‘About’ Archives
KCSB programmer Rick Fenz, master of eclecticism, profiled in this week’s KCSBeat
In the latest KCSBeat, the Santa Barbara Independent's weekly spotlight on all facets of this station, Colin Marshall continues profiling KCSB people with a visit to The Rick Show, "Captain" Rick Fenz's Saturday-morning showcase of musical variety:Many DJs choose to create genre-based programs because of a singular musical passion that overwhelms [...]
The KCSBeat covers KCSB’s unique use of technology
This week in The KCSBeat, Colin Marshall examines how KCSB puts enough technology in the hands of its programmers to enable the most creative uses of radio possible, and how the station intends to encourage more creativity still:The station's live transmissions of the Dalai Lama's April 2009 UCSB lectures, for instance, were pulled off with little [...]
Leo Schumaker’s “Bluesland” profiled in The KCSBeat
The profiles of KCSB people in the Santa Barbara Independent's KCSBeat column continue with a glimpse into the institution that is Leo Schumaker's Bluesland:To log more than 1300 on-air hours spinning the blues requires total devotion to the form, and Schumaker's sprouted early. As an eight year old growing up in Oxnard, he spent a day shining [...]
KCSB Winter Orientation: Wed. January 6, 2009 @ CHEM 1179
New media is all the hype these days with their hi-definition cameras and other miscellaneous junk, but whatever happened to good 'ol radio? We’re still alive and thriving! Radio is still one of the most important broadcast mediums today—and there’s no end in sight. Be part telecommunication history by becoming a part of KCSB! We are having [...]
KCSB’s history draws to a close, for now, in The KCSBeat
"A Brief History of KCSB", the opening miniseries of the Santa Barbara Independent's KCSB-themed column "The KCSBeat", arrives in the present day with a final chapter on the 2000s:The KCSB of the 2000s is the KCSB we know today: varied, experimental, prone to change things up every few months, a container of multitudes. 2001 saw the station [...]
The Transformative 1990s Recounted in a Recent KCSBeat
In a recent edition of The KCSBeat, the Santa Barbara Independent column covering all things KCSB, Colin Marshall returns to the 1990s, a time when KCSB's various musical and ideological blocs made peace and created the more open, all-accommodating sensibility the station has today after finding themselves united in a series of common causes: [...]
Remembering a Moment of Punditry in The KCSBeat — Part Five
In part five of the getting-ever-less brief history of KCSB chronicled in the Santa Barbara Independent's KCSBeat column, Colin Marshall examines the nature of freeform radio itself and what it has to do with a certain nationally-known conservative pundit's brief time on KCSB's schedule:Freeform, at least theoretically, allows not just for the [...]
Into the 80s in this week’s KCSBeat column
This week in the Santa Barbara Independent's KCSBeat, Colin Marshall takes the journey through KCSB history into the 1980s, the decade that saw the founding of KCSB-AM (now known and loved as KJUC), a huge power increase for the station's signal, a few dust-ups about programming and management and a scrape with the FCC: (more...)
KCSB’s Historical Chronicle Continues in the Independent’s KCSBeat
Two more chapters in KCSB are now available for the reading in The KCSBeat, Colin Marshall's Santa Barbara Independent column on all things KCSB. (more...)
Announcing the KCSB-FM Fund Drive Grand Prize Sweepstakes 2009!
During our Annual Fund Drive, each $100 pledged on or before Friday, Nov. 13th will automatically be entered a drawing for the following items. Some restrictions may apply. (For more information, click below.) They will be selected in the following order. (more...)
