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 2019, 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.
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In May 1899, James and Jonathan Ellwood discovered oil on the north side of the Kern River, setting off an oil boom that transformed Bakersfield and Kern County. -
Eastwood devised the hydroelectric system of dams and powerhouses that gave us Huntington and Shaver Lakes, and helped transform Southern California. -
The Yokuts used petroleum from natural oil seeps for thousands of years before the modern oil and gas industry. -
The river we know today as the San Joaquin has had many names over the years. -
Highway 99 passes through most of the Central Valley's major cities, while Interstate 5 bypasses them. Why is that? -
In the 1890's sugar magnate Claus Spreckels funded a railroad from Stockton to Bakersfield that broke the Southern Pacific's transportation monopoly in the region. -
The town along Highway 152 is named for natural pools along Los Banos Creek near Pacheco Pass.
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By making ranchers responsible for damage to crops from livestock, the "No Fence Law" helped grow the valley's farms. -
Around thirty miles from today's City of Fresno, nothing remains from this early settlement, known as "Fresno City." -
Today's Bravo Lake is a reservoir, but it began as a natural lake, likely fed by floodwaters on the St. John's River in Tulare County.
