Ruth Seymour to Sign Off as KCRW's GM
Thursday, Jan 7, 2010 | Updated 2:48 PM PST
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KCRW General Manager Ruth Seymour talks to guests before a live presentation of the political week-in-review show "Left, Right & Center" at Arianna Huffington's home on July 13, 2003, in Brentwood.
Ruth Seymour, who has been at the helm of public radio station KCRW since 1977, plans to retire at the end of February, it was announced Wednesday.
"I will leave a station that is strong in its identity, a station that is like no other in the country," she said in her goodbye letter to station supporters.
"It's been an extraordinary privilege to serve as KCRW's General Manager -- a joy and a source of great pride. That’s a pretty good note on which to say goodbye," she wrote.
The full letter has been posted on laobserved.com.
When Seymour took over, the station was in a middle school and had the oldest transmitter west of the Mississippi River. Today, the station boasts 13 transmitters that reach much of Southern California.
Seymour, also the program director, often hosts the show "The Politics of Culture" at KCRW, which produces more national programs that any other public radio station.
Santa Monica College, the station's licensee, will start a process to replace Seymour.
