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  • HIGHLIGHTS FOR DECEMBER 2000
  • KCRW TO AIR SUPREME COURT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CASE
  • CHRISTMAS NOIR: CHARLIE ROBINSON, LONNIE SMITH AND VIRGINIA CAPERS HEAD CAST OF "BLACK BETTY"
  • "THIS AMERICAN LIFE" ANNOUNCES FIFTH-ANNIVERSARY WORLD TOUR
  • SPOKEN INTERLUDES: A Salon of Stories
  • THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ: NEW CENTENNIAL AUDIO PRODUCTION
  • Novelist & Inside.com Founder Kurt Andersen hosts New Weekly Arts & Cultural Program, "Studio 360"
  • KCRW THANKSGIVING SPECIALS INCLUDE NPR'S PEABODY AWARD-WINNING SPECIAL: LOST AND FOUND SOUND
  • HIGHLIGHTS OF PROGRAMS ON KCRW AND KCRW.COM FOR NOVEMBER 2000
  • THE COPLAND CENTURY: DOCUMENTARY EXAMINES LIFE OF QUINTESSENTIAL AMERICAN COMPOSER, AARON COPLAND
  • THANKSGIVING SPECIALS
  • KCRW's Left Right & Center Adds Conservative Voice, Gets New Day and Repeat Broacast
  • KCRW to carry NPR's live coverage of Presidential and Vice-Presidential debates
  • HIGHLIGHTS FOR OCTOBER 2000
  • KCRW Airs Tribute to John Lennon
  • News from KCRW's Music Department
  • KCRW Launches "Sounds Eclectic"
  • KCRW launches new national program, "TO THE POINT" with WARREN OLNEY, in partnership with Public Radio International.
  • L.A.'s mayoral candidates to debate environmental issues on live remote broadcast of KCRW's "Which Way, L.A.?"
  • KCRW to be featured at first annual radio festival
  • KCRW to broadcast special High Holy Days programs
  • KCRW to broadcast "From Wharf Rats to Lord of The Docks: The Life and Times of Harry Bridges"
  • KCRW and NPR celebrate Louis Armstrong's centennial birthday
  • Highlights for September 2000
  • "Which Way, L.A.?" to broadcast live from the Democratic Convention
  • KCRW to broadcast Republican Convention
  • Highlights for August 2000
  • KCRW's Garth Trinidad and Jason Bentley win top honors at the LA Weekly Music Awards
  • Ross Macdonald marathon features private eye Lew Archer in dark, dramatic production of the "Zebra-Striped Hearse"
  • 6/20 KCRW celebrates the 4th of July with tributes to music legends Nat King Cole, Chick Corea and Grover Washington, Jr.
  • 6/20 Highlights for July 2000
  • 6/1 KCRW - Live from the Knitting Factory Hollywood
  • 6/1 Oscar Brown, Jr. on KCRW's Chocolate City
  • 6/1 World Festival 2000
  • 6/1 The Satellite Sisters
  • 5/24 Highlights for June 2000
  • 5/19 "A Heartbreaking Group of Staggering Geniuses"
  • 5/19 Radio Arts Fellow, JON KALISH
  • 5/17 "Spoken Interludes" to be broadcast on KCRW
  • 5/5 KCRW launched new full-power radio signal in Norther LA and Kern counties, KCRY/Mojave 88.1fm
  • 5/3 WWLA to be encoded in MP3 for Napster demonstration
  • 4/21 KCRW personalities to participate in Los Angeles Times FESTIVAL OF BOOKS
  • 4/19 KCRW to receive LA Youth's Los Angeles Times First Amendment Award
  • 4/19 KCRW, Symphony Space and the J. Paul Getty Museum present Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story
  • 4/19 KCRW presents 10-hour marathon broadcast of 10 X Maugham as Memorial Day special
  • 4/19 KCRW broadcasts "Voices of the Shoah: Remembrances of the Holocaust" on Holocaust Remembrance Day, Tuesday, May 2, from 2 to 4 PM
  • 4/19 Highlights for May 2000
  • 4/12 "Which Way, L.A.?" to host first public debate between District Attorney candidates
  • 4/7 Voice of America added to KCRWWORLDNEWS.COM internet program schedule
  • 4/3 Mayor Richard Riordan to discuss Rampart scandal on "Which Way, LA?" live, remote broadcast
  • 3/29 "Which Way, LA?" live, remote broadcast
  • 3/22 Highlights for April 2000
  • 3/22 Anne Litt to host Weekend Becomes Eclectic
  • 3/8 HOB.com to present the KCRW ALL-MUSIC CHANNEL
  • 2/25 KCRW to carry NPR's LIVE coverage of CNN's presidential debates at the Los Angeles Times
  • 2/23 L.A.'s Most Prestigious Criminal Defense Organization Honors KCRW's Warren Olney
  • 2/23 Highlights for March 2000
  • 2/02 KCRW Launches Unique News Web Service
  • 1/19 Highlights for February 2000
  • 1/5 KCRW Announces First Ever "Radio Arts Fellows" Program
  • 1/5 “Women, Writing and the Imagination,” nine-part special hosted by Bookworm’s Michael Silverblatt, debuts Jan. 27th

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