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FEBRUARY 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE from alan Stations Help WAMC Go Green! Monthly column from Alan Chartock. You may elect to stop receiving our paper PAGE 2 WAMC, 90.3 FM, Albany, NY program guide, and view it on wamc.org. WAMC 1400 AM, Albany, NY Call us to be removed from the PROGRAM NOTES WAMK, 90.9 FM, Kingston, NY paper mailing list: 1-800-323-9262 ext. 133 What’s coming up on WAMC. 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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We’ll give you the information that you need to follow all the news which may go a long way toward determining whether we have a democracy after the Trump administration. We re- ally have no idea what will break next, but we have the Photo by Eric Korenman responsibility to bring it to you. The big BUT, of course, is that we can’t go forward unless we have the basic money Here comes the Fund Drive. It’s where we live and I mean to keep the place running. WAMC is incredibly proud of where all of us who care about this radio station live. We the fact that we have done so much with so little. We all know that there can be no WAMC unless we all pull know that we have the most wonderful and loyal audi- together. My job is to be the guy in the back of the crew ence of all. You keep writing that to us. We keep breaking boat who yells at the top of his voice, “Pull!” I’m yelling records in our fund drives. and I’m yelling loudly because I know and you know that we HAVE to do it. I confess that I love our fund drives. They offer us a chance to get together and share our stories. But We invented the ”locked box” to make sure that we considering the gravity of the times in which we live, it wouldn’t have to spend huge amounts of time on the air really is essential that we move forward as fast as raising money. It has been a big success. Last time out, possible. Listeners by the hundreds understand this and we raised over $700,000 in a few short weeks and then are self-motivated to give. Of course, we will tell the sto- had what amounted to a one day (and a few hours) fund ries; the history of the station; how we got started; all the drive. challenges that we have faced and all that we face now. Now, of course, we are in the middle of a debate about We do know that challenges work. If someone says, the impeached Donald Trump. The people who listen to “I’ll give you $10,000 to use as a challenge,” the money this radio station depend on us to bring them the news comes pouring in. It’s not for everyone but some people and we have done just that. We aired the House of can do it and for that we are very grateful. Representatives impeachment hearings in full and then endeavored to bring as much of the trial in the Senate as As I have said so many times, “We are all in possible, despite the fact that the Republicans in control this together.” of the upper house did everything in their power to put a damper on public access to information. Indeed, they demanded that a great deal of the process took place late at night and in the wee hours of the morning. Much of our coverage depends on National Public Radio – we pay them a fortune for this. Most people don’t know that NPR belongs to its member stations and not the other way around, but it costs big time. We are talking about many hundreds of thousands of dollars. Fortunately, however, I have noticed that people, on their own and without prompting, have been sending money to the station to keep it going. 2 WAMC PROGRAM GUIDE FEBRUARY 2020 3 PROGRAM NOTES TINA RENICK leader at the forefront of interdisciplinary learning and Forest fires, earthquakes and the impeachment of the President of the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. That episode president have made for a high-stakes start to 2020 — airs Feb. 7. Cohen will also have an in-depth reminding us all the importance of working together conversation with Budd Heyman, MD on Feb. 28. Dr. toward the greater good. This month, we’ll continue Heyman has been the medical director of Prison Health hearing the impeachment trial of President Trump and Services at Bellevue Hospital Center for more than 26 look forward to our Fund Drive Feb. 10. We’ll also years, and is a clinical instructor in the Department of celebrate Black History Month and Presidents Day. Medicine at NYU Langone Health. Person Place Thing airs Friday nights at 10:30 p.m. Black History Month dates back to 1915. To celebrate African American life and history, WAMC will have two On The Academic Minute, featured schools include specials this month. A New York Minute In History – a Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa and the New York podcast with co-hosts Devin Lander and Lauren Roberts Institute of Technology. Cornell College professors will — will explore slavery in New York and specifically the discuss the search for love, how zebrafish could help us resistance to the institution. Lander and Roberts speak fight Parkinson’s disease and how to capture more CO2. with area experts and tour a historic home in Albany that NYIT faculty will examine early detection of HIV, using is living a new life as a museum depicting the history of its social media as a doctor and helping children with autism. previous occupants. https://wamcpodcasts.org/podcast/ Other topics of cutting-edge research this month include slavery-in-new-york-and-resistance-to-it-a-new-york-min- mentoring at-risk students, contemporary fiction and ute-in-history/ global education. There’s something for everyone on The Academic Minute. Tune in to the program each weekday Airing Friday, Jan. 31 at 3 p.m. on The Best of Our at 7:30 a.m. and 3:56 p.m. on WAMC. Knowledge, Anna Mae Duane, an associate professor of English and director of the American Studies Program at Coming up at The Linda, WAMC’s Performing Arts Studio the University of Connecticut, did research on The New - The Corvettes Doo Wop Revue Saturday, Feb. 1 at 7 York African Free School that was established while p.m. and Emily Wolfe, whose songwriting keeps her fans slavery was still legal in New York. Duane discovered the aglow, returns Friday, Feb. 14th at 8 p.m. remarkable stories of two young men who played a huge Visit thelinda.org for more details. role in the abolition movement and tells their story in her new book “Educated for Freedom: The Incredible Story Be sure to subscribe to the WAMC News Podcast. We of Two Fugitive Schoolboys Who Grew Up to Change a post new episodes twice a week, featuring our most Nation.” interesting stories from across the Northeast, in-depth interviews with newsmakers, and other special segments.