2005-06-05 04:00:00 PDT Freedom, Santa Cruz County-- A small-town radio station with a cult following and a notorious past is expanding into the San Francisco Bay Area. The question is whether KPIG -- ...

WHEN RADIO AD salesman Ed Monroe first met KPIG-FM program director Laura Ellen Hopper, he was employed by a competing station, and both were vying for the same prime spot to set up booths for a ...

KPIG is an anomaly. It's a top-rated commercial radio station programmed entirely by its own DJs. It's a serious radio station with a terrific sense of humor. It's as much a fixture in its community ...

WATSONVILLE — The nighttime music mix on the county”s iconic Americana radio station, KPIG 107oink5 FM, has become less personal and more party shuffle after corporate heads axed the station”s evening ...

Dial Global Digital 24/7 Networks and Mapleton Communications announced syndication of the legendary KPIG Radio (KPIG-FM), the award-winning Santa Cruz-Monterey, CA based station. Availability begins ...

I’ve railed on local commercial radio before in this column but I only have glowing things to say about Radio Chico’s decision to bring KPIG to town, replacing Club 96.7 FM. Of Radio Chico’s four ...

The first commercial radio station to stream its programming live via the Web has quit, making good on threats that it would have to pull its Webcasts in the face of royalty fees. Watsonville, ...

Laura Ellen Hopper, a Santa Cruz radio personality who pioneered the "Americana" format of American roots music, has died from complications of lung cancer. Ms. Hopper was 57 when she died May 28. She ...

One of the more visible Webcasters forced to silence its Internet streams this summer due to high copyright fees is expected to return to the Internet as a subscription service. KPIG(FM), a small ...

Watsonville, Calif.-based KPIG-FM, one of the oldest and most popular Internet broadcasters, is back online after a month of Web-radio silence. But fans will have to open their wallets to listen: The ...

KPIG, whose freeform music and attitude have made it one of the most popular radio stations heard on the Internet, has stopped streaming recorded music, saying a recent Library of Congress decision on ...