Quarterly Issues/Programs Report
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QUARTERLY ISSUES/PROGRAMS REPORT Station (call letters): KPSC (FM) Location (city, state): Palm Springs, CA (100% Simulcast of Parent Station KUSC, Los Angeles, CA) For quarter beginning: January 1, 20__ April 1, 20__ July 1, 20__ █ October 1, 2016 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 LIVE 10/16 7:30pm 90 min Alan Chapman and Dennis Bartel host a BROADCAST: live LA Chamber Orchestra concert from YoYo Ma and USC’s Bovard Auditorium celebrating LACO Jeffrey Kahane’s 20th and final season as LACO Music Director. The First of 12/26 7PM 5hrs Jim Svejda hosts a Chanukkah special Chanukkah featuring The Chanukkah Story with Leonard Nimoy and the Western Wind, and Handel’s Judas Maccabeus, conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras. The Record Shelf 10/2 10p 1hr A Buyer’s Guide to the French Symphony The Record Shelf 10/9 10p 1hr A Conversation with Star Pianist Yuja Wang The Record Shelf 10/16 10p 1hr Kreisleriana, Part 1. Historic recordings featuring violinist Fritz Kreisler. The Record Shelf 10/23 10p 1hr Kreisleriana, Part 2. Historic recordings featuring violinist Fritz Kreisler. The Record Shelf 10/30 10p 1hr Scary Music, An Encore. In honor of Halloween, music you don’t want to hear alone on a dark and stormy night. The Record Shelf 11/6 10p 1hr Arturo Toscanini’s only pupil, the brilliant, doomed Italian conductor Guido Cantelli leads a program of music by American composers. The Record Shelf 11/13 10p 1hr The Record Shelf Record Reviews The Record Shelf 11/20 10p 1hr A conversation between French conductor Stephane Deneve and Jim Svejda. The Record Shelf 11/27 10p 1hr A Buyer’s Guide to the Forgotten Composers The Record Shelf 12/4 10p 1hr The Record Shelf Guide to Gift Recordings. The Record Shelf 12/11 10p 1hr A Buyer’s Guide to Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. The Record Shelf 12/18 10p 1hr A Golden Age Christmas. The great opera stars of the past are heard again singing popular (and not-so-popular) Christmas carols. Local Issue: Coverage of local arts Program Date Time Duration Description Arts Alive 10/1 8a 30min Veronika Krausas Veronica Krausas has composed for tent, quintet, bows and elbows. She calls Los Angeles a vortex of creative people. And she’s the subject of our latest Local Composers Project. Plus we tell you about a trilogy of plays, performed in a single evening, and giving audiences a look at the personal and political changes affecting one family over the course of 100 years. Arts Alive 10/8 8a 30min Mira Nair says for her music is like oxygen. Composer Alex Heffes helped breath life into Nair’s new movie Queen of Katwe with a score that combines traditional African and western sounds. They’re both our guests on the Arts Alive podcast. Plus, conductor James Conlon on his Recovered Voices project, which helps new audiences discover work suppressed by the Nazis. Arts Alive 10/15 8a 30min This week on Arts Alive: in case you’re wondering about what music education actually teaches kids, why not just ask them? We did. Hear the inspiring story of the USC Thornton School of Music’s Community Engagement Program. Also, Pop Art in LA. We visit the Skirball Cultural Center for an exhibition that shows how Roy Lichtenstein, a New Yorker, found inspiration here in the City of Angels. Plus, LA Times and Arts Alive film critic Kenneth Turan reviews a trio of films, including a thriller with a not-so- thrilling name. And on Ask the Dean, in the world of classical music, why is there a bias in favor of European composers? What about great music of other cultures? Arts Alive 10/29 8a 30min Composer, conductor and LA Phil Creative Chair John Adams says his relationship with LA Phil Music Director Gustavo Dudamel one of the most important things in his life as an artist. We hear from them both, Adams and Dudamel on the Arts Alive podcast. Arts Alive 11/5 8a 30min We packed the Arts Alive podcast for the show’s 10th anniversary. Legendary choreographer Lucinda Childs reflect on her career. Pasadena Symphony Music Director David Lockington stops by and we meet Adam Schoenberg as part of the KUSC Local Composers Project. Plus, we celebrate a decade of arts and culture coverage by going back in time to hear the very first Ask the Dean. That’s all new this week on the Arts Alive podcast. Arts Alive 11/12 8a 30min In 1998 Garry Hynes became the first women to ever win a Tony for directing when The Beauty Queen of Leenane was on the Broadway. Now the Beauty Queen is back with a run at the Mark Taper Forum. Garry Hynes is our guest, so is the President of the Music Center, Rachel Moore. She talks about midnight roller rinks and her book The Artist’s Compass. Arts Alive 11/19 8a 30min At age 10 most of us are just starting to learn long division, or how much the tooth fairy will leave for a molar. But at that age, Hilary Hahn was tackling Mozart’s 5th Violin Concerto — the same one she recently recorded, she tells us how she knew it was time to put it on an album. Plus Merrily We Roll Along has a reputation for being the Sondheim musical no one can get right. Will the production opening this week at The Wallis break the curse? Those stories and more on the Arts Alive podcast. Arts Alive 12/3 8a 30min Since there’s no such thing as too much music, composer Reena Esmail says everyone should feel free to add their voice to the chorus. Esmail is the subject of this month’s KUSC Local Composer Project and she describes how her musical journey brought together Indian classical and western classical music. Plus, the quirky French movie Amelie was a big screen charmer, now it’s a stage musical. Get to know Esmail and Amelie on the Arts Alive podcast. Arts Alive 12/10 8a 30min The Amazon streaming TV show Mozart in the Jungle shows a side of the classical music world that would surprise anyone who thinks of its musicians as elite, stoic men and women in black formal wear. We hit the red carpet to talk to some of the show’s stars about its new season. And we head to the Central Library to hear about William Shakespeare helped settle the Wild West. Those stories and more on the Arts Alive podcast. Arts Alive 12/17 8a 30min Europe has held a near-monopoly on the longtime centers of western classical music.