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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Fresno's Azteca Theater was the focal point of Fresno's Latino community in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, hosting Mexico's biggest film stars and a stop on Cesar Chavez's march to Sacramento in 1966. -
Born in Delano, the theater group has a long legacy dramatizing the stories of those who work in California's farm fields. -
Moore was born into slavery in Alabama in 1812 and became one of the earliest successful farmers in Fresno County, arriving here in 1853.
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Several Central Valley Carnegie library buildings still remain, in cities like Clovis, Hanford, Exeter and Orosi. -
Back when Railroad Avenue was U.S. Route 99, downtown merchants funded the archway to help draw motorists to their businesses. -
Located at the top of Tollhouse grade, a variety of Pine Ridge-area businesses have served centuries of weary travelers. -
In December of 1867, a portion of Dennison Mountain slid into the Kaweah River, creating a 400-foot natural dam that eventually gave way, flooding Visalia. -
While cities like Fresno and Bakersfield didn't exist in 1862, the local impact of that year's historic flooding was still massive. -
Today's Kings County used to be a part of Tulare County, until it broke away in 1893. -
King held a rally in Fresno June 1, 1964 in support of housing equality laws in California.
