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JULY 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE from alan Stations Help WAMC Go Green! Monthly column from Alan Chartock. You may elect to stop receiving our paper PAGE 2 WAMC, 90.3 FM, Albany, NY program guide, and view it on wamc.org. WAMC 1400 AM, Albany, NY Call us to be removed from the PROGRAM NOTES WAMK, 90.9 FM, Kingston, NY paper mailing list: 1-800-323-9262 ext. 133 What’s coming up on WAMC. WOSR, 91.7 FM, Middletown, NY PAGE 3 WCEL, 91.9 FM, Plattsburgh, NY PROGRAM SCHEDULE WCAN, 93.3 FM, Canajoharie, NY Our weekly schedule of programming. WANC, 103.9 FM, Ticonderoga, NY PAGE 4 WRUN-FM, 90.3 FM, Remsen- WAMC Staff Utica, NY WAMQ, 105.1 FM, Great Barrington, WAMC Executive Staff LIVE AT THE LINDA BROADCAST MA Alan Chartock | President and CEO WWES, 88.9 FM, Mt. Kisco, NY SCHEDULE Joe Donahue | Roundtable Host/ Senior WANR, 88.5 FM, Brewster, NY Advisor Listen to your favorite shows on air after WANZ, 90.1, Stamford, NY they have been at The Linda. 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W211CE, 90.1 FM, Oneonta, NY W257BL, 99.3 FM, Oneonta, NY wamc.org The WAMC transmitter is located atop W240CR, 95.9 FM, Peekskill, NY Mount Greylock in Adams, MA. The W226AC, 93.1 FM, Rensselaer- Phone: 1-800-323-9262 WAMC-AM transmitter is located in Albany, Troy, NY E-mail: [email protected] NY. WAMK’s transmitter is located on W225BM , 92.9 FM, Scotia, NY Web: www.wamc.org Overlook Mountain, Woodstock, NY. W296BD, 107.1 FM, Warwick, NY Facebook: www.facebook.com/WAMCradio Twitter: twitter.com/WAMCRadio 2 WAMC PROGRAM GUIDE July 2020 3 FROM ALAN ALAN CHARTOCK Amber who is cool as a cucumber. Nothing seems to get her. The thing I love about Amber is how she manages it all. During the fund drives when I get to the station very early in the morning, she is there with a whole bunch of ideas about what we should do that day to make sure that the money rolls in. She handles all the challenges that come our way. She sends out regular e-mails to everyone telling you what is going on at a particular moment. When we need some extra help, she gets volunteers. She is, above all, dependable to the extent that I never ever worry about her ability to make it all work Of course, you all know Joe Donahue. I just don’t know Photo by Eric Korenman how he does it all. Every day he has the unenviable task of assembling the panel for the incredibly popular Roundtable program. He has been so successful at We at WAMC are living in the same times you are. finding wonderful folks for the panel that I really don’t None of what we are going through with the COVID-19 think anything on television, including that other Joe pandemic or the Trump presidency is easy for any of us. (Morning Joe) rivals it. Consider Linda Ellerbee, the Luckily, we have an incredible staff at WAMC who have award-winning journalist who has become a prominent made the weight of our task lighter. part of the panel. There’s not enough room to name all of the panelists but I have to note our regulars, Libby Take someone like Ian Pickus, our wonderful news Post and Rosemary Armao, who are always up to the director. Ian must balance a large staff spread out in so challenge. We are incredibly proud of the diversity of the many directions and integrate the work of the news panel. We may argue, but people understand that this is division with everything else going on at the station. a comfortable place where everyone is welcome. Kind of Election nights are just one example of what goes on reminds me of the dining room table at the Chartocks. in Ian’s world. He gets up early every morning, checks in on the news of the world and the region, and then The most important people at WAMC, of course, are the attends our daily morning meeting at which he tells people who listen and support and keep us going. We the rest of us about his plans for the day. When that is know that there are a lot of public radio stations, but we finished, he meets with his news staff and hands out keep hearing from you that there is nothing that compares assignments there. He relies on the news staff to tell them with WAMC. For that we thank you. what they are interested in that day. Then, inevitably, he takes on the difficult role of answering the mail that so many of you send to [email protected]. He is certainly not a clock watcher because despite the fact that he has been at it since the wee hours of the morning, he can still be found at his desk commanding his troops and auditing the news until he can find the time to go home. Another wonderful personage at the station, probably unknown to most of you, is Amber Sickles who is in charge of just so many things including our membership department and our fund drives. Amber is one of those remarkable souls who never loses her cool. Over the many years that I have been at WAMC, we have had a lot of fund drive coordinators. This is a very demanding job. It’s not telling tales out of school to note that fund drive chiefs tend to move on. That’s not the case with 2 WAMC PROGRAM GUIDE July 2020 3 PROGRAM NOTES TINA RENICK Regardless of what’s happening in the world, the skies the best-selling discs of the Boston Pops conducted by must change. As summer begins, many of us also begin Keith Lockhart, John Williams and Arthur Fiedler. Airing returning to work with the lingering hope of, in some Saturdays at 6 p.m. way, keeping our standard summer agendas. As we embrace changes in the weather and in our daily lives, REGULAR PROGRAMMING adapting to new restrictions and the new normal, we Coming up on “The Academic Minute,” we’ll feature also look forward to celebrating our independence and egments on new research into PTSD, self-driving cars strength in unity. In the month of July, WAMC is also and learning to teach in a new, suddenly more digital adapting and bringing you the best in programming. age. Tune in every weekday at 7:30 a.m. and 3:56 p.m. PROGRAMMING CHANGES This month on “Person Place Thing,” host Randy Cohen After 27 amazing years, WBUR has made the difficult speaks with Sheila Nevins who ran HBO Documentary decision to end production of “Only A Game.” “Only A Films, producing over a thousand and winning more Game” currently airs Saturday mornings at 7 a.m. The prime-time Emmies than any other person, clearly last episode will air in late September. reflecting her love of the form. “No! I hate documentaries. I didn’t like documentaries at all. I American Public Media will also end production of “Live wanted to do things that people watched; I wanted to get from Here.” “Live from Here,” previously “A Prairie Home patted on the back; I wanted to make money,” she says. Companion,” has and always will hold a spot in the Randy will also connect with Sam Roberts, a reporter hearts of public media listeners and will continue to air and editor with over 30 years at the New York Times. until the start of “The Best of the BSO” beginning July Roberts began at the Daily News, in the seventies, 4th at 6 p.m. when the city faced financial collapse, terrorist bombs, a blackout, a psychotic serial killer, and Studio 54 - he was SPECIAL PROGRAMMING 28. “What a time to be city editor of a tabloid newspaper “Come Through with Rebecca Carroll” from WNYC. It’s in New York!” he says. “Person Place Thing” airs Friday an election year, and whether people want to admit nights at 10:30 p.m. it or not, race is at the center of every issue — This month on “Strange Universe,” host Bob Berman healthcare, jobs, climate change, the media, and more. explains the “honey” moon, the anonymous moon, Join host Rebecca Carroll for essential conversations strange summer meteors and more. Hear more about about race in a pivotal moment for America. She talks to the best nights for binoculars and small telescopes. great thinkers, writers, and artists about faith, representa- Sunday mornings at 9:35 a.m. tion, white fragility, and how it’s all playing out in 2020.