KCRW restructures with 10% staff reduction
KCRW in Santa Monica, Calif., is reducing its workforce by 10%, according to an email sent to members Friday by CEO Jennifer Ferro.
In the email, which the station shared with Current, Ferro said the station is restructuring to best “position us against the twin challenges of needing to adapt to how people consume media today as well as the loss of federal dollars.”
KCRW didn’t respond to a question about how many people were affected.
The station will roll out a new programming schedule in the “coming weeks” that will include new DJs, she wrote. The Treatment, a pop culture interview program that airs 9–10 a.m. Saturdays, will be heard “inside Weekend Edition Saturday.”
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