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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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 -
This early Kern County leader played a major role in the history of the Central Valley. -
After the Sugar Pine Lumber Company closed during the Great Depression, Pinedale was transformed during World War II and the years that followed. -
Fresno's Pinedale neighborhood was born as a lumber mill town in the Roaring 20s. -
This devastating wildfire was one of the fastest burning fires in California history, as it tore through Madera and Mariposa Counties. -
The gold fields of Kern County gave birth to a number of rough-and-tumble mining towns, some of which still exist today. -
Lee was an acclaimed and prolific designed of movie "palaces." He believed the "show starts on the sidewalk." -
This innovative development model began south of Fresno in 1875 and was quickly replicated throughout the region, leading to the growth of small, owner-occupied farms.
