Show Name: | Forum |
Format: | Talk radio |
Audio Format: | Stereophonic |
Record Location: | San Francisco, California |
Runtime: | ca. 105 min. |
Senior Editor: | Daniel Zoll |
Producer: | Marlena Jackson-Retondo Jennifer Ng Mark Nieto Caroline Smith Blanca Torres Grace Won |
Executive Producer: | Susan Britton Judy Campbell |
Presenter: | Mina Kim and Alexis Madrigal |
Opentheme: | "Peter Pan" by Mike Marshall |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Home Station: | KQED-FM |
Syndicates: | KQED-FM Sirius Satellite Radio |
First Aired: | 1990 |
Last Aired: | present |
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.[1] From 1993 to 2021, it was 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.[2] [3] After hosting the show for nearly 30 years, Krasny announced his retirement effective February 2021.[4] A number of guests hosted the show in the months following, before Alexis Madrigal was selected as the new co-host along with Mina Kim, who had already held that post since July 2020.[5] [6]
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.[7] The program airs for two hours on weekday mornings, with an hour repeated in the evening.