New Orleans KABF is in a special election partnership with the Associated Press this year, which meant that I didn’t just get the terrible news about attacks on Medicaid recipients in Arkansas in the usual ways, along with the racist dogpile that followed the ad, but got a special note from our AP …
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1984 Doublespeak 2025 Style
Pearl River You can’t make this stuff up. Here’s a true story from radio land that intersects the politics and horror of our times. Pat Ward has a show called “Arkansas Speaks” on KABF-FM, the 100,000-watt station AM/FM manages in Little Rock, Arkansas. Sister Ward is an old school Black Republican. The show tends …
KABF Celebrates Forty Years On-the-Air
Marble Falls August 29th of each year marks the date that KABF 88.3 FM went on the air in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1984 at 100,000-watts of power as the “Voice of the People” and brought noncommercial community radio to the state. The station, its hosts, and listeners try to mark the anniversary …


