KCRW
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Address: 
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
- Sep 16: Futuro and KCRW present Reaching Out, a six-part audio memoir from documentary artist Sayre Quevedo and winner of the Audio Memoir Award at the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival. On the eve of their 30th birthday, twin brothers Sayre and Connor set out to find the biological father who abandoned them before they were born. You'll follow them through desert raves, drunken nightclubs, and across borders of time and language, observing the brothers confront the truths they've hidden from each other and themselves. Reaching Out is a story about fathers, sons, and the distance between. New episodes arrive weekly on Wednesdays through October 21, distributed as part of the NPR Podcast Network.
- 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.
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