Civic
Hosted by Lila LaHood and unknown · San Francisco Public Press & KSFP, Mel Baker
4.9from 34 ratings
- 584
- Episodes
- 5
- Transcribed
- 34
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
- 52K
- YouTube views
About Civic
Civic is the flagship audio program from the San Francisco Public Press, a nonprofit news institution, covering important local issues and the unique experiences of living and working in San Francisco. The radio program airs Tuesdays and Thursdays on KSFP -LP 102.5 FM in San Francisco.
- Publisher
- San Francisco Public Press & KSFP, Mel Baker
- Category
- government · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 14 Aug 2019
- Latest episode
- 15 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
5 of 584 episodes have a transcript.
15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Civic Special: Who’s Spending Big on San Francisco’s Election?
9 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Civic Special: Short takes on the San Francisco and State Ballot Propositions
24 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Civic Special: Inside Your San Francisco Election Ballot
Inside a recent episode
Civic Special: Who’s Spending Big on San Francisco’s Election?
Published 15 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The first line is just a lot of this money is being spent by PACs. So most of this is outside groups, so political action committees that form independent expenditures, so that make independent expenditures, and those are groups that cannot coordinate with their candidates but have been unleashed because of Citizens United in the last decade and a half and are spending vast sums of money every election cycle. And you can see that a lot of the funding goes to advertising, basically, digital TV, physical flyers and mailers. And, you know, I think one thing that we'll return to in our conversation is that money is a proxy for message and getting your message out there to a lot of voters who are not as interested in the people in this room and who really turned to the election at the very last minute, you know, really just opening up their ballot and choosing on the spot. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on Civic
Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Joe Rivano Barros
- Darius Kemp
- Patrick Ford
- Ben Trefny
- Juliet Williams
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 52,098
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 29 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 5 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 83 / 100
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- Quality
- 100
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 90
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Who hosts Civic?
Lila LaHood and unknown host the show. Published by San Francisco Public Press & KSFP, Mel Baker.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes monthly, based on its RSS feed.
Does Civic take guests?
Yes. Guests have been identified in episode analyses.
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