Southern California Public Radio

Scpr conducts its Public media (inclusive but not limited to Public Radio) operations under the brand name laist, and produces podcasts and on-demand audio news, information, and storytelling though its division laist studios. Scpr's laist studios released two new shows under the laist studios brand which represents our ambition to tell la stories to the world and elevate the values and diversity associated with la. The shows launched were la made and how to la which can be listened to on any podcast platform. Laist studios continued to produce existing shows. Among them are imperfect paradise, academy museum podcast, California love and the big burn.scpr operates websites including laist.com, scpr.org, kpcc.org and laiststudios.com that provide a live stream of its Radio programming; podcasts; archived audio programming; and other Public media content including text, pictures, video, and other digital Public services. Scpr continues to make significant efforts to improve the ethnic diversity of our staff. Our reporters work daily in the ethnic communities of greater los angeles. Our talk shows broadcast throughout Southern California, broadcasting community voices to the entire region. Scpr implemented a plan designed to fundamentally improve the level of diversity, equity, and inclusion across the organization. Scpr continued to be Southern California's premier Public Radio news operation, featuring the most npr news in the region and a local newsroom that won multiple awards this year, including the Southern California journalism awards in the broadcast/solutions journalism category and audio/investigative category. Serving more than 527,000 listeners each week, scpr is supported in part by our 76,000 members who contributed more than $23 million in fy2023. Scpr averaged over 818 thousand web visitors to kpcc.org and laist.com, over 8 thousand daily app visits, 1.5 million monthly stream listeners, and averaged 13.1 million in total podcast downloads for the year. During fy2023, scpr orchestrated 39 events of varying size. These events were held both within our crawford family forum and on our expanding digital platform.