Joe Moore, the first paid station manager of KFSR, the campus radio station at California State University, Fresno, is leaving to become director of program content for Fresno NPR affiliate KVPR (Valley Public Radio).
Moore has been with the Fresno State station since 1998 when he began as a student volunteer disc jockey. He later became student station manager, and in 2004, the first paid manager.
Station manager Don Priest, a professor of mass communications and journalism, said Moore “has been instrumental in turning KFSR into a high-quality, community-supported radio station.”
Former KFSR faculty adviser Jim Wilson, who left his radio career to become a mass communication and journalism professor at Fresno State, praised his former student as “a tremendous asset to the campus radio station during the past decade.”
Moore, Wilson added, “streamlined the jazz and eclectic programming, involved the listeners in pledge support, and brought in new weekend programs, such as ‘A Prairie Home Companion’ and our various public service programs. And he got the station involved in community activities in support of the arts.”
Don Fischer, former program director at Fresno’s KKDJ and a long-time KFSR volunteer was appointed interim station manager, Priest said.
Moore will join KVPR on Monday, Sept. 27.
For more information, contact Priest at 559.278.5078 or donp@csufresno.edu.
