Talk:KOPB (AM)

sources for future expansion
Lots of info on this station available to expand this article, including this. - Dravecky (talk) 04:24, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Critique
This station has been criticized for a glaring lack of coverage of local issues in the community in which it is ostensibly based (Eugene/Springfield). When the station is not channeling either the BBC or New York programs like WNYC, the news, weather, and public service coverage is centered on the Portland, Oregon area. In the past three years there have been two severe weather emergencies in the Eugene/Springfield area which have closed schools, roads, and public services for up to a week -- neither received coverage on KOPB 1600.

The station actually has no physical presence in the Eugene/Springfield area, other than a transmitter. There is no local mailing address, no local phone number, and no local email -- in short if you live in Eugene or Springfield and want to contact the station, you can't. Sole contact is through OPB's central email address in Portland, and response time can be two weeks or longer. Basically this is a large Portland metro-station which has stuck its fingers into the broadcast pie around the state, preventing local ownership of stations that could better serve their communities if they were operated locally. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.89.176.249 (talk) 20:23, 20 December 2019 (UTC)