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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Yamato Colony near Livingston was founded by and for Japanese American farmers. -
Located near the Grapevine in Kern County, this pueblo became a rancho in the Mexican-era and is the oldest Western settlement in the southern San Joaquin Valley. -
County islands are unincorporated areas surrounded by land that is part of an incorporated city. These "islands" often lack city-level infrastructure and services. -
Today's Stockdale Country Club began as the Tevis family estate, and was named for a Tevis relative, Sir Edmund Stockdale, the Lord Mayor of London. -
James Ben Ali Haggin made a fortune in the Gold Rush, before acquiring a huge swath of Kern County. -
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.
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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.
