WAMC Program Guide June 2013 - Volume 19 Issue 6 It’s time for the Fund Drive! Community June Programming Notes Alan S. Chartock Katie Britton WAMC President and C.E.O. WAMC Program Director If there is a single word that signifies what is going It’s June, so by the time you’re reading this you on in a fund drive, it is “community.” WAMC know that the summer Fund Drive is in full swing. builds community as it continues to spread the For some it’s a time that people loath and wonder breadth of its programming to more and more ‘why can’t you do it another way’? (That’s why listeners. If there are any issues that have not been we have the lock box going to help make it discussed on the station or covered by WAMC, the shorter.) For the rest, and I gladly say the majority, British Broadcasting Corporation or NPR, I really it’s time when anything can and does happen. can’t think of them. As a station, we never take a position but that doesn’t preclude robust discussion, It takes us months to prepare for a Fund Drive. We analysis and review of events. Thankfully, our get a minor reprieve between drives, but really wonderful listeners support the underlying concept we’re always thinking and talking about ways we of freedom of speech and information. As I have can create the best WAMC community possible. often said, no information, no democracy. Of course, we hear from people who would have it another way. Maybe they only want to listen to people with whom they agree. For example, some insist that we eliminate some of the voices from the right of center, like that of Dr. Herb London. Frankly, he doesn’t say much that I personally agree with. Someone recently wrote and demanded that we cease playing his commentaries. When this happens, Continued on page 2 Joe Donahue, Mark Ruffalo & Alan Chartock share a light moment I N S I D E T H I S I SSUE during the February 2013 Fund Drive. Live at the Linda / ASO broadcast details 2 As listeners, you get to hear our pitch teams 4 WAMC Program Schedule at a Glance brilliantly do their thing… tell you how much you’ll love waking up in your Pine Cone Hill PJs, 7 Events Calendar describe in mouthwatering detail about the 9 BSO broadcast schedule yumminess of Mother Merrick’s Lemon Lulu cakes, or bring you back in time to Pearl Harbor 22 Underwriter Spotlight Day with Alan and the original broadcasts as it continued on page 3 WAMC Program Guide 1 Chartock continued from page 1 the argument usually is that London is not is not a “real” WAMC Live at the Linda - Broadcasts conservative and it is dangerous for us to give him an outlet. Wednesdays at 8pm on WAMC In almost every case, I have replied that the station has a wide range of commentators, many of whom are more liberal 6/5 – No LATL broadcast – FUND DRIVE than London. Paul Elisha is one who springs to mind and there are others who take great exception to London’s basic 6/12 – Dancing on The Air approach. I tell these people that it would be far more May be shortened or pre-empted by Fund Drive. dangerous to excise London than to play his few minutes 6/19 – Moon Alice & Prof Louie and The each week. I take exception to their analysis that it is Crowmatix (recorded 10/27/12) dangerous to play his commentary because listeners will be fooled by his rhetoric. To each of them I reply that that their 6/26 – Albany Symphony (recorded 6-1-13) attitude is condescending. Why would they think other The Albany Symphony welcomes pianist, Orion Weiss. listeners are less capable of intellectually parsing what Mr. Weiss joins the orchestra for Christopher Rouse's London is saying than they are? "Seeing," an extraordinary piano concerto commissioned by the New York Philharmonic for Emmanuel Ax in 1999. London is a distinguished academic, a former dean, a major force in a current right-of- center think tank and a candidate For details on upcoming concerts, films and events on the Conservative Party ticket for high political office. To at The Linda, tickets, parking information and those who would suggest that he isn’t a “real conservative” I directions, visit www.TheLinda.org might ask who is better credentialed. Along the same lines, the Roundtable has gone another step in its evolution. Each morning, the first hour of our program WAMC Executive Staff is devoted to discussion of the major news issues of the day. The addition of Professor Rosemary Armao to our panel has Alan Chartock – President and CEO galvanized some listeners. We’re getting letters challenging what this superb investigative reporter has to say as she Dona Frank-Federico– Chief of Staff knocks down some basic assumptions from both the left and the right. In my role as a discussant and political scientist, Selma Kaplan – Senior Vice President sometimes I agree and sometimes I don’t. I admit that Pat Cooney – Vice President, Operations sometimes I hear her out and say to myself, “I wish I had thought about that.” Joe Donahue – Vice President, News/Programming When Rosemary signed on, she told us that she would be Management Staff pursuing her passion as an investigative reporter in Bosnia and Mexico this summer. I truly respect her courage as she Sharon Lescak – Membership Director goes to places where journalists have been imprisoned or killed for what they say. Mary Jackson – Business Manager Ian Pickus – News Director The whole idea of the first hour of Roundtable is to provide our brand of analysis to stories we’ve covered on Morning Katie Britton – Programming & Outreach Director Edition and the BBC. Lots of listeners are e-mailing us during the program at [email protected] or checking in Ray Graf – New Media Director via Facebook or Twitter. It’s a great mix of free-wheeling discussion, expert opinion, and listener feedback. Frankly, I Marian Wise – Grants Director love the way it is going and although it takes some courage Stacey Rosenberry – Engineering/Operations Manager to do what we are doing, it allows the station to stay relevant and unique. The feedback we have been receiving is nothing Graeme McKenna – General Manager, The Linda, short of overwhelmingly supportive. I hope that when you WAMC’s Performing Arts Studio give your dollars during the fund drive, you understand how Peter Koniuto – Fund Drive Manager important robust discussion is to our democracy. When each of us contributes, it protects all of us and makes us stronger. I Stefanie Abel – Marketing /Underwriting Manager know that you understand that. - Alan Kristen Gilbert – Traffic Manager Michele Battle – Database Manager WAMC Program Guide 2 Programming Notes continued from page 1 occurred. And in between our giveaways we get to WAMC-FM broadcasts 365 days a year to hear more about them, the hosts, and you become eastern New York and western New England closer to the WAMC family. They let you into their on 90.3 MHz. Our studios and offices are in home and lives as Alan tells us about his days on Fire Albany, NY. Island, Joe tells a funny Brady the dog story, Selma comments on a piece she’s knitting, and Ian and Bob The WAMC transmitter is located atop talk baseball and music. We’re no longer just voices Mount Greylock in Adams, MA. The coming out of a box or computer, but a whole person WAMC-AM transmitter is located in that seems more tangible; a friend. Albany, NY. WAMK’s transmitter is located on Overlook Mountain, Woodstock, NY. WAMC transmits on these frequencies: WAMC-FM 90.3 - Albany, NY WCAN-FM 93.3 - Canajoharie, NY WAMQ-FM 105.1 - Great Barrington, MA WAMK-FM 90.9 - Kingston, NY WOSR-FM 91.7 - Middletown, NY WWES-FM 88.9 – Mount Kisco, NY WCEL-FM 91.9 - Plattsburgh, NY WRUN-FM 90.3 - Remsen, NY WANZ 90.1 FM - Stamford, NY WANC-FM 103.9 - Ticonderoga, NY Alan chats with NYS Senator Cecilia Tkaczyk during the February WAMC-AM 1400 - Albany, NY 2013 Fund Drive W204CJ, 88.7 - Lake Placid, NY W215BG, 90.9 - Milford PA And on occasion you hear someone say Peter, or W226AC 93.1 - Rensselaer-Troy, NY Felicia, or Ann Marie, or Michelle. You don’t hear W243BZ, 96.5 - Ellenville NY their voices, but they’re pulling the preverbal sleigh. W246BJ 97.1 - Hudson, NY They’re the ones who are making sure everything is W247BM, 97.3 - Cooperstown, NY set: that we have volunteers to answer the phones, that W211CE, 90.1 - Oneonta, NY the food tables are full for the volunteers, that there are W257BL, 99.3 - Oneonta, NY actually items for the hosts to pitch on air… and W271BF, 102.1 - Highland, NY they’re the ones who are the glue. They spend W280DJ, 103.9 - Beacon, NY mountains of time on the phone with our volunteers, W292DX, 106.3 – Middletown, NY speaking with local businesses, putting out feelers, and W296BD, 107.1 - Warwick, NY making sure the Fund Drive can happen. W299AG 107.7 - Newburgh, NY So as you listen to the drive and hopefully pledge, Surface mail: know that you’re becoming a part of a family that’s on WAMC and off the air. – Katie Box 66600 Albany, NY 12206-6600 Phone: 1-800-323-9262 E-mail: [email protected] Web address: www.wamc.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/WAMCradio Twitter: twitter.com/WAMCRadio WAMC Program Guide 3 WAMC Program Schedule at a Glance Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 12:00 BBC World Service AM BBC World Service Jazz After Hours 1:00 Jazz After Hours AM 5:00 BBC World Service AM 5:30 Legislative Gazette BBC World AM Service 6:00 Living on Earth AM Morning Edition 7:00 Marketplace Only A Game AM Money 8:00 AM Weekend Edition 9:00 Weekend Edition AM Sunday 10:00 Car Talk AM The Roundtable 11:00 Wait Wait..