{"id":452981,"date":"2010-03-20T16:10:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T20:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310fc1f23c970c"},"modified":"2010-03-20T16:18:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T20:18:40","slug":"kpcc-opens-up-new-24-5-million-studios-in-pasadena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/452981","title":{"rendered":"KPCC opens up new $24.5-million studios in Pasadena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo: Larry Mantle, right, host of the popular &quot;AirTalk&quot; program, in one of KPCC's new studios that celebrated its grand opening Saturday. Credit: Irfan Khan \/ Los Angeles Times\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a95b0d4e970b-pi\" title=\"Photo: Larry Mantle, right, host of the popular &quot;AirTalk&quot; program, in one of KPCC's new studios that celebrated its grand opening Saturday. Credit: Irfan Khan \/ Los Angeles Times\"><\/img>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>KPCC, the radio station in Pasadena that carries NPR programs to Southern California, celebrated the grand opening its new $24.5-million studios Saturday.\n<\/p>\n<p>The grand opening represents a major expansion for the station, which is moving out of its cramped, single studio in Pasadena City College&#8217;s library to a large facility boasting 13 studios and control rooms.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/la-et-kpcc20-2010mar20-g,0,1118807.graphic\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A look at how KPCC-FM ratings compare with those of other public radio stations in the Los Angeles area.\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310fc201b9970c \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef01310fc201b9970c-800wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"A look at how KPCC-FM ratings compare with those of other public radio stations in the Los Angeles area.\"><\/img><\/a> Key to the expansion was the willingness of KPCC&#8217;s board to write big checks and hit up their rich friends for contributions.\n<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s opening of the Mohn Broadcast Center marks a significant turnaround for a station that a decade ago was a low-budget, student-staffed operation with fund-raising so anemic it was about to lose its Corporation for Public Broadcasting funding.\n<\/p>\n<p>An open house will be held Sunday.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/la-et-kpcc20-2010mar20,0,5059012.story\">Read more about KPCC&#8217;s new studio and its turnaround story here.<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Steve Carney\n<\/p>\n<p>Related:\n<\/p>\n<p>KPCC-FM blog post: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpr.org\/blogs\/steve-julian\/2010\/02\/11\/kpcc-begins-life-mohn-broadcast-center\/\">KPCC begins life at Mohn Broadcast Center<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Larry Mantle, right, host of KPCC&#8217;s popular &quot;AirTalk&quot; program, in one of the station&#8217;s new studios that celebrated its grand opening Saturday. Credit: Irfan Khan \/ Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KPCC, the radio station in Pasadena that carries NPR programs to Southern California, celebrated the grand opening its new $24.5-million studios Saturday. The grand opening represents a major expansion for the station, which is moving out of its cramped, single studio in Pasadena City College&#8217;s library to a large facility boasting 13 studios and control [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5852,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5852"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}