KCRW
Sign in to saveKCRW (89.9 FM) is an NPR member station broadcasting from the KCRW Media Center on the Center for Media and Design campus of Santa Monica College on Stewart Street in Santa Monica, California, where the station is licensed. KCRW airs original news and music programming in addition to programming from NPR and other affiliates. A network of repeaters and broadcast translators, as well as internet radio, allows the station to serve the Greater Los Angeles area and other communities in Southern California. The station's main transmitter is located in Los Angeles's Laurel Canyon district, adjacent
Key facts
- Radio station.name
- KCRW
- Radio station.logo
- Black_KCRW_Logo_Wordmark,_2022.png
- Radio station.city
- Santa Monica, California
- Radio station.country
- US
- Radio station.frequency
- 89.9 MHz
- Radio station.repeater
- See
- Radio station.airdate
- 1947
- Radio station.subchannels
- HD2: Eclectic-24
- Radio station.language
- English
- Radio station.erp
- 6,900 watts
- Radio station.class
- B
- Radio station.facility_id
- 59086
- Radio station.callsign_meaning
- "College Radio Workshop" or "Corsair Radio West"
- Radio station.owner
- Santa Monica College
- Radio station.licensee
- Santa Monica Community College District
- Radio station.licensing_authority
- FCC
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- History
- Ruth Seymour
- Jennifer Ferro
- Programming
- Programs, a selected table
- Influence and accolades
- Events
- Stations
- KCRW Berlin
- References
- External links
KCRW (89.9 FM) is an NPR member station broadcasting from the KCRW Media Center on the Center for Media and Design campus of Santa Monica College on Stewart Street in Santa Monica, California, where the station is licensed. KCRW airs original news and music programming in addition to programming from NPR and other affiliates. A network of repeaters and broadcast translators, as well as internet radio, allows the station to serve the Greater Los Angeles area and other communities in Southern California. The station's main transmitter is located in Los Angeles's Laurel Canyon district, adjacent to Mulholland Drive at the end of Briarcrest Road, and broadcasts in the HD radio format. It is one of two full NPR members in the Los Angeles area; Pasadena-based KPCC is the other.
==History== KCRW was founded in 1945 to train servicemen returning from World War II in the then-new technology, FM broadcasting—hence its call letters, which stand for College Radio Workshop. It was a charter member of NPR in 1970, making Santa Monica College the second community college to own a public radio or television station.