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youth Worker O'Learys Clear Signal Finds Teens Who... Everyone wanted m 6e a Ql, or learn - -:'S_'~f?' *,t ; " ~ "4'-'.;_ ~ ~ . to use the ptoductlon equipment 'Rte - - ~ . , Y~~ - .k~ music and die technical slut( became ~ - - ~ - c - - the hooks to get them Interested In news ' - - •:js+-% and commentary,' she said. O'Leary - " ' - torged a partnership with IIECG, the - .f3! radio salon at El Cerrito High School. - ' - - ~ = As word got arowd the Bay Area. teens - ~ _ - from other school districts started - showUtg up. "[here was (tits whole ~ ~ - group of kids who wire raspy ~PJY for a media outlet.' she said. "[here were all - - - - . these stones about their lives thatwere gomg wdone.' 77ten.Jn 1991. the Richmond School - / ~`.Z Dtstnct shut down KECG when It I _ - A'r'~ declared banknrptry. Serendipitously. _ - 4 v,. _ °"+4 KPFA, 94.1 FM, the Berkeley-based pubkc radio station, was about [o move ~ mto a new offitt and had space to rent Fluthermore. It had a'repeater slgrial: ~ KPFB, 89.3 FM, which it was wWing to ~ ~ s- - Moat:.. c:.......Jzy ~gh~ - David SaWker. executlve dirxctor of g Ute Paclflra Eowdatlon. which operates a° the Baton, and Pat Scot[. then EIPFA's ~ + - s~".s.F ~~;r ~`7< ~ n` general manager, told O'Leary. 'It you _ _ ~ i. ,<s _ _ . can rase the monry, St's all yours.' she ~ - recalls. 'It gas clear [ha[ 1 needed a REHEARSAL: DJ aspirant Kirty Garcia viorW on timing hia program of rap and R8B tunas in the practice 5tudie. place where the kids could have theU - - - _ - own show.'Ihe commentaries were mtt. - - ~ - _ but they needed music, too, so they rant float (or three months, and I didn't 1s very supportive of this Idnd of e5ort, (emote. - - could appeal to their own age group. take a salary for a long Ume.' either because airy already serve a "IYte mfx.la ttte real world, and here, 'Ihe thing would have died at that Meanwhlle, KPFA lent Youth Radio youth .market or they're looking Into (t works,' says 01xuy. "Ihve are dlvl- moment except for Paclflca's offer: its grant venter, Greg lassonde. In diversttyhtg programs. _ ~ sfons ta their schools and their aeigh- But the prospect of raising enough January 1993, the Walter S, Johnson _ bodtoods that they can t aose. but here 'I had netR~ ~ ~dlmearlrt my llf~e,' and Wine fowdaCOns each pmmised . ~~e typl~rall~paztldpanl m Youth fey do.'Ihey have to: because irs set $70.000 aver two years. Ogeary aedlts up that way. Aad thry actually seem ~ i i i ~ ~ • not Just the prover of the conttpl and ~ - relieved that they no longer have to stay O'Irary said. She wrote her first giant lasvond~'s venting sltllls, but the rtots Rad1o has na Idea where Its support N tl1eU ramps It's kind of Illce a safe appllcanon [o the San Francesco 1n rns Angeles m 1992 soazkM 6y the cornea fiom, or Its subliminal purpose house.' Fowdatlan, which two years before nod Jurv's not-guilty verdict m the crtrrdnal - ~o ° Y~>8 ptopie m srnneibvrg As word of the program has spread. provided 525.000 to revive Youth News. tl~ of the poUa otUttrs rharged with PasiWe, as an aiternatm m sUeet life: -interest from youth has soared. '[here Impressed by her plan to Incorporate beatlng Rodnry King m 1991. m 01eary+s words. are three applkants for every spot m the professmnaldUected technical training Scott ~an addltlonal flnanefal sup- ~e of the arosC remarkable aspects Proms. -yye get pimty of appUeaUOns into the program. the fowdatlon came of the program is Its dtvaslty. the core port has come from more than a down irom kids who arc wally focused and througJt vnth another $25.000. other foundatlons, as well as the ~o~ about 100 youth awu- what thry want t6 do. but we Wre Youth Ftadlo wen[ on the a1r m Jury Carpomtlon for Public BroadcasWg. aUY• most of whom fall mm the catego- N save Borne room for these who amt t.' 1992. But between rent payments and More revert O has been rY of'at nsk.' Eighty-two perartt come" O ~ equipment purchases, the seed money with potential corporate backers~ou horn law-Income tam0les. Eighty per- .wry 'ran out pretty quickly.' O'Izary said. pr; t Just sUCk with foundatlons.' she crnt are non-Caucasian, and a quaver Oa the Alrf 'We wen[ through a penod where we sous. '[t's Mtlcal to dfversi(v and find are chfldren of Immigrants ar imnu- It took tvro tries for Geovawy Clans. bas¢alh~ had no monev. KPPA let Ne ccmnrate snonsors. Commercial radio Grwts themselves. Just aver half are I5. a soohomare at Berkelev Hieh