Quarterly Programming Report April-June 2009 KPCC / KPCV / KUOR Date Key 1 Synopsis Guest/Reporter Duration 4/1/09 ECON State sales tax increase Russ 1:17 4/1/09 HEAL CA pistachios are at the center of the latest salmonella scare. Koka 1:02 4/1/09 ENT The actors unions cut a deal with commercials producers Watt :59 4/1/09 LAW Police officials and crime experts had predicted that economic decline would lead to an increase in crime. CC :22 4/1/09 AT State sales tax goes up, starting today CC :20 4/1/09 HEAL Widespread warning about potential salmonella contamination of CA pistachios CC :09 4/1/09 ECON Pistachio growers say they can eliminate contamination CC :22 4/1/09 IMM New approach to dealing with illegal immigrant hiring- go after employers CC :21 4/1/09 SAC CA gets a bigger food stamp benefit Small 2:28 4/1/09 EDU Reseachers who've suffered extreme harassment by protestors organize. Guzman 1:39 4/1/09 IE Woman convicted as accessory in murder case freed with help of USC student Cuevas 2:15 4/1/09 ECON At WESTEC Expo, manufacturers face down the recession. Watt 3:00 4/1/09 ENV Lotta fuming over gas nozzle vapor rules Peterson 4:15 4/1/09 LAW Pasadena police report backs officers shooting of Leroy barnes Stoltze :50 4/1/09 EDU Researchers who've suffered extreme harassment by protestors organize. CC :17 4/1/09 ENV CA's got some work to do to adapt to climate change CC :19 4/1/09 EDU Three southland schools will be included in a federal program that monitors air quality. Peterson :54 4/1/09 ECON Department store liquidates after it can't find a buyer Devall :43 4/1/09 LAW ATF, LAPD announce major gun bust CC :16 CA gas stations that haven't installed new air quality equipment would get a year long reprieve under new state 4/1/09 ENV legislation. CC :13 4/1/09 LAW ATF, LAPD announce major gun bust Stoltze :51 4/1/09 ENV New climate action team report doesn't look so good for state Peterson :44 Crime is down in Los Angeles and other parts of the Southern California, despite expectations that it would rise due to the recession and a 12% unemployment rate in Los Angeles. In the city of Los Angeles, property crime is down 6.4% and violent crime is down 4.9% compared to the same period last year. Larry Mantle and guests talk about this 4/1/09 LAW surprising trend. Frank Stoltze, George K 20:00 Unfortunately, this is no joke. To help offset the state's $41.6 billion budget deficit, California residents today will begin to face an increase in their sales tax that will bring their rate to almost 9 percent. Experts say that the increase 4/1/09 ECON on items like cars, furniture, laptops and toys will bring in $5.8 billion until it expires in July of 2011. Nancy Sidhu 10:00 Date Key 1 Synopsis Guest/Reporter Duration Since 1959, when Fidel Castro took power in Havana, the US has maintained a trade and travel embargo against Cuba. But that may finally be changing. The Obama Administration, along with a group of lawmakers, wants to start chipping away at the restrictions. The Administration supports lifting bans on travel and allowing Cuban-Americans to 4/1/09 POLI send remittances to their families. Is this the beginning of a rapprochement with Cuba? Larry gets the details. Tom Gjelten 30:00 President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama arrived in London Tuesday, the first stop on their eight-day, five-country trip through Europe. In that brief period of time, the President will attend the G-20 economic summit, a NATO summit, deliver a speech in France on the trans-Atlantic relationship, and give an address in Prague on weapons proliferation. He will also make his first stop in a Muslim nation, Turkey. How will Mr. Obama be received in these countries by their leaders and citizens? And what do Europeans think of his performance as President so 4/1/09 POLI far? Larry Mantle talks with reporters abroad. Andrew Hilton, Owen Ma 40:00 Spade and Archer' is a gritty mystery novel that focuses on the Private Detective Sam Spade. A prequel to Dashiell Hammett's “The Maltese Falcon,” the novel follows Spade as he sets up his own agency in San Francisco in 1921. Spade brings on his partner in crime Archer. From booze runners to murderers the book follows Spade through his 4/1/09 LIT early years. Larry Mantle talks to author Joe Gores about the noir behind his novel. Joe Gores 20:00 SAG and AFTRA announced they have reached a tentative new contract for commercials which includes more than a $36 million increase in wage rates and other payments, about $21 million in increased contributions to pension and health plans and calls for a payment structure for work made for the Internet and other new-media platforms. The agreement, which still must be approved by the joint SAG/AFTRA National Board and then ratified by membership, was reached in difficult negotiations, but marked a sea-change in the formerly contentious relationship between the 4/1/09 ENT two actors' unions as they worked closely to hammer out this deal with the advertisers Alex Ben Block 00:09 Indian businessman Nandan Nilekani once commented to Thomas Friedman, "Tom, the playing field is being leveled"—a remark that inspired Friedman to write The World is Flat, a big-think book about off shoring and globalization that sold millions. Now Nilekani has a book of his own, Imagining India, a definitive look at modern India, challenging traditional wisdom and exploring what is at stake in the world's largest democracy. Why is India's huge population also its greatest strength? How is information technology bringing the benefits of globalization? And the question on all our minds: in the showdown between the two emerging world powers—India and China—which 4/1/09 FOR country will come out on top? Nandan Nilekani 00:29 It's been one of the most contentious parts of the federal government's recent immigration policy: worksite raids targeting illegal immigrant employees, often resulting in dozens of detentions and enmity in the targeted immigrant communities. A byproduct of the Bush Administration's failure to secure broad immigration reform, the raids were deemed both inhumane by immigrant activists and necessary law enforcement by opponents of illegal immigration. Now the Department of Homeland Security is about to announce a change in policy that will shift the focus of these raids from the employees to the employers that hire illegal immigrants. Will the changes placate both sides of the 4/1/09 IMM debate? Xavier Becerra, Mark Kr 00:35 No, it's not an April Fools' prank: after more than a decade of work and $3.5 billion, engineers have completed the world's most powerful laser, capable of simulating the energy force of a hydrogen bomb and even the sun. We check 4/1/09 SCI in with an expert for the details. Edward Moses 00:18 4/2/09 LAW Two people are dead and three are critically injured after a runaway truck accident yesterday near LA. Julian :45 The Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, paid a visit to the Mexican Border where she announced a 4/2/09 SEC $400 million plan to upgrade ports of entry. Isackson 1:15 4/2/09 TRAN 2 people killed after truck driver uses illegal route on Angeles Crest Highway CC :17 4/2/09 TRAN 2 people killed after truck driver uses illegal route on Angeles Crest Highway CC :37 4/2/09 PM CA wants to expand its prison system CC :25 Date Key 1 Synopsis Guest/Reporter Duration 4/2/09 PM Southland congress woman weighs in on North Korean saber- rattling CC :25 4/2/09 TRAN Local officials expressing outrage after fatal big rig crash in La Canada Flintridge CC :26 4/2/09 TRAN Local officials expressing outrage after fatal big rig crash in La Canada Flintridge CC :22 4/2/09 IMM ACLU files lawsuit alleging squalid conditions at immigration detention center CC :15 4/2/09 HEAL Ranks of the uninsured swell in CA due to the recession. Baer :56 4/2/09 IMM ACLU accuses feds of housing immigs in inhumane conditions Stoltze 1:22 4/2/09 LAW LAPD chief Bill Bratton blasts Obama admin. Decision to end pot raids Stoltze :54 4/2/09 TRAN Public weighs in on alternatives for regional connector rail in downtown LA. CC :17 4/2/09 ENV The state's final seasonal survey of the Sierra Nevada snowpack delivers small comfort to Southern CA. Peterson :50 4/2/09 TRAN Public weighs in on alternatives for regional connector rail in downtown LA. Watt :58 4/2/09 TRAN LA Metro's proposal for regional connector line include new downtown stations. CC :21 4/2/09 ENV Plans for a $750 million expansion at the Port of Long Beache's Middle Harbor are moving forward. Peterson 1:17 Leaders from the G-20 summit announced today that they would put $1 trillion into the global economy and seek greater regulation of the financial industry. The announcement is a compromise between nations that called for more spending and nations that sought greater financial reform to deal with the worldwide recession.