KPFT 90.1 FM

KPFT 90.1 FM is a listener-sponsored, commercial-free community radio station in Houston, Texas, owned by the Pacifica Foundation. It signed on March 1, 1970, as the fourth station in the Pacifica radio family, after KPFA in Berkeley, KPFK in Los Angeles and WBAI in New York, and serves Houston and Harris County, the most populous county in Texas.

The station was started by two journalists, Larry Lee of the Associated Press and Don Gardner of the Houston Post, who were frustrated that local media ignored stories about race and civil rights. The Ku Klux Klan bombed its transmitter twice in 1970, keeping it off the air for months; KPFT returned in January 1971 and has broadcast ever since.

KPFT airs a free-form mix of news, public affairs, talk, call-in and music programs, with some programming in Spanish, and over the years it has carried programs in more than a dozen languages and a long line of shows for Houston's LGBTQ community. It broadcasts on three HD Radio channels and streams online, reaches Galveston, Goodrich and Huntsville through translators on 89.5, 90.3 and 91.9 FM, and keeps an online archive of its programs. In 2022 Pacifica and KPFT bought a building on Caroline Street in Houston's Third Ward as the station's new home.

KPFT's paid staff works alongside volunteers and unpaid interns. Past openings have included general manager, operations manager, membership coordinator and membership assistant roles, and the station recruits volunteers for administrative, community outreach, fundraising and event work. Openings are posted on kpft.org and on the Pacifica Foundation's jobs page.