K CUR Year in R Eview 2011

2012 Program Schedule KCUR 89.3 FM UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY KCUR-FM Non-Profit Org. 5100 Rockhill Road U.S. Postage Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs. Fri. Sat. Kansas City, MO 64110-2499 PAID Kansas City, MO BBC Morning Morning Morning Morning Morning BBC 5 a.m. an equal opportunity/affirmative action institution Permit #6113 Overnight Edition Edition Edition Edition Edition Overnight New Letters 6 a.m. Only a Game on the Air 6:30 a.m. Human- kind 7 a.m. Weekend Weekend Edition Edition 9 a.m. Car Talk This Central Central Central Central The Walt Whad’ya 10 a.m. American Standard Standard Standard Standard Bodine Show Know? Life A Prairie 11 a.m. Home Up to Date Up to Date Up to Date Up to Date Up to Date Companion Wait Wait Here and Here and Here and Here and Here and Noon ...Don’t Tell Now Now Now Now Now Me! 1 p.m. Thistle and Talk of the Talk of the Talk of the Talk of the Talk of the Cyprus Shamrock Nation Nation Nation Nation Nation Avenue 2 p.m. Fresh Air American A service of the University of Missouri-Kansas City Weekend Routes 3 p.m. On the Fresh Fresh Fresh Fresh Fresh Renew Your Membership Media Air Air Air Air Air Since 1957, KCUR 89.3 FM has provided its audience with a service that informs, entertains 4 p.m. All Things All Things All Things All Things All Things All Things All Things Thank you again for your support Considered Considered Considered Considered Considered Considered Considered and enriches the community. Each time you turn to 89.3 FM, you benefit from the non- commercial programming provided by National Public Radio, Public Radio International and A Prairie and for listening to KCUR. KC KCUR’s own local shows. You are a vital part of the KCUR community. Donations from our 5 p.m. Home Currents Companion listeners provide the largest part of our operating budget each year. With your support, KCUR is here every day with the quality programming on which you have come to rely. If you have any questions regarding Sunday at Six: 6 p.m. Documen- membership, please contact taries and Specials Whether you’re a new member to KCUR or a longtime donor renewing your membership, 2011 in Review Year there are several easy ways to donate. You may: our membership department. 6:30 p.m. Marketplace Marketplace Marketplace Marketplace Marketplace Hearts of Cyprus • Go to our secure online pledge form at kcur.org. 7 p.m. The World The World The World The World The World Space Avenue This • Call KCUR at 816-235-1551 and ask for our membership department. Request monthly KC 8 p.m. Night Tides American Car Talk Studio 360 The Fish Fry The Fish Fry billings by mail, pay with credit card or arrange for electronic funds transfers. Currents Life Kansas City • Mail your gift to the station. Make your check payable to KCUR and address your donation 9 p.m. Classical 24 Classical 24 Classical 24 Symphony to KCUR Membership, 4825 Troost Ave., Suite 202, Kansas City, MO 64110. Hour compelling BBC BBC BBC BBC BBC BBC BBC Midnight KCUR +connected Overnight Overnight Overnight Overnight Overnight Overnight Overnight* {} *12th Street Jump airs Saturdays from Midnight to 1 a.m. Program Descriptions KCUR Year in Review 2011 KCUR Digital KCUR 12th Street Jump – KCUR’s jazz, Humankind – Stories of remarkable Talk of the Nation – Intelligent talk blues and comedy jam featuring people dedicated to humanizing our on compelling issues and your phone Kansas City area jazz artists. society. calls are welcome. Hosted by Neal Community Expanding KCUR.org through redesigns and upgrades Conan. Dear friends, All Things Considered – This Kansas City Symphony Hour – A newsmagazine delivers in-depth weekly one-hour broadcast featuring This American Life – Personal About 10 years after I was a student in “Radio Writing We added Morning Edition and hired on-air announcers Advisory reporting, news, analysis, commentary, the live concert performances of the stories about living in America. interviews and occasional quirkiness. and Production,” I met up with my former professor at with experience as well as enthusiasm. We recognized This past December, KCUR.org, like a veterinarian’s We’re also encouraging more engagement with our audience. Kansas City Symphony. Some are funny, many are poignant. assistant surprised on the street by Oprah’s camera crew, got The new website accepts comments on all of our stories, so American Routes Hosted by Ira Glass. a statewide broadcasters’ meeting. A decade earlier, he that even though public radio was non-profit, it should Board – A broad range KC Currents – Amplifies the voices had pulled me aside after class one day and suggested be run as a business with income equaling or exceeding a makeover. The new site is powered by Core Publisher, a users and listeners can offer their views or ask questions on of American music – blues, jazz, and stories of cultural and ethnic Thistle and Shamrock – A that I major in nursing or teaching because, “Women expenses. Public broadcasting matured. So have I. version of Drupal that’s been customized and optimized for specific topics or of specific reporters and hosts. This comes gospel, soul, old-time country, communities in and around contemporary and traditional aren’t hired in broadcasting.” At the age of 18, the Members public radio stations by NPR Digital Services. in handy for on-air call-in shows, which routinely receive zydeco, Tejano, roots rock and pop, Kansas City. Celtic musical journey. Hosted by avant-garde and classical. future was way too far off to worry about. I continued This will be my last annual letter to listeners, as I plan listener feedback and questions via the new comments Fiona Ritchie. Angela Bennett Marketplace – A weekday wrap-up in broadcasting because I liked it. After I became to retire in June. One goal of this redesign and upgrade is to appeal to a section online. The new site also lets users share KCUR BBC News Overnight – An Scott Burnett of the world’s business news with Up to Date – A KCUR call-in and manager of the public radio station in Wichita, I wider audience online. The cleaner design makes for easier stories easily via Facebook, Twitter and Google+. international perspective on the Marilyn Carbonell feature pieces vital to your business, talk show that focuses on politics, foolishly and arrogantly fantasized about meeting After I met up with my former professor at the reading, and we are currently tweaking the new navigation news, including live breaking stories personal finances and life. economics, history, social issues, arts Linda Edwards the professor and having him get down on his knees broadcasting meeting, I reminded him of what he had system to help our site’s visitors easily find the content The new NPR API (Application Programming Interface, from the BBC. and entertainment. Hosted by The Jane Gard Marketplace Morning Report – A begging my forgiveness. told me 10 years earlier. He did not get down on his they’re looking for. but you won’t be tested on that later), which is integrated Car Talk – Tom and Ray Magliozzi, Kansas City Star’s Steve Kraske. Dale Jarka 10-minute update on the world’s into the back end of our new content management system, affectionately known as “Click and knees and beg my forgiveness. Instead, he just said, stock markets, with features about Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me! – Test Janet Justus KCUR.org’s online audience has held steady in the past, allows us to integrate NPR’s web coverage into KCUR. Clack” offer advice for car problems When I began as manager of a public radio station, we “Things change.” business and personal finance. your knowledge of the week’s news Jeff Maxcy with a large dose of humor. worked with cassette machines and LPs, and All Things but ideally we’ll see ever-increasing numbers of visitors org seamlessly. This means that users won’t have to leave and have fun playing along with the Madeleine McDonough to the site. From text stories to original photos to audio KCUR.org to access the latest national and international Follow us on Morning Edition – Five hours of Considered came to the station over telephone lines. We Things will be changing at KCUR. Of course, Kansas Central Standard – A KCUR talk cast on this fast-paced quiz show. Regina Nouhan slideshows, there is a lot of web-only content being coverage from NPR, thus increasing the value of our in-depth news reports, features and used manual typewriters and mimeograph machines City’s public media, which began in 1957, will TM and call-in show hosted by Jabulani Steve Paul commentary from NPR and KCUR. The Walt Bodine Show – A live call- and carbon paper and edited audio tapes with razor continue to serve the community and provide accurate produced by the KCUR reporting and programming website for users and for our underwriters. Leffall. Adriana Pecina in show exploring local restaurants, blades. Technology has advanced in public radio information enabling our listeners to help make our staff, and the new site is designed to highlight that New Letters on the Air Steve Roling @KCUR Classical – Classical and romantic – A literary movies and Kansas City history. (or, as we now call it, public media). Reporters edit community better. Although there will be another content. Those web-only elements are attractive in and Journalist and Web advocate Doc Searls said, “The live review of some of the foremost David Smith repertories illuminated by well- their stories on computers, the satellite system sends person managing KCUR, our commitment to our of themselves, but can also draw listeners to the web, as Web isn’t just built.

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