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DECEMBER 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 Our weekly schedule of programming. WANC, 103.9 FM, Ticonderoga, NY WAMC Executive Staff PAGE 4 WRUN-FM, 90.3 FM, Remsen- Utica, NY Alan Chartock | President and CEO WAMQ, 105.1 FM, Great Barrington, Joe Donahue | Senior Director of LIVE AT THE LINDA BROADCAST MA News and Programming SCHEDULE WWES, 88.9 FM, Mt. Kisco, NY Stacey Rosenberry | Director of Opera- WANR, 88.5 FM, Brewster, NY tions and Engineering Listen to your favorite shows on air after WANZ, 90.1, Stamford, NY they have been at The Linda. 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I pointed out that New York already had a lot of people and a scarcity of housing that would only be made worse by adding 25,000 new bodies. He answered that other localities, including New Jersey, had offered even more money and he suggested that if you did the math, New York comes out way ahead. In fact, he Photo credit: Eric Korenman showed a little glimpse of Mario-type humor when he sug- gested that if New York lost in the war over Amazon, the “So who let the dogs out?” press would have criticized him for that. Andrew Cuomo seems to have turned over a new leaf. If you are a Freudian you might be interested in his con- The common wisdom is that the man had a penchant stant humorous putdowns of his brother, Chris. As Freud for keeping his enemies in the doghouse, well, forever. is often quoted (perhaps inaccurately), “There is no joke.” That was not his late father’s way. I know that because I was Mario’s weekly interlocutor for a lot of years. Oh, you His weakest answer involved the closing down of the could tick off Mario but sooner or later, he would let you Moreland Act Commission a number of years back. This out of the doghouse. There was the time, for instance, was the group he and Eric Schneiderman (remember when he said after a testy interchange, “Is that what you him?) put together to root out corruption. As that group think?” I said, “Yes sir,” to which he replied, “Who cares?” got closer to ground zero, the governor folded it. He said he could do it because he got what he wanted out of the Now that Andrew has overwhelmingly won his third term, two legislative leaders who have subsequently both been he seems to be opening the doors of the doghouse. To sentenced to jail. put it mildly, he and I have not always gotten along that well. I have been writing and talking about some of his The point is that he gave the best answers he had and perceived transgressions and he has refused to partici- even though not all of them worked, you had to admire pate on the 29 public radio stations that I head. There are him for bringing his best. One can only wonder why it took people out there who believe that I have it out for him. As him so long to get to this point. Obviously, this is a better his father would humorously say to me with a twinkle in side of Andrew than most of us have seen in the past. his eye, “I deny that.” Once Cuomo Senior told me that Can personality and character change? We’ll find out. As his dog Ginger thought of me as a “fire hydrant with a for me, I suspect that our newfound relationship won’t last neck tie.” forever but, hey, what does? Andrew and I had a common friend in Drew Zambelli, who just passed. My bet is that In any event, the other day during the Roundtable panel Drew had been counseling him for a long time to show on WAMC, there was a furious knocking on the studio this better side. door. The folks in the newsroom beckoned me out to tell me breathlessly that the governor was asking to do an interview with me. So we did it on our syndicated Capi- tol Connection program and it was well received. The 2 WAMC PROGRAM GUIDE DECEMBER 2018 3 PROGRAM NOTES PATRICK GARRETT Tis the season for special programming. Starting Dec. 1, WAMC listeners can catch the start of the 2018-19 Toll Brothers Metropolitan Opera International Ra- dio Network broadcast season. First up is the February 2000 recording of Mefistofele. Continuing every Sunday until May 11th, the Met Opera will air on WAMC and its affiliated transmitters. A holiday tradition at WAMC, NPR’s Hanukkah Lights will air during the Roundtable at 11 a.m. on Dec. 3. A perennial favorite, Hanukkah Lights features all new stories written by R.L. Maizes, Lia Pripstein, Elisa Albert, and Ellen Orleans. It’s hosted by Susan Stamberg and Murray Horwitz. Dec. 10 at 11 a.m. for the last day of Hanukkah, from American Public Media, it’s Candles Burning Brightly. Mindy Rat- ner hosts this holiday favorite and exploration of Hanukkah foods and traditional activities — and plenty of music. Join WAMC News for a weeklong series looking at police accountability and police-community relations during Midday Magazine. The news series starts December 10th. Christmas Eve starts off with an airing of Selected Shorts Gift Set 2018: Tough Love For The Holidays. Guest host Robert Sean Leonard introduces the unusual holiday program, which mixes tradition with humor. A WAMC favorite will return this holiday season. A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols will air live at 11 a.m. Pipe- dreams host Michael Barone presents this spoken-word and music broadcast from the chapel of King's College in Cambridge, England. Then at 2 p.m., Hollywood Holiday from American Public Media. Lynne Warfel, host of Saturday Cinema, takes you on a one-hour musical retrospective of some of Hollywood's most cherished Christmas-themed movies. Christmas Day leads with The Andy Williams Christmas Special at 9 a.m. Host and producer Jim Raposa has as- sembled the best of the best from Williams' eight Christmas themed albums along with rare in-person and telephone interviews with this legendary entertainer and ambassador of the season. Then at 10 a.m. WAMC’s Tim Coakley will host a jazz special. Tim will explore the music of jazz in the season of joy. And, at 2 p.m. WAMC’s A New York Minute In History presents a special episode on the Dutch settlement of New Netherland. This program schedule subject to change. For most 4 WAMC PROGRAM GUIDE accurate information please visit wamc.org/schedule. DECEMBER 2018 5 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 12:00 AM BBC 1:00 AM 2:00 Jazz after Jazz after AM BBC World Service hours hours 3:00 AM 4:00 AM 5:00 BBC BBC AM Capitol Conn. 6:00 Living On Travel With Morning Edition AM Earth Rick Steves 7:00 Only A Game Milk St.reet AM Radio 8:00 Weekend AM Edition Weekend 9:00 Edition AM 10:00 The Roundtable New Yorker AM Radio Hour 11:00 Wait Wait... Selected AM Don’t tell me! Shorts 12:00 Midday Magazine PM Commonwealth WAMC 1:00 Radiolab TED Radio The Moth Le Show PM Club Convo With ..