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Bill Hader’s 2012 Emmy nomination — Saturday Night Live, John Cleese, and Elvis Mitchell’s KCRW Treatment
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, September 2012 In mid-September 2012, Bill Hader sat with Elvis Mitchell for an episode of KCRW’s The Treatment. Hader’s appearance came as he prepared for his first Primetime Emmy nomination in the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series category —…
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KPCC’s Tony Pierce gives LA Times LAUSD coverage an F — April 2012 schools-press critique
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, April 2012 In mid-April 2012, KPCC’s Tony Pierce posted a sharp critique of how LA Times reporter Howard Blume had been covering an LAUSD proposal to eliminate D-grades from passing-grade calculations. Pierce’s blog post called out the structural under-resourcing of LA…
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Bill Handel’s March 2012 on-air flashpoint — KFI, the Black Media Alliance, and the Limbaugh aftermath
By Jordan Vega · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, March 2012 In early March 2012, KFI AM 640 morning host Bill Handel said the words “dumb ass women” on-air while discussing a Kansas abortion case. The Black Media Alliance flagged the segment; the Burbank-based KFI management was, in the original…
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Carol Muske-Dukes’s October 2012 HuffPost defense of Patt Morrison — and how the KPCC schedule shuffle played
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, October 2012 In late October 2012, USC English-and-creative-writing professor Carol Muske-Dukes — a former California poet laureate — published a Huffington Post column taking KPCC 89.3 management to task for the way they had treated Patt Morrison. The Pulitzer-winning broadcaster and…
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KCET’s November 2012 set visit — SoCal Connected, Val Zavala, and the Burbank office relaunch
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, November 2012 In late November 2012, FishbowlLA published a set-visit feature on KCET — the LA-region public-television station that had recently moved to The Pointe in Burbank and was rebuilding its institutional infrastructure after the substantial 2011 break with PBS. The…
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Nic Harcourt returns to LA morning radio at CSUN’s KCSN — October 2012
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, October 2012 In mid-October 2012, Nic Harcourt — the former KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic host who had handed the show to Jason Bentley in December 2008 — returned to LA morning radio. His new home was CSUN’s 88.5 FM (KCSN), the…
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KPCC president Bill Davis fields impromptu open-house questions — and confirms Madeleine Brand’s TV exit
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, October 2012 On October 2, 2012, KPCC held a “Millennials mixer” open house at its Pasadena headquarters. Among the small-group attendees was LA journalist Luis Gomez, who happened to encounter station president and CEO Bill Davis emerging from his office. Davis…
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KPCC’s August 2012 schedule shuffle — Patt Morrison out of mid-mornings, Brand & Martínez expand
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Marcus Vanderberg on FishbowlLA, August 2012 In late August 2012, KPCC announced a substantial weekday-schedule shuffle effective September 10. The Brand & Martínez show — co-hosted by Madeleine Brand and A Martínez — was expanded from one hour to two, taking the 9-to-11 a.m. mid-morning…
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Villaraigosa’s 2012 KPCC interview about his marriage — and the political fallout that followed
By Jordan Vega · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, June 2012 In late June 2012, LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa sat for a KPCC interview with senior online reporter Alice Walton in connection with a Loyola Marymount conversations-series event. Walton’s piece for KPCC included the mayor’s on-record answer to a question…
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KPCC’s 2012 visit to the church where Aretha recorded ‘Amazing Grace’ — and the film that finally arrived
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, December 2012 In late December 2012, KPCC 89.3 reporter Christopher Johnson aired a 40th-anniversary look at Aretha Franklin’s 1972 recording of Amazing Grace at Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts. The piece was structured as a place visit — Johnson going…