ON AIR & ONLINE SEPTEMBER 2017

The End of Car Talk Morning Show Changes Marylee Williams Power of Story

Featured Photo Get ready for cooler weather with the all new WPR knit hat during WPR's fall membership drive. Support the programs you love with a

More Pilot Episodes from WPR Next's Entertain Us gift during the drive (September 22 - 30). WPR Next is our content incubator, where we foster talent to Celebrate 100 years of produce new programs for the next 100 years of broadcasting in information and Wisconsin. Last spring, listeners enjoyed pilot episodes from four inspiration with your gift WPR Next projects. This fall, two of those pilots, Entertain Us and today! BETA, will offer second pilots.

Now through early October, we're featuring Entertain Us, hosted by Sound Bites Chris Malina and Haleema Shah (pictured). Entertain Us is a pop- culture clearinghouse with a Wisconsin point of view. This episode "New in Blue" includes a look at Hollywood's obsession with the apocalypse and Airs Tonight on News & the art of the mixtape. Classical Music Network You'll hear Entertain Us during the next two weeks, playing at a WPR Reporter Bridgit variety of times, on both The Ideas Network and NPR News & Bowden spent six months Classical Music Network. We invite you to tune in or listen anytime taking an in-depth look at online at wpr.org/entertainus. We also have a brief survey so you policing through the eyes can tell us what you think of Entertain Us and what you'd like to hear of new Madison Police from WPR Next. Check it out, and let us know what you think! Department recruits in training. Tune in to the NPR News & Classical Car Talk Ends Music Network tonight at Production, Bullseye 6:30 p.m. to hear her 30- Begins in October minute documentary, "New in Blue," or listen online anytime. After 40 years and a million miles of humor, companionship and advice, Car Talk is ending "First Wisconsinites" production this month. The show Series on Central Time officially ended production of new Tune in to Central Time content in 2012, but the program each afternoon October continued to find success using 2-6 for a new series, outtakes and fan favorites, "First Wisconsinites: rebroadcast as The Best of Car Dispatches from Native Talk. American Life in Wisconsin Today." Learn The NPR program, produced by WBUR in Boston, made Click and about innovations in Clack household names and weekend favorites on public radio education, health, art and stations around the nation. Tom and Ray Magliozzi ---- the "Tappet more in the state's Native Brothers" ---- had a love of humor, cars and family that made them communities. two of the most popular hosts in public radio history.

The Best of Car Talk's final broadcast on WPR will be heard this New Wisconsin Sunday, September 24, at 11 a.m. on The Ideas Network. NPR and Life Season Begins WBUR have announced that repeats of the program will be available on Wisconsin Public on CarTalk.com and as a podcast. Television Next month brings a new Beginning Sunday, October 1, The Best of Car Talk will be replaced season on Wisconsin with the pop-culture interview show Bullseye, hosted by Jesse Public Television's Thorne. Each week, the show features interviews with authors, Wisconsin Life, and musicians, actors and others who share their creative process and there's plenty to get projects. It's funny, insightful and original ---- if you love To the Best of excited about, including a Our Knowledge and Fresh Air, give Bullseye a try, and let us know new host to guide the what you think. way! Angela Fitzgerald joins as the show's first host, inviting viewers BEHIND THE SCENES along to visit new locations and introducing new stories from every corner of Wisconsin. Learn more about Fitzgerald here, and tune in October 5 at 7 p.m. for the start of the new season!

Notice of Change to WPRA Bylaws The board of the Wisconsin Public Radio Kate Archer Kent Takes Helm at The Morning Show Association recently amended the bylaws of Last month, we announced that Joy Cardin plans to retire after more the association. than 30 years in radio, including 14 years hosting The Joy Cardin Reviewing the Show. As we wish Cardin a happy retirement, you might be organization's bylaws is a wondering what you'll hear next on weekday mornings on The Ideas basic part of every Network. We are excited to announce that Kate Archer Kent board's legal duties. Well- (pictured) will step in as interim host of The Morning Show starting drafted bylaws signal a Monday, October 2. well-governed organization, which is an As WPR's current fill-in host, Kent is well positioned to take the mic. important factor for Akin to a pinch hitter on a baseball team, she has experience internal and external stepping in for hosts on both WPR networks. Before joining WPR stakeholders, including last year, Kent worked at Red River Radio in Shreveport, La., where members-at-large, she launched the station's news division. On the weekends, you can potential board members, find the Minneapolis native making her way through visiting all 200 donors and regulators. of Madison's parks with her husband and four young children. You can read an overview of the changes "Through the years, Joy created a safe and respectful environment and see the WPRA for ideas to be exchanged and for people's viewpoints to be heard," bylaws anytime at said Kent. "We're looking forward to continuing this mission and wpra.org. keeping the engaging conversation alive."

During this transition period, you'll continue to hear your favorite Quick Links segments from The Joy Cardin Show, including "On Your Money," "State Capitol Report" and "Week in Review." "Tell Joy Where to WPR Online Go" will also continue under the new name "Wisconsin Weekend." Donate Now Over the coming months, you may also hear new and different segments as we take this time to experiment. WPR will conduct a WisContext national search for a morning show host this fall, with a new show NPR Online expected to launch in early 2018.

Tune in to to The Ideas Network October 2 from 6-9 a.m. for Kent's Listen Live to Ideas first day on The Morning Show Ideas Schedule , which will include the segment "Mondays with Mike" with WPR Director Mike Crane. Listen Live to NPR News & Music [Photo credit: Stick People Productions] NPR News & Music Schedule Meet WPR's New Lee Ester News Fellow Be Part of WPR's Online Community That new voice on the air just may be WPR's new Lee Ester Fellow, Marylee Williams. A graduate from the University of California- Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Williams has professional experience as a producer for PRX and the Center for Investigative Reporting's Reveal and at KALW in San Francisco.

The nine-month fellowship is named in memory of journalist Lee Ester. The fellowship provides early-career journalists hands-on experience with WPR's award-winning news team.

What can we expect from Williams' reporting? "Accuracy and touching personal moments," she said. "I'm very passionate about what audio does best: intimacy."

[Photo credit: Stick People Productions]

AROUND WISCONSIN Our Biggest Centennial Event with NPR, This American Life and More Favorites

Celebrate WPR's centennial with a live event at Madison's Overture Center on Saturday, October 14. It's a night of stories, music, conversation and more, emceed by Ari Shapiro, host of NPR's All Things Considered.

Explore how stories have the power to inform and inspire our lives and the world around us. Hear personal stories of Wisconsin, learn how NPR reporters craft the stories you love, see WPR's history come alive, and join in a live Let's Sing finale.

Performers include: Ari Shapiro, All Things Considered Host Brian Reed, S-Town Creator/Host & This American Life Sr. Producer Anne Strainchamps, To the Best of Our Knowledge Host Dr. Jonathan Overby, Higher Ground Host Kimberly Blaeser, Former Wisconsin Poet Laureate Dasha Kelly Hamilton, Storyteller & The Moth StorySLAM Host Bill Siemering, NPR's First Program Director Max Garland, Former Wisconsin Poet Laureate Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra Quartet

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