Key Highlights
- Print It’s another bright, sunny and promising Thursday morning in Los Angeles in early October, but things are not going well for the morning team on the public radio station KCSN, known as the SoCal Sound. Morning show hosts Nic Harcourt and Jet Raskin are seven days into the station’s eight-day “shortfall” fundraiser, named for the season and the funds the station is attempting to make up after its nearly $250,000 grant from the Corp.
- for Public Broadcasting was canceled after the organization was defunded by Congress in July. This morning, Harcourt and Raskin are experiencing their own shortfall.
- They’re behind on their goal for the first two hours of the show, yet they are plowing ahead, pleading with their listeners to contribute to the cause, offering premiums such as concert tickets, vinyl records and a specially designed long-sleeve hoodie T-shirt with the words “Protect Public Radio” written on a graphic of an acoustic guitar held in a clenched fist.
- Advertisement After the impassioned plea comes more music.
- David Bowie’s “Nite Flights,” a Walker Brothers song featured on the late legend’s 1993 album “Black Tie White Noise,” blares from the speakers.
