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Yahoo!KCRW, the radio station from Santa Monica City College popular for its news coverage and eclectic music programming, is off the air in Santa Barbara due to technical difficulties. In a press release issued on Tuesday afternoon from the station — which broadcasts in Santa Barbara and Goleta at 106.9 FM — the earliest fix won’t be until Saturday, although the channel can still be heard streaming online at kcrw.com.
According to the station's chief engineer Steve Herbert, the station sends a signal from an Oxnard antenna, which is picked up by a “rebroadcaster” in Goleta. But because of an antenna system failure in Oxnard, the Goleta transmitter is not receiving a clear signal. So, explained Herbert, “We have been forced to turn off 106.9 for the time being.”
The delay until this weekend is because the station shares the Oxnard tower with other broadcasters, so they cannot climb the tower for fear of interrupting other radio broadcasts. They won’t be able to assess the problem until Saturday.
In the meantime, check out the Web site or tune into KCSB 91.9 FM for music and news or KCLU 102.3 FM for your NPR fix.
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Better yet tune to 98.7 or 90.7 FM for KPFK Pacifica Radio. Their hands are not tied by corporate CPB/NPR or University regents like the other stations listed in this story.
LasBrisas (anonymous profile)
September 30, 2008 at 6:39 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Yeah, KPFK's hands aren't tied, but it often spouts conspiracy-theory wack-job "news" that's way over the top. I'm a leftist, but KPFK is the lefty version of Fox News.
And the idea that KCSB programming is interfered with in any way by the UC Regents is just a flat out lie.
I'll be listening to KCRW online (or NPR news on KCBX) until they fix the Oxnard transmitter -- my thing is that it's hard to believe in this day and age it could take 6 days to get atop a tower to fix something like this. I don't understand how "sharing" affects this, but of course I'm no radio engineer.
allegro805 (anonymous profile)
October 1, 2008 at 8:29 a.m. (Suggest removal)
KCRW is the best--let's get a stronger transmitter while we're at it.
JD (anonymous profile)
October 1, 2008 at 8:58 a.m. (Suggest removal)
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