Nic Harcourt was born on September 23,1957 and is an English-born American radio and television presenter, producer, and journalist best known as the former Music Director and on-air presenter for the Santa Monica, California-based radio station KCRW.
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Nic Harcourt was credited with helping to launch Coldplay's career as well as those of Norah Jones, Sigur Ros, David Gray, Adele, Arctic Monkeys, and Metric.
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On November 10,2008, Nic Harcourt announced that he would be leaving his role with Morning Becomes Eclectic and resigning as music director for KCRW as of November 30,2008, while taking on a new show on Sundays.
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Harcourt continued to do his Sunday show at KCRW until June 2011, when he took on a new show at KCSN called Connections with Nic Harcourt Harcourt was hoping that he could have done his shows on both stations as he was not getting paid by KCSN.
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On October 19,2012 Nic Harcourt debuted his weekday morning show on KCSN, called Mornings Are Electric.
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Nic Harcourt became Music Supervisor in residence for MTV in March 2011 and many thought he left KCRW for this reason due to a press release from KCRW mentioning his new job.
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Nic Harcourt denied this in an interview with the Los Angeles Times and said the real reason he had to leave KCRW was because of his new show on KCSN and that KCRW management would not let him do shows on both stations.
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Nic Harcourt was the American national voice over talent from 2005 thru 2008 for the Land Rover advertising campaign.
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Nic Harcourt has served as Editor at Large: Music and Culture for LA: The Los Angeles Times Magazine.
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Nic Harcourt produced and hosted a short-lived live performance music website called TheLiveBuzz in the fall of 2010 and was the first Music Supervisor in Residence at MTV.