OCTOBER 2019 PROGRAM GUIDE Stations Help WAMC Go Green! from alan You may elect to stop receiving our paper Monthly column from Alan Chartock. WAMC, 90.3 FM, Albany, NY program guide, and view it on wamc.org. PAGE 2 WAMC 1400 AM, Albany, NY Call us to be removed from the WAMK, 90.9 FM, Kingston, NY paper mailing list: 1-800-323-9262 ext. 133 PROGRAM NOTES WOSR, 91.7 FM, Middletown, NY PAGE 3 WCEL, 91.9 FM, Plattsburgh, NY PROGRAM SCHEDULE WCAN, 93.3 FM, Canajoharie, NY Our weekly schedule of programming. WANC, 103.9 FM, Ticonderoga, NY PAGE 4 WRUN-FM, 90.3 FM, Remsen- WAMC Staff Utica, NY WAMQ, 105.1 FM, Great Barrington, WAMC Executive Staff LIVE AT THE LINDA BROADCAST MA Alan Chartock | President and CEO WWES, 88.9 FM, Mt. Kisco, NY SCHEDULE Joe Donahue | Roundtable Host/ Senior WANR, 88.5 FM, Brewster, NY Advisor Listen to your favorite shows on air after WANZ, 90.1, Stamford, NY they have been at The Linda. 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W211CE, 90.1 FM, Oneonta, NY W257BL, 99.3 FM, Oneonta, NY wamc.org The WAMC transmitter is located atop W240CR, 95.9 FM, Peekskill, NY Mount Greylock in Adams, MA. The W226AC, 93.1 FM, Rensselaer- Phone: 1-800-323-9262 WAMC-AM transmitter is located in Albany, Troy, NY E-mail: [email protected] NY. WAMK’s transmitter is located on W225BM , 92.9 FM, Scotia, NY Web: www.wamc.org Overlook Mountain, Woodstock, NY. W296BD, 107.1 FM, Warwick, NY Facebook: www.facebook.com/WAMCradio Twitter: twitter.com/WAMCRadio 2 WAMC PROGRAM GUIDE OCTOBER 2019 3 FROM ALAN ALAN CHARTOCK some of you say when you see me on the street. You say that you wake up with us and listen to Tanglewood with us. Deep down in your hearts, you know that it has always been you who has made this station what it is -- breathed life into it and kept it alive under the most dire of circumstances. Every once in a while, we hear from someone who says that they heard something or someone on the station that they didn’t like and says, “I’m turning the dial” or “I’ll never give you another dime.” These are often people who say that we are too mean to Donald Trump and yet these same people write to us sometimes ten times a day. Something is not connected. Like I said, that’s the way it is in families. Photo by Eric Korenman It really is so simple: if you love it, you’ll support it. We are family but we also deliver something of real value. Think The Locked Box is open. The day the reaction to that about everyone who heard something on Medical Mon- statement is “so what” or “ho hum,” we are in real trouble day that has been of real value to them. I recently heard and I mean REAL trouble. This is not a New York or Los from someone who is so impressed with our Thursday Angeles station that brings in a hundred million dollars a Conversations program that he wants to help collect them year. This is WAMC which we all made together, right? and publish them as a book. Said this man, a well-known I meet so many of you in the co-op or Guidos or just out editor, “I’m busy, I don’t want to listen but I carry the radio on the street. The older I get, the nicer people are to me. I from room to room because it is so compelling.” am always grateful for the kind words folks offer. So many Hey folks, I’m depending on you to keep us going. We of you say that you’ve got our backs or that you appreci- can’t do it without you. We’re all in this together. Together ate my hard work, or you tell me about Joe Donahue or we’ve made it happen, let’s keep this love affair going. Ray Graf or David Guistina. I get letters now from all over Put something in the Locked Box! Thanks. the country from people telling me that they are addicted to WAMC and listen all the time, no matter where they are. Quite frequently what I hear is that you, or someone like you, loves what you call the “personality” or “charac- ter” of the station. I think that is accurate. This station has character. Consider the morning Panel and Rosemary Armeo who has a lot to say, most of which, but not all of which, is right on. When we thought up the Roundtable or the Panel part of the show, we wanted it to be interactive. That’s why your letters (we get hundreds every day) are sooo important. We do not read every letter on the air but we try to pick out those that are most representative of all sides on a particular question. We also get lots of letters that ask things like, “Why are the women on the panel always picking on Alan?” or vice versa. That, of course, is what makes the program so much fun. Inevitably, no mat- ter what critical comments there are about any or all of us, the letter will end with something like, “Don’t get me wrong, I love the Roundtable.” That’s what makes the sta- tion so special. Like I said, it has “character.” We all know that this station is family. Don’t poo-poo that. I’m not making it up. I know it because that’s what at least 2 WAMC PROGRAM GUIDE OCTOBER 2019 3 PROGRAM NOTES TINA RENICK It’s officially light jacket weather. We’ve greeted some This Month on The Academic Minute we’ll feature univer- cool days with a few final hot ones holding on; but as the sity takeover weeks by the University of Richmond and coffee shops, storefronts and trees have announced, fall Butler University. They’ll feature topics such as healthy with all its colors and flavors has arrived (and so has our lifestyles changes, tolerance on Facebook and how to October Fund Drive!). preserve our National Parks in a warming world. We’ll also hear segments during October on Gentelligence, fast Fall also means an uptick in political news with another fashion, life satisfaction and how virtual reality interviews election season looming On Oct. 15, WAMC will broad- can help those with intellectual disabilities. Tune in every cast live coverage of the fourth Democratic presidential Monday-Friday at 7:30 a.m. and 3:56 p.m. to hear the debates (and possibly also on Oct. 16, based on the latest cutting-edge research from the academy. https:// number of candidates). More details to come. academicminute.org/ Our October Fund Drive starts on the 21st, but the Be sure to subscribe to the WAMC News Podcast. We Locked Box is already open! You can help us reach our post new episodes twice a week, featuring our most goal and shorten the drive by visiting our pledge page, interesting stories from across the Northeast, in-depth saying "Yes, I support WAMC and I'm putting something interviews with newsmakers, and other special segments. in today," and donating before the drive begins. If you love Midday Magazine and Northeast Report but can’t always listen on air, the WAMC News Podcast is a This month on Person Place Thing host Randy Cohen will perfect way to catch up! https://wamcpodcasts.org/wamc- speak with Michael Pollan, Signe Nielsen, Tensie Whelan news-podcast/ and Massimo Pigliucci about their favorite topics. Airing Fridays at 10:30 p.m. Sign up for Airwaves, our weekly newsletter, for program updates and follow us on Twitter @WAMCRadio, Face- Coming up at The Linda, WAMC's Performing Arts Studio: book @WAMCradio and Instagram @wamcradio for the The 4th annual New York State International Film Festival latest news and station info. is a 2-day festival celebrating local, national and interna- tional short films including experimental films, dramas, comedies, documentaries, horror, animation and action. The festival takes place Oct. 11 at 6 p.m.-Oct. 12 at 11: p.m. Presented in 5.1 Surround, The Rochmon Record Club will converge to listen and learn about The Beatles’ 11th album “Abbey Road” at its 50th Anniversary, with a re-release and remixed version of "Abbey Road" (by Giles Martin – George’s son); and we will end the month with an evening with Eilen Jewell Oct. 20 at 7 p.m. More events and all tickets are available for purchase online at https://www.thelinda.org/events/.