KCRW

If there's one good thing about California, it's this radio station and really for just one reason: Morning Becomes Eclectic. MBE is one of the best morning shows, featuring live performances by bands across different genres of music. Not only can you listen to the show anytime (they've got them all archived), but you can also watch the performances. This is a spectacular feature because to see a band live, performing stage shenanigans, is one thing but to see them, somewhat muted and contained, in the context of a studio is just good music in its purest form. Unfortunately over the past years KCRW has "sold out" (I know, I hate having to use that term but I feel there's no other way to describe it) to the commercial powers that be. Amazon seems to be strewn all over the website. For example, when you click on best albums of 2008, what you get are links the DJs' top ten lists sponsored by Amazon. If you want to click on a DJ's top ten list, you get sent to some other part of the website; clicking on the album takes you to Amazon. I don't want to go through that extra trouble, I just want information!

Very annoying pledge drives for the last few years. They go on and on with the pledge drives at least 4 times a year by my count (good chance it may be more). During it, they do it sometimes up to 5 minutes at a time which is ridiculous. I drive to work only for 15 minutes and enjoyED listening to their station for number of years. Nowadays, due to this long lasting pledge drives, I tune to other stations such as KPCC. I understand it's non profit and has to make some profit elsewhere but don't overdo it to the point you become annoying. And one of the radio hosts, Mary the louis, is super biased to left wing and I don't like her at all. Especially during the presidential election a couple of years ago, she was just so biased to left wing that she would not stop attacking all interviewees from GPO and conservatives. I know KCRW, being stationed in CA, is definitely leaning blue. But you gotta stay somewhat neutral as a host. She does not. Typical feminist, left wing extremist female that is not eligible to be a radio host. For the last 2 months, there has been this sharp high pitched static that rings my ears several times a day and they don't bother to fix it. I thought it could be from my car but it's not. Other stations don't do that.