Greater Los Angeles area

88.5 MHz (HD Radio)

88.5 The SoCal Sound

Adult album alternative (Public)

California State University, Northridge

November 1963 (1963-11) (as KEDC-FM)

KEDC-FM (1963–1973)

California State University, Northridge

FCC

62949

B1

370 watts

501 meters (1,644 ft)

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Mornings with Nic Harcourt and Jet Raksin: Weekday mornings 6-10 am. Regular features include the Track of the Day; Nic's Pick (a less-played hit or album cut, often from Harcourt's own collection); and the Fresh-Squeezed Track of the Day, a newly released song.

Latin Alternative

Middays with Julie Slater: Weekdays 10 am-2 pm. Each week, Slater selects a different (usually newly or recently released) album for the 88.5 Album Dive; every day at approximately noon, Slater will play one or two tracks from that album, often accompanied by interview segments with or written insights from the featured artists. Slater's partner Jason Friday joins the program Fridays at 1 pm for "Friday on a Friday," a variety segment often featuring clips from their podcast "CUZ I HAVE TO…when living your dream is the only option."

Afternoons with : Weekdays 2-6 pm.

Matt Pinfield

Evenings with Mookie: Weeknights 6-10pm. Program director Marc "Mookie" Kaczor also handles Saturday middays from 10 am to 2 pm.

Bilingual Sounds: Weeknights 10-11pm. Byron "The Curator" Gonzalez puts together and plays themed sets of music in English, Spanish, and additional languages.

with Raina Douris: KCSN airs the first hour of the program weeknights from 11 pm-midnight.

World Cafe

Saturdays with Hillary Gordon: Saturday afternoons 2-6 pm. Former radio and music executive Gordon takes over the DJ booth.

Artist in Residence series: Saturday evenings 6-7 pm. Each month, a different artist takes over the station's airwaves for one hour on Saturdays. The only limits are FCC rules, and participating artists are welcome to combine their playlists with interviews or in-studio guests or more. Previous artists in residence include , Sleater-Kinney, Moby, Dan Auerbach, and Chris Shiflett of Foo Fighters.

Joe Walsh

Saturday Evening with Barry Funkhouser: Saturdays 7-10 pm.

Saturday Late Night with Rob Romero: Saturday overnights 11 pm-1 am.

Peace, Love, and Sundays with Mimi Chen: Sundays 11 am-2 pm.

Sunday Afternoons with Don James: Sundays 2-5 pm.

HD programming[edit]

In October 2013, the HD2 channel dropped classical and launched a new format known as Latin alternative, which includes Latin pop, modern rock, classic rock, hip-hop, dance music and salsoul. .[22] This format then moved to HD3 as part of the KSBR programming partnership as KSBR's Jazz programming moved to HD2.


KCSN also mentors California State University, Northridge students in broadcasting, music industry, audio engineering and news production. Students produce six-minute morning news segments that air at 6:30am and 7:30am and three-minute segments at 7am and 8am. A nightly half-hour news program called the Evening Update airs at 6pm.


The news department of KCSN has received almost 500 news awards under the leadership of Keith Goldstein, who died in 2016.[23]


These news programs are heard on the HD3 channel.

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