Meet the Team

Carl Pogue

Radio Traffic Coordinator

Carl has worked in radio for 25 years, starting in 1985 at a jazz station (KMHD) near Portland, Oregon. From 1992 to 2008, Carl lived on Saipan, an island in the Northern Marianas chain in Micronesia. For nine of those years he served as the General Manager of the island's only public radio station. From 2009 to 2010, Carl studied abroad in Strasbourg, France and participated at a course in residence at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. He was the Program Director at KVCR (San Bernardino/Riverside) before joining KPBS.

RECENT STORIES ON KPBS

AMERICAN MASTERS: Marcella

Jennifer Robinson

Premieres Monday, July 14, 2025 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Discover how celebrated writer Marcella Hazan shaped Italian cuisine in America. After immigrating to New York in the 1950s, she began making authentic dishes from her Italian roots and inspired millions of Americans with her cookbooks.
Science & Technology

San Diego scientists try to unlock the secrets of cannabis

Thomas Fudge

Genetic researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have sequenced many cannabis genomes to better understand what the plant could promise for human health and well being.
International

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The Associated Press

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