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Q&A with WBCN Director Bill Lichtenstein and KPOVs Michael Funke

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BendFilm Makers Series

A conversation with WBCN and The American Revolution director Bill Lichtenstein and Michael Funke from KPOV, High Desert Community Radio.

The group will discuss the importance of community radio, how media can create social change and much more.


About Bill Lichtenstein:

Peabody Award-winner Bill Lichtenstein worked at WBCN-FM starting at age 14 in 1970. He is an American print and broadcast journalist and documentary producer, president of the media production company, Lichtenstein Creative Media, Incorporated. He writes for such publications as The New York Times, The Nation, Village Voice, New York Daily News, Boston Globe and Huffington Post.


About Michael Funke:

Michael Funke is a retired union journalist and trout bum who moved from Detroit to Bend with his wife Kathryn in 2001. He is host of KPOV's The Radical Songbook, and president of KPOV's board of directors. He came of age in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1960s, listening to KSAN radio and live music at the original Fillmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom.

  • Year
    2020