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SEPTEMBER 2017 PROGRAM GUIDE Help WAMC Go Green! You may elect to stop receiving our paper program guide, and view it on wamc.org. IN THIS ISSUE Call us to be removed from the mailing list: 1-800-323-9262 ext. 133 from alan Stations Monthly column from Alan Chartock. WAMC, 90.3 FM, Albany, NY WAMC Staff PAGE 2 WAMC 1400 AM, Albany, NY WAMK, 90.9 FM, Kingston, NY WAMC Executive Staff PROGRAM NOTES WOSR, 91.7 FM, Middletown, NY PAGE 4 Alan Chartock | President and CEO WCEL, 91.9 FM, Plattsburgh, NY Joe Donahue | Senior Director of PROGRAM SCHEDULE WCAN, 93.3 FM, Canajoharie, NY News and Programming Our weekly schedule of programming. WANC, 103.9 FM, Ticonderoga, NY Stacey Rosenberry | Director of Operations PAGE 5 WRUN-FM, 90.3 FM, Remsen- and Engineering Utica, NY Holly Urban | Chief Financial Officer WAMQ, 105.1 FM, Great Barrington, LIVE AT THE LINDA BROADCAST MA Management Staff WWES, 88.9 FM, Mt. Kisco, NY SCHEDULE WANR, 88.5 FM, Brewster, NY Carl Blackwood | The Linda Manager Listen to your favorite shows on air after WANZ, 90.1, Stamford, NY Pat Cooney | Operations Manager they have been at The Linda. Kristin Gilbert | Program Director and PAGE 6 Translators Traffic Manager Joy Houle | Grants Director At the linda Melissa Kees | Underwriting Manager PAGE 7 W280DJ, 103.9 FM, Beacon, NY Ashleigh Kinsey | Digital Media W247BM, 97.3 FM, Cooperstown, Administrator NY Colleen O’Connell | Fund Drive program descriptions W292ES, 106.3 FM, Dover Plains, Manager PAGE 8 NY Ian Pickus | News Director W243BZ, 96.5 FM, Ellenville, NY Amber Sickles | Membership Director our UNDERWRITERS W271BF, 102.1 FM, Highland, NY PAGE 12 W246BJ, 97.1 FM, Hudson, NY W204CJ, 88.7 FM, Lake Placid, NY W292DX, 106.3 FM, Middletown, WAMC NY Box 66600 W215BG, 90.9 FM, Milford, PA WAMC-FM broadcasts 365 days a year Albany, NY 12206-6600 to eastern New York and western New W299AG, 107.7 FM, Newburgh, NY wamc.org England on 90.3 MHz. Our studios and W211CE, 90.1 FM, Oneonta, NY offices are in Albany, NY. W257BL, 99.3 FM, Oneonta, NY W240CR, 95.9 FM, Peekskill, NY Phone: 1-800-323-9262 The WAMC transmitter is located atop W226AC, 93.1 FM, Rensselaer- E-mail: [email protected] Mount Greylock in Adams, MA. The Troy, NY Web: www.wamc.org WAMC-AM transmitter is located in Albany, W225BM , 92.9 FM, Scotia, NY Facebook: www.facebook.com/WAMCradio NY. WAMK’s transmitter is located on W296BD, 107.1 FM, Warwick, NY Twitter: twitter.com/WAMCRadio Overlook Mountain, Woodstock, NY. 2 WAMC PROGRAM GUIDE SEPTEMBER 2017 3 from alan ALAN CHARTOCK It takes a lot of people to make WAMC the superb, fun Almond, New York that draws people from around the place to come to work that it. Many of you know Joe state. At WAMC we all marvel at her willingness to make Donahue, Sarah LaDuke, Ray Graf, Brian Shields, David everyone who comes into the building feel comfortable Guistina, Wanda Fisher, and Selma Kaplan, among the and since she is still of a relatively young age she knows many other on-air people. But there are a lot of unsung everything about how to take an old fossil like me and get stars who really do make the place hum. me up to speed on my many technological devices. For example, take Colleen O’Connell. She is one of the One of the most interesting people who works at WAMC best acquisitions (as the say in baseball) that we have is the unheralded but brilliant and really awesome ever been lucky enough to get to work here. Before she Ashleigh Kinsey, our director of New Media and editor came to WAMC, she was a practicing attorney of some of this online newspaper. To put it mildly, the woman is note but then she started to volunteer at WAMC. She is brilliant. A Sage graduate and an accomplished artist she a Hamilton College graduate and did her law degree at teaches art classes at the library as well as in select bars the University of Connecticut. She really was something where people learn how to paint while sipping a beverage to behold. She became indispensable during the Fund of their choice. I don’t know where she developed all of Drives and so when the fund drive position opened up I her new media skills but she sure knows about all of it. went to her on hands and knees and begged her to take the job. We were overjoyed when she accepted. We She has to put up with some NPR bureaucracy nonsense couldn’t believe our luck. She is one of those great people but she knows more than they do and she keeps us on who never waits to be given jobs. She takes on more and the straight and narrow. more around here. We have, for example, lots of outreach programs and special events like the Rosemary Armao So, these are just a few of the folks who make us what we goodbye party. Colleen and her crew did all of that. Also are. Look in this space in future months for stories of the when we recently honored Malcolm Nance and sold out other great people who work here. the Linda, she did everything including finding the won- derful sponsors who would feed the crowd. These many events have been made successful, not only because of Colleen but because of all the great volunteers and staff members she gets to come to make them happen. Now, as fund drive manager she has taken a job that once re- duced people to screaming fits and general unhappiness and has made it her own. Since this is where we live — the money I mean — Colleen is indispensable. Then there’s Deena Salzman who you are likely to encounter when you make a call to the station. She is incredibly patient and of good spirit when she answers the phones in her capacity as office administrator, even when the person on the other end may need a healthy dose of Tender Loving Care (TLC.) Deena is a fine artist and it’s hard to go anywhere in our old building without seeing some representation of her work. I have known her since she was a very small child and like Colleen, she is a determined woman who knows how to get things done. A graduate of Boston University (BA) in English Lit- erature and the College of Saint Rose where she earned a MS.Ed., she co-founded a community arts festival in 2 WAMC PROGRAM GUIDE SEPTEMBER 2017 3 WAMC BOARD OF TRUSTEES EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Joseph Browdy, Chair, Hillsdale, NY Anne Erickson, Vice Chair, Albany, NY Janet Axelrod, Treasurer, Albany, NY Dorothy Reynolds, Secretary, Rensselaer, NY Alan Chartock, President/CEO, Great Barrington, MA Dr. David Ford, Scotia, NY Ira Fusfeld, Woodstock, NY Judy Grunberg, Valatie, NY Carmi Rapport, Claverack, NY James Spencer Jr, Menands, NY Blair Horner, Clifton Park, NY TRUSTEES Mary Ballou, Schenectady, NY Dan Bazile, Clifton Park, NY Gerald Benjamin, New Paltz, NY Anthony J. Capece Jr., West Sand Lake, NY John Dunne, Spencertown, NY Dr. David Ford, Scotia, NY Will Little, Lakeville, CT Robert Norris, Great Barrington, MA Kevin O'Connor, Albany, NY Roger Phillips, Stuyvesant, NY Sandy Waxgiser, Malta, NY The WAMC Executive Board Meetings are the second Tuesday. Meet- ings are open to the public. All meetings take place at 12:00 pm at WAMC, 318 Central Avenue, Albany, NY 12206 unless otherwise noted. It is recommended that you call the station at 800.323.9262 in ad- vance of the meeting to ensure it will be taking place as scheduled. 4 WAMC PROGRAM GUIDE SEPTEMBER 2017 5 program notes KRISTIN GILBERT Coming up on Labor Day, September 4th: This September, we celebrate the 35th anniversary of The 9AM-10AM--The Working Tapes of Studs Terkel Hudson River Sampler! In the early 1970’s, author Studs Terkel went around the country with a reel-to-reel tape recorder interviewing Before there were CDs, WAMC had a folk music program. people about their jobs. The result was a book, "Working: In fact, WAMC had 32 folk music albums in its record People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They library on September 18, 1982 when "The Hudson River Feel About What They Do." Sampler" made its debut on the WAMC airwaves. Hosted by WAMC's own Wanda Fischer for its entire 35-year his- For decades, the tapes were packed away in Studs’ home tory, the program features traditional and contemporary office and until now, few of the interviews have ever been folk, blues and Celtic music. She's featured the music of heard before. The book became a bestseller and even Pete Seeger, Tom Rush, Tom Paxton, Joan Baez, Judy inspired a Broadway musical – something rare for an oral Collins, Arlo Guthrie, as well as many of the up-and- history collection. "Working" struck a nerve, because it el- coming, lesser-known performers over the program's evated the stories of ordinary people and their daily lives. history and has established WAMC as a station where Studs celebrated the un-celebrated. today's performers seek to showcase their music. "I enjoy interacting with listeners and hearing their reactions to the This one hour Labor Day special features interviews with music I choose," she says. "I've helped people find music a telephone switchboard operator, a hotel piano player, a for their special occasions--weddings, baptisms, bar and Chicago police officer, an auto factory work, an advertis- bat mitzvahs, etc.