KCRW is the latest to see a financial blow following the Trump administration’s elimination of federal funding for public media .

On Friday, Oct. 17 KCRW president Jennifer Ferro sent a letter to the station’s subscribers and supporters announcing that it would cut an additional 10% of its staff, which included some of the station’s most well-known music DJs, including Jason Kramer, Jeremy Sole and José Galván. The letter also announced that host Elvis Mitchell’s long-running interview series “The Treatment” will now run inside “Weekend Edition.”

“Like so many other public media organizations, KCRW is restructuring parts of the organization in response to our new budget reality,” Ferro wrote in the letter. “The result of this restructuring is a 10% reduction in our staff. These decisio

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