From the LA Times story about Harry Shearer's move to KCSN:
"Not only is ['Le Show'] not standard public-radio fare," Shearer said, "but a good deal of the show is devoted to making fun of standard public-radio fare, and, as more and more [public] radio stations are being convinced to make all their programming sound 'consistent' — a la commercial radio formatting — a radio home that makes room for something different is becoming rarer and, to me at least, more valuable."
You're kidding me, right? KCSN was once that station, airing specialty shows throughout the week and weekend that touched on everything from showtunes to ethnic music to electronica to alt country. The hosts weren't pro DJs -- they were community members passionate about sharing sounds not heard anywhere else on radio. KCSN and Sky Daniels eliminated all of it. Now it's a station with commercial radio-like formatting. And it's home to pro radio folks like Jed the Fish, Nic Harcourt and Daniels himself. Shearer is joining a station more rigid than the one he was just fired from. It's disappointing how uniform KCSN has become.
"Not only is ['Le Show'] not standard public-radio fare," Shearer said, "but a good deal of the show is devoted to making fun of standard public-radio fare, and, as more and more [public] radio stations are being convinced to make all their programming sound 'consistent' — a la commercial radio formatting — a radio home that makes room for something different is becoming rarer and, to me at least, more valuable."
You're kidding me, right? KCSN was once that station, airing specialty shows throughout the week and weekend that touched on everything from showtunes to ethnic music to electronica to alt country. The hosts weren't pro DJs -- they were community members passionate about sharing sounds not heard anywhere else on radio. KCSN and Sky Daniels eliminated all of it. Now it's a station with commercial radio-like formatting. And it's home to pro radio folks like Jed the Fish, Nic Harcourt and Daniels himself. Shearer is joining a station more rigid than the one he was just fired from. It's disappointing how uniform KCSN has become.