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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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.
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The world's first bank-issued credit card, today known as VISA, debuted in Fresno, CA on September 18, 1958. -
The base was a key part of the Cold War, as the training site for B-52 crews for the Strategic Air Command. -
Funded by FDR's Public Works Administration, the Fresno County Hall of Records opened in 1937. Today it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. -
Since 1924, the City of Fresno has run this rustic camp in the Sierra National Forest, east of Fresno.
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Today all that remains of the schoolhouse is a red brick archway at Shephard and Minnewawa Avenues in Clovis. The building was destroyed in a fire in 1990. -
Water diversions from the Kings River made Fresno's early growth possible. When a court case upended those water rights, developer Edward B. Perrin bought the Laguna de Tache ranch, and its water.
