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 KUSP - 88.9 FM
Central Coast Public Radio
203 8th Avenue
Santa Cruz, CA 95062
Phone: 831-476-2800
www.kusp.org 
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KUSP
Central Coast Public Radio
 KUSP is community radio for California's Central Coast, from the edge of Silicon Valley to the farms and
rangeland north of San Luis Obispo. The biggest city in the coverage area is
Salinas, one of California's major agricultural centers. KUSP also serves all
the beautiful and historic communities that ring Monterey Bay, including its
home town of Santa Cruz, one of the most arts-rich and politically progressive
communities in America.
KUSP was founded in 1972, part
of the "KRAB Nebula" of community radio stations brought to life by
Lorenzo Milam, Jeremy Lansman, and a host of others. National programming was
added to the line-up in 1984 but local content has always predominated; today
local music, news and public affairs shows produced by almost one hundred community
volunteers fill 70% of the KUSP schedule.
Live music is a very important
part of KUSP's programming. This includes annual live broadcasts of nationally-renowned
musical events held in the area, including the Monterey Jazz Festival and the
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music.
KUSP is also very proud of
the independent radio producers who started at the station and went on to make
great radio with national impact. The Kitchen Sisters, Davia Nelson and Nikki
Silva, started at KUSP in the late 1970's. More recently, KUSP was the birthplace
of David Gilmore's breakthrough series on LGBT life in America, "Outright
Radio". That tradition carries on today through the work of producers such as Rachel Anne Goodman, the creator of "The Boomtown Chronicles: Tales Fromthe Epicenter of the Housing Crisis" and "Pastures of Plenty: A History of California Farmworkers."
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