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 brilliant engineering solution from the 1870s is still in use today in Kern County. -
The voice behind Journey's biggest hits got his start in Hanford and Lemoore. -
Scholars say the Tulare County town of Yettem is the only one in America that bears an Armenian name. -
A case of "lost in translation" gives this Merced County town its unusual name.
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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
