Genre | Talk radio |
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Running time | ca. 105 min. |
Country of origin | United States |
Language(s) | English |
Home station | KQED-FM |
Syndicates | KQED-FM Sirius Satellite Radio |
Hosted by |
Michael Krasny Mina Kim(Fridays) |
Created by | Kevin Pursglove |
Senior editor(s) | Daniel Zoll |
Produced by | Judy Campbell Tina Laurberg Irene Noguchi |
Recording studio | San Francisco, California |
Original release | 1990 – present |
Audio format | Stereophonic |
Opening theme | "Peter Pan" by Mike Marshall |
Website | www.kqed.org/forum |
Podcast | KQED Podcasts |
Forum is a two-hour live call-in radio program produced by KQED-FM, presenting discussions of local, state, national and international issues, and in-depth interviews. The program began in 1990 as a politics-oriented talk show, created and hosted by Kevin Pursglove. Since 1993, it has been hosted by scholar, author, professor, and former KGO Radio host Michael Krasny, who broadened the program's scope to a cross-section of current events.
The format of Forum varies from show to show, but generally involves an in-person interview followed by public Q&A via phone or email with one or more subjects, often nationally prominent authors and scholars. The program airs for two hours on weekday mornings, with an hour repeated in the evening.