KCRW
- Call Letters: KCRW
- Frequency: 89.9 FM Los Angeles. More below.
- http://www.kcrw.com
- Networks: Reveal and American Public Media
KCRW, a community service of Santa Monica College, is Southern California's leading National Public Radio affiliate, featuring an eclectic mix of music, news, information and cultural programming. The station boasts one of the nation's largest arrays of locally produced, nationally distributed talk program content. KCRW.com extends the station's profile globally, with three streams featuring web-exclusive content: all music, all news and the live station simulcast, as well as an extensive list of podcasts. The non-commercial broadcast signal reaches 550,000 listeners weekly and is supported by 55,000 member/subscribers.
The terrestrial station serves Los Angeles and Orange Counties at 89.9 FM, Ventura County at 89.1 FM on KCRU/Oxnard-Ventura, the greater Palm Springs area at 89.3 FM on KCRI/Indio-Palm Springs and Kern, and Northern LA Counties at 88.1 FM on KCRY/Mojave/Antelope Valley. KCRW can now be heard in Santa Barbara at 106.9. Other translators carry the signal to Borrego Springs, CA, at 92.9 and the Twentynine Palms and Yucca Valley areas at 90.7 FM, Gorman at 89.7 FM, Banning at 90.9 FM, the Ridgecrest area at 101.1 FM, the Thousand Oaks and Conejo Valley areas at 102.3 FM, Ojai at 102.1 FM, and Lemon Grove/Spring Valley in San Diego County at 89.9 FM.Series
KCRW partners with Zócalo Public Square on a series of talks about healthcare. Zócalo Public Square connects people to ideas and to each other in an open, accessible, non-partisan and broad-minded spirit.
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- Updated: May 29, 2012
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- Updated: Apr 05, 2011
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- Updated: Apr 13, 2011
KCRW's DJs invite an array of cultural personalities to share and discuss songs that have inspired and moved them.
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- Updated: Nov 01, 2012
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- Updated: Apr 05, 2011
Public radio's only political roundtable! This weekly "love-hate relationship of the air" features four of the most insightful news analysts anywhere: Matt Miller, Arianna Huffington, Tony Blankley and Robert Scheer.
- From: KCRW
- Updated: Apr 05, 2011
KCRW's Private Playlist is a listening session with Southern California’s most notable musical figures in their private creative environments.
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- Updated: Apr 17, 2020
On "The Treatment," film critic Elvis Mitchell talks to the most influential and innovative forces creating movies and popular art and entertainment today.
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- Updated: Apr 12, 2011
Classic and contemporary detective noir fiction, read by actors
- From: KCRW
- Updated: Apr 13, 2006
UnFictional is a program of storytellers and documentaries that will suck you in and stick in your head like a memory.
- From: KCRW
- Updated: Nov 02, 2012
Latest Pieces
Bought by Raven Radio, Marfa Public Radio, KUT, WORT, Prairie Public and more
- Added: Jul 31, 2023
- Length: 57:57
- Purchases: 21
Bought by KGOU, WLPR , Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, KUT, WFAE and more
- Added: Sep 04, 2020
- Length: 52:58
- Purchases: 32
Bought by Boise State Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., American Voices, KALW, KUOW and more
- Added: Jan 16, 2019
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 26
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KFCF FM, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and XRAY.fm
- Added: Jul 02, 2013
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 5
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KMUN, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, XRAY.fm, and KOSU
- Added: Jul 02, 2013
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 5
Bought by KMUN and Prairie Public
- Added: Jun 21, 2013
- Length: 28:31
- Purchases: 2
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KVNF, KSFR, KFCF FM, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 17, 2013
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 5
Bought by Radio Catskill and KFCF FM
- Added: May 17, 2013
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 2
Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, Radio Catskill, and KFCF FM
- Added: May 17, 2013
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., PRX Remix, Radio Catskill, KFCF FM and more
- Added: May 17, 2013
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 6
Staff of KCRW
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Mike Newport (Admin)
Operations |
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Ariana Morgenstern
Sounds Eclectic |
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Michael Silverblatt
Bookworm |
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Elvis Mitchell
The Treatment |
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Anayansi Diaz-Cortes
Associate Producer, Radio Diaries |
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Bob Carlson (Admin)
Host and Producer of KCRW's UnFictional |
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Michael Stark (Admin)
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Arnie Seipel (Admin)
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Mike Grimmer (Admin)
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