This podcast keeps me up-to-date on what’s happening in California and I think generally fair

Love that there’s a statewide daily news program I can follow. Find the reports to be timely and informative

Why would an 11min podcast would have 5min of advertising ? I do like the content. Very likely to unfollow if ads continue to be hindrance

This serves as a more left activist agenda than a fair accounting of just the factual news. It’s disappointing and why I’ve never contributed money to their fundraising campaigns.

Thank you for all the great reporting and the new episode photo imagery!

State news coverage is decent. Too many ads of other podcasts.

I’ve been a fan of the California Report for at least a decade. Unfortunately this podcast version is larded up with promos for other, less-interesting KQED content and podcasts. Please figure out how to deliver an increased amount of daily California news stories, and edit down the podcast version so that It isn’t 50% promos and other housekeeping.

Dropping this one. In order to get a bit of info that’s specific to my native state, and because I go out of my way to get a broad range of viewpoints from my news sources, this centrist has long endured the extreme left tone of this podcast’s content, as well as its increasing reliance on folks whose verbal articulation skills are marginal at best. But now, the numerous promotions of other shows, begging for financial support, and interruptions have become so intrusive, that I’m pretty much done. One minute of intro ads, an ad break after a minute or two of content (really? it’s only a few minutes long!), and then another 2+ minutes of ads at the end. Again, they’re only delivering 6-7 minutes of actual content! It’s such an unpleasant listen that I just find myself avoiding it altogether. So why subscribe at all?

I originally started listening to this podcast for two reasons 1) to get a daily California news compliment to my national news intake and 2) ingest this in a quick format (most episodes were shorter than 7 minutes). Unfortunately, over the last few months #2 is no longer happening. Most episodes, when I get time to listen in the afternoons, are now closer to 15 minutes. Monday’s episode was a whopping 22 minutes! This is three times as long as I need or expect them to be, especially when they are covering things that aren’t what I’d consider “hard news” like book reviews and rehashing topics that don’t have significant updates. This has unfortunately made this podcast no longer something I can prioritize daily as a working mom and I will no longer be listening. Instead of making the episodes longer, I wish that KQED would release bonus episodes or specials to cover the topics that aren’t as timely or heavily rooted in news. As for #1, it’s still mostly true - although I have been confused as of late about the things *not* being covered by the California Report, like the recent school board recall election in SF which received national news media attention but has yet to be mentioned on this podcast. Unfortunately, exacerbated by the fact that I’ve been a bit perplexed at the topics being covered, the remaining benefits of #1 are not enough to outweigh my issues with #2. I don’t normally provide feedback to podcasts via reviews as I’d like to give them an opportunity to address privately, but unfortunately could not find a feedback form for the podcast on KQEDs website and felt compelled to share why they were losing a listener as I imagine I’m not alone in this sentiment and I want new listeners to have their expectations set accordingly.

It’s an injustice against the citizens of California to lie about the state of life and politics here. Californians know we are leading the nation off a cliff, and this outlet is refusing to address it because it’s been at the hands of Democrats. As long as California news outlets ignore the truth, we ignore them. One star, libtards