KCRW, the Glossary
KCRW (89.9 MHz FM) is a National Public Radio member station broadcasting from the campus of Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, California, where the station is licensed.[1]
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- College radio stations in California
- Santa Monica College
Adult album alternative
Adult album alternative (also triple-A, AAA, or adult alternative) is a radio format.
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American Beauty (1999 film)
American Beauty is a 1999 American black comedy-drama film written by Alan Ball and directed by Sam Mendes in his feature directorial debut.
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American English
American English (AmE), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.
American Public Media (APM) is an American company that produces and distributes public radio programs in the United States, the second largest company of its type after NPR.
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Ana Gasteyer
Ana Gasteyer (born May 4, 1967) is an American actress, comedian and singer.
AOL Radio
AOL Radio powered by Slacker (formerly AOL Radio powered by CBS Radio, and prior AOL Radio featuring XM) was an online radio service available in the United States only.
Barstow, California
Barstow is a city in San Bernardino County, California, in the Mojave Desert of Southern California.
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Baywood-Los Osos, California
Baywood-Los Osos (locally known as Los Osos-Baywood Park) is an unincorporated community in western San Luis Obispo County, California.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.
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Beaumont, California
Beaumont is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, located at the summit of the San Gorgonio Pass, between the San Bernardino Mountains and Mount San Gorgonio to the north, and the San Jacinto Mountains and San Jacinto Peak to the south.
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Berlin
Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.
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Bodies (podcast)
Bodies is a podcast hosted by Allison Behringer and produced by KCRW.
Bookworm (radio show)
Bookworm is an interview radio show hosted by Michael Silverblatt and produced by KCRW.
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Borrego Springs, California
Borrego Springs (borrego is Spanish for "sheep") is a census-designated place (CDP) in northeastern San Diego County, California.
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Broadcast relay station
A broadcast relay station, also known as a satellite station, relay transmitter, broadcast translator (U.S.), re-broadcaster (Canada), repeater (two-way radio) or complementary station (Mexico), is a broadcast transmitter which repeats (or transponds) the signal of a radio or television station to an area not covered by the originating station.
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California
California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.
Call signs in North America
Call signs are frequently still used by North American broadcast stations, in addition to amateur radio and other international radio stations that continue to identify by call signs worldwide.
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Camarillo, California
Camarillo is a city in Ventura County in the U.S. state of California.
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Canada
Canada is a country in North America.
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Cerise Castle
Cerise Castle is an American journalist.
China Lake, Kern County, California
China Lake is an unincorporated community in Kern County, California.
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Chris Douridas
Chris Douridas (born September 20, 1962) is an American popular DJ and musical tastemaker at Santa Monica, California's radio station KCRW, where he hosts a two-hour program showcasing progressive new music.
City College of New York
The City College of the City University of New York (also known as the City College of New York, or simply City College or CCNY) is a public research university within the City University of New York (CUNY) system in New York City.
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City of license
In U.S., Canadian, and Mexican broadcasting, a city of license or community of license is the community that a radio station or television station is officially licensed to serve by that country's broadcast regulator.
Coldplay
Coldplay are a British rock band formed in London in 1997, consisting of vocalist and pianist Chris Martin, lead guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman, drummer and percussionist Will Champion, and manager Phil Harvey.
Damien Rice
Damien George Rice (born 7 December 1973) is an Irish musician, singer and songwriter.
David Gray (British musician)
David Peter Gray (born 13 June 1968) is a British singer-songwriter.
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David Greene (journalist)
David Greene (born April 9, 1976), twitter, com, Retrieved 3 November 2017 (actual date of April 9 is public record) is an American journalist who worked for the radio broadcasting company NPR, and was one of the co-hosts of Morning Edition until his retirement in December 2020.
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Edward R. Murrow Award (Radio Television Digital News Association)
The Radio Television Digital News Association (formerly the Radio-Television News Directors Association) has been honoring outstanding achievements in electronic journalism with the Edward R. Murrow Awards since 1971.
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Effective radiated power
Effective radiated power (ERP), synonymous with equivalent radiated power, is an IEEE standardized definition of directional radio frequency (RF) power, such as that emitted by a radio transmitter.
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Electronic dance music
Electronic dance music (EDM), also referred to as club music, is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres originally made for nightclubs, raves, and festivals.
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Elvis Mitchell
Elvis Mitchell (born December 6, 1958) is an American film critic, host of the public radio show The Treatment, and visiting lecturer at Harvard University.
Facility ID
The facility ID number, also called a FIN or facility identifier, is a unique integer number of one to six digits, assigned by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Media Bureau to each broadcast station in the FCC Consolidated Database System (CDBS) and Licensing and Management System (LMS) databases, among others.
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States.
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Fillmore, California
Fillmore is a small city in Ventura County, California, United States, in the Santa Clara River Valley.
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FM broadcast band
The FM broadcast band is a range of radio frequencies used for FM broadcasting by radio stations.
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FM broadcasting
FM broadcasting is a method of radio broadcasting that uses frequency modulation (FM) of the radio broadcast carrier wave.
The foot (standard symbol: ft) is a unit of length in the British imperial and United States customary systems of measurement.
Frequency
Frequency (symbol f), most often measured in hertz (symbol: Hz), is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit of time.
Friday Night Lights (TV series)
Friday Night Lights is an American sports drama television series developed by Peter Berg and inspired by the 1990 nonfiction book by H. G. Bissinger, which was adapted as the 2004 film of the same name by Berg.
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Garth Trinidad
Garth Trinidad is a music supervisor & radio disc jockey of electronic music in Los Angeles, California on KCRW.
Gary Calamar
Gary Calamar is an American film and television music supervisor, who has been nominated five times for Grammy Awards.
Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
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Goleta, California
Goleta (Spanish for "schooner") is a city in southern Santa Barbara County, California, United States.
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Gorman, California
Gorman is an unincorporated community in northwestern Los Angeles County, California, United States.
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Gracie Awards
The Gracie Awards are awards presented by the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation (AWM) in the United States, to celebrate and honor programming created for women, by women, and about women, as well as individuals who have made exemplary contributions in electronic media and affiliates.
Greater Los Angeles
Greater Los Angeles is the most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. state of California, encompassing five counties in Southern California extending from Ventura County in the west to San Bernardino County and Riverside County in the east, with Los Angeles County in the center, and Orange County to the southeast.
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HBO
Home Box Office (HBO) is an American pay television network, which is the flagship property of namesake parent-subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.
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HD Radio
HD Radio (HDR) is a trademark for an in-band on-channel (IBOC) digital radio broadcast technology.
Height above average terrain
Height above average terrain (HAAT), or (less popularly) effective height above average terrain (EHAAT), is the vertical position of an antenna site above the surrounding landscape.
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Henry Rollins
Henry Lawrence Garfield (born February 13, 1961), known professionally as Henry Rollins, is an American singer, writer, spoken word artist, actor, and presenter.
Hertz
The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to one event (or cycle) per second.
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House music
House is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by a repetitive four-on-the-floor beat and a typical tempo of 115–130 beats per minute.
House of Lies
House of Lies is an American comedy-drama television series created by Matthew Carnahan.
Indio, California
Indio (Spanish for "Indian") is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, in the Coachella Valley of Southern California's Colorado Desert region.
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Internet radio
Internet radio, also known as Online radio, web radio, net radio, streaming radio, e-radio and IP radio, is a digital audio service transmitted via the Internet.
ITunes
iTunes was a media player, media library, mobile device management utility developed by Apple.
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Jack Hirschman
Jack Hirschman (December 13, 1933 – August 22, 2021) was an American poet and social activist who wrote more than 100 volumes of poetry and essays.
Jason Bentley
Jason Bentley (born July 27, 1970) is an American radio disc jockey of electronic music in Los Angeles, California.
Jason Kramer
Jason Kramer is a music supervisor and American radio personality.
Joe Morgenstern
Joe Morgenstern (born October 3, 1932) is an American writer and retired film critic.
Julian, California
Julian is a census-designated place (CDP) in San Diego County, California.
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KDB (FM)
KDB (93.7 MHz) is a non-commercial FM radio station licensed to Santa Barbara, California, and serving Santa Barbara County and Ventura County.
KDRW
KDRW (88.7 MHz) is a non-commercial FM radio station that is licensed to Santa Barbara, California. KCRW and KDRW are NPR member stations.
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KERW
KERW (101.3 FM) is a non-commercial radio station that is licensed to Los Osos-Baywood Park, California and broadcasts to the San Luis Obispo, California area. KCRW and KERW are Santa Monica College.
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Kim Masters
Kim Masters is an American entertainment journalist.
KMZT (AM)
KMZT (1260 AM, K-Mozart 1260) is a commercial radio station licensed to Beverly Hills, California. KCRW and KMZT (AM) are radio stations in Los Angeles.
KPCC (FM)
KPCC (89.3 FM) – branded LAist 89.3 – is a non-commercial educational radio station licensed to Pasadena, California, primarily serving Greater Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley. KCRW and KPCC (FM) are college radio stations in California, NPR member stations and radio stations in Los Angeles.
KPFK
KPFK (90.7 FM) is a listener-sponsored radio station based in North Hollywood, California, United States, which serves Southern California, and also streams 24 hours a day via the Internet. KCRW and KPFK are radio stations in Los Angeles.
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KUSC
KUSC (91.5 FM; "Classical California KUSC") is a listener-supported classical music radio station broadcasting from downtown Los Angeles, California, United States. KCRW and KUSC are NPR member stations.
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Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles
Laurel Canyon is a mountainous neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills region of the Santa Monica Mountains, within the Hollywood Hills West district of Los Angeles, California.
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Left, Right & Center
Left, Right, & Center is a weekly hour-long public radio program that provides a "civilized yet provocative antidote to the self-contained opinion bubbles that dominate political debate".
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Lemon Grove, California
Lemon Grove is a city in San Diego County, California, United States.
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List of North American broadcast station classes
This is a list of broadcast station classes applicable in much of North America under international agreements between the United States, Canada and Mexico.
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Liza Richardson
Liza Richardson is a music supervisor for numerous films and TV shows, and served as a DJ at KNON then KERA in Dallas, Texas, then KCRW, an eclectic music and NPR news radio station based in Santa Monica, California.
Los Angeles Press Club
The Los Angeles Press Club is an American journalism organization founded in 1913.
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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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Madeleine Brand
Madeleine Brand is an American broadcast journalist and radio personality.
Metre
The metre (or meter in US spelling; symbol: m) is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI).
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Michael Silverblatt
Michael Silverblatt (born August 6, 1952) is a literary critic and American broadcaster who hosted Bookworm, a nationally syndicated radio program focusing on books and literature, from 1989 to 2022.
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Mojave, California
Mojave (formerly Mohave) is an unincorporated community in Kern County, California, United States.
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Molly Shannon
Molly Helen Shannon (born September 16, 1964) is an American actress and comedian.
Morning Becomes Eclectic
Morning Becomes Eclectic (MBE) is a three-hour adult album alternative radio program first aired in 1977 and broadcast live every weekday from KCRW in Santa Monica, California.
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) is a contemporary art museum with two locations in greater Los Angeles, California.
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Nic Harcourt
Nic Harcourt (born September 23, 1957) is an English-born American radio and television presenter, producer, and journalist best known as the former Music Director and on-air presenter for the Santa Monica, California-based radio station KCRW.
Norah Jones
Norah Jones (born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar; March 30, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist.
NPR
National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.
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NPR Berlin
NPR Berlin was the first international affiliate of the American public radio network, NPR. KCRW and NPR Berlin are NPR member stations.
Ojai, California
Ojai (Chumash: ’Awhaỳ) is a city in Ventura County, California.
Oxnard, California
Oxnard is a city in Ventura County in the U.S. state of California, United States.
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Palm Springs, California
Palm Springs (Cahuilla: Séc-he) is a desert resort city in Riverside County, California, United States, within the Colorado Desert's Coachella Valley.
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Palmdale, California
Palmdale is a city in northern Los Angeles County in the U.S. state of California.
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Pasadena, California
Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, northeast of downtown Los Angeles.
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PLS (file format)
PLS is a computer file format for a multimedia playlist.
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Podcast
A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet.
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Progressive music
Progressive music is music that attempts to expand existing stylistic boundaries associated with specific genres of music.
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Public broadcasting
Public broadcasting (or public service broadcasting) involves radio, television, and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service.
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Public Radio International
Public Radio International (PRI) was an American public radio organization.
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Pundit
A pundit is a learned person who offers opinion in an authoritative manner on a particular subject area (typically politics, the social sciences, technology or sport), usually through the mass media.
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Raul Campos
Raul Campos is a music host on the Los Angeles–based public radio station, KCRW/KCRW.com.
RealPlayer
RealPlayer, formerly RealAudio Player, RealOne Player and RealPlayer G2, is a cross-platform media player app, developed by RealNetworks.
Recurring character
A recurring character is a fictional character, usually in a prime time TV series, who frequently appears from time to time during the series' run.
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Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1996–97
The following is a list of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced between September 28, 1996, and May 17, 1997, the twenty-second season of ''SNL''.
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Ridgecrest, California
Ridgecrest is a city in Kern County, California, United States, along U.S. Route 395 in the Indian Wells Valley in northeastern Kern County, adjacent to the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake (NAWS, or China Lake).
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Rob Long
Robert Long (born June 8, 1965) is an American writer and television producer in Hollywood.
Ruth Seymour
Ruth Seymour (née Epstein; February 17, 1935 – December 22, 2023) was an American broadcasting executive known for her innovative work with public radio.
Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara (Santa Bárbara, meaning) is a coastal city in Santa Barbara County, California, of which it is also the county seat.
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Santa Monica College
Santa Monica College (SMC) is a public community college in Santa Monica, California.
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Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica (Saint Monica; Spanish: Santa Mónica) is a city in Los Angeles County, situated along Santa Monica Bay on California's South Coast.
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Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live (SNL) is an American late-night live sketch comedy variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Michaels and Dick Ebersol that airs on NBC and streams on Peacock.
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Shot (filmmaking)
In filmmaking and video production, a shot is a series of frames that runs for an uninterrupted period of time.
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Show business
Show business, sometimes shortened to show biz or showbiz (since 1945), is a vernacular term for all aspects of the entertainment industry.
Shrek 2
Shrek 2 is a 2004 American animated fantasy comedy film loosely based on the 1990 children's picture book Shrek! by William Steig.
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Sigur Rós
Sigur Rós is an Icelandic post-rock band that formed in 1994 in Reykjavík.
Six Feet Under (TV series)
Six Feet Under is an American drama television series created and produced by Alan Ball that premiered on the premium television network HBO on June 3, 2001, and ended on August 21, 2005, after five seasons consisting of 63 episodes.
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Sketch comedy
Sketch comedy comprises a series of short, amusing scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long, performed by a group of comic actors or comedians.
Southern California
Southern California (commonly shortened to SoCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises the southern portion of the U.S. state of California.
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Streaming media refers to multimedia for playback using an offline or online media player that is delivered through a network.
Talk radio
Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues and consisting entirely or almost entirely of original spoken word content rather than outside music.
The Kids Are All Right (film)
The Kids Are All Right is a 2010 American comedy-drama film directed by Lisa Cholodenko and written by Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg.
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The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.
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The Washington Times
The Washington Times is an American conservative daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It covers general interest topics with an emphasis on national politics.
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To the Point
To the Point was an hour-long public affairs radio program co-produced by KCRW in Santa Monica, California and Public Radio International.
Tom Schnabel
Thomas Daniel Schnabel (born February 5, 1947, in Los Angeles) is a music consultant, producer and DJ.
True Blood
True Blood is an American fantasy horror drama television series produced and created by Alan Ball.
Twentynine Palms, California
Twentynine Palms (also known as 29 Palms) is a city in San Bernardino County, California.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
Warren Olney IV
Warren Olney IV is an American broadcast journalist.
Watt
The watt (symbol: W) is the unit of power or radiant flux in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3.
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WDST
WDST (100.1 MHz), branded as "Radio Woodstock 100.1", is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Woodstock, New York, and serving the Mid-Hudson Valley.
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Webby Awards
The Webby Awards (colloquially referred to as the Webbys) are awards for excellence on the Internet presented annually by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a judging body composed of over three thousand industry experts and technology innovators.
Winamp
Winamp is a media player for Microsoft Windows originally developed by Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev by their company Nullsoft, which they later sold to AOL in 1999 for $80 million.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
1947 in radio
The year 1947 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history.
See also
College radio stations in California
- California State University, San Bernardino
- KALX
- KAZU
- KCLU-FM
- KCOD
- KCPR
- KCR (San Diego State University)
- KCRH
- KCRW
- KCSB-FM
- KCSM (FM)
- KCSN
- KCSS (FM)
- KDVS
- KFJC
- KFSR
- KGPC-LP
- KHSU
- KKJZ
- KKSM
- KPBS-FM
- KPCC (FM)
- KSAK
- KSCU
- KSDT Radio
- KSJS
- KSMC
- KSPC
- KUCI
- KUCR
- KUSF (University of San Francisco)
- KVCR (FM)
- KVLA-FM
- KWDC-LP
- KXJZ
- KXLU
- KZSC
- KZSU
- List of California State University radio stations
- North State Public Radio
- San Jose City College
Santa Monica College
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCRW
Also known as K207FA, K209CN, K210CL, K215BA, K225BA, K261AC, K271AC, K272DI, K295AH, KCRI, KCRI-FM, KCRU, KCRU-FM, KCRW Berlin, KCRW-FM, KCRW.com, KCRY, KCRY-FM, LA Observed.
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