garth trinidad steps up at kcrw in l.a.

Longtime KCRW DJ Garth Trinidad is stepping up to the L.A.-area (89.9 FM) station's 8-10 weeknight slot left vacant by the promotion of Jason Bentley to the station's music director position, it was announced today. Trinidad, host of the late show called "Chocolate City" and the DJ credited with breaking Jill Scott and Macy Gray, was a weeknight DJ but reduced his frequency to Saturdays only when he started a family nearly five years ago.

"Here it is, almost five years later, and my kids are a little bigger, and now I have the opportunity to carry the evening torch again," Trinidad says. "I can’t wait to use this daily time slot to spread my wings as a programmer and sink my teeth into music in a way I never have."

He'll start Dec. 1. Jason Eldredge will take Trinidad's 6-9 p.m. Saturday show. Bentley, by the way, already seems to be giving a little music direction when he states that Trinidad "he will have the opportunity to transcend the more specialized mode of his current show."