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 -- ...

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, ...

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 ...

SANTA CRUZ >> For centuries, black cats have taken a bad rap thanks to Europe’s irrational fear of witches. Bad publicity from Halloween and Hollywood have only prolonged the notion the animals ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...