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I approved to get KCRW General Manager Jennifer Ferro to booty the allurement aback I interviewed her aftermost anniversary afore the groundbreaking for the affecting Santa Monica accessible radio station’s $28 actor new home.

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“KPCC confused to its adorned new address in Pasadena a brace of years ago, and now you guys. Does this beggarly war?”

“No, no, no,” she said. “It doesn’t accept annihilation to do with KPCC. Their old architecture was horrible, too. For 15 years KCRW has been beginning at the seams; now we assuredly get to move on.”

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OK, Ferro’s too acute to put the words central citation marks. So I’ll aloof accept to do it for her: KCRW and KPCC are arch-rivals in the best important radio bazaar in the nation. These actual altered accessible radio stations are aggressive not aloof for admirers but for access and for big money, both from their admirers and from foundations. In the age of the app, their anemic advertisement signals aren’t the affair anymore. I can, and do, accept to both of their agenda feeds through my buzz anywhere in the world. So do a lot of people, generally through podcasts of alone shows. A accomplished new affectionate of agreement drive is accessible aback anybody on Earth rather than a few thousand liberals in L.A. is a abeyant donor.

Public radio listenership is atomic compared with drive-time AM account or the Latino allocution and music powerhouses. And the new agenda feeds accomplish the Arbitron rankings about meaningless. Something like 8,000 bodies tune in to KCRW in any accustomed 15 minutes; 20,000 is the cardinal for KPCC. Yet these are wealthy, informed, awful accomplished people, and the stations and the sponsors who added accomplish accessible radio accessible accept their ear.

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KPCC, which switched over to an all account and advice architecture a few years back, has the bigger numbers acknowledgment to its strivingly bourgeois “No rant, no slant” programming and its broadcasting added accessible radio amalgamated favorites — “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me,” “Prairie Home Companion” and alike those godawful “Car Talk” reruns. The cutting-edge music shows KCRW specializes in, abnormally its circadian three-hour “Morning Becomes Eclectic,” put off boilerplate pop listeners. But they are the best cogent programming anywhere for the Los Angeles tastemakers who accept songs for movies and commercials. And back that’s about the alone way indie bands can accomplish a active in the alive era as sales accept plummeted, a KCRW gig is awful coveted.

With this new building, adjourned mostly by a Santa Monica Academy architecture band but additionally by tens of millions of dollars in donations from affluent foundations and affluent Westsiders, those musicians will assuredly be arena in a KCRW ability aces of its influence. GM Ferro told me that every day of her 20 years at the base visitors told her they couldn’t accept the able cultural force came from a awkward academy basement about absurd to find. In the three decades I accept been listening, agents has developed from 14 to 110 in the aforementioned space. At achievement in 2016, they’ll accept hit the big time.

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Many of us who accept relentlessly to both KCRW and KPCC don’t apprehend how advantageous L.A. is to accept these rivals; no added burghal in the country has two such able and such actual altered NPR affiliates. The backroom of the accord are fascinating, from KPCC abduction Sandra Tsing Loh from KCRW years ago afterwards an F-bomb was larboard unedited to KCRW nabbing the abundant allocution host Madeleine Brand afterwards KPCC inexplicably angered her with a causeless co-host. Both accept assuredly access out of tiny association academy basements into the world. The Eastside/Westside astriction makes for a Golden Age of L.A. radio, and abutting anniversary I’ll assay the programming to appearance how and why.

Larry Wilson is a affiliate of the Los Angeles Account Group beat board. larry.wilson@langnews.com.