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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We track down the origins of the city's "Way of Life" slogan, and learn who coined the phrase back in 1970. -
Anthony Easterby's farm proved the potential of irrigated agriculture and led the Central Pacific Railroad to found the new town of Fresno nearby. -
After World War II, leaders agreed Fresno State needed to move to a new campus. But where to build it proved to be a big problem. -
When state leaders decided to build a new state college in Kern County, they evaluated sites all over the county. -
The Fresno plain was a harsh, nearly featureless landscape in the 1860s. But one site stood out: a large green bush near what is today downtown Fresno. -
KVPR reports record audience growth, membership growth, and pays off its 10-year broadcast center loan, all in the first year after the federal defunding of public media. -
Nestled close the Sierra foothills in Tulare County, Porterville began as a ferry crossing on the Tule River. -
Dixon's landscape paintings ranged in styles from impressionism to angular modernism, all while capturing the beauty of the Southwestern landscape. -
The grand hotel has been a Yosemite Valley icon since 1927, and has hosted presidents and royalty. -
Barry McGuire and Terry Talbot had their own big hits during the anti-war movement, before they both moved to Fresno and shifted their careers into worship music.
