Quarterly Issues/Programs Report
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QUARTERLY ISSUES/PROGRAMS REPORT Station (call letters): KDSC (FM) Location (city, state): Thousand Oaks, CA (100% Simulcast of Parent Station KUSC, Los Angeles, CA) For quarter beginning: January 1, 20__ █ April 1, 2017__ July 1, 20__ October 1, 20__ Attached hereto are descriptions of issue-responsive programming broadcast by this station during the reporting period. The listed programs aired on the station during the reporting period on the days and times indicated. Each program regularly provides information or addresses current local issues of concern to viewers in the area where the station is located. LOCAL ISSUES ADDRESSED DURING THE QUARTER The following are local issues of concern to the community. Programs that addressed these issues during this reporting period are listed on the following pages. Local Issue/Concern Brief description of local issue or concern The awareness of local artistic events from producers who share audience with classical music-minded individuals. Coverage of Local Arts To bring the best of classical music, both new and archived recordings to the public-at-large. Exposure to Classical Music The impact of arts and music related curriculums on youth from a variety of socio-economic backgrounds. Education/Children’s Issues PROGRAMS THAT ADDRESS LOCAL ISSUES The following programs that aired during the relevant reporting period regularly address local issues and concerns in the station’s city of license and within its service area. Specific episodes and segments of these programs and the issues they addressed are listed on the following pages. Program Name Schedule Brief Generic Description (Day/Time) (Note whether local, syndicated or network) Arts Alive Saturdays, 8am Locally-produced, 30 minute program about arts and culture in Southern California—includes interviews with local artists and arts community members, interactive Q&A with USC Thornton School of Music Dean, arts news and community arts calendar. The Opera Show Saturdays, 9am Locally produced, music-based content regarding opera. Focusing on composers & performers with occasional interviews with local productions. Saturdays, Locally produced, music-based program focusing on 10pm the past 75 years of contemporary classical music. Modern Times Soul Music Sundays, 6am Locally produced, music-based program focusing on the choral component of recorded classical music. From the Top Sundays at 6pm Syndicated via American Public Media – Recent concert performances and interviews with young musicians from across the United States. The Record Shelf Sundays at 10p Locally produced, nationally syndicated program surveying historic recordings, offering buyers guides and, featuring interviews with today’s greatest classical music personalities. Thornton Center Sundays at 9pm Locally produced music-based program featuring Stage student and faculty performances from the archives of the USC Thornton School of Music. LA Opera On-Air Saturday A broadcast series of six full-length opera’s from the Mornings at LA Opera’s most recent season. 10am (May- June Only) A Musical Offering Sundays at Locally-produced music-based program featuring 9AM music of the Baroque Period. SoCal Sunday Night Sundays, 7pm Locally-produced concert broadcasts from Southern California orchestras and ensembles: Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pacific Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Master Chorale. Requests at Noon Mon-Fri, 12PM Locally-produced, music-based program featuring music requested by listeners. ISSUE-RESPONSIVE PROGRAMMING Local Issue: Exposure to classical music Program Date Time Duration Description The Record Shelf 4/2 10p 1hr "The Young Furtwängler" -- the earliest recordings of the great German conductor. The Record Shelf 4/9 10p 1hr A conversation with the acclaimed young Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti. The Record Shelf 4/16 10p 1hr A Buyer's Guide to the Tone Poem -- a survey of the best of the readily-available recordings. The Record Shelf 4/23 10p 1hr "Miss Bach" -- recordings by the great Bach pianist Rosalyn Tureck. The Record Shelf 5/7 10p 1hr The Record Shelf Record Reviews Jim Sveheda surveys critical reactions to the latest compact discs. The Record Shelf 5/14 10p 1hr Ladies' Night, Part 1 An encore broadcast of a two-part program featuring historic recordings of the great female pianists of the early 20th century. The Record Shelf 5/21 10p 1hr Ladies' Night, Part 2 In the second of two programs, historic recordings by the great female pianists of the early 20th century. The Record Shelf 5/28 10p 1hr A conversation with the brilliant, elusive Polish pianist Piotr Anderszewski. The Record Shelf 6/4 10p 1hr A Buyer's Guide to French Ballet. A survey of the best of the readily-available recordings. The Record Shelf 6/11 10p 1hr The Forgotten Englishman. Recordings by the gifted English conductor George Weldon. The Record Shelf 6/18 10p 1hr A conversation with the astounding teenage Dutch recorderist Lucie Hosch. The Record Shelf 6/25 10p 1hr The Collector's Rhapsodies, Part 1. The first of two programs featuring historic recordings of the Hungarian Rhapsodies of Franz Liszt. Local Issue: Coverage of local arts Program Date Time Duration Description Arts Alive 4/1 8a 30min Derrick Spiva is a local composer whose music sounds like Los Angeles – a kaleidoscope of the music people have brought with them to this city. He’s the subject of our latest Local Composers Project. And, music education is a gateway to all kinds of unexpected benefits for kids. Plus, musical exploration can be a whole lot of fun. KUSC is throwing a musical party, our Kids Discovery Day on April 9th. Get the scoop on the Arts Alive podcast. Arts Alive 4/8 8a 30min No one writes movie music like John Williams. And from Jaws, to ET to Schindler’s List, some of his most iconic themes have been penned for the films of Steven Spielberg. Williams talks about his decades-long collaboration with Spielberg. Plus, music, art and beer, you’ll find them all at Festival MARS. We talk to the founders. Plus film critic Kenneth Turan on retirees breaking bad on the big screen, Ask the Dean and more. Arts Alive 4/15 8a 30min From the worlds of science fiction and modern art, Pasadena is the site for two exhibitions about tenacious women who set out to change the world. Come with us to the Huntington Library for Octavia E. Butler: Telling My Stories and then over to the Norton Simon for Maven of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in California. Plus, Ask the Dean solves your musical mysteries. That’s all on the Arts Alive podcast. Arts Alive 4/22 8a 30min You don’t need a passport for this world tour with stops in Indonesia, Java, Bali, North India and West Africa. You just need to get your tickets to CalArts’ World Music and Dance Festival. We’ll tell you about some of the fascinating artists making their way to Valencia. And meet composer Ethan Treiman. He hasn’t finished high school yet, but he’s already made a mark on LA’s compositional scene. Plus film critic Kenneth Turan on a pair of new documentaries about the LA uprising, Ask the Dean and more. It’s all on the Arts Alive podcast. Arts Alive 4/29 8a 30min This week on Arts Alive, LA Master Chorale assistant conductor Jenny Wong talks about the humility necessary to make great music. Master Chorale soprano and composer Zanaida Robles also joins us to talk about her arrangement of the Black National Anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” Also, how dance can help us address some of the most challenging issues facing society today. And, on Ask the Dean, what makes a period instrument a period instrument? Arts Alive 5/13 8a 30min Right now on the Arts Alive podcast … soprano Sondra Radvanovsky’s wrapped up her run as Tosca in LA Opera’s production, but she left a trail of glowing reviews and new fans in her wake. She’s our guest on Arts Alive. Plus, artist Chris Burden changed the look of LACMA with his lines of streetlamps, but a new documentary takes you back to earlier in his career when he was celebrated and reviled as a daredevil provocateur. All that, Ask the Dean and more. It’s all on the Arts Alive podcast Arts Alive 5/20 8a 30min Jeffrey Kahane is bidding farewell to his post as Music Director of the LA Chamber Orchestra. But before he goes, he has a few things to say … and he’s not afraid to shake people up. Plus, we talk to half of the Emerson String Quartet about staying together by being apart. All that and more on the Arts Alive podcast. Arts Alive 5/27 8a 30min She introduced Los Angeles to Gustavo Dudamel, built a brand a new hall and got the LA Phil on solid financial footing. How did Deborah Borda do it? We ask her on the Arts Alive podcast. And we hear from Dudamel himself about using music to build bridges, conducting at the Hollywood Bowl and saying good-bye to Borda. Plus film critic Kenneth Turan gives his impressions of the Cannes Film Festival, Ask the Dean and more. It’s all on the Arts Alive podcast. Arts Alive 6/3 8a 30min The Angel City Chorale says you can keep your phone on at their upcoming concert — the LA choir is looking for new ways to introduce Angelenos to the magic of choral singing. And Ojai Music Festival Music Director Vijay Iyer talks about his inventive approach to bringing musicians together at this year’s upcoming festival. Plus, what can a composer’s creative process teach us about problem solving? The answer is on Ask the Dean. All that and more on the Arts Alive podcast.