JANUARY 2018 PROGRAM GUIDE Stations Help WAMC Go Green! from alan You may elect to stop receiving our paper Monthly column from Alan Chartock. WAMC, 90.3 FM, Albany, NY program guide, and view it on wamc.org. PAGE 2 WAMC 1400 AM, Albany, NY Call us to be removed from the mailing list: WAMK, 90.9 FM, Kingston, NY 1-800-323-9262 ext. 133 PROGRAM NOTES WOSR, 91.7 FM, Middletown, NY PAGE 3 WCEL, 91.9 FM, Plattsburgh, NY PROGRAM SCHEDULE WCAN, 93.3 FM, Canajoharie, NY WAMC Staff Our weekly schedule of programming. WANC, 103.9 FM, Ticonderoga, NY PAGE 4 WRUN-FM, 90.3 FM, Remsen- WAMC Executive Staff Utica, NY WAMQ, 105.1 FM, Great Barrington, Alan Chartock | President and CEO LIVE AT THE LINDA BROADCAST MA Joe Donahue | Senior Director of WWES, 88.9 FM, Mt. Kisco, NY News and Programming Stacey Rosenberry | Director of Operations SCHEDULE WANR, 88.5 FM, Brewster, NY and Engineering 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 JANUARY 2018 3 FROM ALAN ALAN CHARTOCK Dear WAMC Family, A: Thanks to WTEN, we have been able to arrive at a very fair deal. WAMC exists because of the support of our I can’t tell you how grateful we are to be able to ensure members. Without the broadcast signal from the tower our future by buying the tower we have been on all on Mt. Greylock, we would lose all of those listeners and these years. I’m talking about the broadcast tower on Mt. their support. WAMC would not survive. Greylock that allows us to send our signal throughout our seven-state listening area. Q: Are there other expenses that WAMC will incur? As of the time you are reading this, the money has come A: Yes. As the owner of the tower, WAMC pays rent to the pouring in to support the effort. We are well on our way. landowner, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Also, With the money, however, there are some questions there are some improvements needed at the site, as well people are asking. So, we thought we’d devote this space as ongoing maintenance. We will do whatever it takes to to answer them. stay alive. With love, Q: With the purchase of the tower, does WAMC have Alan Chartock the opportunity to rent space to other entities and earn revenue? Q: Why is Channel 10 leaving/selling the tower? A: Yes. WAMC will honor current lease agreements with A: For its own good reasons, WTEN is no longer broad- those occupying space on the tower now. And as space casting from the tower. We cannot move from this loca- permits, we will remain open to additional tenants. A por- tion, or even on the tower itself, as we would lose our ex- tion of this rental revenue is owed to the Commonwealth tensive coverage. Additionally, we couldn’t move locations of Massachusetts as part of the agreement to lease the without FCC approval, and we’d need to find an available land on which the tower stands. location. Generously, WTEN has offered us the opportu- nity and we must take it. Q: How would a profit-making endeavor like renting space on the tower affect your non-profit status? Q: Why has WAMC bought the tower, as opposed to continuing to rent it from a new owner? A: Renting out space on the tower and receiving income does not affect our non-profit status. We file appropriate A: WAMC can’t be certain that another owner would con- tax return forms to account for this revenue. tinue to rent space to WAMC, or that they’d satisfactorily continue to maintain the site. You can see that losing our Q: Is WAMC investing in old technology when its space on the tower would be devastating to our station. audience might be increasingly streaming on their smartphones or perhaps using apps that are indepen- Q: Is the choice to purchase the tower fiscally re- dent of any tower? sponsible? A: More than half a million cumulative listeners get our signal from the tower on Mt. Greylock or its various translators each month. Although many people tune in to our app or stream live, the mainstay of our station is this tower, and its listening members that support us. 2 WAMC PROGRAM GUIDE JANUARY 2018 3 PROGRAM NOTES KRISTIN GILBERT The Metropolitan Opera 2017/2018 Saturday Matinee 9AM— The 2017 Music Memorial Hour broadcasts continue on WAMC. The operas will air every Some of the prominent popular musicians who passed Saturday at 1PM until May 5th, 2018. away in 2017 are celebrated in a one-hour special hosted January 6th, 2018 @1PM-- Hansel and Gretel (Engelbert by public radio music historian Paul Ingles. Music includ- Humperdinck) ed from Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Chris Cornell, Gregg Allman, Tom Petty, Glen Campbell and more. A Met English-language holiday presentation, Richard 10AM-12PM-- New Year's with the Pittsburgh Symphony Jones’s clever production of Humperdinck’s fairy-tale Orchestra opera is based on the Brothers Grimm story. Donald Run- nicles conducts the sweeping score and a delightful cast, Ring in the New Year with the Pittsburgh Symphony Or- including the legendary Dolora Zajick as the wayward sib- chestra and a concert of Strauss waltzes and polkas. Noa lings’ mother. Tara Erraught and Ingeborg Gillebo share Wildschut makes his Heinz Hall debut to play Chausson’s the role of Hansel, and Lisette Oropesa and Maureen Poeme and Ravel’s Tzigane. Manfred Honeck then McKay share the role of Gretel. conducts a program of musical gems from the waltz and January 13th, 2018 @1PM--Cavalleria Rusticana & Pa- polka tradition. gliacci (Pietro Mascagni / Ruggero Leoncavallo) Roberto Alagna takes on the leading tenor roles in both 2PM--Capitol Steps: Politics Takes a Holiday New Year's parts of opera’s most popular double bill. In Cavalleria Edition 2017/2018 Rusticana, Ekaterina Semenchuk and Eva-Maria West- broek share the role of the woebegone Santuzza, with Put down those indictments, Robert Mueller – if you’re Aleksandra Kurzak as the hot-blooded Nedda in Pagliac- hoping Paul Manafort will sing like a canary, all you have ci. Nicola Luisotti conducts Sir David McVicar’s produc- to do is tune in to the Capitol Steps year-end edition of tion, which heightens the melo-dramaticaction of this “Politics Takes a Holiday.” You might even pick up some timeless verismo pairing. classified secrets as he joins the Donald to sing “I’m So January 20th, 2018 @1PM—Thaïs (Jules Massenet) Indicted.” Ailyn Pérez is the alluring courtesan and Gerald Finley is the holy man who tries to resist her powers of seduction Also featured in the Capitol Steps’ show will be the year’s in Massenet’s tale of sensuality versus spirituality. Em- biggest stars – Mike Pence, Rex Tillerson, Hillary Clinton, manuel Villaume conducts. Vladimir Putin, Bernie Sanders, and those who were gone January 27th, 2018 @1PM—Tosca (Giacomo Puccini) too soon – Sean Spicer, Tom Price, and, of course, the Sir David McVicar’s ravishing new production offers a Mooch. splendid backdrop for two extraordinary sopranos sharing the title role of the jealous prima donna: Sonya Yoncheva Now is your chance to finally enjoy the headlines you (pictured above) and Anna Netrebko. Vittorio Grigolo and were too scared to read. After all, the Capitol Steps won’t Marcelo Álvarez alternate in the role of Tosca’s revolution- tell you what to think, but they will tell you what rhymes ary artist lover Cavaradossi, with Željko Lučić and Michael with Papadopoulos. Volle as the depraved police chief Scarpia. Emmanuel Villaume and Bertrand de Billy share conducting duties. New Year’s Day Special Programming: 12AM-5AM—The Toast of the Nation An NPR tradition every New Year's since the 1970s, Toast of the Nation is the perfect audio complement for the oc- casion. It's festive jazz you can party to. Spirited, impro- vised, and swinging, each segment stops in a Blue Note venue throughout the country and the world! This program schedule subject to change.