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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Tankhouses were once a common sight with small farms across the San Joaquin Valley. -
New technology, from the world's largest log flume to dynamite, helped fuel the destruction of these ancient trees. -
Bob Wills revolutionized country music in the 1930s by mixing jazz and string band influences. Like many of his fans in Oklahoma and Texas, he moved to Central California in the 1940s. -
Thomas Hughes was considered one of Fresno's leading citizens. But in 1893, he led the effort to break Fresno County in two. -
Spicy but flavorful, the Fresno chile was first developed in Clovis. -
The Tulare County town of Goshen played an important part in California railroad history.
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Edward Kern was an artist, topographer and cartographer on an expedition to California led by John C. Fremont. -
The Panic of 1873 brought construction of the Southern Pacific Railroad to a halt, making Delano the "end of the line" for over a year. -
Fresno properties served as the prototypes for two pioneering Las Vegas resorts, and two of Sin City's most influential tycoons were born and raised in Fresno.
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Exactly who the auditorium should memorialize was controversial when the building was planned in the 1930s.
