ON AIR & ONLINE Changes to WPR's Weekend Program Schedule

ON AIR & ONLINE JUNE 2016

Introducing WisContext Aline Hazard Set List Season Two Big Top Trips Highground Event

Featured Photo WPR partnered with ArtWorking so listeners could create custom screen prints at the Changes to WPR's Weekend Program Schedule Madison listener appreciation open house Beginning July 2, WPR launches a new weekend line-up that on June 4. includes new voices and brings Joy Cardin and Kevin McKinley's On Your Money to Saturdays. Beginning in July, WPR's Ideas Network stations will welcome four new weekend programs ---- Ask Me Sound Bites Another, Travel with Rick Steves, Podcast Playlist and Only A Game. Our NPR News & Classical Music stations will see an Special Programming additional hour of NPR's Weekend Edition with Scott Simon on on Fourth of July Saturday mornings. The Capitol Steps are back this Independence Along with this new schedule, WPR has also begun a development Day for another year of program for new weekend programs produced here in Wisconsin. political satire! This time, The project ---- called WPR Next ---- is focused on creating new they'll be taking on programs for the future. Stay tuned for more on that later this year. Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders Read more about the updates to WPR's weekend broadcast and more in this annual schedule here, and as always, we'd love your feedback on all the hour-long special, programs you hear on WPR. Let us know what you think at "Politics Takes a [email protected]. Holiday." It will air July 4 at 2 p.m. on the Ideas Network. WPR, Wisconsin Public Television and Cooperative Also on the Fourth is "Big Extension Launch River Radio Wave," the seasonal radio variety WisContext.org show recorded in Alma, Wis. The hour-long show For some topics, a headline is all features regional you need, but when an issue affects musicians, comedians, your family, your work and your storytellers, and a special community, you need to make brand of Wisconsin wit. informed decisions. WisContext is a Tune in at 1 p.m. on the new online publishing project Ideas Network ---- both created by Wisconsin Public Radio, specials will air in place of Wisconsin Public Television (WPT) The Kathleen Dunn and Cooperative Extension. Launching this week, WisContext pulls Show. together the barrage of headlines in a new context to help Wisconsinites make sense of the issues affecting the state. Radio Documentary on The site combines the resources of all three partners and includes Teen Sex Trafficking long-form journalism, field reports from educators at Cooperative Will Air June 27 Extension, and audio and video from WPR and WPT that is updated A new approach to young on a regular basis. people caught up in sex trafficking has been to "WisContext is looking at urgent and emerging issues from a treat them as victims, not Wisconsin-oriented perspective. Whether it's original local reporting delinquents. Follow along or providing context on bigger national or global matters, our as American RadioWorks audience will understand how those issues will affect the place they embeds in a police sting, call home," said WisContext Managing Editor Kristian Knutsen. visits young victims in Minnesota, and talks to Find out more at WisContext.org. sex-buyers trying to change their ways. The hour-long special, BEHIND THE SCENES "Bought and Sold," will air June 27 at 10 p.m., in place of To the Best of Our Knowledge, on the Ideas Network.

Notice of Change to WPRA Bylaws The board of the Wisconsin Public Radio Association recently amended Article 4.05 of Early WPR Host Aline Hazard to Be Inducted into the WPRA bylaws. The the Wisconsin Broadcasters Hall of Fame articles now reads: "A quorum for the transaction of WPRA Aline Watson Hazard (far right in photo), the most recognizable business is defined as voice on and the driving force behind WHA's Homemakers' Program, one more than 50 percent will be inducted into the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Hall of of the members of the Fame on June 23 in La Crosse. An authoritative home economist board or committee. At all from the University of Wisconsin, Hazard hosted the popular show meetings, decisions shall for 32 years, from 1933 to 1965. be made by the majority vote of those present and A cross between Martha Stewart and Oprah Winfrey, Hazard was a eligible to vote." You can pioneer for women broadcasters and served as both a see the WPRA bylaws knowledgeable educator on modem homemaking and a trusted anytime at wpra.org. friend who helped form a community among thousands of Wisconsin farmwomen. She instructed homemakers on how to pickle, prepare frozen food, select a washing machine, and countless other Quick Links household tasks.

Hazard saw her program as a way to alert listeners to finer values WPR Online and better homemaking methods. Under Hazard's direction, the Donate Now Homemakers' Program featured interviews and roundtables with UW NPR Online specialists and community leaders, who provided household and childrearing advice as well as introducing new technology. Listen Live to Ideas Upon her retirement in 1965, Hazard had hosted over 10,000 Ideas Schedule episodes of the program and had seen it grow from a Madison-only effort to a show heard statewide over the state station's FM network. Listen Live to News & Shortly thereafter, the program was rebranded Accent on Living and Music later merged with the descendant of the Farm Program to become Wisconsin Here and Now, the predecessor of today's The Larry News & Music Schedule Meiller Show.

Hazard's was an important and original voice on Wisconsin's Be Part of WPR's Online airwaves, inspiring and instructing generations of women. For this, Community she deserves to be celebrated.

Sneak Preview: Season Two of Central Time's "Set List"

Season two of "Set List" premiered on Friday, June 3, on the Ideas Network's popular afternoon show Central Time. Produced by WPR Technical Director and Producer Brad Kolberg and Zorba Paster On Your Health Executive Producer Karl Christenson, "Set List" welcomes Wisconsin musicians into WPR's studios to perform their songs, as well as participate in interviews with Central Time's hosts. The signature segment airs on Fridays at 4:15 p.m. from June 3 through September 2.

This season will feature a diverse range of exciting and original music from Wisconsin artists. Here's the lineup for 2016:

June 3: Anna Vogelzang (on right in photo) June 10: Midnight Reruns June 17: Charlie Parr June 24: Neens July 1: Caroline Smith July 8: The Multiple Cat July 15: Idle Empress July 22: Zed Kenzo July 29: Kalispell August 5: Tenement August 12: AUTOMatic August 19: Double Ewes August 26: Lissie September 2: DUSK

Discover your new favorite band on "Set List." Tune in Fridays at 4:15 p.m., or listen to archives any time at wpr.org/setlist.

AROUND WISCONSIN

Travel with WPR to Big Top Chautauqua

WPR is offering two opportunities to travel to Lake Superior Big Top Chautauqua, home of Tent Show Radio. Both trips include motor coach transportation, lodging, dinner before the show, and sightseeing opportunities in Bayfield.

The first trip, August 4-5, boards in La Crosse, Eau Claire and Rice Lake to see Big Top's production of "Steerage Song," a docu- musical based on immigrants' journeys to America packed into the steerage of steamships. The performance features performers from the Duluth Playhouse and members of the Blue Canvas Orchestra. Details and registration information can be found here.

The second trip, August 28-29, departs from Stevens Point, Wausau and Minocqua to see "Population 485," a staged adaptation of Michael Perry's sometimes comic, sometimes heartbreaking best- selling memoir of life, death and hilarity from the perspective of a small-town fire department. The show features musical collaboration with Sean Carey of Bon Iver. Registration and details are available here.

Operation Persian Gulf Welcome Home, July 19- 25 in Neillsville, Wis.

WPR, in partnership with The Highground Veterans Memorial Park, is proud to sponsor this weeklong event at The Highground honoring those who served in Desert Storm, Iraq and Afghanistan. The event is for all Persian Gulf veterans across the country, not only Wisconsin. It will be a week of military reunions, healing, recognition and remembrance. WPR will also be displaying Wisconsin Remembers: A Face For Every Name, a traveling exhibit honoring the Wisconsin men and women who were lost during the Vietnam War. More information and a complete schedule of events is available at wpr.org/highground.