FEBRUARY 2018 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 mailing list: WAMK, 90.9 FM, Kingston, NY 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 WAMC Staff Our weekly schedule of programming. WANC, 103.9 FM, Ticonderoga, NY PAGE 4 WRUN-FM, 90.3 FM, Remsen- WAMC Executive Staff Utica, NY WAMQ, 105.1 FM, Great Barrington, Alan Chartock | President and CEO LIVE AT THE LINDA BROADCAST MA Joe Donahue | Senior Director of WWES, 88.9 FM, Mt. Kisco, NY News and Programming Stacey Rosenberry | Director of Operations SCHEDULE WANR, 88.5 FM, Brewster, NY and Engineering Listen to your favorite shows on air after WANZ, 90.1, Stamford, NY they have been at The Linda. Holly Urban | Chief Financial Officer PAGE 5 Translators At the linda Management Staff PAGE 6 W280DJ, 103.9 FM, Beacon, NY Carl Blackwood | The Linda Manager W247BM, 97.3 FM, Cooperstown, Kristin Gilbert | Program Director and NY Traffic Manager program descriptions W292ES, 106.3 FM, Dover Plains, Melissa Kees | Underwriting Manager PAGE 7 NY Ashleigh Kinsey | Digital Media W243BZ, 96.5 FM, Ellenville, NY Administrator W271BF, 102.1 FM, Highland, NY Colleen O’Connell | Fund Drive our UNDERWRITERS Manager W246BJ, 97.1 FM, Hudson, NY PAGE 11 Ian Pickus | News Director W204CJ, 88.7 FM, Lake Placid, NY Amber Sickles | Membership Director W292DX, 106.3 FM, Middletown, NY WAMC-FM broadcasts 365 days a year W215BG, 90.9 FM, Milford, PA WAMC to eastern New York and western New W299AG, 107.7 FM, Newburgh, NY Box 66600 England on 90.3 MHz. Our studios and Albany, NY 12206-6600 offices are in Albany, NY. 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 February 2018 3 FROM ALAN ALAN CHARTOCK Well, the fund drive raised two million dollars. That’s Of course there are always traditions. As we were ending incredible. Two million dollars! We had to buy that tower the drive, someone called and said, “I want to hear the on top of Mount Greylock once we knew it would be story!” The story, of course, is how the station got started available. If someone else had gotten the tower and we and rose out of nothing. There we were in 1979. The were required to move OUR ANTENNA– even just a few Albany Medical College (that’s the “AMC” in WAMC) was feet – it could have been disastrous. We would have been going broke. They had used the station as a teaching tool obligated to reapply to the Federal Communications Com- for two-way medical conferences. Doctors gathered in mission for our license and we might well have lost our emergency rooms with two-way radios and were told how grandfather status on the tower which permits us to reach to do various surgeries and procedures. Years later an old so many of our listeners. man came up to me and said, “You’ve got a pretty good station there but not as good as when they would tell us When we finished the drive I was filled with incredible how to take out a gall bladder.” gratitude for everything that all of you did to help. We all were. It is no secret that there were plenty of people who Anyway, it started when I first heard the station in 1979. thought we couldn’t do it and, out of love, said so. They I called to ask if I could do a weekly politics show and thought it was too heavy a lift and suggested that we bor- found out the station had hit the skids. So we had that row the money. I said that I knew that you would come first historic fund drive to “Save Our Station (SOS)” with through and you did. If we had borrowed the money, we astounding results. I was on the air all day long and the would have been paying back a lot of interest for a long money came in big time. But then the guy running the time. Not only did you do it, but you did it in the same time station said I wasn’t needed anymore and boy was I de- it has taken us to garner half that amount in previous fund pressed. I had found the thing I wanted to do most in the drives. It is my hope that we’ll never have to do that again. world but I was out. Joe Donahue was magnificent. He is a very smart man. I was on the train going down to New York to consult with He and Colleen O’Connell arranged all the partnerships the New York City Police Commissioner, Patrick V. Mur- that allowed your pledge to do double duty, helping the phy. I was really depressed. I decided to get a V8 in the homeless, providing diapers for babies in need, and pro- bar car and when I came out with my drink, there was an viding healthful community meals for the food insecure. older guy sitting there. He recognized me and I told him my rather sad story. That was Dr. Alan Miller and he said The fund drives themselves are always fun. It’s a time to he thought he could help us since he was the Associate get together and share our lives and stories and likes and Dean of the Albany Medical College, the licensee. There’s dislikes. It’s a time for humor, too. Ray Graf is simply the a lot more to the story but not enough time to tell it here. If funniest man I know. His talent is limitless. He is so smart. you listen to the next fund drive, you’ll hear the best part I just love working with the guy. He is dedicated to making of the whole saga. Tune in! a fund drive run smoothly. Every morning when I come in very early he is always there. When we start to trade lov- In the meantime, thanks for all you have to done to keep ing insults, David Guistina always says, “Boys, boys, save the station on track. We truly love you all. it for the show!” 2 WAMC PROGRAM GUIDE February 2018 3 PROGRAM NOTES KRISTIN GILBERT Join us Monday, February 19th as we celebrate Presi- wrote his own essays in response to their lives. Plus: The dent’s Day and Black History Month with special program- first presidents lived long lives for that era, with most of ming: them living into their 80’s or even 90’s. Rebecca Brannon says that they may have been mistaken in the expectation 9AM-Presidential Essentials 2018 that they would be given respect after office, based on The highs and lows of presidential history told through a their longevity and lifetime experiences. variety of music, comedy, sounds, and voices from FDR to Obama and Trump, plus eventful remembrances of Later in the show: Sue Purdue and Kathleen Williams Washington and Jefferson. describe the scope of the remarkable project of the National Archives called Founders Online. Plus: Some Witness the antics of The Capitol Steps, Jay Leno, Dennis of the proofreaders who spent three years immersed in Miller, George Carlin, Chevy Chase, and John Toomey. the handwriting of the founding fathers came away with Hear Stan Freberg lampoon George Washington, James a very intimate understanding of those who shaped our Whitmore play Harry Truman, Charlie Warren imperson- country. ate Jimmy Carter, and Rich Little play Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan. Hear Ronald and Nancy Reagan in the Coming up this month on the Metropolitan Opera Satur- movies, the real voices of FDR, Truman, Eisenhhower, day Matinee Broadcasts: Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush Saturday, February 10th @1PM-L’Elisir d’Amore (Doni- 1, Clinton, Obama, and Trump, plus The Capitol Steps' zetti) version of Bush 2, Obama, and Trump. Epochal music by Pretty Yende debuts a new role at the Met with her first Dave Brubeck, Fleetwood Mac, Duke Ellington, Kenny G, Adina opposite Matthew Polenzani, who enthralled Met Burt Bacharach, and more. audiences as Nemorino in 2013 with his ravishing “Una furtiva lagrima.” Bartlett Sher’s production is charming, 10AM-Say it Loud: Great Speeches on Civil Rights and with deft comedic timing, but also emotionally revealing. African American Identity Domingo Hindoyan conducts. "Say It Loud" traces the last 50 years of black history Saturday, February 17th @12PM—Parsifal (Wagner) through stirring, historically important speeches by Afri- can Americans from across the political spectrum. With Met Music Director Designate Yannick Nézet-Séguin recordings unearthed from libraries and sound archives, conducts Wagner’s transcendental score, in François and made widely available here for the first time, "Say It Girard’s remarkable production, a mystical theatrical Loud" includes landmark speeches by Malcolm X, Lor- journey.