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 2019, 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.
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Wright was hired to design a building to house a popular Yosemite Valley Cafe, but his vision clashed with the National Park Service. -
Arthur Wysinger's legal fight for school desegregation in the 1800's in Visalia helped pave the way for later decisions like 1954's Brown vs. Board of Education.
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When conditions are just right, Yosemite's famed Half Dome can been seen from Central Valley communities like Turlock and Denair.
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John Steinbeck wasn't the only novelist working on a book in the 1930's based on the stories of the residents of Kern County's farm labor camps.
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Millions of years ago, Bakersfield was a marine estuary on the ancient Temblor Sea. The fossils left behind are famous worldwide.
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Large mounds of earth scattered across the landscape puzzled scientists for generations. Now researchers believe they have discovered the origins of the Valley's "hog wallows."
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The planned Fig Garden Dam on the San Joaquin River would have made Fresno's Woodward Park lakefront property.
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President John F. Kennedy visited Los Banos in 1962 to break ground on the San Luis Reservoir, and delivered a speech about American progress.
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Fresno's historic downtown water tower has defined the city's skyline for over a century.
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Today, visiting Yosemite often means sitting in traffic jams. A century ago, the Yosemite Valley Railroad connected to park to Merced. So what happened?
