Joe Moore
President & General ManagerJoe Moore is the President and General Manager of KVPR / Valley Public Radio. From 2010-2018 he served as the station's Director of Program Content. In that role, he launched the station's local news department, hosted the program Valley Edition, and represented the station in the design-build process for KVPR's new broadcast center.
Since becoming President and General Manager in 2018, he has led the station through major programming changes, the launch of KVPR Classical and the COVID-19 pandemic. Under his leadership the station was named California Non-Profit of the Year by Senator Melissa Hurtado (2019), and won a National Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative reporting (2022).
He is a Fresno native and a graduate of California State University, Fresno. He previously was the General Manager of KVPR and taught audio production at Fresno State.
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Locals feared the worst in July 1965 when the Hell's Angels came to Bass Lake for a "picnic," as documented in Hunter S. Thompson's first book. -
This road is an unusual break from Fresno's street grid or right angles, but there's a story behind its design. -
Grant Grove in today's Kings Canyon National Park was once its own national park named after a famed president and Civil War general. -
While Gabriel Moraga gave the river its current name, Native Americans had their own names for the waterway, dating back thousands of years. -
Plans to build the dam were mired in bureaucratic rivalry in Washington D.C. for years, drawing the attention of two presidents. -
A brilliant engineering solution from the 1870s is still in use today in Kern County. -
The voice behind Journey's biggest hits got his start in Hanford and Lemoore. -
Scholars say the Tulare County town of Yettem is the only one in America that bears an Armenian name. -
A case of "lost in translation" gives this Merced County town its unusual name.
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While it started as a dirt track, it grew into a high-banked superspeedway, which scholars say was the first such track west of the Mississippi.
