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KCRW

Radio station in California, United States

Placeradio stationQ588294

Country: United States
Located in: California
Founded: 1945

Overview

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KCRW is an NPR member station broadcasting from the KCRW Media Center on the Center for Media and Design campus of Santa Monica College on Stewart Street in Santa Monica, California, where the station is licensed. KCRW airs original news and music programming in addition to programming from NPR and other affiliates. A network of repeaters and broadcast translators, as well as internet radio, allows the station to serve the Greater Los Angeles area and other communities in Southern California. The station's main transmitter is located in Los Angeles's Laurel Canyon district, adjacent to Mulholland Drive at the end of Briarcrest Road, and broadcasts in the HD radio format. It is one of two full NPR members in the Los Angeles area; Pasadena-based KPCC is the other.

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Licensed to broadcast to: Santa Monica
Website: kcrw.com language: English
Radio format: public radio
freeform
eclecticism
news
talk radio
Language used: English
Owned by: Santa Monica College
Social media followers: 487,987(February 3, 2023) x (twitter) numeric user id: 9636632
495,156(March 1, 2022) x (twitter) numeric user id: 9636632
500,848(January 3, 2021) x (twitter) numeric user id: 9636632
Different from: West Virginia International Yeager Airport

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34.1189, -118.3917OpenStreetMap ↗

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