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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A case of "lost in translation" gives this Merced County town its unusual name. -
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.
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The University of California looked at three sites as finalists for the campus, including two in the Fresno area, before awarding the campus to Merced. -
This pop song from Japan went to the top of the U.S. charts thanks to a radio station in Fresno. -
It was the biggest scandal involving the executive branch before Watergate, and it had roots in a Kern County oil field. -
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Pollasky founded Clovis through a railroad venture that went broke within months -
This early Kern County leader played a major role in the history of the Central Valley. -
After the Sugar Pine Lumber Company closed during the Great Depression, Pinedale was transformed during World War II and the years that followed. -
Fresno's Pinedale neighborhood was born as a lumber mill town in the Roaring 20s.
