Feb 17 2010
KPFK Fund Drive – Day 16
Pacifica Radio Archives 60th Anniversary Mp3 CD collection. This special MP3 collection contains fifty hours of newly preserved and digitized audio, made possible thanks to a generous grant from the American Archives Pilot Project funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Many of the recordings in this collection were previously publicly unavailable due to severe tape deterioration, but thanks to the restoration expertise of our …
Pacifica Radio Archives 60th Anniversary Mp3 CD collection. This special MP3 collection contains fifty hours of newly preserved and digitized audio, made possible thanks to a generous grant from the American Archives Pilot Project funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Many of the recordings in this collection were previously publicly unavailable due to severe tape deterioration, but thanks to the restoration expertise of our …
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