Topic Archive: Radio
New programming changes at Pacifica Radio's station: Ian Masters, the Australian journalist who hosts a provocative Sunday show, will air at 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Activist and writer Earl... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 4, 2009 11:38 PM
That, of course, is the roller derby name for KPCC's Alex Cohen, local host for NPR's "All Things Considered." She was on "Oprah" today in a piece on the Derby... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 4, 2009 3:38 PM
Media reporter James Rainey of the L.A. Times, USC Annenberg professor Felix Gutierrez and former LANG executive Steve O'Sullivan talk with Warren Olney about the meaning of the latest bad... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 28, 2009 5:25 PM
The pilot everybody has now heard of, Chesley Sullenberger, was on KPCC's Airtalk with Larry Mantle in the 10:30 segment. He's fairly alarmist about the declining experience level of airline... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 27, 2009 11:18 AM
Following his toss-down of the gauntlet last night (reported first at LAO, I feel like saying), TMZ boss Harvey Levin guests tonight on "Which Way, L.A.?" to talk about the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 20, 2009 4:54 PM
The departing police chief rates at least one thing about Los Angeles higher than New York. After the jump.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 14, 2009 7:35 PM
David Allen spotted KIIS-FM's outdated wheels at the Los Angeles County Fair in Pomona and blogs, "Radio station desperately needs a new van."... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 1, 2009 12:23 AM
Some Dodgers visited Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington today. They met CBS Radio reporter Cami McCormick, who said she was going to have a foot amputated tomorrow. She was... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 23, 2009 2:15 PM
Longtime local radio talker Doug McIntyre is leaving the morning slot at KABC 790 after tomorrow. Peter Tilden will take over for now. Orange County Register radio columnist Gary Lycan... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 23, 2009 1:32 PM
James Rainey's media column in today's L..A. Times explores the question of KCRW's recent big drop in the Arbitron ratings. After the service switched from listener diaries to meters that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 18, 2009 6:41 PM
Moving on up: Villaraigosa press secretary Matt Szabo becomes deputy chief of staff. One of his first priorities will be to tackle the city's worsening financial situation. (LAT) Warhol art... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 12, 2009 9:10 AM
Thanks to United I have some extra time to kill at LAX. And also later at SFO. Some stuff I didn't get to yesterday: Style Section L.A. is a new... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 9, 2009 6:58 AM
I thoroughly enjoyed reading two recent books on the colorful history of Los Angeles politics, mobsters and City Hall corruption. This afternoon I get to host a discussion on KCRW's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 8, 2009 8:52 AM
Residents who lost their homes in last year's fire at the Oakridge mobile home park in Sylmar urged patience for the latest crop of rebuilders on KPCC's Off-Ramp. Also on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 5, 2009 12:59 PM
The new, less-useful KFWB that debuts Sept. 8 as "News Talk 980" will start with an 18-hour marathon of Dr. Laura — most of that reruns. Still undecided is who... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 3, 2009 1:34 PM
Kim Masters, host of The Business on KCRW, talks about her father's part in a secret unit that killed Nazis on today's Talk of the Nation on National Public Radio.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 1, 2009 2:50 PM
Rep. Henry Waxman talks to guest host Marc Cooper on KCRW's Politics of Culture at 2:30 p.m. today. The main topic is the congressman's new book, "The Waxman Report: How... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 25, 2009 1:12 PM
The fallout continues from the station's decision to emphasize conservative talk radio over news at 980 AM. AFTRA was notified of the KFWB pink slips this morning. Former Fox 11... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 21, 2009 4:06 PM
Along with all the other L.A. milestones this summer, this week is the 45th anniversary of Bob Eubanks and KRLA bringing the Beatles to the Hollywood Bowl. Steven Cuevas had... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 20, 2009 7:09 PM
Marc Cooper, the former KPFK show host, makes a convincing case at his blog that the listening audience for the local Pacifica station has dwindled precipitously. He blames the drop... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 16, 2009 10:11 PM
KFI's Eric Leonard is reporting online that Andrew Adelman, the general manager of the city's Department of Building and Safety, is being investigated by the LAPD as "the prime suspect"... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 11, 2009 4:53 PM
Steve Greenberg charts the evolution of KFWB, which gives up its all-news format in September to add talkers led by Dr. Laura and Laura Ingraham. Click the cartoon to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 11, 2009 9:59 AM
First big name signed for the new format, which begins Sept. 8: Dr. Laura, says the Register's Gary Lycan. He adds: "More details were still to be announced. Local news... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 10, 2009 1:06 PM
Variety columnist Brian Lowry isn't too smitten with the AM news station's refocus summed up in the ad slogan "Hollywood listens to KFWB." Honestly, I've tried, but I keep asking... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 7, 2009 9:02 AM
The former NPR reporter and host who has been at the station temporarily has been named KPCC's host of its local afternoon broadcast of "All Things Considered." From the release:... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 7, 2009 8:35 AM
Patt Morrison will be talking to Eric Spillman of KTLA, whose blog post I mentioned here yesterday, and I presume others about Mayor Villaraigosa jetting off to Iceland so soon... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 30, 2009 12:54 PM
This evening's Which Way, L.A.? on KCRW sets up the discussion this way: "The murder of 17-year-old Lily Burk has received saturation coverage. Does a brutal crime contain any lessons... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 29, 2009 5:08 PM
It seems the Pacifica radio station just can't keep a GM. Here's Sean Heitkemper's resignation letter to Grace Aaron, Interim Executive Director of the Pacifica Foundation, after just a year:... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 27, 2009 6:38 PM
The formal title is Chief Content Officer, and the employer is Radio Bilingue. The project takes a little more explanation. A major new public media programming service in Los Angeles... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 26, 2009 9:09 PM
Nice photograph by Juergen Nogai of Julius Shulman at John Lautner's Chemosphere house. Nogai, Frank Gehry, Dion Neutra and others, including Shulman himself, talk during a radio documentary on the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 21, 2009 11:26 AM
This morning there was the guy running from Burbank to Texas. Now KPCC's John Rabe, riding his bike into work today, ran into a South Korean native named Shine who... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 13, 2009 5:20 PM
Sheryl Flowers was the executive producer of Tavis Smiley's shows on National Public Radio and Public Radio International and his Director of Communications. "When I left NPR, Sheryl was the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 12, 2009 8:53 AM
The music industry publication shut down today, costing thirty jobs says The Wrap. Visitors to the website are re-directed to Billboard.biz. Also, The Hollywood Reporter eliminates another ten positions, including... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 3, 2009 5:04 PM
The American who was released from custody in Iran will be interviewed by Melissa Block on "All Things Considered" on Thursday. The show airs on KCRW (89.9 FM) from 3... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 27, 2009 12:14 PM
With the financial news not so rosy, "Marketplace" tapped L.A. composer and musician Joe Matzzie to craft a "more melancholy version" of the classic tune "We're in the Money" that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 15, 2009 9:34 AM
Journalist Sharon McNary has been hired to launch Public Insight Journalism at Southern California Public Radio, a function she previously filled at "Marketplace." So what is that? "I'll be asking... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 7, 2009 8:59 PM
Now that Shaq, Magic and the NRA have chosen up sides, City Attorney rivals Jack Weiss and Carmen Trutanich will take their gutter fight to tonight's Which Way, L.A.? on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 30, 2009 3:40 PM
Congressional Quarterly columnist Jeff Stein wrote the piece getting a lot of play today about Rep. Jane Harman being snagged in a National Security Agency wiretap, apparently telling a suspected... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 20, 2009 6:07 PM
KCRW general manager Ruth Seymour has written an email to longtime National Public Radio reporter and host Susan Stamberg detailing complaints about NPR cuts and fundraising, says a story in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 8, 2009 12:48 AM
For the last installment of NPR's This I Believe series on "All Things Considered," Muhammad Ali talks about his life with the help of his wife Lonnie. Ali is now... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 6, 2009 4:33 PM
Cinny Kennard's position as head of NPR West won't be filled, plus there are cutbacks in travel, training, salary raises and discussions with the unions about further reductions. Here's the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 23, 2009 3:05 PM
Along with putting on a darn good daily radio hour these past five-plus years, the folks losing their jobs today at NPR's "Day to Day" have been doing a nice... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 20, 2009 12:28 AM
The NPR media show takes back what it said about "The Infinite Mind," another public radio series, and its host on a program last November. "On The Media’s" host Brooke... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 19, 2009 10:46 PM
The new Jewish Journal has a story on anti-Jewish and anti-Israel (and anti-Villaraigosa) statements by Augustin Cebada, the name used by the host of the pro-Aztlan "La Causa" airing on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 19, 2009 11:54 AM
KCRW.com will carry today's stream from the Orange County Fair and Event Center in Costa Mesa starting at 4 p.m. Tomorrow's event at the Miguel Contreras Learning Center near downtown... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 18, 2009 2:11 PM
Cinny Kennard, Managing Director/Managing Editor of National Public Radio’s West Coast production center in Culver City, found a good exit gig. She's going to USC Annenberg as senior fellow at... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 17, 2009 7:26 AM
The American Public Media show based on Figueroa Street downtown has added Bill Radke as a host of "Marketplace Morning Report," joining Steve Chiotakis on April 13. Radke was co-host... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 13, 2009 10:40 AM
National Public Radio is canceling all of its newspaper subscriptions, opting instead to grab the stories it takes from print journalists off the web. Romenesko Memos... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 12, 2009 5:11 PM
Former 97.1 talker Tim Conway Jr. lasted all of a few days on his new home on the AM dial at KABC 790, then was let go Monday after general... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 10, 2009 11:05 PM
KPFK's weekly news review "Deadline L.A." is airing a special on the city election today at 2 p.m. with guests Marial Garza, Daily News editorial page editor, and Robert Greene,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 2, 2009 12:39 PM
L.A. artist Shepard Fairey guested with Terry Gross on NPR's "Fresh Air" tonight to explain his side of the dispute that has ensued over Fairey basing his Obama campaign poster... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 26, 2009 7:50 PM
The two all-news AM stations (KNX 1070 and KFWB 980) share the same floor on Wilshire Boulevard but a wall, physical and virtual, has separated the newsrooms. The staffs were... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 20, 2009 3:16 PM
KCRW will announce later today that veteran Hollywood journalist Kim Masters is taking over as host of the half-hour showbiz show The Business, which airs Mondays at 2:30 p.m. Masters... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 20, 2009 2:19 PM
Tonight on Which Way, L.A.?, Warren Olney gets Controller Laura Chick (con) and former DWP general manager David Freeman (pro) into a spirited back and forth over the merits of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 12, 2009 3:45 PM
I'm not sure I've seen a rougher pairing on Tavis Smiley's PBS show than last week's match-up of Tavis with Brian Wilson. It could have worked, but didn't. Wilson has... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 27, 2009 5:31 PM
The Radio and Television News Association of Southern California handed out the year's Golden Mike awards on Saturday night. No time to go through them all, but here's the list... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 26, 2009 11:15 AM
Entravision has replaced the popular-in-some-quarters FM station with regional Mexican rhythmic and cumbia music. Michael Schneider at Franklin Avenue blogs some details, and a posting at the station website says... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 15, 2009 10:47 AM
Author, reporter, columnist and blogger Gustavo Arellano is now the host of Four O'Clock Tuesdays with Gustavo Arellano every, yes, Tuesday at 4 p.m., on KPFK. The show's focus is... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 12, 2009 11:13 PM
The L.A. Times may not have a Washington bureau of its own anymore, but soon KPCC will. Kitty Felde is heading east to open the first Washington bureau of any... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 8, 2009 5:12 PM
LA Observed contributor TJ Sullivan talks about the new parking regulation controversy in Los Angeles with Warren Olney on "Which Way, L.A.?" on KCRW at 7:30 p.m. He's up against... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 7, 2009 5:24 PM
Gene Parrish was from 1984 to 1996 a host and producer on classical music station KUSC-FM. Its website says that Parrish passed away after a long illness and most recently... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 5, 2009 12:53 PM
"Weekend America" ends with the Jan. 31 show. Thirteen full- and part-time positions will be affected, says the release from American Public Media in Minnesota. American Public Media is proud... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 21, 2008 10:51 PM
LA Radio.com reports via email alert, based on sources, that program director David G. Hall has exited the stations. The Orange County Register also has it, with speculation that Hall... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 18, 2008 7:21 PM
Charley Steiner will only do radio on next season's Dodger games, pushing former pitcher Jerry Reuss out of a job and opening a vacancy for a TV play-by-play announcer for... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 12, 2008 9:30 AM
KABC 790 talker Larry Elder announced on his show today that after 15 years, Friday would be his last day on the air. He followed with a statement on his... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 11, 2008 10:25 PM
Here are posts at the blogs of Los Angeles-based National Public Radio shows Day to Day (posted by producer Steve Profitt) and News & Notes (host Farai Chideya) about their... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 10, 2008 6:10 PM
National Public Radio stations were just sent this memo about the cutbacks disclosed today, including the cancellations of "Day to Day" and "News & Notes" that LAO has been reporting... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 10, 2008 12:44 PM
Word at NPR West is that vice president for news Ellen Weiss will meet with the staff of Day to Day after this morning's show goes off the air at... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 10, 2008 9:15 AM
Claude Brodesser-Akner, host of The Business on Mondays on KCRW, took a stand on the show against the resignation of Rich Raddon from the L.A. Film Festival over his support... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 10, 2008 9:01 AM
I'm told that the mood at today's holiday lunch at the NPR West studios in Culver City turned dark as a rumor swept the place that "Day to Day" and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 5, 2008 4:29 PM
Great story today on NPR's Day to Day about the homeless, junkies, addicted gamblers and others who live in the storm drains beneath Las Vegas, in some cases right under... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 4, 2008 11:52 PM
Embattled LAUSD Supt. David Brewer is scheduled to be on KPCC with Patt Morrison at about 1:30 p.m.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 3, 2008 1:18 PM
East Coast website DCRTV.com reports radio biz talk that CBS may be looking to swap its AM news stations in Los Angeles — KNX 1070 and KFWB 980 — in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 2, 2008 11:53 AM
The Santa Monica music shop has been celebrating its 50th anniversary this year and will be the subject of a Thanksgiving program from 9 a.m. to noon on KCRW (89.9... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 26, 2008 12:33 PM
Alan Colmes, the liberal half of "Hannity & Colmes" on Fox News Channel, will leave the show at the end of the year. Colmes will remain as a commentator on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 24, 2008 3:48 PM
Marc Germain, the radio talker formerly known as Mr. KABC, Mr. KFI and Mr. KTLK, turned up this weekend on the Saturday night shift at San Francisco's KGO-AM. "It was... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 23, 2008 2:43 PM
It's official -- Jason Bentley's the new music director and host of Morning Becomes Eclectic at KCRW, taking over for Nic Harcourt, who announced his exit earlier this month. (Here's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 17, 2008 11:15 AM
Martin Eisenstadt, who has a blog but doesn't actually exist, is a senior fellow at the Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy, which also doesn't actually exist. None of which... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 14, 2008 1:52 PM
Harcourt has been music director and host of Morning Becomes Eclectic for ten years. He'll leave Nov. 30 to pursue independent projects and host a three-hour show on Sunday evenings... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 10, 2008 10:54 AM
Congrats to former City Controller Rick Tuttle, who was married tonight to Rebecca Rona. I'm told the festivities at UCLA's Faculty Center attracted, among others, Reps. Howard Berman and Brad... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 9, 2008 11:39 PM
My segment today is about the remarkable rush of emotion at the Century Plaza on Tuesday night, and me grumping that by the next election in March Los Angeles voters... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 7, 2008 4:34 PM
Barack Obama and John McCain? Feh. How about Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas. The L.A. Theatre Works production of "The Rivalry" by Norman Corwin, starring David Strathairn and Paul... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 30, 2008 11:50 PM
Who better to talk about Obama's infomercial than Ron Popeil, the king of the informercial? NPR's "All Things Considered" put some questions to the master. Audio... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 29, 2008 8:23 PM
I will be on Which Way, L.A.? with Warren Olney at 7 pm on KCRW, describing the latest newsroom shrinkage at the Los Angeles Times. There's also a segment about... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 28, 2008 4:58 PM
An item in last Wednesday's Morning Buzz out of the paid obits in the Times mentioned the passing of Marie Dey, who was 107 and worked at Douglas Aircraft during... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 26, 2008 10:33 PM
It's not just the Pasadena Symphony. The almost-certainly-a-recession is affecting arts and culture organizations all around. On KCRW's Politics of Culture at 2:30 this afternoon, Ruth Seymour talks with key... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 14, 2008 12:13 PM
The axe fell Friday at the AM news radio stations, with talk that as many as 20 anchors, reporters and writers were let go. The Orange County Register says the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 12, 2008 10:11 AM
Arbitron now counts public broadcasting in its radio ratings for Los Angeles and Michael Schneider blogs the numbers at Franklin Avenue. Several of L.A.'s public stations outperform their commercial counterparts.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 11, 2008 11:01 PM
I'm a couple of weeks late on this, so just catching up: Michael Jackson's somewhat ballyhooed return to the L.A. radio waves ended when KGIL (AM 1260 and 540) dropped... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 1, 2008 11:42 PM
Item 1: The Register may go tabloid (in size and shape, not necessarily in mentality), Publisher Terry Horne said today. He says it's 50-50 the change will happen. "“I think... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 9, 2008 11:58 PM
Longtime music spinner Chuck Taggart blogs that his Louisiana-centric roots music show was dropped after 10 years on the Cal State Northridge FM station — and that every other live... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 4, 2008 3:05 PM
KCRW's Warren Olney, on convention duty in St. Paul, dropped by the Minnesota State Fair. KCRW's Republican Convention page.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 3, 2008 12:35 PM
Amy Goodman, the host of Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now, was arrested Monday during a demonstration near the Republican National Convention. She was apparently trying to discuss with cops the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 1, 2008 10:31 PM
KCRW's convention package includes online video shot by producers for Warren Olney's show in Denver. They have found an Obama lookalike, protesters and "dancing Democrats," plus an interview with Charlie... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 26, 2008 1:21 PM
KUSC, at 91.5 FM, is "the largest listener-supported classical music station in the country and one of the last bastions of full-time classical music and arts programming on public radio,"... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 21, 2008 11:31 AM
This week's piece by Kelefa Sanneh starts out exploring TV and radio commentator Tavis Smiley's criticism of Barack Obama's candidacy and looks into Smiley's enterprises, which are based in Leimert... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 31, 2008 8:52 AM
Larry Mantle was twelve minutes into a segment with the blogger behind "Stuff White People Like" when this morning's earthquake hit. He rolled with the flow then switched into anchor... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 29, 2008 11:59 PM
My KCRW segment airing at 4:44 pm contrasts a recent taping at the E! Entertainment Television studios on Wilshire (about sex scandals in politics, including Antonio and Mirthala) to another... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 25, 2008 4:40 PM
Departing Los Angeles Times reporters Marla Cone and William Lobdell will be on KPCC's "Airtalk" in the 10 o'clock hour, along with Book Editor David Ulin longtime sports writer and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 17, 2008 8:58 AM
A pretty contentious exchange this afternoon between "Which Way, L.A.?" host Warren Olney and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa began with the mayor quipping "long time, no interview." Olney then started peppering... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 16, 2008 10:45 PM
Sean Heitkemper, formerly GM at KKJZ in Long Beach, got the thankless job of general manager at Pacifica Radio's KPFK back on July 1, as we told you then. Today... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 16, 2008 9:51 PM
Martin Perlich has "opted for retirement effective immediately," according to the opaque memo posted by Laura Stegman at PRLosAngelesMediaMoves. KCSN is the music and news station at FM 88.5 out... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 16, 2008 1:09 AM
I'll be on "Patt Morrison" talking about the Times.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 14, 2008 2:19 PM
Tomorrow at noon on KPCC (89.3 FM), John Rabe and his Off-Ramp Players will read a scene from "Right of Way," the script for a noir movie that LA Observed... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 11, 2008 4:32 PM
NPR's Culver City-based show "Day to Day" is running a web series on what gas prices and changing interests are doing to the traditional car-based California culture. The producers have... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 11, 2008 11:30 AM
A special edition of Claude Brodesser-Akner's The Business that aired at 2:30 this afternoon (and will again at 7 p.m.) features a rare head-to-head conversation with the dueling presidents of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 9, 2008 4:17 PM
I'll be on with Larry Mantle about 10:06 am talking about the Times. Editor Russ Stanton goes on first. Update: Stanton sounded quite subdued and was frank about the Times... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 3, 2008 10:04 AM
KCRW's popular Friday afternoon politics gabfest has added a blog. If you want to argue about Bob, Arianna, Matt and Tony or discuss things with Left, Right & Center producer... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 2, 2008 1:25 PM
An email circulating to unpaid staff at KPFK says that Sean Heitkemper, former station manager at KKJZ (the Long Beach jazz station), is being introduced tonight as the new general... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 1, 2008 10:39 PM
The LA Observed neon cruise with the Museum of Neon Art a couple of weeks back is featured on today's Off-Ramp on KPCC at noon. The show also remembers George... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 28, 2008 11:22 AM
Journalists of the year announced at last night's Los Angeles Press Club awards: Big print: Melissa Healy, L.A. Times Small print: Anat Rubin, Los Angeles Daily Journal TV: Antonio Valverde,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 22, 2008 12:22 PM
I've been kicking myself for a week for under-playing the selection of Russ Parsons, one of my favorite food writers, to the dining industry's hall of fame. He's the first... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 16, 2008 9:05 AM
Mandalit del Barco of National Public Radio wraps up a four-part series on Los Angeles street gangs with a seven-minute piece on All Things Considered about the feds' decade-long fight... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 3, 2008 5:42 PM
Nice piece on public radio's "Weekend America" about Sophie Evans, who moved up from magician's assistant to the close-up room at the Magic Castle. "She was 18, she was attractive... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 1, 2008 9:53 PM
California Supreme Court chief justice Ronald George gives a two-hour interview to the LAT's Maura Dolan and talks about the court's milestone same-sex marriage ruling: "I think there are... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 18, 2008 12:25 PM
This week's first wave of ten-minute pieces with guests talking about musical passions with a KCRW on-air host includes Conan O'Brien, John Cusack, Saffron Burrows, Garth Jennings and Jason Reitman.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 16, 2008 2:55 PM
Longtime Los Angeles reporter Mandalit Del Barco is getting a raise. The memo at National Public Radio: From South Central Los Angeles to Central America, she's been telling stories with... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 16, 2008 12:58 PM
"In fact, we made no errors," John T. O'Loughlin, President/Targeted Media and SVP/Marketing for Los Angeles Times Media Group, writes to the head of the Southern California Broadcasters Assn. Here's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 9, 2008 3:28 PM
The president of the Southern California Broadcasters Association has a bone to pick with a recent L.A. Times house ad claiming the paper has more reach to offer advertisers than... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 9, 2008 9:07 AM
Former KPCC reporter Doualy Xaykaothao showed up today reporting for National Public Radio from Thailand on the Myanmar relief efforts. Before joining KPCC last year, the Laotian-born Xaykaothao had reported... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 8, 2008 7:54 PM
Mark Sarvas is often biting in his reviews and commentaries at The Elegant Variation, a point that Scott Timberg makes up front in his Q&A with Sarvas in today's LAT... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 5, 2008 1:20 PM
Woman shot and killed on Harbor Freeway Samantha Padilla, 19, was fired at five times while exiting the northbound freeway at Slauson shortly after midnight. LAT Many Pellicano charges dropped... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 10, 2008 10:37 AM
Four more Clear Channel executives jumped to Tribune last week, and together with the radio and TV veterans that had already joined the Sam Zell team it suggests to the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 6, 2008 9:35 PM
Zócalo, the lecture series that LA Observed helps to co-sponsor, has some good ones coming up. Tickets are available and free, of course. Monday, April 7, 7:30 pm at Barnsdall... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 3, 2008 12:40 PM
Ever since Lee Abrams began memoing his future co-workers all over the Tribune Company with his ideas on Innovation!, I've been getting emails that skewer his ideas as less than... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 26, 2008 12:31 AM
Radio One has agreed to sell KRBV-FM, also known as V100, to the company that used to operate KBIG and KZLA here. Bonneville is paying $137.5 million for the station,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 24, 2008 7:33 PM
Lisa Napoli did a nice story on today's Marketplace about Ngawang, a 23-year-old DJ in Bhutan who is visiting — and discovering — Los Angeles for the first time. Until... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 24, 2008 5:33 PM
Once around: Child advocate and former L.A. first lady Nancy Daly Riordan guests with Laurel Erickson on a special edition of KNBC News Conference, airing Saturday at 4 pm. Councilman... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 21, 2008 3:53 PM
Chief Bratton gave his side of the SWAT report controversy, and talked about having women in the unit, this afternoon on "Patt Morrison" on KPCC. (Audio.) Mayor Villaraigosa was also... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 18, 2008 5:30 PM
My LA Observed commentary on KCRW today talks about the scene that awaits Lindsay Lohan when she reports to the Los Angeles County morgue for her four hours of mandatory... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 7, 2008 8:00 PM
NPR's board of directors says that Ken Stern is leaving by "mutual agreement." The memo from chairman Dennis Haarsager follows:... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 6, 2008 2:59 PM
Veteran Times reporter Henry Weinstein will be on KCRW's Which Way, L.A.? tonight at 7 pm talking with host Warren Olney about the effects of buyouts at the LAT. Weinstein... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 5, 2008 2:16 PM
Mark Lacter and I were just on "Airtalk" talking with Larry Mantle about the buyouts at the Times and other local papers. You can hear it in the archives at... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 5, 2008 12:35 PM
Celeste Fremon is expected to guest on "Patt Morrison" on KPCC at the top of the 2 pm hour, to talk about the fake Margaret B. Jones "memoir" and what... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 4, 2008 12:29 PM
Madness has swept KCRW and they're letting me host Politics of Culture today at 2:30 pm — a half-hour of live radio on the blurred lines between journalism and blogging... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 4, 2008 9:25 AM
Emmy winning writer, director, producer and blogger Ken Levine will do the post-game honors on KABC 790 AM this season. Levine has done play-by-play gigs for the Padres, Mariners and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 3, 2008 3:47 PM
Inspired by Zell's comments last night at the Hammer, my LA Observed segment on KCRW at 4:44 pm wonders why anyone sees him as a potential saviour of journalism here... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 22, 2008 4:39 PM
The onetime rising star at Telemundo whose career burned up in the wreckage of an affair with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has taken the familiar post-TV route — AM radio. Tomorrow's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 19, 2008 9:43 PM
L.A. Times publisher David Hiller and editor Russ Stanton both guest on tonight's Which Way, L.A.? with Warren Olney, at 7 pm on KCRW. Presumably Hiller will talk about why... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 18, 2008 2:55 PM
I switched my LA Observed commentary subject to the Randy Simmons funeral. In it I wonder why there were no mainstream media clips on him while he was alive. KCRW... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 15, 2008 3:29 PM
Joel Stein and his mother, Clinton supporter Rosalind Byrd-Leszczuk, were guests on today's "To the Point" episode examining the support for Barack Obama. Others talking with Warren Olney on KCRW... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 14, 2008 1:16 PM
Native Intelligence contributor Deanne Stillman has the cover of the new Los Angeles CityBeat with a nice piece on the Mojave Desert portion of L.A. County. Photos by Mark LaMonica... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 8, 2008 3:59 PM
That dramatic reading of the collected works of David Hiller and Jim O'Shea didn't air as billed on the Jan. 26 edition of "Deadline L.A." KPFK's transmitter was knocked off... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 7, 2008 9:37 AM
The most popular radio host in Los Angeles — and probably the nation — gave Sen. Edward Kennedy the royal treatment this yesterday morning, before Kennedy's pro-Obama appearance in East... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 1, 2008 12:04 PM
While the battered denizens at the L.A. Times wait to hear whether their next editor will be a patsy for the publisher or an actual respected newsroom leader with independence... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 25, 2008 3:20 PM
In his Monday afternoon commentaries on KCRW, Marc Porter Zasada takes more creative chances and fashions many more gems than a certain other radio talking head I could name. Today,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 14, 2008 11:48 PM
John Ziegler didn't just go away at KFI. He went away mad. Ziegler has put up a website called The Real KFI "dedicated to telling the totally true story of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 10, 2008 8:25 PM
John Rabe of KPCC's "Off-Ramp," inspired by Frank Baker's memo to the Los Angeles bureau, ponders how the AP might incorporate more Britney news on the wire. Guess which dispatch... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 8, 2008 2:43 PM
Marc Germain, the talk radio host formerly known as Mr. KABC and Mr. KFI, has been let go as liberal-talk KTLK's Mr. K. "A total surprise and not my choice... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 1, 2008 4:30 PM
KNBC Channel 4 leads the TV stations with six Golden Mikes from the Radio Television News Association, including best newscast writing, documentary ("On the Verge") and investigative story (for its... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 27, 2007 11:15 AM
The OC Weekly's Gustavo Arellano did a guest-host stint last week on KFI — yes the same AM shout station where John & Ken live in fear of the Reconquista... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 3, 2007 7:11 AM
Mitch Harding co-created (with Mike Hodel in 1972) the long-running science fiction and writing show "Hour 25" on KPFK. Later at KCRW, he was the operations manager and afternoon voice... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 22, 2007 5:15 PM
Pacifica radio station KPFK is in the midst of an election that, once again, has divided the staff, show programmers and listeners over politics and personality issues. Rival slates are... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 21, 2007 7:58 AM
Last night's was the final show for the talker who came with a bit of a checkered past from Kentucky and had some run-ins here, including with fellow KFIers John... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 14, 2007 12:15 PM
Larry Mantle this morning took on one of the lesser issues of our time, but one that's still interesting and perplexing for locals: should we refer to freeways by their... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 13, 2007 12:41 PM
The PBS TV and FM station in San Diego is informing other stations that "our transmitter site was engulf[ed] by the fire. We are off the air completely." The FM... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 23, 2007 12:07 PM
The ill-considered move to make AM 1260 a classical music station has officially failed, and owner Saul Levine is planning to resurrect the call letters KGIL and become a talk... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 15, 2007 8:57 PM
The Dodgers are going home again, radio-wise. The team announced a deal today to return their games to AM 790 in a package that includes pre- and post-game shows, a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 15, 2007 8:43 PM
The Pacifica FM station in town has found out who the new interim general manager will be: it's Jim Lafferty, executive director of the National Lawyers Guild in Los Angeles... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 14, 2007 11:45 PM
The Pacifica radio station paid former general manager the equivalent of nine months’ salary, or $63,268, to part ways, former KPFK hand Marc Cooper reports in the LA Weekly. The... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 11, 2007 11:15 PM
Nice post by Deanne Stillman at Native Intelligence on the passing of Tawn Mastrey, once "the voice of heavy metal" in Los Angeles on the old KNAC-FM. Deanne interviewed her... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 8, 2007 1:17 AM
L.A. broadcasting fixture Gary Franklin died at 79, at home in Chatsworth. He first became known as a street reporter on KFWB, ending his reports with a signature sign-off "Car... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 4, 2007 8:56 AM
Phil Wallace mourns the demise of the morning sports talk show with NBC4's Fred Roggin, the Times' T.J. Simers and Simers' daughter Tracy. Dan Patrick, the former ESPN Radio talker,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 27, 2007 9:02 PM
KPCC put its weekly Hollywood journalist roundtable segment Call Sheet on hiatus several months ago — not, I hope, because I guested on it a couple of times. Now the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 25, 2007 10:53 AM
The transsexual sportswriter formerly known as Mike Penner is interviewed by host Madeleine Brand on tomorrow's NPR show. It airs at 9 am on KPCC-FM or can be heard online.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 14, 2007 3:36 PM
Directors of the Pacifica station at 90.7 FM expect to issue a statement of support for Eva Georgia, the general manager who faces sexual harassment actions from two women on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 6, 2007 9:38 PM
KCRW swings into fund drive mode today, so the LA Observed commentary that usually airs at 4:44 pm on Friday won't be heard. Same thing next week. If you want... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 3, 2007 3:44 PM
Ever wonder why KNX Newsradio didn't do much news in the late morning? Wonder no more. Bob McCormick's three-hour block talking about business will be dropped on August 13, in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 1, 2007 10:59 PM
Bob Sipchen left the L.A. Times last month after working as an education columnist, editorial writer (where he won a Pulitzer Prize) and founding editor of both the Current and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 21, 2007 11:18 AM
The half-hour that Warren Olney hosts on KCRW at 7 pm Monday through Thursday "remains an abiding presence in the landscape of local news," Sean Mitchell writes in a freelanced... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 16, 2007 2:27 PM
Sheri Epstein, the assistant to KPFK General Manager Eva Georgia, will file suit this week in Los Angeles Superior Court alleging race and disability discrimination and retaliation, say lawyers for... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 12, 2007 3:07 PM
LARadio.com reported that longtime news reporter and anchor Chris Stanley was escorted from the radio station last Thursday after "a major blow-up of some sort." KNX program director David G.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 9, 2007 11:38 PM
KCRW (89.9 FM) has turned over most of its schedule today to specials on American music, leading this morning with the stories of Sly Stone and Paul Simon, followed by... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 4, 2007 11:13 AM
I will be on NPR's Day to Day this morning talking with host Alex Cohen about fallout, if any, from the Villaraigosa-Salinas relationship. I think there will be some, for... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 4, 2007 8:56 AM
Don Barrett has been informing and entertaining local radio buffs at LARadio.com for ten years, but it sounds as if the thrill is gone. He posted last week that while... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 24, 2007 10:24 PM
L.A. folk historian Charles Phoenix and National Public Radio producer Steve Proffitt are driving to Tulsa, Oklahoma in Phoenix's 1961 Pontiac Bonneville and filing reports for "Day to Day." Their... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 11, 2007 12:57 PM
Longtime L.A. radio and television personality Tom Hatten left KNX Friday after delivering the entertainment report for many years. He became familiar to a generation of Southern California kids as... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 4, 2007 5:47 PM
KCRW has invited me to join the roster of commentators that air in the afternoons during NPR's "All Things Considered." General manager Ruth Seymour, who has been mentioned here more... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 21, 2007 12:37 AM
The Times sports writer formerly known as Mike Penner is scheduled to be interviewed live tonight at 11:30 on Sports Byline USA. She will chat with local journos John Woolard... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 4, 2007 8:44 AM
Books editor David Ulin is scheduled to discuss the changes in the Times Sunday Book Review, the situation at the paper and this weekend's LAT Festival of Books with host... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 25, 2007 8:50 AM
Howard Larman and his wife Roz started their folk music show in 1970. Folkscene may be the oldest program on Los Angeles radio. Howard passed away over the weekend. Roz... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 23, 2007 3:07 PM
As Daniel Hernandez puts it in today's LA Weekly, KPFK general manager Eva Georgia — gay, black, African immigrant, disliked by many at the station — has been accused of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 19, 2007 9:07 AM
Bunch of new talent is being unveiled at KCRW 89.9 FM and KCRW.com, some of them with station connections. Leaving are longtime KCRW figure Tricia Halloran, whose "Brave New World"... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 17, 2007 3:56 PM
CBS drops him effective immediately. “There has been much discussion of the effect language like this has on our young people, particularly young women of color trying to make their... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 12, 2007 1:57 PM
Tyler Green of Modern Art Notes had a lengthy conversation yesterday with KCRW general manager Ruth Seymour about his coverage of critic Edward Goldman's potential conflicts. In his latest post,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 5, 2007 8:55 AM
Last week the New York Times ran a piece calling KCRW's Russian-accented art critic Edward Goldman highly influential and barely mentioned that in addition to teaching beginners how to collect... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 4, 2007 8:37 AM
This afternoon at 2 pm Patt Morrison will have on the German photographer behind You-Are-Here.com, the best website of Los Angeles architectural photos. He blogs about his recent trip to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 26, 2007 8:28 AM
We told you last week that radio personality April Winchell had blown Bill O'Reilly's cover as a man of the people by exposing his rant about croissants that were not... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 25, 2007 8:44 AM
Now that talkjock Marc Germain has left KABC 790 for the left side of the radio politics spectrum (and the right side of the AM dial at KTLK 1150), he... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 17, 2007 3:14 PM
KFI News' Eric Leonard reports on his blog that at least two California Highway Patrol officers assigned to the Newhall station were placed off-duty during an internal investigation of allegations... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 13, 2007 10:58 PM
A ruling on Friday by a committee of the Library of Congress means that KCRW.com and other websites that stream music could have to pay royalties each time a song... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 5, 2007 9:06 PM
Marc Germain, who recently departed his talk radio gig as Mr. KABC, begins Monday as the afternoon drive-time talk jock on a newly revamped AM 1150 — which drops its... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 1, 2007 9:40 AM
K-Mozart at FM 105.1, the area's last commercial classical music station — and one of the few left in the U.S. — switches Monday morning to country music. It's actually... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 24, 2007 10:16 AM
Marc Germain and KABC could not come to agreement on a new deal so the popular night-time talk show host has left. LA Radio.com says the network wants KABC to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 13, 2007 10:30 AM
Mayor Villaraigosa gave the Democratic Party radio address this morning and said, with regard to the war in Iraq, "it's time for a new direction." Bipartisanship was the bigger theme,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 27, 2007 3:11 PM
Karen Grigsby Bates, who interviewed me last year for NPR's "Day to Day," gets the Q-and-A treatment from Kate Coe at Mediabistro.com. Bates is an L.A. correspondent for the show... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 2, 2007 2:03 PM
Former LA Weekly-ians Charles Rappleye and Tulsa Kinney have reappeared as publisher and editor, respectively, of Artillery, a new Los Angeles-based art magazine distributed mostly in galleries here and in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 30, 2006 2:25 AM
Catching up with the fallout from KFI shouter Bill Handel's tirade on Jamie White's morning show last Friday, LARadio.com says that Handel will sit out a one-week suspension when he... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 18, 2006 11:54 AM
Radio hype or actual anger allowed to get on their air? Never can tell with KFI. Morning angry man Bill Handel did not like that 98.7's Jamie White shooed his... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 15, 2006 11:39 AM
Barbara Bogaev is out as co-host of the American Public Media program heard here on KPCC. It sounds as if a number of Los Angeles producers for "Weekend America" (and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 5, 2006 6:08 PM
National Public Radio reporter Daniel Zwerdling spent six months investigating a story that is billed as an exposé of the mistreatment by the Army of soldiers with psychological problems. It... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 4, 2006 2:27 AM
L.A. Times legal affairs writer Henry Weinstein, in New York to pick up his John Chancellor Award, dropped in on lefty Pacifica Radio's "Democracy Now" for a chat with hosts... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 16, 2006 11:53 PM
I will be on live talking with Warren Olney about LA Observed's coverage of Dean Baquet's ouster tonight between 7:20 and 7:30 pm. Wall Street Journal reporter Sarah Ellison, who... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 7, 2006 7:10 PM
Among all the election roundups and wrapups that will come your way before Tuesday, this one sounds different. Saturday's "Deadline L.A." on KPFK will extend to an hour and preview... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 3, 2006 12:59 PM
A story in today's Wall Street Journal leads with the anecdote of an American woman in Beijing who has become a fan of Warren Olney and KCRW via iTunes. [She]... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 31, 2006 12:12 AM
By popular demand, KCRW is moving the replay of Left, Right & Center back to Friday evenings at 7 pm. The politics talk show starring Matt Miller, Robert Scheer, Arianna... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 26, 2006 4:54 PM
Dan Baum goes along for the ride with L.A.'s star Spanish-language radio deejay, Renán Almendárez Coello, for last week's New Yorker (with audio at the magazine's website.) Almendárez’s morning show,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 24, 2006 9:59 AM
An LA Observed reader emails that KNX 1070 was off the air for about ten minutes this morning, starting at 7:15. Technical difficulties was the explanation when the station came... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 24, 2006 9:38 AM
Bill Marimow had been the editor of the Baltimore Sun and in 2004 was brought in to head National Public Radio's news operation, with the idea that he would give... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 13, 2006 12:15 PM
Former Fox 11 reporter and KFI fill-in host (as well as retired LAPD sergeant) Rod Bernsen will be charged in federal court Tuesday in connection with "an investigation into alleged... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 9, 2006 8:56 PM
"Being a TV host is the least of what I do," the Crenshaw district-based media force tells Patrick Goldstein in Sunday's LAT Calendar. The smooth-talking 42-year-old journalist and social activist... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 2, 2006 10:25 AM
Along with the changes made by NPR at "News and Notes" reported here yesterday, Nicole Childers becomes Executive Producer and the show takes on more of a multimedia flavor. Memo... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 13, 2006 9:56 AM
Expect an announcement later today that the ratings-challenged News & Notes, produced at NPR West in Culver City, will survive for now. Sources say, however, that New York-based host Ed... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 12, 2006 12:07 PM
There'll be a whole lotta shakin' going on Thursday morning when Jerry Lee Lewis drops in on the KCRW studios. I'm told he will be the guest of Nic Harcourt... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 6, 2006 3:23 PM
SoCal talk radio host and blogger Hugh Hewitt's message and worldview can almost always be reduced to a simple statement: Republicans good, Democrats bad. On yesterday's nationally syndicated show, he... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 30, 2006 2:09 PM
Celia Hirschman, KCRW's resident music industry expert, doesn't like yesterday's deal between SprialFrog and Universal Music for ostensibly free downloads. At first glance, the SpiralFrog deal seemed like a huge... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 30, 2006 1:46 PM
Martin Miller in the LAT's Calendar Weekend section says that radio offerings on Saturday and Sunday used to be richer, but he found some programming he likes. On his list... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 24, 2006 10:10 AM
"Breakfast with the Beatles," radio's longest-running Beatles show at more than twenty years, will air on 97.1 KLXS for the last time the Sunday of Labor Day weekend. Host Chris... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 6, 2006 4:42 PM
KPCC will debut "Off-Ramp" Saturday at noon and run it biweekly until October, when it goes weekly. John Rabe, a reporter at the station who is a veteran of public... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 4, 2006 11:53 AM
This all began back on July 21 when longtime ACLU member Joel Bellman released an open letter to Ramona Ripston, head of the Southern California ACLU, protesting an award to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 1, 2006 5:23 PM
KPCC's Adolfo Guzman Lopez surveyed the local radio en español scene today and finds news and talk on the rise, especially on the AM dial. Hunger for information about the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 31, 2006 4:21 PM
Funny you should ask. The former NPR reporter and KPCC host is in Kenya with a delegation from St. Monica's Catholic Church in Santa Monica (home parish of the Schwarzenegger-Shrivers.)... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 26, 2006 2:55 PM
The KCRW host returns to court August 15 to be sentenced on a cocaine possession charge, the only prosecution to come out of his June 6 arrest on suspicion of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 25, 2006 5:00 PM
KCRW thought they had U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad all lined up to guest with Warren Olney on "To the Point" at 1 pm, but the station regrets to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 21, 2006 12:08 PM
Pacific Drift hosted by Ben Adair has run on Sunday nights at KPCC for a year and a half. The final show aired last Sunday, a week after PD picked... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 6, 2006 3:16 AM
KCRW music host Chris Douridas will NOT be charged with kidnapping or a sex crime in connection with his arrest on suspicion of drugging a 14-year-old girl at Santa Monica's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 26, 2006 3:35 PM
On KPCC right now, Patt Morrison has on Times Washington bureau chief Doyle McManus talking about their paper's decision to run this story disclosing secret U.S. government tracking of banking... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 23, 2006 2:13 PM
Well I lied; my desk is anything but clear. Here are some final news notes from the day though. Have a good weekend: • The Times replies to this morning's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 16, 2006 3:53 PM
This weekend's "Prairie Home Companion" on American Public Media was taped live last night at the Hollywood Bowl. Meryl Streep, John C. Reilly and Virginia Madsen make stage appearances, and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 3, 2006 3:06 PM
Blogger Michael Schneider has lived here for ten years now and over at Franklin Avenue he marvels at the changing cityscape. When I got here, no one was talking about... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 1, 2006 8:44 PM
If you had a character in your novel or screenplay who is a female journalist in multi-cultural, coastal SoCal, tell me you wouldn't want to call her Gidget Fuentes. But... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 31, 2006 12:21 AM
Updated below The on-air feud that erupted during Monday's march coverage between KFI shout hosts John & Ken and Fox-11's Tony Valdez is heating up behind the scenes (at least—I... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 4, 2006 3:24 PM
What, you might ask, does Arianna Huffington have in common with George W. Bush, Pope Benedict, Hugo Chavez and Matt Drudge? They are all among Time magazine's "100 people whose... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 2, 2006 2:24 AM
Speaking of mispronouncing City Hall names, I listened tonight to the audio stream of LAPD chief Bill Bratton taking calls on the "Ask the Chief" segment on this afternoon's Patt... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 17, 2006 10:35 PM
Light posting this weekend, but first... ♦ Michael Sonnenschein exits as co-editor of FishbowlLA. He bids farewell on the blog, and Claude Brodesser gives marching orders for the new regime.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 7, 2006 5:57 PM
Just as I was posting the last item on KPCC, the station sent word that Times columnist Patt Morrison is the new host of "Talk of the City." Kitty Felde... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 17, 2006 12:57 PM
In addition to the Los Angeles magazine profile by Jesse Katz, National Magazine Awards finalists of local note include three pieces of criticism on the subject of parenting that Sandra... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 16, 2006 1:40 PM
People have been asking what ever happened with the arrest of KCRW's Chris Douridas. Monday's Los Angeles Times reports the DA hasn't decided whether to charge Douridas, pending the results... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 12, 2006 9:26 PM
KPCC has named Kitty Felde a Special Correspondent: "In that new role, Felde will be responsible for in-depth reporting and special coverage of a wide variety of issues in southern... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 9, 2006 1:43 PM
Better late than never—here is the internal memo from KFWB News Director Andy Ludlum: From: Andy Ludlum Subject: Exciting News!!! I have some exciting news...you'll see several of your colleagues... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 6, 2006 5:26 PM
During the opening of "Talk of the City" on KPCC at 2 pm, Kitty Felde urged listeners to stick around to the end: "As promised, we will have a very... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 2, 2006 3:04 PM
Tomorrow is the last Talk of the City on KPCC with Kitty Felde as the live host. She was removed by program director Craig Curtis and has been offered a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 1, 2006 7:55 PM
On the eve of the scheduled San Quentin execution of convicted killer Michael Morales, his lawyer Kenneth Starr talks about the case with Warren Olney on Which Way, L.A.?. Tonight... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 20, 2006 3:07 PM
An exclusive on the new boss at "California Connected," a $15 million payday for three LAPD cops, Rocky's legal memo to the police commission and more Barry Munitz farewells—plus the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 10, 2006 1:20 AM
John Stodder blogs about a time when Elliot Mintz flacked for John and Yoko, not Paris, and was one of the hip voices on the late, still-missed FM station KPPC.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 8, 2006 11:04 AM
Bill Marimow, the former editor of the Baltimore Sun and a protege of departed L.A. Times editor John Carroll, got the nod today as Vice President for News at National... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 8, 2006 10:20 AM
Jack Weiss makes his ambition more or less official, Anthony Pellicano comes back to town, the Ambassador gets a proper send-off, Channel 13 News adds a comic, more bad news... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 3, 2006 8:56 AM
Updated with new entries at the bottom ⇒ Copies of the first West magazine issue were seen at the Times' Travel Show over the weekend. The cover piece in the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 1, 2006 2:35 AM
KFI morning host Bill Handel apparently offered on the air this morning to apologize for comments he made about the Council on American-Islamic Relations—but only if the group rejects terrorism,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 30, 2006 9:44 AM
Mark Kroeker, who used to be a senior guy at the LAPD and was a contender for chief, said today on the Public Radio International program The World that Haiti's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 27, 2006 3:51 PM
Here's one more thing you can't do on regular radio but can on pay radio. The Young Turks, which airs from here on Sirius Satellite Radio with hosts Cenk Uygur,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 26, 2006 1:08 PM
⇒ Three Los Angeles-based blogs—perennial number one Boing Boing, plus The Huffington Post and Crooks and Liars—are in Technorati's Top 10 based on link popularity. ⇒ Remember the USC cheerleader... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 26, 2006 11:51 AM
The Radio & Television News Association of Southern California (RTNA) handed out the year's Golden Mike awards on Saturday night. Here's the full list. A small sampling of highlights: News... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 23, 2006 12:59 PM
High winds are taking a toll up on Mt. Wilson. KPCC was temporarily knocked off the air last night—and again this morning—by a transmitter outage. Also, at about 2 am... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 23, 2006 12:51 PM
City Controller Laura Chick is profiled on tonight's Life & Times on KCET at 6:30. Longtime LAT pop music editor and critic Robert Hilburn, who is stepping down this month,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 18, 2006 10:39 AM
Miriam Pawel, the reporter on this week's L.A. Times' series on the United Farm Workers union, will be on KPFK's Deadline L.A. Saturday at noon at 90.7 FM. Barbara Osborn... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 13, 2006 1:59 PM
A reader emails an internal memo sent this morning by David G. Hall, head of the Infinity AM stations in Los Angeles: "After 45 years in this business, starting at... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 10, 2006 10:46 AM
Newest adds at the bottom... ⇒ KNX 1070 reporter Michael Linder's website details his background as a KTLA reporter, creator of "America's Most Wanted" and "The Jesse Jackson Show" and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 30, 2005 1:44 AM
⇒ Only in L.A. quote of the day: "Just 2,200 square feet—it's practically an apartment" — Screenwriter Naomi Foner, mother of Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal, complaining in the LAT that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 28, 2005 11:53 AM
Neither the L.A. Times nor the Daily News mentioned the gang tensions at Tookie Williams' funeral yesterday, but KPCC's Frank Stoltze did. His report included audio of some arguing between... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 21, 2005 4:49 PM
UC Irvine historian Jon Wiener has been suing the government under the Freedom of Information Act since 1983 for complete access to the voluminous John Lennon FBI files. J. Edgar... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 7, 2005 1:15 PM
LARadio.com is marking off the shows that Howard Stern has left on 97.1 FM—that would be fifteen, including today's. The charmingly noir 1947Project is counting down to the January 15... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 22, 2005 2:56 AM
Robert Scheer will not be heard on today's Left, Right & Center on KCRW. But ScheerNation shouldn't get all protesty and throw up a picket line on Pico. He is... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 18, 2005 12:53 PM
Here's an update to my exclusive post last Friday on the end of Robert Scheer's column on the L.A. Times op-ed page: He went on KPCC's "Airtalk with Larry Mantle"... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 8, 2005 4:32 PM
I forgot to include this in the morning roundup: I'll be on KPCC with Kitty Felde this afternoon at 2:30 to talk about Wilshire Boulevard: Grand Concourse of Los Angeles.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 8, 2005 11:16 AM
Sen. John McCain was on Airtalk with Larry Mantle (and John Rabe) during this morning's fund drive and was almost effusive in his praise for KPCC. Sure he was pitching... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 31, 2005 12:54 PM
Infinity Broadcasting said today that Adam Carolla will replace Howard Stern on FM 97.1 beginning January 3. Stern's last live show before he moves onto satellite radio will air Dec.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 25, 2005 3:25 PM
KPCC's Larry Mantle aired an interview this morning on "Airtalk" with Basam al-Hussaini, an Iraqi-American from San Dimas who confronted Saddam Hussein during a break at the first day of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 19, 2005 4:47 PM
Jennifer York, KTLA's airborne reporter for thirteen years until 2004, has an honored place in the lore passed down to the new recruits around the spacious LAObserved suites. She... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 14, 2005 11:52 PM
Since Columbus Day is not one of our two dozen company-paid holidays here at LAObserved LLC... ♦ The Supreme Court hears oral arguments this week in Garcetti v. Ceballos, the case... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 10, 2005 1:45 AM
♦ Mayor Villaraigosa nearly filled the Tom Bradley Room on the top of the City Hall tower with media there to hear him recite the accomplishments of his first 98 days... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 7, 2005 2:58 AM
Ken Auletta will be on KPCC to talk about his New Yorker piece on the Times and Tribune during the first hour of Larry Mantle's Airtalk today. The show comes... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 5, 2005 10:01 AM
NPR's big L.A. produced news show will be axed from the lineup on powerhouse KCRW on Monday, Oct. 17, the station just confirmed. It's a blow to the pride of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 30, 2005 1:27 PM
Some of the female voices who shaped L.A. music radio will be on hand at the Knitting Factory tonight to talk about the good old days and the scary new... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 27, 2005 12:13 PM
♦ St. Vincent's did a liver transplant on a Saudi national who was #52 on the waiting list, collecting $339,000 from the Saudi Arabian embassy and screwing a patient at UCLA... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 27, 2005 1:26 AM
This is posted on the website at KJAZZ, the station at Long Beach State (88.1 FM): "We at KJAZZ were informed at noon on Friday, September 23, of the passing... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 23, 2005 11:18 PM
The Business, which airs in about thirty minutes from now on KCRW (every Monday at 2:30 pm), is going national. It will be sent to affiliates of National Public Radio... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 19, 2005 1:59 PM
Nick Madigan, who recently left a contract gig with the New York Times L.A. bureau to become the media reporter for the Baltimore Sun, will join the KCRW afternoon lineup... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 12, 2005 8:15 PM
More former press deputies in the Hahn administration have landed jobs. Elizabeth Kaltman is now the communications director for City Council member Wendy Greuel, and Sahar Moridani is director... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 2, 2005 4:54 PM
Some appetizers: Marc Cooper of the LA Weekly and the Nation will be the guest host on KCRW's Left, Right and Center, today at 2:30 and 7 p.m. It's his... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 2, 2005 1:04 AM
Tim Rutten's Saturday column in the LAT, nominally about the declining audience for Republican radio, posits that "While the political talk-show hosts and right-wing bloggers claim to have a quarrel... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 27, 2005 12:40 AM
News on the local sports talk scene. Lee "Hacksaw" Hamilton, who moved to XTRA Sports (570 AM) when it subsumed what used to be the Tijuana-based "Mighty 690," has lost... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 25, 2005 4:47 PM
Tonight's Which Way, L.A.? with Warren Olney looks at the issues of race and class in the fight over King-Drew Medical Center. Elected county Supervisors Zev Yaroslavsky and Yvonne Brathwaite... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 17, 2005 4:25 PM
The last radio station to be located in Hollywood leaves Friday at 11:05 p.m., Bob Pool says in the LAT. All the high-profile ankling from The Firm, the once-hot Hollywood... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 11, 2005 1:32 AM
Rikki Klieman, the Court TV legal analyst and wife of LAPD chief William Bratton, is guest hosting for the vacationing Bill Handel on KFI this week. Her marquee guest on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 9, 2005 10:40 PM
New L.A. councilman Bill Rosendahl from the Westside is interviewed by Howard Fine in this week's L.A. Business Journal. Rosendahl says that he has created an "Ambassadors Club" to tap... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 31, 2005 6:21 PM
Michael Silverblatt, the host of KCRW's weekly Bookworm, has been devoting the program to a ten-part series he calls "Escaping the Cage: Identity, Multiculturalism and Writing." In a piece in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 28, 2005 1:35 PM
The NPR program produced in Culver City has been on the air two years today. Jeff Rogers is the show's third executive producer in that time, but the hosts are... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 28, 2005 11:30 AM
Mayor Villaraigosa plans to announce his appointments to the airport commission Monday morning. They will be introduced at a photo op at Lincoln and Sepulveda—good for visuals, not so much... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 24, 2005 6:56 PM
Howard Stern said on the air Monday that his Los Angeles replacement on FM 97.1 will be comic Adam Carolla, but the people at Infinity Broadcasting, who would have to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 19, 2005 2:38 AM
"Past Sunset" will air from 7 to 9 p.m. on a pilot basis weeknights from July 25 through August 5. David Cruz of NBC4 will be the host. Here's what... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 13, 2005 12:43 AM
Rod Bernsen, the ex-LAPD cop who reported for FOX 11 News until last year, is handling fill-in talk host duties on KFI (640 AM). He sits in for John Ziegler... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 6, 2005 12:46 AM
KCRW says their daily podcast traffic jumped tenfold to 100,000 when Apple released the new iTunes on Tuesday. The latest version of iTunes lets users easily subscribe to podcasts. Unique... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 30, 2005 2:16 AM
Long Beach Press-Telegram columnist Doug Krikorian has been doing sports talk on L.A. radio since 1992. On Monday, he got the axe at KSPN (710 AM). His radio partner, Joe... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 21, 2005 3:54 PM
Mondays are always so busy... This news won't help the layoff jitters sweeping the LAT's newsrooms this week. Tribune Company stock was downgraded Monday to "neutral" from "buy" by brokerage... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 20, 2005 8:08 PM
David Brown is stepping down as host of American Public Media'a Marketplace, the daily business and finance show produced here in L.A. Brown says, "I am very excited about starting... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 14, 2005 10:25 AM
Howard Kurtz's column this week in the Washington Post visits with Stephanie Miller, the L.A.-based host for Air America, the talk radio-for-liberals service. As recently as 2000, Miller hosted a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 14, 2005 12:14 AM
An evolving post, with the newest items at the bottom: If true, this will open up some movement in local politics. According to email from a senior staffer at City... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 4, 2005 5:08 PM
Bob Hertzberg, chairman of the Villaraigosa transition team, will be on KPCC's Talk of the City Friday at 2 p.m. with guest host Jon Beaupre. Mayor-elect Villaraigosa has signed on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 2, 2005 5:55 PM
A jury in Louisville sided with KFI evening talk guy John Ziegler, ruling that a former TV anchor who he dated then told tales about on the air did not... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 25, 2005 2:53 AM
Longtime Channel 7 weatherman Johnny Mountain joins the rival Channel 2 news on May 8. He will work the news at 5, 6 and 11 p.m. He left KABC in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 4, 2005 10:39 PM
New items added at the bottom Dawson's Books, the oldest bookseller in Los Angeles, celebrates its 100th anniversary this month with an exhibit at the store and Michael Dawson Gallery... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 16, 2005 6:24 PM
That's the term used for KCRW's Harry Shearer by Lloyd Grove in today's New York Daily News. He says that on last weekend's "Le Show," Shearer played an audio tape... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 15, 2005 9:53 AM
It's Pulitzer showdown day between the Times and OC Register: both have series up for the Public Service medal. The prizes start posting at noon L.A. time. Also: Some new,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 4, 2005 2:39 AM
Catching up with some reading and email after a slow online day: Venice gets the 36 Hours treatment in Friday's NYT Escapes. Janelle Brown has the gig and visits the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 18, 2005 12:45 AM
You might remember we told you on Feb. 14 that Rick Wartzman will be the new editor of a relaunched Times magazine. He's more than a month from taking over,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 9, 2005 1:36 AM
David Kipen of the San Francisco Chronicle, "Day to Day" and KCRW asked each of the Big 5 candidates for mayor to name their favorite book and also recommend one... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 8, 2005 12:29 PM
KCRW has added Harry Shearer's Le Show to the list of programs that are available as podcasts. (Here's my Feb. 23 post announcing the move to podcasting.) So if you're... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 5, 2005 7:14 PM
Starting March 14, Infinity Broadcasting will make available streaming audio of 11 news and talk radio stations. In addition to KNX (AM 1070) and KFWB (AM 980) here, 1010 WINS... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 2, 2005 1:15 PM
Local blogs and the Times have been running with speculation that FM Indie music station 103.1 will die once its relationship with Clear Channel ends on April 1. LARadio.com got... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 25, 2005 2:29 PM
Don Barrett's pay site that follows Los Angeles radio has recovered from its system crash. The first email published Thurday is from Charlie Cook: "As long as you are unable... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 24, 2005 10:41 PM
Starting March 1, much of KCRW's original programming will be available as podcasts. From the release: Podcasting, a growing grassroots phenomenon that’s captured much media attention in the past month,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 23, 2005 4:04 PM
And now the site is down, possibly all week, following a total hard drive crash. Don Barrett draws every day on his rich archive of Los Angeles radio facts and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 23, 2005 12:22 PM
The public radio station at Cal State Northridge is difficult to tune in outside the Valley, but it has fired up a new transmitter beaming toward the city in a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 23, 2005 1:40 AM
In the first segment of his final show on KFI, Phil Hendrie apparently had too much fun at the expense of his replacement starting today, John Ziegler. The rest of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 21, 2005 3:48 PM
The most creative showman in local AM talk is moving to the new all-sports XTRA at AM 570—where his 7-10 p.m. spoof-within-a-talk-show will be delayed several hours on Lakers game... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 8, 2005 12:31 PM
Updated through the weekend Lesbian chic: Screenwriter and "L Word" creator Ilene Chaiken is profiled in Sunday's NYT Arts section. "In 1999, after writing a magazine article about same-sex couples... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 6, 2005 12:58 PM
Tony Blankley, who we revealed on Jan. 25 is the new Mr. Right on KCRW's "Left, Right & Center" talk show, explains in today's Times why he took the challenge... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 4, 2005 12:13 PM
Finishing off Monday's queue and looking into Tuesday: LA.comfidential takes a look at the pro-Bush, anti-Hollywood billboards that Citizens United is buying near the Kodak Theatre in time for the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 31, 2005 11:33 PM
Members of the Radio & Television News Association of Southern California dined last night in Universal City and handed out this year's Golden Mike awards. Best news broadcast honors went... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 30, 2005 7:36 PM
Anchor Dave Zorn (Marines) and assistant news director Ronnie Bradford (Army) both arrived in South Vietnam in 1965 and saw action. They are going back together next month at the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 28, 2005 11:57 AM
Sunday night at 9, KPCC begins a new hour-long weekly arts and culture program. "Pacific Drift" is created, produced and hosted by Benjamin Adair, who had produced The Savvy Traveler... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 26, 2005 10:44 PM
KCRW has decided on Tony Blankley, editorial page editor of the Washington Times and former Newt Gingrich press secretary, to hold the conservative seat on Left, Right & Center. They... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 25, 2005 11:31 AM
Oops, forgot to click the "publish" tab on this one. Air America, the liberal radio network, returns to the air in Los Angeles on Feb. 3. Its hosts will be... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 21, 2005 1:20 AM
The actress donated $1 million to the American Red Cross for tsunami relief efforts in Asia and Africa. She had previously sent a million to the Red Cross after the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 3, 2005 4:14 PM
On her blog, radio personality and voice actor April Winchell has posted an MP3 file of an on-air tiff (audio she wants you to listen to it from her blog,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 14, 2004 9:10 PM
KPCC's Kitty Felde is taking Talk of the City over to Catalina today for a live broadcast. One of the topics will be the coming roundup of 100 island buffalo... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 14, 2004 1:51 AM
* Updated with newest posts at the bottom The February issue of Hustler will carry the story by Michael Collins and Mark Cromer that liberal critics of Rep. David Dreier... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 8, 2004 1:56 PM
The good news for Renee Montagne is that, as of today, she is no longer the interim co-host of NPR's Morning Edition. She and Steve Inskeep were announced Saturday as... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 4, 2004 9:04 PM
KCRW tried another conservative on today's Left, Right & Center: Michael Murphy, Republican media consultant for John McCain and others and adviser to Gov. Schwarzenegger. His agency for speaking engagements... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 3, 2004 2:37 PM
Given recent events in the LA Weekly newsroom, this is interesting: fired Weekly writer Howard Blume will sit in for regular Deadline L.A. host Barbara Osborn this Sunday on KPFK... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 2, 2004 11:19 AM
KPFK and the nation's other Pacifica stations are preempting normal programming on Thursday to raise money for preserving the Pacifica radio archives. From 6 a.m. to 7 p.m., KPFK will... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 30, 2004 11:41 PM
Milton Bradley did it again. The volatile Dodgers outfielder was cited for disorderly conduct after allegedly interfering with a police traffic stop near Akron, Ohio. The winter baseball meetings are... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 29, 2004 5:29 PM
The Los Angeles-based radio and TV host announced today that he's dropping his nightly NPR show aimed at African Americans. In an email to NPR stations posted at Romenesko, Smiley... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 29, 2004 11:41 AM
A year since Gov. Schwarzenegger took over in Sacramento, KPCC's road-traveling talk host, Kitty Felde, takes Talk of the City to the capital on Friday from 2 to 3 p.m.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 18, 2004 6:10 PM
Remember that MVP buzz around the Dodgers' Adrian Beltre? Didn't happen. The amazing Barry Bonds won his seventh trophy (no one else has more than three) and became the oldest... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 15, 2004 6:30 PM
Mayor Jim Hahn is wasting no time swinging into campaign mode. He spoke up for expanding the LAPD on Warren Olney's Which Way, L.A.? Monday (audio here). On Tuesday he's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 8, 2004 10:19 PM
The LAPD press room at Parker Center is named for Norman "Jake" Jacoby, who reported on the cop beat from 1935 to 1991 for City News Service, the Los Angeles... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 8, 2004 10:12 PM
It turns out that, despite his group photo with the rest of the gang, Byron York is not the new conservative on Left, Right and Center. KCRW is still seeking... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 29, 2004 12:47 AM
It appears that KCRW's Left, Right and Center has quietly added Byron York, White House correspondent for the National Review and author of next year's The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 22, 2004 1:09 PM
Ken Gallacher, a 20-year KFI guy who does the news during the morning show with Bill Handel, is retiring from the station at the end of the month, says LARadio.com.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 21, 2004 10:45 PM
KSPN-AM reports that the Dodgers could announce Ross Porter's disinvitation from the broadcast booth as early as Friday, the same day he begins co-hosting a sports talk show on the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 21, 2004 5:12 PM
The Pasadena NPR station manages to work alot of journalists into the week's news programming. Today at 10:30 a.m., during Larry Mantle's Airtalk, the subject will be Orange County. Guests... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 21, 2004 12:33 AM
After last week's tension, Clifford May is not on today's "Left, Right and Center" on KCRW, and no explanation was given on the air. The show website mentions that regular... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 15, 2004 2:44 PM
KPCC is giving Times op-ed columnist (and regular station fill-in) Patt Morrison a two-week run with her own talk show at 7 p.m. "PM with Patt Morrison" will air for... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 15, 2004 1:30 AM
The Radio and TV News Association and councilman Dennis Zine have negotiated 20 parking spaces for media vehicles around City Hall and Parker Center. RTNA president Steve Kindred tells LARadio.com:... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 13, 2004 3:51 PM
I only caught the end of their exchange on Friday, but it didn't sound like the new guy on KCRW's "Left, Right and Center" panel was playing nice with station... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 11, 2004 1:30 AM
He's been threatening to move off plain old on-air radio to escape the FCC's crackdown, and today Howard Stern confirmed that he'll take his show to Sirius Satellite Radio in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 6, 2004 10:26 AM
The Right seat on KCRW's Left, Right and Center is a hard spot to keep filled. Newest to try, starting with this Friday's show, will be Clifford May, president of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 4, 2004 6:24 PM
Dennis Ross, the Middle East peace negotiator whose new book is The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace guests on the first hour of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 27, 2004 3:21 AM
Seymour Hersh chats about his book Chain of Command with Lawrence O'Donnell on The Politics of Culture Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. on KCRW (89.9 FM or live on the web).... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 20, 2004 10:55 PM
At noon today, the Spanish-language music station at 93.5 FM flipped over to hip-hop, proclaiming itself the successor to the late KDAY, the first stop for hip-hop on L.A. airwaves.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 20, 2004 10:22 PM
Talk radio ideologue Hugh Hewitt has a long blog piece seeking to compare the controversy over Dan Rather's probably fake documents about George W. Bush to that anti-Fox speech given... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 14, 2004 11:11 AM
KABC's morning talk show anchor has been doing L.A. radio for 35 years. He announced on the air yesterday that he will leave the station Oct. 15, quipping: "It's been... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 10, 2004 10:07 AM
KCRW is moving Marc Porter Zasada's weekly commentary "The Urban Man" from Sunday (the old Sandra Tsing Loh slot) to Monday at 6:44 p.m., the slot currently filled by Ricky... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 8, 2004 10:21 AM
Updated all weekend, newest at top In the Hat: The website that tracks Mexican Mafia killings is unhappy with the media, especially the Times. James O. Page: The former L.A.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 3, 2004 5:12 PM
The Times' sports columnist-provocateur T.J. Simers notes today that Scott Kaplan, who co-hosts the morning sports talk on AM 1090, said of the teenager who accused Kobe Bryant: "This girl... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 3, 2004 11:47 AM
Hollywood producer Rob Long is in New York to do up the RNC alongside Warren Olney at KCRW — the station's Republican analogue to Harry Shearer, who went to Boston.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 2, 2004 1:08 AM
After a night of parties, the Republicans get going today in New York. KCRW's Warren Olney goes on the air from the convention at 1 p.m. with "To The Point"... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 30, 2004 12:44 PM
Some things to note from while I was gone: Larry McCormick: The co-anchor of the KTLA "News at Ten Weekend Edition" began at channel 5 as a weatherman in 1971.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 30, 2004 12:37 AM
They're out there: George Noory sends "Coast to Coast AM" into the overnight air from a studio on Ventura Blvd. (LAT Mag) Business as usual: Mayoral candidates still raising money... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 8, 2004 11:40 AM
New entries added at end Former LAT publisher David Laventhol is writing the history of Times Mirror for Public Affairs. The company's former chief exec, his working title is A... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 6, 2004 11:21 AM
KFI's "John and Ken Show" is holding five local Republican members of Congress hostage in a fashion over illegal immigration. The talk show hosts are mobilizing their large-for-radio audience to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 5, 2004 1:27 PM
The headline is from Franklin Avenue, the blog by Michael Schneider and Maria Villar that is having a good week. Their top item today is about this morning's L.A. Times... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 4, 2004 6:58 PM
One of the best things about Boston so far is that Harry Shearer has gotten to reprise his Bill Clinton voice alongside Warren Olney on KCRW. For the Republican convention,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 29, 2004 2:43 PM
While local blogger BoifromTroy enjoys his stint as the guest Wonkette, the starting quarterback for his favorite football team has begun to blog. Matt Leinart's website reports on media day... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 29, 2004 12:46 AM
The ex-host of "Morning Edition" is leaving NPR to do a morning program on the XM Satellite Radio system, according to NPR. Edwards hasn't confirmed or denied it. An earlier... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 28, 2004 1:04 PM
Yes, Microsoft is talking about selling the online magazine to the Washington Post, the New York Times or a handful of other potential buyers, the Post's Howard Kurtz reports. Microsoft... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 23, 2004 12:26 PM
Both of the big NPR stations in L.A. are going into the field for next week's Democratic convention. At KCRW, Warren Olney will broadcast "To The Point" live from Boston... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 21, 2004 5:57 PM
The staff at KNX Newsradio just received this email: MICHAEL JACKSON RETURNS TO L.A. RADIO TO PRESENT EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS ON KNX 1070 (Los Angeles, CA July 16, 2004) Michael Jackson,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 16, 2004 3:36 PM
Tuesday's "Politics of Culture" show on KCRW is devoted to Isaac Bashevis Singer, who would have been 100 on July 14. Ruth Seymour will discuss Singer's writing and life with... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 12, 2004 4:15 PM
Philip Bruce, news director at Channel 28's "Life and Times" program, takes over as supervising editor for California at NPR West, the Culver City operation of National Public Radio. He... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 10, 2004 12:15 PM
Host Barbara Osborn talks to Douglas McCollum of the Columbia Journalism Review about how "the Iraqi National Congress hoodwinked the American press" with the stories of defectors. McCollum spoke with... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 9, 2004 2:37 PM
KCRW is turning over tomorrow's "Politics of Culture" program to Slate blogger Mickey Kaus, who will talk about "politics, the Internet and blogs" with Instapundit's Glenn Reynolds, Wonkette's Ana Marie... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 21, 2004 3:29 PM
The Times has a story out of Ventura County today on Lance Orozco, the news director (and only reporter) at KCLU-FM (88.3) who was named one of the L.A. Press... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 21, 2004 12:55 PM
National Public Radio will send out a feed from the Ray Charles funeral tomorrow at the First African Methodist Episcopal Church on South Harvard Boulevard. KCRW will air the service... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 17, 2004 11:28 AM
Romenesko has NPR's press release (dated tomorrow) on plans to hire 45 new reporters, editors and producers in three years, a 15% increase. There will be more foreign bureaus, more... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 15, 2004 1:33 PM
Having a National Public Radio studio in Los Angeles (well, Culver City) and "Day to Day" produced here has raised California's profile on NPR immensely. L.A. writers, commentators and stories... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 15, 2004 11:02 AM
Gustavo Arellano of OC Weekly delivered a commentary on today's NPR show "Day to Day," saying that despite the scandals that have hurt the Roman Catholic Church in recent years,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 14, 2004 6:10 PM
Paul Cullum in the LA Weekly is the latest writer to seek to explain Phil Hendrie, the KFI talk host who relies more than most AM talkers on his callers... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 10, 2004 1:16 AM
Franklin Avenue notes that Rolling Stone has a story this issue on Santa Monica-based FM station Indie 103.1 and calls it "America's coolest commercial station." "It's a little band of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 9, 2004 11:08 AM
The controversy over the ACLU pressuring Los Angeles County to remove a small cross from the official county seal (which was designed by the father of Mayor Jim Hahn) is... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 8, 2004 1:34 PM
Peter Rainer, the New York magazine (and ex-L.A. Times) film critic — and regular on KPCC's "Film Week" — will be the guest host for Elvis Mitchell on "The Treatment"... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 7, 2004 12:36 AM
Greg Mitchell, the editor of Editor & Publisher, will be the guest on "Deadline L.A." on Sunday at 1 p.m. (KPFK, 90.7 FM) to discuss with Barbara Osborn the four... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 21, 2004 2:41 AM
Besides the addition of Rob Long, reported earlier today, KCRW's new program grid makes room for what the station calls the first broadcast show devoted to obituaries. "Final Curtain" preempts... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 20, 2004 6:32 PM
The forthcoming KCRW program guide will show writer/producer Rob Long with a new slot in the commentary lineup during "All Things Considered." His four-minute spot on Hollywood to be called... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 20, 2004 2:48 PM
That spat between Sandra Tsing Loh and KCRW boss Ruth Seymour from a couple of months ago is back on the media radar, in the form of a piece by... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 17, 2004 1:19 AM
Media blogger Jeff Jarvis on the botched opportunity that was Air America: It's too damned bad that Air America came out in the hands of such incompetents. We do need... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 13, 2004 12:55 PM
With no station here to sell ads for, there's no reason to keep a presence, Radio&Records reports. The trade reported yesterday that the staff in L.A. had not been paid.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 12, 2004 9:23 AM
Bob Edwards continues to seem more celebrated in his ex-host phase than when he was at the mike for NPR's "Morning Edition." He'll be in town this weekend to push... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 11, 2004 10:07 AM
There must have been some smiling faces around the National Public Radio studios in Culver City when the memo from COO Ken Stern arrived. Regular staffers are getting a one-time... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 10, 2004 5:15 PM
Tuesday's Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the abuses at Abu Ghraib will be aired live on KCRW starting at 6:30 a.m. Gen. Antonio Taguba, who wrote the Pentagon report... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 10, 2004 11:51 AM
Air America Radio's chairman Evan Cohen isn't talking big plans any more. In fact, he quit today, along with his vice chairman and investment partner Rex Sorensen. The network also... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 7, 2004 1:42 PM
Now that he's off "Morning Edition," NPR's Bob Edwards tells Terry Gross on today's "Fresh Air" that on balance he's happy they "pried" him out of the host's chair after... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 4, 2004 2:02 PM
Today is Bob Edwards' final day as the host of "Morning Edition" on NPR after 24 years. L.A. Times radio reporter Steve Carney weighs in. His final days have been... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 30, 2004 1:11 AM
Air America Radio CEO Mark Walsh said Monday he has left the liberal radio network. The Chicago Tribune, which seems to be covering the Air America experiment more closely than... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 27, 2004 8:35 AM
The L.A. Business Journal reports (subscribers only) that five of Infinity's seven local radio stations will be moving to the former E! Entertainment (originally California Federal) tower on the Miracle... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 26, 2004 3:33 PM
From 2 to 4 p.m. today, the station will air the war debate that occured yesterday at the Times Festival of Books between Robert Scheer, Christopher Hitchens, Mark Danner and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 26, 2004 10:42 AM
Radio artist and playwright Joe Frank teamed up with Sandra Tsing Loh in an anti-Ruth Seymour stage performance back on April 9, and he vents on his website about his... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 26, 2004 12:09 AM
Today on KPCC's "Talk of the City," Kitty Felde will have on ABC's Cokie Roberts and Greg LaVoi, the author of Barbie Loves L.A.: America's Favorite Doll Sees the Sites.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 22, 2004 2:24 AM
The strident host of Pacifica Radio's "Democracy Now" show brings her book tour to Wilshire Boulevard tonight, but first the Times' Greg Braxton weighs in with a Calendar section (meaning... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 21, 2004 1:04 AM
It's official: the liberal radio network of Al Franken, Janeane Garofalo and Marty Kaplan won't return to KBLA. Air America announced today that it's in talks to get back on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 20, 2004 2:06 PM
Retired L.A. Times TV critic Howard Rosenberg appears in today's Broadcasting and Cable with the first of what will be a recurring guest column on the editorials page. Today's topic:... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 19, 2004 6:44 PM
Here it is Monday morning and Air America's old spot at AM 1580 is still being filled by Spanish-language news and talk. The liberal radio network's website offers no clues... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 19, 2004 8:38 AM
It doesn't look like the business dispute keeping the liberal radio network off the air in Southern California and Chicago is going away. Air America's brass continues to insist the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 15, 2004 11:14 AM
The liberal talk network bounced a big check and owes more than $1 million to its radio outlets in Los Angeles and Chicago. KBLA, the dim-watted outlet Air America rented... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 14, 2004 12:34 PM
The 2003 Sigma Delta Chi Awards for Excellence in Journalism, from the Society of Professional Journalists, include prizes for the L.A. Times and Ilsa Setziol of KPCC (89.3 FM). She... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 13, 2004 1:06 PM
A tribute to Spalding Gray will air on KCRW (89.9 FM) on Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. The half-hour special by independent producer Jon Kalish features excerpts of interviews he did... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 12, 2004 11:11 AM
Barbara Becnel, the journalist who has reported on and collaborated with Crips founder Stanley "Tookie" Williams, is the guest this Sunday on Barbara Osborn's "Deadline L.A." media show on KPFK... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 9, 2004 12:02 PM
The "One Question" feature at I Want Media asked Marty Kaplan of Air America and the USC Annenberg School to define "broadcast indecency." His answer: "Indecency is the right wing... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 9, 2004 11:25 AM
The LA Weekly's John Powers gives Air America a try and says liberal talk radio has some growing pains to get through. Air America has a long way to go.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 8, 2004 1:41 AM
Thursday night on California Connected (KCET, 10 p.m.), host Lisa McRee will guide a discussion about talk radio among John Kobylt of KFI's "John and Ken" show, Marc Cooper of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 6, 2004 1:30 PM
National security advisor Condoleeza Rice's testimony before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States will be aired live Thursday morning on KCRW (89.9 FM). The coverage anchored... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 5, 2004 5:39 PM
The Los Angeles-based show from Minnesota Public Radio aired for the final time today. Host Diana Nyad announced on the air (on KPCC) that "The Savvy Traveler" could not survive... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 4, 2004 5:42 PM
Alexandra Jacobs summarizes the recent Sandra Tsing Loh dustup in her "Palmy Days" column. The only factoid I recognized as new is that KPCC will pay Loh $175 a week... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 2, 2004 11:51 PM
Lonewacko is looking for co-bloggers for a new project: "We occasionally listen to Air America so you don't ever have to."... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 31, 2004 11:54 PM
One of the changes under consideration by NPR to replace Bob Edwards, the longtime host of the cornerstone news show "Morning Edition" who was dumped last week, is to put... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 29, 2004 1:16 AM
Former network news anchor and reporter Linda Ellerbee writes on the LAT op-ed page that NPR's removal of Bob Edwards after 25 years is more misguided broadcaster bias against aging.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 26, 2004 11:56 AM
LARadio.com reports today that KKJZ, the Long Beach jazz station at 88.1 FM, has dumped its entire five-person news staff. The station will instead air music-related "news notes" and pick... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 25, 2004 4:03 PM
Numerous updates have been posted to yesterday's entry on the KCRW-Sandra Tsing Loh (now KPCC) situation. Go there.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 24, 2004 2:41 AM
And you thought the Sandra Tsing Loh episode was fading away. KCRW General Manager Ruth Seymour has apparently had enough of being bashed by Loh over their much-publicized split. Seymour... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 23, 2004 3:09 PM
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 23, 2004 11:42 AM
Al Martinez' column (subscribers only) in the L.A. Times Calendar section Monday visits with the other Michael Jackson, the longtime local radio host who has been off the air for... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 23, 2004 12:01 AM
Steve Julian had been the NPR's station's local host during "Morning Edition" until leaving in January for Chicago. But he's coming back to his old slot on Monday, says LARadio.com.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 19, 2004 9:31 AM
Cathy Seipp goes to bat for Sandra Tsing Loh in her fight with KCRW one more time in today's CityBeat. The problem at KCRW wasn’t really that Big Brother was... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 18, 2004 10:06 AM
NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin thinks that KCRW's firing and reinstatement of Sandra Tsing Loh -- and her decision to reject the offer -- raises larger issues for the network. He... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 17, 2004 1:38 PM
Ricky Jay and San Francisco Chronicle book critic David Kipen are among the additions coming to the local commentary slots during NPR's afternoon "All Things Considered." Starting in April, the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 16, 2004 4:02 PM
Following yesterday's release of her joint statement with Sandra Tsing Loh, KCRW general manager Ruth Seymour sent a missive to the station's email list: Dear Concerned Listener: [Joint statement omitted]... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 16, 2004 1:15 AM
She won't return to the air, but the radio station and Sandra Tsing Loh issue a joint statement: KCRW RESCINDS DISMISSAL OF SANDRA TSING LOH SANTA MONICA, March 15, 2004... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 15, 2004 11:18 AM
Backlash continues from KCRW's dismissal of Sandra Tsing Loh. The hometown Santa Monica Mirror's editorial this week, titled "Loh Blow," blasts the station and general manager Ruth Seymour. Like almost... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 12, 2004 3:03 PM
The Pasadena public radio station yanked the series "The Play’s the Thing" from its lineup because of a couple of banned words spoken during a Feb. 7 rebroadcast of the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 11, 2004 5:32 PM
The program schedule for the liberal talk show net that takes off March 31 is out, and as reported in December, USC's Martin Kaplan is on it. "So What Else... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 10, 2004 10:13 PM
Variety's Claude Brodesser discusses the hot movie of the moment, The Passion of the Christ, on The Politics of Culture, Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. Tonight on Life & Times (KCET-TV,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 8, 2004 2:05 PM
Those following the end of Sandra Tsing Loh's six-year run as a KCRW commentator may want to tune in Marketplace this afternoon. Cathy Seipp says that Loh (who also comments... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 8, 2004 10:00 AM
The Pacifica Radio show "Democracy Now!" phoned up the exiled Haiti President Jean-Bertrand Aristide this morning in the Central African Republic. The show re-airs between 9 and 10 a.m. on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 8, 2004 8:37 AM
On the L.A. Times op-ed page Sunday, Rush Limbaugh and Sandra Tsing Loh both expound on the radio decency issue. You'll know which is which: So are we now going... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 7, 2004 10:50 AM
Sandra Tsing Loh's Sunday morning commentary "The Loh Life" has been taken off the KCRW air, apparently over her use of a bad word. [See updates at end of post.]... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 3, 2004 2:11 PM
Emmis Communications, which owns top L.A. radio station Power 106 (as well as Los Angeles magazine), has joined Clear Channel in banning on-air indecency. Says an exec in the Indianapolis... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 26, 2004 11:29 AM
There was a big to-do in Spanish-language radio on Friday, say LARadio.com and La Opinión (in Spanish but free). "El Cucuy," the afternoon DJ on KCSA whose billboards are all... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 23, 2004 11:36 AM
John O'Sullivan joins KCRW's Friday afternoon show "Left, Right and Center" as the regular in the right seat. He is Editor-in-Chief of The National Interest, senior fellow at the Nixon... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 20, 2004 9:14 PM
The long-time personality did his final KIIS-FM morning show today and read a statement saying "it has been decided" that he give up the slot. On the air he explained... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 10, 2004 10:34 AM
Rick Dees has vowed to make a "life-changing" announcement tomorrow on his morning show on KIIS-FM (102.7). He's been in intense negotiations with Clear Channel over a new contract. LARadio.com's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 3, 2004 4:27 PM
Coverage of California prisons, with L.A. Times reporters Jenifer Warren and Mark Arax. Sunday from 1 to 1:30 p.m., KPFK (90.7 FM).... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 31, 2004 10:54 PM
Jon Weisman, who writes the Dodger Thoughts blog, will be a guest on "Which Way L.A.?" with Warren Olney tonight at 7 p.m. on KCRW (89.9 FM). The topic: Frank... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 29, 2004 12:20 PM
The KABC radio talk host has a deal for a show to run on CBS or UPN in the fall, the Hollywood Reporter says. Elder's site.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 29, 2004 8:45 AM
Today on Day to Day (KPCC 9 a.m., KCRW noon), Xeni Jardin profiles a guy who's a little tech crazy -- he has 11 video screens in his SUV. On... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 27, 2004 12:40 AM
"Democracy Now," the national show hosted by activist Amy Goodman that airs mornings on Pacifica Radio's KPFK, fixated yesterday on John Kerry and George Bush both being members of Yale's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 23, 2004 9:56 AM
Kate Sullivan in the LA Weekly likes what is happening at 103.1 on the FM dial. I haven't listened to the new Indie 103, but a couple of e-mail correspondents... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 15, 2004 1:39 AM
On the air: Day to Day, KPCC 9 a.m./KCRW noon - President Bush's proposal to change immigration laws. Fresh Air, KPCC 1 & 7 p.m. - David Cay Johnston, New... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 7, 2004 1:19 AM
Items: * LARadio.com reports that KNX 1070, which axed the nightly Drama Hour saying it wanted to concentrate on news, has raided KFI for non-news weekend programming. The station has... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 6, 2004 12:27 AM
L.A. radio freelancer Emmanuelle Richard makes her living feeding the hunger of French stations for breaking news from here. So it's a bummer professionally speaking for her to be home... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 26, 2003 11:18 PM
John Ziegler will come to Los Angeles in January and work the 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. shift "live and local," as they say, reports LA Radio.com. Ziegler was recently... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 19, 2003 3:10 PM
After Showtime ran the much-debated docudrama on the Reagans, the network followed it with a televised discussion among historians, biographers, and others. Today at 2:30 p.m., KCRW is re-running the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 9, 2003 10:55 AM
From Don Barrett's members-only LARadio.com today:Who Goofed, I've Got to Know? KLSX runs the Howard Stern Show live from WXRK-New York beginning at 3 a.m. and then starts the show... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 8, 2003 10:20 AM
Hugh Hewitt collected his prize this week for being an early and vocal adopter of the Schwarzenegger campaign -- the governor came on his radio show (KRLA AM 870, 3-5... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 5, 2003 1:10 AM
They were all together Thursday at Galpin Ford in the Valley, rallying the troops. The KFI team led the charge, but it was Galpin boss Bert Boeckmann who had to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 21, 2003 1:17 AM
KPFK (90.7 FM) is devoting all day today to a Pacifica-wide marathon airing of audio tapes from the network's half-century of radio archives. It starts at 4 a.m. with an... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 19, 2003 12:08 AM
Good news for all of those Drama Hour fans who keep adding comments to the KNX post from Nov. 3. Don Barrett's LA Radio.com reports that starting tonight, KSUR (AM... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 17, 2003 12:13 AM
A listener upset with KNX 1070's cancellation of the nightly Drama Hour has launched KNX Revolt!, hoping to put pressure on advertisers. Comments continue to come in at our original... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 11, 2003 11:15 AM
Joan Kroc, widow of the McDonald's founder, left almost $200 million to National Public Radio. She listened to KPBS in San Diego before she died last month. "No one saw... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 6, 2003 10:52 AM
Don Barrett at LA Radio.com says the response he's hearing to KNX dropping the Drama Hour "has been swift and mostly negative." He calls it "Post-Dramatic Shock Syndrome." Skeptical observers... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 4, 2003 3:35 PM
KNX 1070 has been airing nightly dramas for three decades, but the run ended Friday night with "War of the Worlds," LA Radio.com reports. The "all news" station is going... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 3, 2003 11:23 AM
Michael at Franklin Avenue compares and contrasts the fire coverage at KPCC, which has invested in a local news operation, with KCRW, which has gone in other directions. Warren Olney,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 3, 2003 1:15 AM
Elvis Mitchell pulls together a pretty decent panel to talk about the screeners issue on The Treatment this Wednesday, 2:30 p.m. on KCRW (89.9). Says the KCRW release: New York... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 28, 2003 2:02 AM
Garrison at The Aesthetic writes: Alright, that's it. Now that we're spending more time in the car, we've found ourselves listening to no small amount of AM talk radio, even... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 25, 2003 1:25 AM
An internal source reports that KPFK's first big fundraising drive since the station made over the program lineup to please the lefties is not going well. The pledges aren't coming... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 23, 2003 11:33 AM
The Magnificent Montague and L.A. Times writer Bob Baker were on "Day to Day" Monday talking about their book on the early days of black radio in Los Angeles, Burn,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 22, 2003 5:06 PM
If I'm reading these ratings from RadioandRecords.com correctly, the recall obsession wasn't good for KFI. The talk station's summer ratings were down slightly from the spring book, and down even... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 15, 2003 2:21 AM
Kim Masters, who seems to be everywhere these days, will host tomorrow's edition of KCRW's The Politics of Culture on the issues raised by the MPAA's ban on free DVDs.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 13, 2003 12:23 PM
The subject on Deadline L.A. on Sunday (KPFK, 1 p.m.) is the coming grocery wars triggered by Wal-Mart's non-union move into town. The guest is Robert Greene, who wrote about... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 11, 2003 11:04 AM
Kim Masters, the Esquire columnist and former Vanity Fair contributing editor, jumps from Marketplace to cover Hollywood in the National Public Radio operation here in Culver City. Says the memo... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 6, 2003 11:57 AM
Journalist and author Amy Wilentz and Jim Sterngold, the San Francisco Chronicle's man in Los Angeles, talk about the recall with Barbara Osborn. Deadline L.A. is on every Sunday at... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 3, 2003 3:44 PM
He quits as an ESPN football commentator over his remarks about a black quarterback, then the National Enquirer reports (via the NY Daily News) that he recently had a bad... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 2, 2003 9:32 AM
Sam Hall Kaplan's "City Observed" commentaries on local architecture and design are off the weekly schedule at KCRW. In a note emailed to architects and others, Kaplan writes that he... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 1, 2003 2:54 PM
Warren Olney's Which Way L.A.? plans to look at the Indian tribes and the role of their money in politics, today at 7 p.m. on KCRW (89.9).... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 23, 2003 1:54 AM
Tim Rutten thinks that Schwarzenegger's use of AM talk radio contributes to his gender gap with women (along with violent movies and the Oui article). Rutten's LAT column today lets... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 10, 2003 1:10 AM
Those enjoying the Frank Gehry-Sam Hall Kaplan spat over Disney Hall may want to hear Kaplan's "City Observed" commentary tomorrow (Wednesday) on KCRW. In the advance transcript, Kaplan reviews the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 9, 2003 12:02 PM
The afternoon talk team at KFI (AM 640) has been voted the #1 Los Angeles radio personalities by the readers of LARadio.com, the subscription website run by Don Barrett. A... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 2, 2003 10:45 AM
Schwarzenegger's No Hard Questions Tour plays the "John and Ken Show" today on KFI (AM 640), some blogs report, though KFI's website has no mention. He's supposed to be on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 2, 2003 1:09 AM
KPFK, the Pacifica station in L.A., has been hitting Schwarzenegger this week for serving on the board of U.S. English and the published reports that he gropes female journalists and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 29, 2003 1:45 PM
The Pasadena City College FM station (89.3) has finally decided where the new Los Angeles-produced NPR-Slate show Day to Day fits in. Starting Monday, the show hosted by Alex Chadwick... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 29, 2003 11:50 AM
With Arnold taking his campaign to the radio talkers who fomented the recall and see themselves as the voice of real conservatives, sympathetic site NewsMax surveys 19 of California's AM... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 26, 2003 11:28 AM
Hosting his radio show from of all places the Minnesota State Fair, Hugh Hewitt did a phone interview today with Schwarzenegger. Audio replay here. Hewitt jumped on the A.S. bandwagon... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 25, 2003 7:35 PM
Talk of the City with Kitty Felde on KPCC broadcasts all this week from the road, traveling up the coast on Highway 1. The show will stop in Ventura, Santa... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 25, 2003 12:06 AM
The formative Los Angeles radio DJ Magnificent Montague, whose book Burn, Baby! Burn! is coming out, now has a website where you can read the prologue and listen to some... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 20, 2003 11:18 AM
If you like your theater observations on Saturday morning, KCRW has your number. James C. Taylor, the station's new theater reviewer, can be heard Saturdays at 7:35 and 9:35 a.m.,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 20, 2003 12:27 AM
Because, writes Garrison Frost in The Aesthetic, it's that time again. Worse than tax season, dental appointments, major auto repairs, family arguments and strange insects in my bed, the KCRW... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 11, 2003 2:23 PM
Barbara Osborn chats about international coverage of Iraq with journalism professor Mohammed el-Nawawy, author of Al-Jazeera: How the Free Arab News Network Scooped the World and Changed the Middle East,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 9, 2003 12:18 PM
Tonight at 7 p.m. Life and Times is airing a feature on KJLH, the Stevie Wonder-owned station that Channel 28 calls "the radio voice of south L.A." This is a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 8, 2003 3:31 PM
In her guest host stint for Kittle Felde today on KPCC, Patt Morrison's first call-in guest was Arianna Huffington. But candidate Huffington is losing her weekly spot alongside her good... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 7, 2003 2:55 PM
But only a little bit. Today's show is the last one at start at 1 p.m. Next Saturday The Car Show moves to a noon-to-1 slot on Saturdays, writes co-host... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 2, 2003 11:08 AM
Rob Long of The National Review complains about KCRW's slant in a piece the L.A. Times op-ed page titles "Morning Becomes Apoplectic." Why do I voluntarily send in my money... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 30, 2003 1:23 AM
Host Alex Chadwick is offering a glimpse behind the scenes of the first week of NPR's new Culver City-based live midday show "Day to Day" in the Diary at Slate,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 30, 2003 1:04 AM
Today on "Airtalk" Larry Mantle plans to discuss how the LAPD deploys homicide detectives. A story by Jill Leovy and Doug Smith in the L.A. Times Monday showed that detectives... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 29, 2003 2:03 AM
The Capitol Punishment columnist will be doing a special "Live from Sacramento" radio show about the recall on KFI Saturday and Sunday from 5 to 7 PM, says L.A. Radio.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 25, 2003 10:53 AM
The two-hour daily news program that was called The Morning Show has been cut to an hour (8-9 am) and renamed "Uprising."... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 20, 2003 4:13 PM
Donnell Alexander, the former LA Weekly and ESPN Magazine writer -- and long-ago intern at the L.A. Times -- will discuss his new book, Ghetto Celebrity. Remember that as of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 18, 2003 5:45 PM
Don Barrett, who operates the L.A. Radio website, writes on the L.A. Times op-ed page about making the wrenching decision to take the car keys from his aging father --... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 18, 2003 1:20 AM
They are juggling the lineup a bit at KCRW (89.9 FM) to make room for Day to Day, the first news magazine show to be produced at National Public Radio's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 17, 2003 5:14 PM
KCRW will move Warren Olney's 1 p.m. national show To The Point up to noon today so that NPR can go live with Tony Blair's speech to Congress. Standoff with... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 17, 2003 12:02 AM
Hugh Hewitt is on the L.A. Times' case again, this time over a story on asbestos litigation. An aside: giving out the editors' email addresses every time smacks of that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 15, 2003 10:07 AM
Having a liberal voice on KFI (640 AM) is apparently so unusual that Channel 28's Life and Times is doing a feature tonight on new talk host Johnny Wendell. Patt... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 15, 2003 8:53 AM
Pulitzer-winning Los Angeles author A. Scott Berg will discuss his new book about Katharine Hepburn with Elvis Mitchell on The Treatment (KCRW 89.9 FM). The show will air Wednesday at... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 14, 2003 4:05 PM
Steve Carney, the freelancer who writes about radio for the L.A. Times Calendar, weighs in today on the KPFK brouhaha that broke more than a week ago. It's buried in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 12, 2003 1:04 AM
At noon Sunday on KPFK (90.7 FM), Barbara Osborn talks with Jason Salzman, author of Making the News: A Guide for Activists and Nonprofits, a sort-of PR primer for progressive... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 12, 2003 12:21 AM
KRLA (870 AM) has ended its suspension of Michael Savage, says L.A. Radio.com. Earlier: KRLA yanks Savage... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 11, 2003 10:30 AM
The Car Show hosted by John Retsek and Art Gould is apparently back on the Saturday lineup at KPFK -- at least for now. Retsek emails that the show (on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 10, 2003 5:41 PM
Tonight at 6:30, KNX Newsradio (1070 AM) is airing a documentary by reporter Kari Moran on Catholic women, including nuns, who have been sexually abused by priests. The station calls... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 10, 2003 12:43 PM
Don Barrett at LARadio.com reports that KRLA (870 and 590 AM in Southern California) has pulled Michael Savage off the air indefinitely. Savage earlier was fired from his MSNBC cable... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 9, 2003 9:40 PM