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OCTOBER 2016 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 WAMC-FM broadcasts 365 days a year from alan to eastern New York and western New WAMC Staff Monthly column from Alan Chartock. England on 90.3 MHz. Our studios and PAGE 2 offices are in Albany, NY. WAMC Executive Staff PROGRAM SCHEDULE The WAMC transmitter is located atop Alan Chartock | President Our weekly schedule of programming. Mount Greylock in Adams, MA. The Pat Cooney | Chief of Staff PAGE 3 WAMC-AM transmitter is located in Albany, Joe Donahue | Vice President, NY. WAMK’s transmitter is located on News & Programming PROGRAM NOTES Overlook Mountain, Woodstock, NY. 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W243BZ, 96.5 - Ellenville NY PAGE 12 W271BF, 102.1 - Highland, NY WAMC W246BJ 97.1 - Hudson, NY Box 66600 our UNDERWRITERS W204CJ, 88.7 - Lake Placid, NY Albany, NY 12206-6600 W292DX, 106.3 – Middletown, NY wamc.org PAGE 12 W215BG, 90.9 - Milford PA W299AG, 107.7 - Newburgh, NY Phone: 1-800-323-9262 W211CE, 90.1- Oneonta, NY W257BL, 99.3 - Oneonta, NY E-mail: [email protected] W240CR, 95.9 - Peekskill, NY Web: www.wamc.org W226AC, 93.1 - Rensselaer-Troy, NY Facebook: www.facebook.com/WAMCradio W225BM, 92.9 - Scotia, NY Twitter: twitter.com/WAMCRadio W296BD, 107.1 - Warwick, NY 2 WAMC PROGRAM GUIDE OCTOBER 2016 3 from alan ALAN CHARTOCK The fund drive begins on October 17th and it may just ing about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, I become a be the most momentous of all time. That's because on little depressed and grumpy. We should not be a nation November 8th, shortly after the fund drive is completed, of ostriches with our heads in the sand. When someone Americans will be voting for President of the United releases information that is being withheld by the gov- States and a new Congress. This is arguably the big- ernment, citizens should know. When this radio station gest news item of the year and no one has covered this reports on it, we are all better for it because we can make election more assiduously than WAMC. Not only have we more informed decisions. interacted with you on Vox Pop every week but our first hour of Roundtable has become our most popular locally So, this will be a momentous election and WAMC will produced program. We have spent enormous amounts be there for you. Each day we will discuss what has of time discussing what Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton happened. We recently hosted a congressional debate have said and done. Probably never in American history between John Faso and Zephyr Teachout, the two can- has there been such a stark choice between the candi- didates who are contesting for the nineteenth Congres- dates for the presidency. sional seat in our area. This is one of the most closely contested elections in the country and media from all over Not only are there major divergences in foreign and the country joined us for the debate. Our news director, domestic policy but the American people are faced with Ian Pickus, did a masterful job in planning and executing having to choose who is better equipped, physically the debate and it went off without a hitch. and mentally, to lead the country. WAMC has received a number of letters suggesting that we are spending too So here comes the ask. We couldn't do any of this without much time on the election, which some have likened to you. And while the voices may become shrill every once a contest between democratic values and pre-fascism. I on a while, you know that the work we do here at is an have no apologies to make. essential ingredient in making our democracy etter. So I suggest that you do what you can to keep it alive. Among other things, the polling data has shown the stark contrast between white, middle class Americans, often without college educations, and those who have had the benefit of higher learning. As a college professor of over forty years, I think I get it. Concepts such as cultural diver- sity, the rights of minorities and protection of civil liberties are often, but not always, better understood by those who have studied American history and politics. There are those such as panelist Barbara Smith who believe that this entire election revolves around race. She believes that the Trump candidacy is a thinly disguised campaign to keep blacks in their “proper place”. For his part, Trump says that he is the most non-racist person there is and that people of color have nothing to lose by electing him. So the Roundtable discussions have cen- tered on evidence for both positions. The point is that every time either candidate gives you a hint about which direction the country is going, you should know about the implications and a great radio station like WAMC will help. You've heard me say it a thousand times -- you can't have a democracy unless people can make intelligent choices. That's why when we get a letter from someone who says that they are sick and tired of hear- 2 WAMC PROGRAM GUIDE OCTOBER 2016 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 BBC World 5:30 Service Capitol Connection AM 6:00 Travel w/ Rick Morning Edition Living on Earth AM Steves 7:00 Marketplace Only A Game AM Weekend 8:00 AM Weekend Edition 9:00 Weekend Edition AM Sunday 10:00 Car Talk AM The Roundtable 11:00 Wait Wait... Don't Selected Shorts AM Tell Me! 12:00 Midday Magazine Midday Magazine Midday Magazine PM 1:00 TED Radio Commonwealth WAMC Radiolab The Moth TED Radio Hour Le Show PM Hour Club Conversation 2:00 PM Vox Pop Vox Pop Vox Pop 2:30 Med Monday Food Friday PM A Prairie Home 3:00 The Media The Book Capitol The Best of Our Radio Deluxe 51% Companion PM Project Show Connection Knowledge 3:30 WAMC Northeast Report PM 4:00 This American Life Afropop Worldwide PM All Things Considered 5:00 All Things Considered PM 6:00 WAMC Northeast Report Media Project PM 6:30 A Prairie Home Best of Med Marketplace PM Companion Monday 7:00 Thistle and Fresh Air PM Shamrock 8:00 51% PM Alternative This American Life 8:30 Radio American Live at The Linda The Book Show Hudson River Classical New PM Routes (details, page 3) Sampler England 9:00 Wait Wait... Don't Marketplace PM Tell Me! Weekend Mountain 10 Stage Legislative Gazette PM Living on WAMC Bluegrass Selected Shorts On the Media Grateful Dead Hour 10:30 Earth Time Person Place Thing PM 11:00 Tim Coakley Jazz As It Happens Hearts of Space PM Show WAMC Program Guide 4 4 WAMC PROGRAM GUIDE OCTOBER 2016 5 october program notes KRISTIN GILBERT The month of October brings our annual fall Fund Drive starting Monday, October 17th at 6 a.m. Help us to make WAMC BOARD OF TRUSTEES this the shortest Fund Drive in WAMC history. Your con- tinuing support allows us to keep bringing you the pro- EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE gramming you love. Call 1(800)323-9262 or pledge online Joseph Browdy, Chair, Hillsdale, NY at WAMC.org. We couldn’t do it without you! Anne Erickson, Vice Chair, Albany, NY Janet Axelrod, Treasurer, Albany, NY Along with our ongoing award winning news department’s Dorothy Reynolds, Secretary, Rensselaer, NY coverage of the election season, WAMC will be airing Alan Chartock, President/CEO, Great Barrington, MA special coverage of the Presidential & Vice Presidential Dr. David Ford, Scotia, NY debates on the following dates: Ira Fusfeld, Woodstock, NY Judy Grunberg, Valatie, NY Tuesday, October 4 from 9:00-11:00 p.m.: Vice Presiden- Carmi Rapport, Claverack, NY tial Debate at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. James Spencer Jr, Menands, NY Sunday, October 9 from 9:00-11:00 p.m.: Presidential Debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. TRUSTEES Wednesday, October 19 from 9:00-11:00 p.m.: Presiden- Mary Ballou, Schenectady, NY tial Debate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.