KPFT (90.1 FM) is a listener-sponsored community radio station in Houston, Texas, which began broadcasting March 1, 1970 as the fourth station in the Pacifica radio family. The station airs a variety of music, news, talk, and call-in programs, most ranging from center-left to far-left. Prominent persons who have been regulars on KPFT include science educator David F. Duncan and humorist John Henry Faulk. History KPFT was established by journalists Larry Lee of the Associated Press and Don Gardner of the Houston Post after the two became disillusioned with the lack of reporting on racial issues by existing Houston media. Sam Hudson, the first Program Director at KPFT, described difficulty in convincing the Pacifica Foundation to establish a station in Houston, saying that the standard response by Pacifica to requests for new stations anywhere in the country amounted to "put [a radio station] on the air and give it to [the Pacifica Foundation]", and that the founders of KPFT followed that advice. The station commenced broadcasting on March 1, 1970 on the 90.1 FM frequency with the song "Here Comes the Sun" from the Abbey Road album by The Beatles. From the beginning, the station emphasized the quality of its news programming; the station monitored the "A" news wire of the Associated Press, which was more in-depth and primarily used by newspapers, as well as a French news wire due to the wire's reporting on the Vietnam War, which was described by Hudson as "excellent". The station chose to adopt a full-service radio format; KPFT's first evening news program, Life on Earth, lasted 90 minutes or less and focused on non-space matters, as other stations would broadcast space-focused programming. Afterwards, the station would begin broadcasting music, which was unusual for commercial broadcasters at the time. KPFT used the variety of its programming as a selling point; music programs included jazz, rock and roll, and opera, and talk shows were aired covering a variety of subjects, emphasizing freedom of speech. The station has always been non-commercial, initially asking listeners to contribute $12 per year to fund the station's operations. In July 2021, Pacifica and KPFT management chose to sell the station's Montrose-area premises at 419 Lovett Blvd., citing "prohibitive" repair costs to the building. The station had been operating remotely since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and would continue to do so while the building was being sold. In May