Airwaves (1988-03 And
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Airwaves KUMD 103.3 FM - The Sound Alternative i\ Service of Continuing Education and Extension l nin·r,it., of :\linnl·,ota-D11l11th l\larch-,\pril 1988 \'oh11nl' 1J, :\11111her 2 New on weekends: Car Talk, Whad'Ya Know? and more! 7.-ao a.-oo Plus: Bill Evans: An Audio Portrait Prime Time Women: A Radio Class for Credit Another Face of Jazz Breaking the Silence: Voices on Battered Women Report to the Listener b~' Paul Schmitz, Station Manager s the cover of this issue of KUMD Community Advisory chaotic. What we are trying to do down. With any luck at all, how- A Airwaves indicates, we are Board, our volunteer staff, other is to create a schedule that has ever, we will begin to knock down making some program changes public radio stations' experiences built-in opportunities for experi- a few walls and install some of again, this time mostly on week- and suggestions, and our own best menting with new programs. Let our new audio consoles and tape ends. Change has become one of intuitions. us know what you like and dislike recorders within the next two to the fun aspects of working at The only alternative to change about these most recent innova- four months. Production will be KUMD--and one of the frustrating is stagnation and conservatism- tions. somewhat disrupted during con- ones as well. always doing things the same way Another kind of change which struction, but the end result We realize that program at the same time, etc. My sense is is also fun and frustrating is the should be better quality sound for changes are always a bit risky and that KUMD should be adventure- growth of the station's facilities you, with smoother operations for that we can never please everyone. some and experimental, that and equipment. We expected to the on-air staff. We'll update you But we do try to take into consid- change should be almost a routine be a bit further along with our periodically on these exciting im- eration a variety of points of view part of the annual progress of the control room renovation project provements in your radio station. as represented by many people: station-within limits, of course! by now, but the planners within Stay tuned. you the listeners, members of the Too much change would be the University have slowed us Cover Story segments also deal with important New programs to join weekend line up in March! facts. THEY ARE NOT TRIVIA QUIZZES, insists Feldman. "We Solving America's Car Troubles "Click and Clack, the was the Auger. Hole Society, any- don't do trivia," says Feldman. Tappet Brothers," who take way?' Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya "Trivia is small. This is big. This their name from the Know? is produced by Wisconsin is my livelihood." clicketyclack sound made by aging Public Radio and is broadcast live "This is a nation that's been rroarsqueea autos, have counseled radio on KUMD Saturday mornings at swept by trivia," he continues. listeners about car woes for over a 10 a.m. "We do . .. .the opposite of trivia decade. They got their star.t in Michael Feldman knows about . ..significa . We want to squelch clickclack 1976, when they were asked to the burning questions of the day. trivia once and for all. Thanks to participate in a WBUR-FM/Boston Feldman, a native of Milwaukee, "Trivial Pursuit" the guy you used talk show on car repairs. Tom Wisconsin, taught high school for to hide from at a party - the one tappatappa accepted the invitation, and when several years before launching his who knew Marlene Dietrich's shoe he was invited back the next radio career in the late 70's as size -- has now replaced the dip as week, brought his brother along. host of an early-morning radio the center of attention." The Magliozzis subsequently were show. He came to Wisconsin Pub- Pretty strong stuff. And t·cktick asked to host their own weekly lic Radio in 1981 to produce and Feldman means it. The quiz cate- car program, Car Talk. host the Saturday comedy show gories deal with meaty stuff such ee-ee-eee Over the years, Car Talk at- High Noon, and, in 1983, created and as Current Events, Odds 'n' Ends, tracted a large local following, and produced A.M. Saturday, which People, Presidents, Science, and in 1987 "Click and Clack" reached evolved into Whad'Ya Know? Things You Should Have Learned car talk an even broader audience, when Whad'Ya Know? features call-in in School. Not only will listeners ar Talk hosts Tom and Ray NPR's Susan Stamberg invited quizzes, special guests, and com- laugh a lot, they'll also learn a lot. C Magliozzi know how to take them to contribute regularly to edy by host Feldman. Whad'Ya Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya the fear out of car repair and find Weekend Edition on Sundays. Know? is, in Feldman's words, Know? is funny, informative, the fun in engine failure. Every The Magliozzi brothers share "something of a quiz show, some- provocative, and helps build week, these uninhibited Boston car advice in the broad accents of thing of a variety show, done be- strong bodies twelve ways. brothers mix wisecracks with muf- the tough East Cambridge neigh- fore a live audience with their Michael Feldman is a master of fler problems and word puzzles borhood where they grew up. participation, but directed toward witty repartee, and his guests are with wheel alignment, as they dis- Tom, 50, and Ray, 38, both re- the listening audience via phone real people, not tedious media pense automotive first aid to pub- ceived degrees from the Mas- participation. Cross Larry King celebrities. So the show is always lic radio listeners. sachusetts Institute of Technology with Groucho and what do you unpredictable. You never know Since Car Talk's Oct. 31 debut and later opened the Good News get? I don't know, but it isn't what will happen, except that it on National Public Radio, "Click Garage in Cambridge, Mass. Ray, pretty. Thank God it's on radio .. will be funny. Very funny. and Clack, the Tappet Brothers" a former VISTA volunteer, still " have shared their brand of car runs the shop, while Tom teaches Feldman opens every show sympathy with listeners all over marketing at Boston University. with an anecdote or observation the country. on current events, and asks the Car Talk airs on KUMD on A Comedy Quiz Show! audience the question that is on Underwriters Saturday at 7 a.m. beginning everyone's mind: "Well, whad'ya March 5th. know?', and the audience enthusi- he following firms have pro- Like the local Car Talk, pro- astically responds with the time- T vided funds to help under- duced since 1976 by WBUR- honored reply, "Not much, you?'. write the acquisition and broad- FM/Boston, the new national one- The heart of the show is Feld- cast of the indicated programs. hour program i-s irreverent, infor- man's interaction with guests, stu- KUMD appreciates their partici- mative, unscripted, and unre- dio audience members, and ·callers. pation in quality public broadcast- hearsed. The Magliozzis answer .Feldman likes to find his humor ing for our area. callers' questions, review new cars in the people who come to the they have test driven, and propose studio and those who call in, and The Arrowhead Regional Arts Council merica is a nation in the listeners are also encouraged to - ------Arts Reporting a weekly automotive puzzler: a ' throes of a crisis. contest in which listeners are chal- A correspond by postcard. Feldman The Duluth News-Tribune...-Morning A trivia crisis. is a master of witty, deadpan hu- Edition lenged to diagnose a mechanical All about us we look, and we problem based on a list of mor. For example, about devotees The Duluth-Superior Area Community find people writing and reading of winter sports he has said: "Talk Foundation--Arts and Global symptoms. books about unimportant things, As brothers and long-time about avid skiers_ I saw one Issues Reporting playing games the object of which bumper sticker that read, 'Pray for Miller-Dwan Medical Center-For the workers, Tom and Ray don't hesi- is to give answers to questions tate to disagree with each other Nuclear Winter'." Birds and the Nature of Things about unimportant things, listen- Feldman makes phone calls out Minnesota Power _ _ _ All Things on Car Talk, cheerfully calling ing to people talk about unimpor- each other names ("Piston Puss," to experts in various fields, reads Considered and Johq Bear- tant things on radio, and watching comical stories from the news, an- grease Reporting "Fender Face"), and playfully dub- people talk about unimportant bing the program "As the Wrench swers letters, interviews "authority The Music Center-----Symphooy things on television. figures," and profiles America's Previews Turns." They .admit a preference Soon, there will be trivia for large American cars (which "Town of the Week," which is cho- St. Louis County Federal Savings and movies, trivia records, trivia Loan ____Morning Edition they call "Imperial Star Cruisers") sen by an audience member stores, and trivia clubs. Is there throwing a dart at a giant map of and poke fun at everything from no escape? "Generic Motors" to "Yugo" ("I'll the United States. This support of programs There is. For starting on Whad'Ya Know? also features heard on KUMD deserves your stay here, Yugo to Europe to get March 5th, KUMD will air the the parts").