Station program director Marc Kaczor agreed. Lance Venta is Owner and Publisher of RadioInsight.com. returned to the FM airwaves in October on KLOS. WASHINGTON D.C. (April 27, 2023) World Resources Institute (WRI) is pleased to announce that Crystal Davis has been named the Global Director of its Food, Land and Water program. (A week earlier, Sarah McLachlan and Laura Marling performed at the same venue, also as a benefit show for KCSN.). So I did. Daniels met with then-General Manager Karen Kearns, who he says was open to his ideas. The new name recognizes the sound the station is known for, and marks the fifth anniversary of the partnership between KCSN, housed at California State University, Northridge, and KSBR, whose home is at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo. Honors Program; Schools & Divisions; Workforce Development; High School and Early College Students; Catalogs & Degrees; International Students; Admissions. Visit our, WKHX Launches Amanda & Garrett In Middays, FCC Report 4/30: Another Attempt At Inland Empire Upgrade, VP/Rock Programming & WKQX PD Troy Hanson Exits Cumulus Media, Laura Steele Moves Up To Afternoons At WJJK, SummitMedia Takes Awesome 99.5 To The Streetz, This Weekend, All My Friends Are on the Radio. Subscribe for full access to The Hollywood Reporter, David Gray also performed as part of a two-weekend series. Harcourt has also served as Editor at Large: Music and Culture for LA: The Los Angeles Times Magazine (200910). His friend John Schoenberger told him they were looking for a new program director. As a classical station, KCSN also aired specialty shows on weekends and in late night. KCSN's Byron Gonzalez Defines Latin Alternative. KNSN-TV (channel 21) is a primary sports-formatted independent television station in Reno, Nevada, United States, which has a secondary affiliation with MyNetworkTV.It is owned by Deerfield Media, which maintains joint sales and shared services agreements (JSA/SSA) with Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of Fox affiliate KRXI-TV (channel 11), for the provision of certain services. Kaczor joined 88.5-FM approximately three years ago as a DJ and music director. On November 10, 2008, Harcourt announced that he would be leaving his role with Morning Becomes Eclectic and resigning as music director for KCRW as of November 30, 2008, while taking on a new show on Sundays. It was during that period that Sovel worked as producer for Steve Jones Jonesys Jukebox show and earned the nickname Mr. When I open the microphone, Im speaking to people from Hollywood to Mission Viejo, and everywhere in between. [7] Subsequently, Jackson Browne,[8] The Rides, Ryan Adams, Conor Oberst, David Gray, Sarah McLachlan,[9] and Bonnie Raitt[10] performed at the station's annual benefit concerts. [17], On August 18, 2022, it was announced that KCSN will change its branding to "88.5 The SoCal Sound" on August 19.[18]. No other programming changes will coincide with the rebrand, which will continue to feature hosts Nic Harcourt and Jet in mornings, Julie Slater in middays, and Andy Chanley in afternoons under Program Director Marc Kaczor. Conor Oberst References Police, Ryan Adams Tussles with Crowd at KCSN He has also worked as music consultant/supervisor for several television shows and movies, including: Ben Affleck's Gone Baby Gone (2007), Love Monkey, The Dukes of Hazzard, Life As We Know It, Igby Goes Down, and the first season of the rebooted teen drama 90210 (TV series). Over 40 minutes, Gray veered through his back catalogue, offering everything from new, buoyant track Cake and Eat It to 2009 hit Kathleen and Nemesis, which the musician drew out into a ten-plus minute atmospheric jam. The combined operation adopted the branding "The New 88.5 FM". The main FM/HD1 channel was switched to an all-AAA programming format without news. We expanded to two nights this year, thanks to the belief of this extraordinary lineup of some of the greatest songwriters of our time.. There is no other job in media that has a boss who would tell you that. In 2017 he returned to the morning show. After all, Los Angeles and Southern California drives entertainment trends both nationally and internationally. Lets make it count, said the singer after running onstage with his band. Under the guidance of radio and record company veteran Sky Daniels, some of Los Angeles radio's legendary hosts were hired to host shows on KCSN, including former KCRW host Nic Harcourt; long-time KROQ host Jed the Fish; and Robert Hilburn, the thirty-year Music Editor for the Los Angeles Times. Gray, who made note of the uncharacteristic L.A. weather by saying he left England in a rainstorm to come to a rainstorm here, opened the evening with Birds of the High Arctic, a track off his latest and tenth album, Mutineers. The station is a combined effort of California State University, Northridge (CSUN) and Saddleback College, which began simulcasting as 88.5 FM in October 2017, linking together the Los Angeles County- and Orange County-based signals.