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ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: • Radiolab on GLT • Many thanks for your support • Last chance to enter your glasses design GLT Annual Report 2010 Our local fundraising reached its highest point in Fiscal Year 2008, largely due to a substantial increase in local business support. During the last two years, in the by GLT General Manager Bruce Bergethon generally moribund economy, that revenue stream weakened. Combined with You may remember that episodes of Sesame Street are "brought to you by the loss of state funding, in early 2010 we faced the letter_" as part of the show's attempt to teach young viewers the alphabet. the potential loss of personnel or program­ If 2010 was an "episode" of GLT, I would have to say it was brought to you by ming (our two largest expenditures). You will the letter "S," and the main two words that letter spelled would be "survival" remember the spring fund drive, which we and "sustainability." The former described our listener-aided escape from a couched as a campaign to "save programs tough financial climate, and the latter our efforts to build for a brighter future. and people." The survival of the GLT status quo was literally on the line. Financial survival Your response in the spring was spectacular. Over the last two decades, GLT has, In four days fewer than anticipated, we thanks to dedicated local supporters, reached - and exceeded by 15% - our experienced a significant growth pattern. Uber-volunteer Bill Charles takes a pledge financial goals. Then, in the fall, listeners As the pie charts to the left demonstrate, again responded to an increased financial goal, resulting in our two best days our locally-raised dollars have gone from ever of on-air fundraising at the end of the drive, and a substantial amount of Total Revenue $616,000 20% of our income to over 52% - and money coming in after the on-air drive ended in an on.line "grace period" of that during a period when annual operat­ an additional week. The generous support of individuals such as you, especially ing income increased 250%. Though during a recession, is deeply inspiring to the GLT staff. the percentage of our income from ISU has reduced from one-half to one-third, We can't thank you enough. the University continues to be our most significant single funder, a commitment Many individuals have increased their commitment to GLT during the last for which we are deeply grateful. year, and the rolls of major donors (listed on pages 6-7) are significantly longer than in previous years. We also thank a dozen new members of the community­ Tax-based funding for the station, in the based GLT Friends Council, some of whom were profiled in the pages of the Total Revenue $1,020,000 form of federal and state grants, has de­ GLT Guide during the past year. creased from 31 % of our budget in 1990 to only 12% this last year. State funding Building for a sustainable future GoodTo was cut in half over the last two years, and One aspect of a sustainable community Go the prospect for continued state funding institution is the economic model of diversified is unpredictable, but not encouraging. support that GLT enjoys. This year we also made an effort to partner with various entities to encourage sustainable environmental practices. Two Local support from listeners, businesses, collaborations with ISU's Office of Sustainability set the pattern for the future. and special events We launched a project called Good to Go, which promotes healthy living and Illinois State University Federal & State Grants alternative transportation, with the first Commuter Challenge in September. Total Revenue $1,523,000 Percentages include cash and in-kind gifts A greatly expanded version will occur in May 2011, with more community

-2- -3- participation and campus Programming services for the future components suggested by two GLT's community activities are a highly valued part of our service, according ISU Communication classes. to research we conducted during the spring and summer of 2010. GLT alum Asa leadup to the Commuter Peter Dominowski, a national leader in public radio research, wrote the Challenge, GLT partnered with online survey that over 400 of you completed, and augmented its findings by conducting focus groups in August. In his final report, he marveled at Friends of the Constitution Trail the strong connections tl1at GLT listeners feel with the station - an observation to coordinate free bicycle parking we find deeply affirmative. The research gave us many insights into the at summer festivals, doubling the diverse benefits listeners derive from GLT's multiple services, and no easy usage at the Sweet Corn Blues answer to the question of how we might improve them. Festival from the (earlier) Sugar Secure bike parking at Sweet Corn Blues Festival Creek Arts Festival. In the meantime, we added several noteworthy touches to our regular program­ ming this year. Our unparalleled blues programming is enhanced by Jon Norton's A second collaboration with ISU enhanced our already well-established weekly interview with a leading blues musician, Talkin' Blues is heard Saturdays GLT Night at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival. This year, before enjoying at 7:00 pm on GLT, with two additional broadcasts on Blues Radio 24/7 (GLT The Three Musketeers, patrons took part in a pilot project to reduce landfill HD 2 and online at wglt.org.) We let you vote for your favorite blues with our 2010 waste, diverting their food and paper edition ofMojo Madness in April, and carried a live broadcast of the Blues Blast waste into agricultural compost to Music Awards in October from Buddy Guy's Legends in Chicago. be used at the ISU Farm. We trans- formed what would ordinarily be ''Award-winning" continues to characterize our news department, honored in the 60-100 bags of trash to less than half spring with 9 Illinois Associated Press citations and 3 regional Edward R. Mur­ of one bag! We also recycled 25 huge row awards. We actually had to redesign the news room to accommodate all the bags of aluminum, glass, and plastic. plaques assembled over the last few years by Willis Kern, Charlie Schlenker, Jim Our thanks to ISU's Mike O'Grady Browne, and Laura Kennedy - come up and see the updated room sometime! and Enid Cardinal for helping On our News and Ideas channel (GLT HD 3 and online at wglt.org), we added Compost at the ISU Farm coordinate these efforts. a number of programs that listeners suggested, including PRI's The World, Other GLT summer events did more than raise funds for the station Living on Earth, Bob Edwards Weekend, and WireTap. In November, we (which is always a primary function of our activities). For instance, we enjoyed a provocative evening with Robert Krulwich, NPR science correspondent added on a day of staff time to the Recycled Music Sale breakdown to and "most curious journalist in the world," as the featured speaker for GLT more effectively sort discarded LP jackets and recycle plastics and unsold Radio Faces 2010. In January of this year, we'll be adding his amazing Radiolab electronics, diverting over 3 tons from the landfill. Our tenth annual program (previously heard only on HD 3) to our main channel lineup - see the article and an interview with Krulwich on page Summer Concert, notable not only for the rain, the outlandish fun of 14. The Gas House Gorillas, and the fact that it remains free, included additional So, to Summarize the 2010 edition of GLT, using the letter "S": recycling coordinated with The Ecology Action Center. And we spent several We S urvived because you, S imply, S aved us. days "Packing the Bus," partnering with Office Depot and numerous S ustainability became S ynonymous with SOP. community groups to help collect school supplies for kids in need. S tay tuned, and thanks for your S tupendous S upport.

-4- -5- GLT Major Donors 2010 Rich & Jane Beal Tami Martin & Roger Day Thank you for your thoughtful generosity and sustaining friendship. Lou Benassi Mike Matejka & Karen Sandhaas Carl Bennett & Sue Stroyan Bennett Mary McCulley Thomas & Joanne Bierma Tom & Maryann Mellor GLT Leaders Circle Jennifer & Mike Hamer John Blank Ron Mixer Directors ($1,500 plus): Steve Holifield Richard and Penny Boser Howard Moos W. Brad & Tonya Barker Peter & Susan Hood Frank Boyd, Jr. & Kathleen Montgomery Doug Nelson Michael & Eva DeVore David & Pearle Jeffries Tom & Nancy Brokaw Ron Nelson John Elterich & Karen Schmidt Marshall & Marianne Kaisner Brian Buralli & Maureen Mathews Robert Neuleib Eric Hutchison Dennis Killian George & Kristine Byrns Alice Obert Robert & Victoria King Scott & Jennie King Barbara Carraway & Ollie Nanyes David Oost James Pinder Emily Martin MJ Carroll Tony & Pam Overmier Dan & Kathy Steadman Karen & Bill McConnell James & Diane Carter Kris & Paul Peacock Robert & Jennifer McDade Gregg Chadwick & Robyn Walter Judy & Doug Peppers Broadcasters ($1,000 plus): Kim Miller Carmen Chase Phillip Pinkney David Beich William Morris & Charlotte Brown Jack & Linda Chizmar Adriane Powell-Oakely Bruce Bergethon and Jo Porter John & Pamela Muirhead Craig Colledge Charles Proesel Bruce &Jeannie Breitweiser Don & Carol Munson Sharon Craghead Laura Robinson Susan Emmerson Pamela & Robert Negri Kathleen Davis Jim & Faith Russell Dennis Fox Bill & Kathy Neil Robert Delvin Joe & Tammy Sarmiento Paul & Carolyn Jarvis Oliver Ngo Heather Evert Rich & Janet Schroeder William LaBounty Joe & Mary Novotny Mike Fields &Judy Adelman Larry Seitzman Warren Odekirk & Carol Carey-Odekirk Paul & Kathy Packard Candie & Mark Graham Mike & Susan Shirley Karen Pflederer Ben and Anne Paxton Harold & Marlene Gregor Elaine & Brian Shung Chris & Susan Prendergast Catherine Pratt & David Templeton Sandra & Fred Groves Curtis Skrzynski Jonathan & Lisa Rosenthal John Pryor & Hannah Eisner Janet & Warren Harden Gretchen Snow & Gerald Gentes Colin Voyles Dave & Judith Ramsey Tom and Mary Haynes Joe Strano & Janine Toth Richard & Mary Strle Leaders ($500 plus): Ed and Sarah Riehl Hile-Broad Family Richard Sullivan Anonymous (5) Leonard Sachs Sheila Hufeld Constance Torrey-Romanus &Joseph Romanus Dennis Adkins Emily Schlenker Monica & John Iliff Karyn Turner Roger & Becky Anderson Robert & Marilyn Sutherland Mark Jackson Frank Vivirito Jerry Antonini Jean Swee & Paul Bailey Jon & Linda Johnston Rob & Anne Walling Salvatore Catanzaro & Elizabeth Portmann Charlotte & Joe Talkington Karen & Qazi Khusro Jerry & Donna Weber Bill and Kathryn Carter Greg & Joyce Topping Scott Koets Don & Karen Wettstein Ruth Cobb Cathy & Brad Wallace Walt & Holly Kropf Steven & Lorna Cox Ross & Linda Wear Mary Lehman Brian & Jane Wilkinson Catharine Crockett Barry & Marge Weaver Robert Lenz Richard & Carol Williams Anders Dahlgren & Marcia Thomas Douglas & Margaret Williams Al and Juliene Longworth Mary Wine Mary Dellorto & Paul Blackwell Dorothy Witte Phil & Lou Ann Lovell Angela & Dan Yandel Daniel & Paula Deneen Deb Wozniak John & Melanie Martin Jim Zaleschuk & Susan Hillabold Guy Diciaula Louise Ziemann Dale & Melinda Egeberg To everyone else who chooses to contribute to GLT: thank you. Every contribution to the John & Marilyn Freese GLT Day Sponsors ($365 plus): station, no matter what the amount, helps keep GLT's excellent public service strong. Tom Gershick and Rebecca Rossi Anonymous (5) Conrad Grembowicz & Lynn Dunaway Wayne Aldrich (We work very hard to include all 2010 GLT major donors in this acknowledgement but, due to Adam Hackley Mike Bagby & Aaron McQuillin press deadlines, we may have inadvertently left out some names. Please contact GLT Member Craig Hart Charlie Bates Services with additions or corrections at 309-438-3581. Thanks.)

-6- -7- GLT Event Sponsors

Recycled Music Sale: Crossroads Center Illinois State University GLT Jazz Cabaret with Matt Belsante: Tarvin Culligan Cortese Foot & Ankle Clinic

Sweet Corn Blues Festival Stage: GLT Summer Concert: CEFCU Specs Around Town Eastland Chiropractic and Wellness Center Fox & Hounds Day Spa Ronda Glenn Law Offices

Matthew Curry and the Blues Fu ry The Gas House Gorillas

GLT Radio Faces with GLT Night at the Robert Krulwich: Illinois Shakespeare Festival: COUNTRY Financial Busey Bank

-8- GLT thanks these generous businesses and organizations for their support. GL JAZZ CABARET 2 Chez Restaurant Illinois Eye Center Advocate BroMenn Healthcare Illinois Shakespeare Festival Ameren IP Illinois State Universiry with Catherine Russell American Concierge Magazine lSU College of Applied Science & Technology Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts lSU College of Arts and Sciences Charm your valentine with a night of champagne, appetizers, Bloomington News & Views ISU College of Business and dancing to the gutsy, fresh, original voice of Catherine Russell Brad Barker Honda lSU College of Fine Arts and her quintet. Limited seating, so don't wait! Bradley Universiry Graduate School ISU Marketing & Communication Busey Bank ISU Milner Library • • • • • • • • • Carl's Ice Cream • ISU School of Theatre • CEFCU ISU Stevenson Center Saturday, February 5, 2011 • Central Illinois Regional Airport at B/ N Jam Productions • Children's Discovery Museum 7:00 pm - Hot Jazz meet and greet • Kevin Collins Design • Coffee Hound Kidder Music 8:00 pm - Cool Jazz admission • Communiry Cancer Center Marriott Hotel & Conference Center • • Cortese Foot & Ankle Clinic Martin's Home Furnishings Marriott Hotel & Conference Center COUNTRY Financial • McLean Counry Museum of History 201 Broadway Avenue Normal, Illinois • Culligan Water Conditioning Mid-Illini Credit Union • Cummins Crosspoint LLC • mouthHat Art + Design • Dennison Ford-Toyota Mulberry School $50 Cool Jazz tickets include: • DESTlHL One Main Development • Downtown Bloomington Association • Russell cabaret concert • Orthopedic & Sports Medicine Center • Eastland Chiropractic and Wellness Center • Heavy hors d'oeuvres Pantagraph Printing • Ecology Action Center • Champagne on table • Peoria Area World Affairs Council Economic Development Council • Peoria Civic Center Farmer Ciry Antiques Merchants • Peoria Park District $100 Hot Jazz tickets include: • Fat Jack's • • Meet and greet with Catherine Russell pri or to concert First Allied Securities Performance Growth Partners • Prairie Oak Veterinary Center • Autographed Russell CD • First United Methodist Church • Fluid Events Prenzler Outdoor Advertising • Rus sell cabaret concert • Foehr Group Sangamon Auditorium • Heavy hors d'oeuvres • Sherman's • Forget Me Not Flowers • Champagne on table • Fox& Hounds Southside Cindy & The Slip-Tones • • Custom champagne glass Friar Tuck Beverage Specs Around Town • • Personal box of chocolates • The Garlic Press State Farm Insurance Companies • The Garlic Press Market Cafe Sulaski & Webb CPAs • The Copy Shop • Ronda Glenn Law Offices • Heartland Communiry College TheatresCool Tickets available on line at wglt.org or by phone at (309) 438-2255. • Heartland Bank & Trust Town of Normal Heritage Enterprises Waiting Room Records The Marriott is offering a special overnight hotel package just for GLT that The Hile Group Westminster Village includes a guest room and Sunday breakfast for two at $129. Call 309-862-9000 Illinois Chamber Music Festival Zimmerman/ Elfline Fund or 800-627-7468 for reservations and request the "GLT Jazz Cabaret Package:'

-10- -11- GLT Glass-es Design Contest Sti II ti me to travel with Entry Deadline January 31 GLT to Sunny Portugal You'll have the rare opportunity to meet This American Life host Ira Glass at our Picturesque in shades of terra cotta, stone, exclusive reception prior to his Radio Stories and ochre, the Portuguese coastal towns perfonnance at the Bloomington Center for the of Estoril, Algarve, Sintra, and Cascais are Performing Arts, Saturday, March 12, 2011. welcoming you. This 10-day trip lets you explore ancient castles, groves of lemon and You also have the equally rare opportunity to almond trees, Roman ruins, and rich vineyards at a comfortable pace and price. impress Ira by designing a pair of glasses that will be on display during the reception. The contest You'll spend several nights on the "Portuguese Riviera," visit the Moorish deadline to submit your designs is coming up Alfama Quarter in the capital city of Lisbon, enjoy a performance of the fast! GLT is accepting your entries now through traditional folk music Fado, and visit several UNESCO World Heritage sites. January 31, 2011. Anyone can enter, there's no age limit and no art background needed. Work on a pair with a friend. Have We have a nice group of fellow GLT fans already your kids pull out the glitter and pipe cleaners and help you. Start from signed up for the trip, but tl1ere's still time to join scratch or buy a pair and decorate them. We're looking for humorous, clever, them and General Manager Bruce Bergethon on or in-sight-ful designs that will be displayed during the reception. If your the southern and western coasts of Portugal when design is chosen for display (and there's plenty of room for entries), you'll the climate is mild and inviting. Every ticket win a pair of free passes to the reception.* Ira will serve as the final judge purchased also helps support your favorite public at the reception, choosing his three favorites, and if he picks yours, you get radio station, as a portion of the proceeds goes to bragging rights and a snap of yourself and Ira yucking it up. the GLT Equipment Fund.

Find complete contest details and a submission form at wglt.org. Price includes round-trip airfare from Chicago to Lisbon, round trip shuttlebus transportation from Bloomington/Normal to Chicago, 8 *Tickets to Radio Stories at BCPA must be nights in seaside resorts, land transportation in Portugal, 14 meals, and If the creative juices just aren't flowing, purclwsed separately through their box office. all transfers and fees. Optional trip insurance is available that protects you or you can't wait to see if you win free against cancellation for any reason prior to the day of departure. passes, ticket packages that include both This GLT event is sponsored by: the reception and Ira Glass' performance Call Marci with Suzi Davis Travel at are available through the Bloomington 309-834-3717 with questions about the Center for the Performing Arts box Date: trip. Or, you can print out a full itinerary office at 309-434-2777 or online at May 13 -22, 2011 www.artsblooming.org. at wglt.org/events. 10 days, 14 meals GLT has reserved the best seats in To guarantee a seat on the trip, your the house for this package, so you'll be $250 deposit per person is due now. Price: $2,999 (double) getting priority seating with your Final payment is due by 3/14/11. $3,399 (single) purchase. The pre-show reception is SPECS not available for purchase separately. $2,969 (triple) A R 0 u N -12- -13- MM: Tell me about the ideas. RK: Yes. Ideas like "Why do we sleep?" "Where does a sense of good and bad come from?" "Where does music come from?" I don't know what you call these. They're like "Why is the sky blue?"questions, I think.

RADIOLAB MM: So you have the questions. How do you get at the answers? "An Hour of Something Really Good" RK: The questions are more important than the an­ swers. Right now we're working on symmetry. Scientists Describing Radiolab as a Mike McCurdy: How did this thing called Radiolab begin? think at the end of the line, there may be one explana­ "program about science" is Robert Krulwich: Very strangely. I was at ABC as a tion for EVERYTHING. So we started playing with like calling LeBron James correspondent. Jad Abumrad was a young kid working the idea of oneness and symmetry. If you fold Lincoln's a basketball player. Co-host at New York City's public radio station, WNYC. He was picture, creating a left-left Lincoln, he looks really dif­ Robert Krulwich simply sent to get me to read a promo. We got to talking and it ferent. On the other hand, Brad Pitt looks the same. calls it "an hour of some­ turned out he came from Tennessee, where his first job He's weirdly symmetrical. Everything has an opposite. thing really good." Radiolab was at WBIA. And I said that's so funny, that's the first Protons and anti-protons. Electrons and anti-electrons has been part of GLT's station I worked at. He said he then went to NPR. And and when they meet, they annihilate each other. If the News & Ideas HD channel I said that's weird, I went to NPR after WBIA. I said I universe began with a soup of plusses and minuses and from the beginning. You'll went to college at Oberlin and he said that's weird I the plusses bumped into the minuses, there would be hear it on our main channel went to Oberlin. This was a guy 30 years younger than nothing left. We wouldn't be here, but we are. So we 11:00 am Sunday beginning me living a similar life. I was very curious, so we began start with Brad Pitt's face and we end up with the having breakfasts and fell into a deep friendship. It's January 23, 2011. When mystery of matter in the universe and do all of the just kind of a weird thing, two guys, very different ages Robert Krulwich was in steps in between and that's the show. having breakfasts. Our wives said "what're you doing?" town for Radio Faces last November, GLT Program MM: A question from a listener of an episode might He got a program on Sunday afternoons putting together be "how long did it take to put this together?" Director Mi e McCurdy a show of other people's documentaries. He was sort of a RK: Ohhh. Well, we made a rule of thumb that we had a chance, to to disc jockey of other people's words, but he started doing didn't want to be like Ira [Glass], whose show [This him about the show. his own stuff too. One day he brought a sample of what American Life] is the best thing we know. We couldn't he was working on and ... it ... was startling to me. This think of an easy way to be better than him, but we cer­ was completely new and different. I said "instead of me tainly shouldn't copy him in any way. He writes scripts being your mentor-ish, older friend, I need to know what and people read what they're going to say. So we said you know," and I asked him if he would let me play with "NO READING." But that's ridiculous. You work it him - which was a completely different relationship than out so you have certain things to say: Jack and Jill go up we had an hour earlier. He said yes and we made a deal a hill. He's going to fetch something. It'll be in a pail. with WNYC. He'll fall down. There'll be a head accident. And so on. (continued) Integrity Technology Solutions

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Enter Integrity Technology Solutions. Since RK (cont.): There's an order. But the way we do it, it's insane. We make our list 1993, Harlan Geiser, founder and CEO of Harlan Geiser of things. We have our taped sources and we just talk our way through it and Integrity, has been helping people move their we assemble it and we do it again. And we do it again. And we do it again. And businesses forward. "Today's businesses are heavily dependent on technology," again. We piece it all together. It's embroidered. It's almost like music. It's delicate says Geiser. "Whether you have 10 employees or a few hundred, your needs are and gorgeously built. the same as a very large company that can afford its own in-house staff."

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MM: Do you think this sound Radiolab has created will migrate? Will we start As the new Chairman of the Economic Development Council, working hearing some of this filter into Morning Edition? on behalf of all Mclean County organizations, Geiser puts this community­ RK: I think it already has. At the end of the day we're taking hard subjects and mindedness to even greater effect. "That's also what I like about GLT The we're asking ordinary folks: give us your ears and we can hold you. And you want station gives back to the community and makes Bloomington/Normal a to be held. You want to have that feeling of being taken into that subject that you better place," says Geiser. aren't ready to address and discovering you're okay with it. Not only that, you're learning something and having fun and feeling strangely courageous, like "Whoo, Information at www.integrityts.com or call 309-662-7723. look what I'm thinking about." That's a deeply NPR-y kind of thing. INTEGRITY TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

-17- Fresh Ai r® and Fresh Ai r® Weekend GLTHD3 Host Terry Gross opens the window Monster Pawn on contemporary arts and issues. All Songs Considered In the old days, "pawn shop" brought NPR's guide to discovering new GLT's Best Week Ever™ to mind a darkly lit, unorganized place music below the radar, often The best of our week wrapped where questionable clientele "hocked" heard between stories on up in 30 minutes. and "fenced" things to an ornery old man All Things Considered®. Latino USA® behind a glass partition - because that's All Things Considered® An award-winning English­ how they were always portrayed in TV NPR's newsmagazine, language program produced shows and movies. heard 7 days a week. from a Latino perspective. Monster Pawn, with locations in Normal and Bloomington, is Being®(formerly Speaking of Faith) Living on Earth anything but the "old days." Envision a hip, modem place with friendly Host Krista Tippett explores An exploration of leading environmental issues affecting and knowledgeable people who help you get a great deal on great perspectives of spirituality, ethics, and morality through intelligent the world we inhabit. quality merchandise. conversation. Morning Edition® Owned by Ed and Kathy Pierce, Ed's brother Mark Pierce, and friend Bob Edwards Weekend NPR's weekday morning Tommy O'Donnell, these pawn brokers together have over 50 years of One of public radio's most newsmagazine. Starting an hour experience in the pawn and buy/sell/trade industry. "Think of it as a recognizable voices guides a earlier on GLT HD3. garage sale, auction house, thrift store, antique store, and flea market two-hour interview showcase, Only A Game® all in one!" says O'Donnell. highlighting the lives and work NPR's weekly sports magazine of 3 to 5 interesting guests. with Bill Littlefield. "There are so many things that are just as good used as new, but cost The Business a fraction of the new price at our stores," says Ed Pierce, who founded On Point Host Kim Masters looks the business with Mark in 2001. Host Tom Ashbrook helps unite deep inside the business distinct and provocative voices "We have brand-name tools, excellent quality musical instruments, all of entertainment. with passionate discussion. Listener calls are welcome. kinds of electronics - not to mention jewelry! We have real treasures CarTalk® in the store, which is how we think of GLT," adds co-founder Mark Imagine the Marx Brothers On The Media® Pierce. "We all think GLT is a little gem in this community and answering questions about Brooke Gladstone and Bob feel good about our support." automobiles. Tom and Ray Garfield explore how information Magliozzi host. and media affect our culture. And they're always looking to buy interesting things. "Don't have a Conversations from place for it anymore?" asks Kathy Pierce. "Then bring it to us and get PRl's The World the World Cafe® Host Lisa Mullins utilizes a global some money for it. It's the original recycling!" A weekly radio magazine reporting team to bring home of musician interviews Monster Pawn is near Tobin's on Main in Normal and at 1610 one-of-a-kind international stories. and performances. R.T. Dunn Dr. in Bloomington. Radiolab The Diane Rehm Show It's Technicolor radio. Jad A lively mix of current events Abumrad and Robert Krulwich and interviews with authors. interview, argue, imagine, and Design and priming made possible by State Fann Insurance Company. Recycled Paper with Soy Inks discover hidden connections. Priming by BOP/. -18- -19- State Week in Review (SWIR) Host Bill Wheelhouse moderates .GLTHD3 a panel discussion analyzing the week in Illinois state government Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday and politics. 4am 4 am Radio Lab This American Talk of the Nation® Life Latino USA Sam A link between the headlines and Being SWIR what's on people's minds. GLT News & Ideas on HD3 6 am Morning Edition Only a Game On the Media Tell Me More 7 am Host Michel Martin welcomes guests for a dialogue about WaitWait.. . Don'tTell Me!® important issues facing the country. The oddly informative news quiz 9am Weekend Edition fromNPR. This American Life® On Point A new kind of radio storytelling Weekend Edition®Saturday that documents and describes 11 and Sunday am The Treatment 11 am Car Talk contemporary America. NPR's weekend morning Fresh Air The Business 12pm 12 pm newsmagazine. WaitWait The Treatment Tell Me More Oon'tTell WireTap 1pm 1pm Film Critic Elvis Mitchell gives the This American "treatment" to some of the most WireTap Life Sound Opinions Listen for Jonathon G oldstein's Talk of the Nation 2pm influential and innovative forces Only a Game Conversations monologues and phone chats with a World Cafe creating movies and popular art 3 pm roster of funny storytellers. 3pm All Songs and entertainment. Radio Lab GLTBestWeek All Things Considered 4 pm All Things Considered Spm Spm Fresh Air On the Media Bob 6pm Edwards 6pm Weekend GLTHD2 PRl's The World Living On Earth 7pm 7 pm All Blues all the time All Things Considered All Things Considered 8 pm Fresh Air Car Talk Weekend Monday 6:00 am and 6:00 pm: 9pm 9 pm Wait Wait New Music Monday The Diane Rehm Show Sound Opinions Oon'tTell GLT 24/7 Blues on HD2 10pm 10pm Conversations This American Wednesday 6:00 am and 6:00 pm World Cafe Life 11 pm On Point All Songs and Saturday 7:00 pm: Radio Lab GLTBestWeek 12am 12am Talkin'Blues Fresh Air Weekend Fresh Air Being GLT Music Director Jon Norton 1 am 1 am GLT Soundblues Opinions On The Media has conversations with your favorite RADIO 24/7 2am Talk of the Nation 2am Conversations blues artists including Shaun Murphy, World Cafe Car Talk 3am All Songs 3 am Dave Spector, and Billy Branch. Tell Me More WaitWait GLT Best Week Don't Tell

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