‘About’ Archives
KCSB Summer Orientation! – Wednesday, June 22nd at 6pm
KCSB 91.9FM, UCSB's on-campus non-commercial community radio station, will be holding its 2011 Summer Orientation on Wednesday, June 22nd in the KCSB courtyard (under Storke Tower). Aspiring DJ's, news reporters, and sportscasters: this is an excellent opportunity to get your voice on the radio! Learn how to become a music or public affairs DJ, [...]
The KCSBeat returns to the graveyard schedule
This week in the Independent's column on KCSB, The KCSBeat, Colin Marshall tunes in once again to the hours between midnight and 6 a.m. in search of the most fascinating radio experimentation this station has to offer:Monday, 2 a.m. Who could resist a show called Beethoven by the Beach? KCSB having had few classical programs in recent years, I [...]
Rebecca Redman’s Jody Fester’s Army profiled in The KCSBeat
This week in the Independent's column on KCSB, The KCSBeat, Colin Marshall profiles programmer Rebecca Redman and her female-driven punk and hardcore hour Jody Fester's Army, as well as her previous on-air projects:“There hasn’t been a KCSB show like this,” she said. “Women are underrepresented in the punk scene. Punk is sometimes [...]
Ashley Richardson’s Secondhand Sounds profiled in The KCSBeat
This week in the Independent's column on KCSB, The KCSBeat, Colin Marshall profiles programmer Ashley Richardson and her Monday-evening festival of Americana Secondhand Sounds:Ashley Richardson remembers reading Robert Frost at her childhood dinner table. Far from a youthful literary rebellion against the conventions of domestic dining, these [...]
The KCSBeat listens to the best of Poodle Radio’s first year
This week in the Independent's column on KCSB, The KCSBeat, Colin Marshall highlights the finest broadcasts in the first year of Poodle Radio, the show of the Santa Barbara Independent:The current version of Poodle Radio, official radio program of the Indy, first broadcast on January 16, 2010. Maybe that’s not quite the right word; while the [...]
KJUC Winter Schedule
Here is the KJUC Winter Schedule. Congratulations to those who got on. As for the rest, come back in spring! We look forward to a great KJUC season. KJUC Winter Schedule Sincerely, Jordan and Raisa
The KCSBeat bids farewell to Denis Dutton, KCSB’s first FM general manager
This week in the Independent's column on KCSB, The KCSBeat, Colin Marshall bids farewell to Denis Dutton, aesthetic philosopher, founder of Arts & Letters Daily, ridiculer of bad academic writing, two-time guest on The Marketplace of Ideas, and KCSB's general manager when it went FM:Though I suspect all his accomplishments would prove too numerous [...]
The KCSBeat listens to the station’s finest casts
This week in the Independent's column on KCSB, The KCSBeat, Colin Marshall finds delightful oddities in KCSB's digital audio library of promos, station identifications, and public service announcements:Carts were like regular audio cassettes in that they contained a reel of tape onto which you could record a song, a commercial, a public service [...]
The KCSBeat Visits the Radio Laboratory of KCSB’s Overnight Schedule
This week in the Independent's column on KCSB, The KCSBeat, Colin Marshall listens in on the fascinating radio experiments found between 1:00 and 6:00 a.m. on KCSB:Plenty of experiments are performed at KCSB, as at any freeform radio station worth its salt. Tune in during the day and you’re more than likely to hear several conventional [...]
KCSBeat: PSA
This week in the Independent's column on KCSB, The KCSBeat, Colin Marshall produces and documents the anatomy of a public service announcement — specifically, one (somewhat belatedly) announcing the existence of the column:I suspect I’ve subconsciously avoided this project because it involves copywriting, a word whose very sound makes me [...]
