KCRW
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1900 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90405, USA
KCRW 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. Wikipedia
Website: www.kcrw.com
Latest news
- Oct 24, 2025: Meanwhile, Santa Monica’s KCRW has cut 10% of its staff, including replacing several of the station’s music DJs.
- Sep 12, 2024: Question Everything is new today from Brian Reed, the journalist who created the S-Town podcast. From KCRW, the show wonders why journalism is in a crisis, and seeks to understand what journalism is and how it's changing.
- Apr 20, 2023: Bodies has returned for a new season. The show, from KCRW and journalist Allison Behringer, compassionately delving into medical mysteries and the complexities within the bodies of women and marginalized genders and how health systems treat them.
- Feb 15, 2023: City of Tents: Veterans Row is new today from KCRW. The podcast takes listeners back to the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic when a large homeless encampment, decorated with American flags, sprang up beside the Veteran Affairs campus by one of Los Angeles’ wealthiest neighborhoods, Brentwood.
- May 18, 2022: Today, Explained has made it onto two new public radio stations, KCRW in Santa Monica CA, and WEKU, in Richmond KY.
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