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 10,000 broadcast center which opened in 2016.
Since becoming President and General Manager in 2018, he has successfully led the station through major programming changes, the COVID-19 pandemic and the end of federal support for public media. Under his leadership, the station was named California Non-Profit of the Year by Senator Melissa Hurtado (2019), and won two National Edward R. Murrow Awards (2022 and 2024).
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. He is also the voice of KVPR's series on local history "Central Valley Roots."
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Fresno's Frank Thomas was instrumental in bringing Walt Disney's most famous animated features to life. -
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Edward Fitzgerald Beale brought news of the discovery of gold in California to Washington, D.C., in the process winning a high-stakes clandestine race across the continent. -
This creek turned irrigation canal is named for early Fresno-area rancher John Fancher. -
This man-made reservoir on the edge of the UC Merced campus has a history that takes back to the 1880s. -
An acclaimed engineer and the first woman licensed to practice architecture in California, Julia Morgan also designed several Fresno-area buildings. -
The grand hotel stood in downtown Bakersfield from 1926-1970. -
The 1991 environmental art exhibit in Kern County and Japan captivated the art world. -
Avenal was born with an epic oil discovery, but has kept evolving over the last century. -
Dusy was a farmer, inventor, oil man, photographer, and was an influential force in Fresno County's early years.
