Radio

KPCC spoofs the public radio species


They're doing the spring fundraising drive differently at KPCC this year. The on-air pitches are more muted and spaced apart — they really want you to just donate online without using radio time to ask you over and over and over — and they produced this video. That's John Rabe playing the part of Sir David Attenborough, plus Larry Mantle and Patt Morrison poke fun at themselves — and you can see inside the station's new newsroom.


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