/04/2025

10am July 4 2025 On today’s Mixed Media Madness we hear from public television’s legionary journalist Bill Moyers who died June 26. “The power of money trumps the power of democracy today, and I'm very worried about it,” he said in a 2011 interview. His comments hold resonance as the Trump administration moves to strip federal funding from PBS and NPR today. We go out with a Tiny Desk performance by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings who gave a magnificent performance at Zoo tunes last week. Another reason to fight for NPR.

Town Hall Talk 6.23.25 6pm Blase Aguera y Arcas with Charles Mudede "What is Life: Evolution as Computation"
06/23/2025

Town Hall Talk 6.23.25 6pm Blase Aguera y Arcas with Charles Mudede "What is Life: Evolution as Computation"

Town Hall Talks Monday 6.16.25 6pm From investigative journalist Mariah Blake comes a new book “They Poisoned the World”...
06/16/2025

Town Hall Talks Monday 6.16.25 6pm From investigative journalist Mariah Blake comes a new book “They Poisoned the World” that recounts a small town being poisoned, a corporate cover up, and a grassroots movement to fight back. She spoke with Monica Guzman.

Sunday 11am You Heard It Here kbfgseattle.org Using material from the Pacifica Radio Archives Rev Mel White, author of "...
06/08/2025

Sunday 11am You Heard It Here kbfgseattle.org Using material from the Pacifica Radio Archives Rev Mel White, author of "Strangers at the Gate: To Be Gay & Christian in America, guides us through major actions and events in the gay right's movement. Most recently Mel and his son Mike appeared on Amazing Race.

06/03/2025

6.3.25 10am On This Morning News and Public Affairs we are brought up to date on a number of issues in the Trump Whitehouse. HCR gives a rundown of Trump’s first 4 months in office, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse details the rift between Trump and Leonard Leo, Dr Paul Orbit details a recent study by the CDC that explains how to prevent the most common cause of hospitalizations in babies, and Senator Adam Schiff says that science is under attack and questions Trump’s pardons. We end with an interview that Emma Watson did with science author Rebecca Solnit.

Monday 6.2.25 6pm This Town Hall Talk with Dori Gillam, Board Chair of the Northwest Center for Creative Aging, is to he...
06/02/2025

Monday 6.2.25 6pm This Town Hall Talk with Dori Gillam, Board Chair of the Northwest Center for Creative Aging, is to help prepare anyone – those who have been, are now, or will be a caregiver – in other words, all of us! Whether it is navigating the health care system, working with dementia, speaking about dying, or considering how to accept care if and when you need it, you will learn from Dori’s experiences.

New week=New show! Rockin' Pneumonia is on the air and everywhere Monday night at 9pm PST & one more time Sunday at 2pm ...
06/02/2025

New week=New show! Rockin' Pneumonia is on the air and everywhere Monday night at 9pm PST & one more time Sunday at 2pm PST. KBFG 107.3 North Seattle is the station and you can stream it here: http://fulcrumcc.org/listen/ Sponsored by The Tin Hat

We are reposting a OBIT from the KBCS website as we are playing a tribute to Doug Patterson this noon. Sat May 31. Doug ...
05/31/2025

We are reposting a OBIT from the KBCS website as we are playing a tribute to Doug Patterson this noon. Sat May 31. Doug died March 14, 2022. He was 72 years old.

"Doug grew up in Puget Sound and fell in love with the burgeoning PNW rock and roll scene at a young age often recording live shows off his radio using an Ampex reel-to-reel machine.

Doug studied cultural anthropology and earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Washington in 1972. He was then invited into the graduate program at UW to study African languages and linguistics. He was awarded a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Washington in 1984. During a break from his studies in 1974 Doug traveled extensively throughout Eastern Africa where he became immersed in the African music scene and that was to become one of the great passions of his life. In Kenya he would also meet his wife Annah.

Doug’s love of music was of a giving sort. He was driven beyond spinning the albums of the music he loved and worked on many records and compilations, including Kenya Special and Nairobi Beat, to name just two. He also wrote extensively about East African music during his lifetime."

In 1991 Doug hosted his first radio show at KSER in Everett. In 1993 he went to KBCS and started The Music of Africa which was moved to KBFG in 2018. Doug was also a long time employee at KUOW where he engineered numerous recording sessions. It was Doug who introduced Eric Muhs and Pam Burton to KUOW hoping to acquire their cast of broadcast board for our new studio at Jack Straw Cultural Center. That was just before the whole world was shut down with the challenge of COVID.

We send our love to Doug’s family, friends, and fans.

Doug's finally radio home was here at KBFG where he hosted African Airways every Sat and enlisted Alister to share the slot with him. Doug's last effforts on behalf of KBFG was introducing Eric Muhs and Pam Burton to KUOW staff, hoping to receive an equipment donation to set up our studio at Jack Straw Cultural Center. That was right before COVID shut down the world. We thank him for his dedication to the world of African music and sharing it with us.

Mixed Media Madness Wed at 2pm & Fri at 10am FB A conversation with Nobel Laureate novelist and play write Doris Lessing...
05/28/2025

Mixed Media Madness Wed at 2pm & Fri at 10am
FB A conversation with Nobel Laureate novelist and play write Doris Lessing reflects upon the influence of life lived in Persia (Iran), Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and England in an interview with Richard Koffler recorded for Pacifica Radio at the BBC studios 1963. And then we come full circle with a recording in which Ms. Lessing speaks about S*x & Politics, and her study of the Sufis.

Tuesday 5.27.25On this Morning’s News & Public Affairs we hear the latest from Heather Cox Richardson who tackles the at...
05/27/2025

Tuesday 5.27.25
On this Morning’s News & Public Affairs we hear the latest from Heather Cox Richardson who tackles the atrocity known as the Republican’s 2026 budget. Then an uplifting edition of “Just Have A Think” when Adam Mett, base player for AJR, explains his climate activism. We conclude with a group discussion that took place at Politics and Prose Bookstore about climate writing and climate action with Kate Woodworth, Mike Tidwell and Jim Lardner.

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