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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Monte Redondo could be seen from many miles away, and was a popular rendezvous for Spanish military explorers. Most scholars agree that it was located along the Fresno River west of Madera. -
Created for the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exhibition in San Francisco, the original sculpture sat for over 50 years in Mooney Grove Park. Today, a replica sits in its place. -
A last-minute visit by Leland Stanford led to a change that gave us Fresno, and doomed the planned town of Sycamore. -
Unlike most rivers in the Central Valley, the Kaweah spreads out into multiple channels as it enters the valley floor. It has also been given multiple names throughout history. -
Beale Park is the centerpiece of one of Bakersfield's oldest neighborhoods, Oleander-Sunset. -
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The building was a big break from tradition for civic buildings in America. It got national attention when it was new, including in an exhibit at New York's Museum of Modern Art. -
Visalia's history dates back to 1852, making it the oldest city in the Central Valley south of the delta. -
Kearney dreamed of establishing a French-style chateau at his Fruit Vale Estate west of Fresno. -
M. Theo Kearney died a bachelor with no heirs, and left his estate to the University of California.
