KCSB-FM in Santa Barbara
Lisa Osborn has extensive experience in the broadcasting industry, currently serving as the News and Public Affairs Director at KCSB-FM in Santa Barbara since 2016, where mentorship and training of student leaders and broadcast news reporters at UC Santa Barbara is a key focus. Osborn's career spans multiple roles, including Executive Producer at Broadcast Edge since 1996, providing voiceovers for a variety of applications such as commercials and e-learning, and as the voice associated with many businesses' on-hold messages through Brittany Communications since 1991. Additional experience includes being the Santa Barbara Reporter for KCBX FM, hosting and anchoring news segments at KCRW and CBS Radio, and founding Traffic411, an early innovator in real-time traffic information. Osborn holds an AA in Communications from Fullerton College and has attended the Eloqui Communication Immersion Workshop.
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KCSB-FM in Santa Barbara
As a non-commercial, educational FM station broadcasting for the public interest, KCSB enters into no commercial contracts which allow access to the airwaves and it strives to provide programming substantially different from that carried by commercial broadcast media. It is also designed to be educational for both programmers and listeners. UCSB students and other programmers are provided an opportunity to learn the fundamentals of radio broadcasting, both technically and in terms of broadcast content, and to explore more advanced aspects of broadcasting and the audio medium. KCSB insures that these opportunities are offered to a diverse community, especially people who are traditionally underrepresented in broadcasting. For its listeners, KCSB provides programming that is stimulating, informative and generally unavailable from other local media. KCSB’s news and public affairs programming places an emphasis on providing a forum for unpopular, controversial and/or neglected perspectives on important local, national and international issues. Its cultural arts and music programming covers a wide spectrum of expression from traditional to experimental which reflects the diverse community which KCSB serves. KCSB and its programmers strive for programming excellence, both in content and technique. As a member of the University of California Radio Network, KCSB supports other member stations of the network and works to share expertise and programming with those stations.