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Sandra Tsing Loh is taking her axed KCRW commentary across town to rival NPR outlet KPCC. She'll be doing a weekly gig starting in June. Everyone's happy in today's press release:
"We're thrilled to have someone of Sandra's caliber join the KPCC family, said Bill Davis, President and CEO of Southern California Public Radio. "While she's made a lot of people laugh over the years, her essays have considerable depth and insight as well. So, we're pleased that we'll be able to keep her on the air for her fans in southern California.""KPCC is a wonderful station and the staff is great," said Loh. "I'm very much looking forward to continuing my commentaries there in June, after a short but hopefully restful hiatus."
Previously: KCRW backs off Loh firing
KPCC has consistently been very attentive to southern California-centric news and events; less so KCRW, which apart from Warren Olney (and maybe Harry Shearer), doesn't really have any sort of news/current events presence.
Ms. Loh's essays are very California-centric; KPCC may be a better fit for her, anyway.
Posted by: Brad Smith at March 23, 2004 02:32 PMObviously KPCC is tired of being 2nd fiddle.
Posted by: jameshames at March 23, 2004 06:58 PMKPCC is anything but "second fiddle," much though KCRW's management might like to think so.
This is great news for me, since I'll now be able to hear Sandra's work on the radio. I stopped listening to KCRW about 4 years ago, and have been a KPCC devotee ever since.
I did listen to Sandra's archived essays on-line, however, and I'm still disappointed that KCRW has pulled all her work off their website, as though it never existed.
Posted by: Plato at March 26, 2004 07:42 PM
of LA Observed
Congrats Sandra!
Posted by: Tiffany at March 23, 2004 12:50 PM