Quarterly Issues/Programs Report

QUARTERLY ISSUES/PROGRAMS REPORT

Station (call letters): KDSC (FM)

Location (city, state): THOUSAND OAKS, CA

(100% Simulcast of Parent Station KUSC, Los Angeles, CA)

█ January 1, 2016

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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

FCC Issues/Programs Reports and Related Requirements – Appendix B

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.

The Metropolitan Saturday Syndicated via the Metropolitan Opera Radio Opera Mornings at Network – Selections from the current live season of 10am (April- the Metropolitan Opera as well as selected archival May Only) performances. 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 1/3 10p 1hr Windy City Stokie, Part 1. In the first of two programs, live performances recorded during Leopold Stokowski’s first appearances with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1958. The Record Shelf 1/10 10p 1hr Windy City Stokie, Part 2. In the second of two programs, live performances recorded during Leopold Stokowski’s first appearances with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1958. The Record Shelf 1/17 10p 1hr The Record Shelf Record Reviews. Jim Svejda’s critical reactions to the latest compact discs. The Record Shelf 1/24 10p 1hr Jim Svejda in conversation with the legendary American choreographer Twyla Tharp. The Record Shelf 1/31 10p 1hr The Ferras Case. In the first of two programs, recordings by the brilliant, troubled French violinist, Christian Ferras. The Record Shelf 2/7 10p 1hr The Ferras Case. In the second of two programs, recordings by the brilliant, troubled French violinist, Christian Ferras. The Record Shelf 2/14 10p 1hr Ladies’ Night, Part 1. The first of two programs featuring historic recordings by the great female pianists of the early 20th century. The Record Shelf 2/21 10p 1hr Ladies’ Night, Part 2. The first of two programs featuring historic recordings by the great female pianists of the

early 20th century. The Record Shelf 2/28 10p 1hr The Best of the Record Shelf. An encore broadcast of “Ah Sweet Mystery of Romberg,” featuring music of Sigmund Romberg conducted by the composer. The Record Shelf 3/6 10p 1hr A Buyer’s Guide to the Haydn Symphonies. An updated look at the best of the readily-available recordings. The Record Shelf 3/13 10p 1hr Mr. Natural, Part 1. The beginning of a two-part study of the Ukrainian-born British pianist Benno Moiseiwitsch. The Record Shelf 3/20 10p 1hr Mr. Natural, Part 2. The conclusion of a two-part study of the Ukrainian-born British pianist Benno Moiseiwitsch. The Record Shelf 3/27 10p 1hr A Conversation with the Music Director of the Utah Symphony, Thierry Fischer. Met Opera 1/2 10a 2.75hrs J Strauss Jr., Die Fledermaus Met Opera 1/9 10a 2.75 Donizetti, Anna Bolena Met Opera 1/16 10a 3hrs Bizet, Les Pecheurs de Perles Met Opera 1/23 10a 4hrs Wagner, Tannhauser Met Opera 1/30 10a 3.5 Puccini, Turandot Met Opera 2/6 10a 3hrs Mascagni, Cavalleria Rusticana/ Leoncavallo, Pagliacci Met Opera 2/13 10a 3hrs Verdi, Il Trovatore Met Opera 2/20 10a 3hrs Donizetti, Maria Stuarda Met Opera 2/27 10a 4hrs Berg, Lulu Met Opera 3/5 10a 4.5 Puccini, Manon Lescaut Met Opera 3/12 10a 3hrs Donizetti, Don Pasquale Met Opera 3/19 10a 3hrs Donizetti, L’Elisir D’Amore Met Opera 3/26 10a 3.75hrs Mozart, Le Nozze di Figaro

Local Issue: Coverage of local arts

Program Date Time Duration Description Arts Alive 1/9 8a 30min January 9, 2016: Movses Pogossian, World War One: A Centenary Perspective

If you're a teenager, world war one may seem like a world away. But we talk to two local conductors who are encouraging their young players to think differently about that time in history, using the power

of extraordinary music. Plus violinist Movses Pogossian says it's a cliche, but it's true, music is the universal language. He tells us about two upcoming concerts that mine musical connections. And on Ask the Dean, how do you tune a timpani? Arts Alive 1/16 8a 30min January 16, 2016: Author Janet Sternburg, Santa Barbara Symphony's David Pratt

Author Janet Sternburg's new memoir tracks the lives of an aunt and uncle, both early recipients of a so-called miracle treatment – the lobotomy. We talk to the new Santa Barbara Symphony Executive Director, David Pratt, about staying vital through collaboration. Film Critic Kenneth Turan recommends two historic series. Ask the Dean answers the question "when did we start using the term Classical Music."

Arts Alive 1/23 8a 30min January 23, 2016: Twyla Tharp, Film Conductors Intensive

choreographer Twyla Tharp says “creativity is an act of defiance.” For Tharp, it’s an act that now stretches over five dynamic decades. Hear Jim Svejda in conversation with Twyla Tharp now on the Arts Alive podcast. Plus, why two dozen conductors hit the beach at sunrise and … is classical “girl music”? We Ask the Dean

Arts Alive 1/30 8a 30min January 30, 2015: Dustin O'Halloran, Fly at the Pasadena Playhouse

When Dustin O’Halloran was just seven, his mother got the organist at her church to started giving him piano lessons. But O’Halloran’s unconventional teacher

didn’t just show him the notes, she taught him to make them his own. And now he’s taken home an Emmy for his music in the TV show Transparent. Our interview with O’Halloran is on this week's Arts Alive podcast. Plus a preview of the Pasadena Playhouse’s Fly, inspired by the Tuskegee Airmen; film critic Kenneth Turan talks about Sundance standouts; on Ask the Dean... what happened to Lakme? Arts Alive 2/6 8a 30min February 6, 2016: East West Players, CAP UCLA

When a group of Asian-American actors got tired of being offered only stereotypical roles, they formed East West Players, a theater company still going strong 50 years later. Hear more about the company from East West Players Artistic Director Tim Dang. Plus: artists stretch the fence line of what's familiar to us and create cultural memory. So says CAP UCLA director Kristy Edmunds. More with her on this week's Arts Alive podcast

Arts Alive 2/13 8a 30min February 13, 2016: Oscars Edition

Right now on the Arts Alive podcast: we’re all about the big screen. It’s our annual Oscar’s show with movie music expert Jon Burlingame taking a close look at this year’s best original score nominees, from John Williams’ 50th to Ennio Morricone’s return to the big screen. Plus, Kenneth Turan says it’s a horse race for best picture. And we talk to the director of A War, about Denmark’s military presence in Afghanistan and nominated for best Foreign Language Film.

Arts Alive 2/27 8a 30min February 27, 2016: Royal Taste at USC

PAM, José Montoya at the Fowler

Right now on the Arts Alive podcast: discovered in Chinese tombs recently excavated and sometimes accidentally discovered… a buried treasure trove of glittering jewels, giant paintings and a few big surprises. We talk to the director of the USC Pacific Asia Museum about Royal Taste, the exhibition putting this finery on display. Plus, we head across town to the Fowler Museum for a retrospective of the work of artist and poet José Montoya. Arts Alive 3/5 8a 30min March 5, 2016: John Williams, Hammer Museum

Not only is John Williams the most nominated composer in Oscar history, he’s now been writing music for Star Wars movies for four decades. Hear his conversation with Jim Svejda about the surprising success of Star Wars and making music fit characters on the Arts Alive Podcast. Plus, we take you to the Hammer Museum for Leap Before You Look, an exhibition about a small experimental college with a big modern art legacy Arts Alive 3/12 8a 30min March 12, 2016: Kenneth Munday, Palm Springs Life Festival

An amazing array of stars from the classical music world are about to make their way to the Coachella Valley the Palm Springs Life Festival. We’ll talk to some of them. Plus, bassoonist Kenneth Munday is celebrating a big anniversary with the LA Chamber Orchestra, but another big job recently took him to a galaxy far, far away. We talk about both on the Arts Alive podcast.

Arts Alive 3/19 8a 30min March 19, 2016: Kent Nagano, Sharan Leventhal

Kent Nagano is a NorCal native who's conducted the Montreal Symphony Orchestra for over a decade. Nagano talks about meeting people with music and finding the true rhythm in The Rite of Spring. Plus, American composer Ben Johnston just turned 90, to mark the occasion we talk to a member of the quartet who's recorded every single one of his string quartets. Film critic Kenneth Turan gives his take on three new movies and Dean Rob Cutietta answers a question about missing key signatures on Ask the Dean.

Arts Alive 3/23 8a 30min March 23, 2016: Composer Andrew Norman, Huizache Literary Magazine

Composer Andrew Norman is following the footsteps of greats like Stravinsky and Schoenberg, continuing the legacy of great music composition in Southern California. Norman helps us inaugurate a new spotlight on local composers in a moment. Plus, grab a drink and crack the spine on Huizache, a Texas literary magazine throwing a party in LA.

SoCal Sunday Night 1/3 7p 2hrs A concert from the LA Master Chorale recorded live. SoCal Sunday Night 1/10 7p 2hrs A concert from the LA Master Chorale recorded live. SoCal Sunday Night 1/17 7p 2hrs A concert from the LA Master Chorale recorded live. SoCal Sunday Night 1/24 7p 2hrs A concert from the LA Master Chorale recorded live. SoCal Sunday Night 1/31 7p 2hrs A concert from Santa Barbara Symphony SoCal Sunday Night 2/7 7p 2hrs A concert from the Pacific Symphony SoCal Sunday Night 2/14 7p 2hrs A concert from the Pacific Symphony

SoCal Sunday Night 2/21 7p 2hrs A concert from the Pacific Symphony recorded live. SoCal Sunday Night 2/28 7p 2hrs A concert from the Pacific Symphony recorded live. SoCal Sunday Night 3/13 7p 2hrs A concert from the Pacific Symphony recorded live. SoCal Sunday Night 3/20 7p 2hrs A concert from the Pacific Symphony recorded live. SoCal Sunday Night 3/27 7p 2hrs A concert from the Los Angeles Philharmonic

Local Issue: Education/Children’s Issues

Program Date Time Duration Description From The Top Sundays 6p 1hr Weekly program highlighting performances and interviews with talented youth musicians from across the US. The Off-to-School Mon-Fri 7:15a 10min Host plays a piece of classical music Request requested by a child and/or their parent/guardian that they want to hear on their way to school. Thornton Center Sundays 9p 2 hrs Locally produced music-based program Stage featuring student and faculty performances from the archives of the USC Thornton School of Music.

KDSC Radio Local Events & Arts Calendar Public Service Announcements Jan. – March 2016

START DATE: 3/1/2016 KILL DATE: 5/31/2016 Join the Library Foundation of Los Angeles for ALOUD, the critically-acclaimed series of conversations, readings and performances at downtown’s historic Central Library. This spring, author Sarah Bakewell delivers a new take on the existentialists; students from Southland-area writing programs tune our ears to the future; poet and rapper Kate Tempest shares her debut novel; and New Yorker writer William Finnegan chronicles his life from surfer to war reporter. For the full calendar, please visit lfla.org/aloud.

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January 4, 2016 at 3PM: Pacific Symphony January 6, 2016 at 2PM: LA Phil with Emanuel Axe January 8, 2016 at 4PM: Pasadena Symphony, Rolling Hills Methodist Church Concert January 8, 2016 at 4:30PM: Pacific Symphony January 15, 2016 at 4PM: South Bay Chamber Music Society, Keyboard Concepts January 15, 2016 at 4:30PM: Village Concerts January 18, 2016 at 7AM: Pasadena Conservatory Guitar Night January 18, 2016 at 8PM: Bay Shore Congregational Church concert January 19, 2016 at 8AM: Channel Islands Chamber Orchestra January 19, 2016 at 5PM: Los Angeles Phil. January 20, 2016 at 7AM: Europa Galante at WDCH January 20, 2016 at 8AM: Europa Galante at WDCH January 20, 2016 at 3:30PM: Pacific Symphony January 21, 2016 at 8AM: LACO January 21, 2016 at 9AM: Jean-Yves Thibaudet concert January 21, 2016 at 3PM: Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra January 21, 2015 at 5PM: 1st Presbyterian Church, Santa Monica: Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra January 22, 2016 at 8AM: Wallis Annenberg Center: Shangai Quartet January 22, 2016 at 9:30PM: Long Beach Symphony January 22, 2016 at 2PM: Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra January 25, 2016 at 8:30AM: UCLA Wind Ensemble January 25, 2016 at 12:30PM: Pacific Symphony January 25, 2016 at 1:30PM: Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra January 26, 2016 at 6:30AM: International Classical Concerts of the Desert January 26, 2016 at 10:30AM: Tales of Hoffman at Pasadena City College January 27, 2016 at 7:30AM: Culver City Symphony January 27, 2016 at 11AM: LACO January 27, 2016 at 1:30PM: Long Beach Opera January 28, 2016 at 6AM: St. Louis Symphony in Palm Springs January 28, 2016 at 8AM: Athenaeum Chamber Society in La Jolla January 28, 2016 at 11:30AM: Pacific Symphony January 28, 2016 at 1PM: Free Museum Day January 28, 2016 at 4PM: Broad Stage January 29, 2016 at 10AM: Wellington Orchestra at Carpenter Center January 29, 2016 at 1PM: St Louis Symphony in LA January 29, 2016 at 4PM: Da Camera Society, Pasadena Community Orchestra, SOKA University January 29, 2016 at 5PM: USC Thornton School, Culver City Symphony, Irvine Symphony February 1, 2016 at 4PM: Marine Venice Yacht Club Chamber Music Series February 2, 2016 at 8AM: UCLA Vivaldi Concert February 2, 2016 at 9AM: Simi Valley Dance Society February 2, 2016 at 4PM: Da Camera Society February 3, 2016 at 8AM: Montrose Trio February 3, 2016 at 10AM: Glendale Noon Concerts February 3, 2016 at 2PM: Australia Chamber Orchestra February 3, 2016 at 5PM: LACO February 4, 2016 at 10AM: LA Phil, Stephen Hough February 4, 2016 at 2PM: YOLA in Santa Barbara February 4, 2016 at 4PM: Long Beach Symphony February 5, 2016 at 11AM: Simon Dinnerstein with Pacific Symphony February 5, 2016 at 4PM: Colburn School, Long Beach Symphony, Santa Barbara Music Club, Le Salon de Musique February 5, 2016 at 5PM: Da Camera Society, Pacific Symphony, February 5, 2016 at 6PM: Laguna Beach Chamber Music Festival, Cal Poly Music, Pacific Symphony February 9, 2016 at 8AM: Cho-Liang at the Annenberg February 9, 2016 at 9AM: LA Master Chorale February 10, 2016 at 2PM: Russian National Orchestra at VPAC, Montreal Symphony Orchestra February 10, 2016 at 5PM: Laguna Beach Chamber Music Festival February 10, 2016 at 6PM: Artes Vocales of Los Angeles February 11, 2016 at 8AM: Santa Barbara Symphony February 11, 2016 at 1PM: Floating Library on Echo Park Lake February 11, 2016 at 4PM: OC Philharmonic Society February 12, 2016 at 10AM: South Bay Chamber Music Society February 12, 2016 at 4PM: LA Phil, USC Thornton School Wind Ensemble, Penninsula Symphony February 12, 2016 at 5PM: Moscow Festival Ballet, LA Opera, South Bay Chamber Music Society February 12, 2016 at 6PM: Cal State Fullerton Concert, Colburn School February 15, 2016 at 11AM: Daniil Trifonov around So Cal February 16, 2016 at 8AM: Australian Chamber Orchestra at WDCH, SLO Wind Orchestra February 16, 2016 at 1PM: Australian Chamber Orchestra February 17, 2016 at 6AM: Russian National Orchestra at VPAC February 17, 2016 at 8AM: Herb Alpert School of Music concert February 17, 2016 at 5PM: LA Opera February 24, 2016 at 11AM: Russian National Orchestra at OC Phil Society February 29, 2016 at 5PM: LA Opera March 1, 2016 at 3PM: Joshua Bell at Segerstrom March 1, 2016 at 5PM: San Fernando Valley Symphony Orchestra March 2, 2016 at 1PM: Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Argus Quartet March 2, 2016 at 4PM: San Fernando Valley Symphony Orchestra March 2, 2016 at 5PM: Opera Santa Barbara March 3, 2016 at 12PM: Chamber Music Palisades March 3, 2016 at 3PM: Argus Quartet March 3, 2016 at 4PM: Orange County Philharmonic Society March 4, 2016 at 2PM: Argus Quartet March 4, 2016 at 4PM: Bach in the Subways, Philharmonic Society of Orange County, Le Salon de Musiques, Santa Barbara Music Club March 4, 2016 at 5PM: Da Camera Society, USC Thornton School of Music concert March 4, 2016 at 6PM: Long Beach Symphony, Chamber on the Mountain- Ojai March 7, 2016 at 6AM: Joshua Bell at Segerstrom March 8, 2016 at 6PM: LA Opera March 9, 2016 at 10AM: LA Phil March 9, 2016 at 5PM: Santa Monica Symphony March 10, 2016 at 1PM: Montreal Symphony March 10, 2016 at 3PM: Bach in the Subways March 10, 2016 at 4PM: LA Master Chorale March 11, 2016 at 6AM: Musica Angelica, March 11, 2016 at 3PM: James Galway at the Broad Stage March 11, 2016 at 4PM: Westside Youth Orchestra, Channel Islands Chamber Orchestra, Santa Monica Symphony March 11, 2016 at 5PM: The Wallis March 11, 2016 at 6PM: California Ballet, SOKA Performing Arts Center March 15, 2016 at 1PM: Polish Baltic Symphony at SCFTA March 15, 2016 at 3PM: LA Phil March 16, 2016 at 10AM: LACO March 17, 2016 at 5PM: LACO March 18, 2016 at 1PM: Bach in the Subways March 18, 2016 at 4PM: Pasadena Symphony, Santa Monica College Symphony March 18, 2016 at 5PM: 1st United Methodist concert March 18, 2016 at 6PM: McCallum Theatre Palm Desert, LA Opera March 21, 2016 at 6AM: Autism Walk at the Rose Bowl March 22, 2016 at 8AM: Montreal Symphony, Desert Symphony March 23, 2016 at 4PM: LA Opera March 24, 2016 at 7AM: Palm Springs Life Festival March 25, 2016 at 4PM: Los Angeles Ballet, Palm Springs Life Festival March 25, 2016 at 5PM: LA Phil, Palm Springs Life Festival, Sundays Live at LACMA March 25, 2016 at 6PM: Oxnard Performing Arts Center March 28, 2016 at 7AM: Cal State LA concert with LA Phil March 29, 2016 at 5PM: LA Master Chorale March 30, 2016 at 10AM: Colburn Chamber at the Wallis March 30, 2016 at 3PM: Music 101 at LA Phil March 30, 2016 at 4PM: YMF Debut Orchestra March 31, 2016 at 10AM: Corona Del Mar Baroque Festival March 31, 2016 at 5PM: LA Opera