WAMC Program Guide March 2014 - Volume 20 Issue 3 Thanks for your support in the Fund Drive With Thanks and Admiration March Programming Notes Alan S. Chartock Katie Britton WAMC President and C.E.O. WAMC Programming and Outreach Director Everywhere I go, people are congratulating the radio March may be coming in like a lion, but keep your station for, by far, the fastest million dollar fund fingers crossed that the lambs will be arriving drive in history. I always try to make the point that it shortly and April showers will indeed bring May is not the WAMC staff and board that deserve the flowers. Is that enough modismos for you? kudos but all of you who made it happen. The (Obviously I’m getting a little punchy with all the amount of money that came in before the drive even snow.) This month, I’d like to highlight a few of started was astounding. A few weeks out we had our regular shows, as well as some specials we’ll about $300,000 in the magic locked (or lox or lock) have on tap. box. We announced that number on the air and within days, we had $417,000 in the box. Every It’s Women’s History Month, though I think penny that came in before the drive that was marked women should be celebrated all year long. That's for the box was accounted for and added to the total why we produce and distribute 51%, The and used to shorten the drive. Women’s Perspective. Host and Producer Susan Barnett not only has fascinating conversations The on-air portion of the drive started early on a with women from all walks of life, but she takes it Monday and four and a half days later we were a step further, and looks at how society, cultures, finished. Astounding! Even with all the money that and our lives are affected by landmark decisions, was in the locked box, people were incredibly community organizations, and the choices a person generous. Working together, as WAMC’ers always makes. It isn’t a show by women for women; it’s a do, we were averaging over $100,000 a day. On the show for everyone to hear a different or new last day we needed a little less than $150,000 to end perspective on the simple and complex things in the drive and by noon, it was done. Can you life, and how we can make a difference. The show imagine? The drive was over in four and a half days! airs Thursday nights at 8PM, and repeated the following Wednesday at 3PM. Continued on page 2 Remember the excitement of the great space race? We’ll be airing the special Rocket Girls and Astro- I N S I D E T H I S I SSUE nettes. This program is the story of women in the ultimate Man’s World – the labs and Shuttle crew 3 Met / ASO / Linda Broadcast Schedules cabins of NASA. Told in the first person, these 4 WAMC Program Schedule at a Glance stories explore the experiences of NASA’s first woman engineers and scientists and its first 8 Events Calendar astronauts. The special also tells the fascinating story of a group of women pilots who – in the 10 Underwriter Directory early 1960s – were led to believe that they would 22 WAMC HD2 Program Schedule be America’s first women astronauts and were continued on page 3 WAMC Program Guide 1 Chartock continued from page 1 A million dollars. Who would have thunk it WAMC-FM broadcasts 365 days a year possible? to eastern New York and western New England on 90.3 MHz. Our studios and It was particularly helpful when a lot of the people offices are in Albany, NY. who put money into the locked box reached out during the drive and said, “Here’s a little bit more for The WAMC transmitter is located atop my radio station.” This is yet more proof that Mount Greylock in Adams, MA. The WAMC is a community and when a community WAMC-AM transmitter is located in forms and marches ahead, people have a stake in its Albany, NY. WAMK’s transmitter is progress. We can only hope that now that we’ve had located on Overlook Mountain, such a great start, we can keep it going. Woodstock, NY. So why do people put money in the locked box? Of WAMC transmits on these frequencies: course, there are any number of reasons but the first WAMC-FM 90.3 - Albany, NY and most obvious is that people love their regular WANR- FM 88.5 - Brewster, NY programming and don’t want to lose it to a fund drive. The second is that folks really love the staff at WCAN-FM 93.3 - Canajoharie, NY WAMC and recognize that although we love our WAMQ-FM 105.1 - Great Barrington, MA work, including the fund drives, we work even WAMK-FM 90.9 - Kingston, NY harder than usual during the fund raising. I can’ tell WOSR-FM 91.7 - Middletown, NY you how many people have come up to me and WWES-FM 88.9 – Mount Kisco, NY asked, “How do you do it?” I think it can be WCEL-FM 91.9 - Plattsburgh, NY explained by adrenalin. We produce enough WRUN-FM 90.3 - Remsen, NY adrenaline to get us through the marathons and it WANZ 90.1 FM - Stamford, NY stays in the body for as long it is necessary. After the WANC-FM 103.9 - Ticonderoga, NY adrenaline leaves the body, though, there is an WAMC-AM 1400 - Albany, NY inevitable crash. I was delighted that after this last W204CJ, 88.7 - Lake Placid, NY four and a half day drive there was almost no crash. W215BG, 90.9 - Milford PA That’s really extraordinary. In the past when drives W226AC 93.1 - Rensselaer-Troy, NY approached ten or eleven days, the crash was huge. W243BZ, 96.5 - Ellenville NY There have been times when the effects of the crash W246BJ 97.1 - Hudson, NY have left me feeling like I could push a marble across W247BM, 97.3 - Cooperstown, NY the floor with my nose. W211CE, 90.1 - Oneonta, NY W257BL, 99.3 - Oneonta, NY People also put money in the locked box because W271BF, 102.1 - Highland, NY they don’t want to forget to contribute once the drive W280DJ, 103.9 - Beacon, NY has begun. I can’t tell you how many people have W292DX, 106.3 – Middletown, NY told me that they are relieved of potential guilt W296BD, 107.1 - Warwick, NY feelings because they know their money is in the W299AG 107.7 - Newburgh, NY box. Surface mail: I say to everyone who put money in the locked box WAMC or during the on-air portion of the drive, “Thank Box 66600 Albany, NY 12206-6600 you!” People tell me all the time that the fund drive is their favorite time on the station. They say that Phone: 1-800-323-9262 they love the common effort we are all making and E-mail: [email protected] they love hearing from their friends and neighbors. I Web: www.wamc.org love that part, too. And, of course, I love and thank Facebook: www.facebook.com/WAMCradio Twitter: twitter.com/WAMCRadio all of you who understand what this is all about. - Alan WAMC Program Guide 2 Programming Notes continued from page 1 Live at the Linda Broadcasts given the exact same physical tests as the Mercury Wednesdays at 8pm on WAMC astronauts. The program is narrated by Eileen 3/5 – Alexis P Sutter - Live at the Linda (rec. 6/21/13) Collins, the first woman commander of a Space A true vocal phenomenon, bass/baritone powerhouse Suter and her band began Shuttle. You can hear it Monday March 10th at wowing audiences in the northeast as regular performers at Levon Helm's Midnight 11AM. Ramble Sessions in Woodstock, NY. www.wamcarts.org/event_details.php?id=289 3/19 – Chris Thomas King – Live at the Linda (rec. 4/5/13) We’ll also have some great features from the Multi-talented Grammy Award winning blues musician, composer and actor Chris Thomas King has blazed a uniquely roots to contemporary musical path. News Department, and on The Roundtable. So www.wamcarts.org/event_details.php?id=266 keep an eye on our Twitter and Facebook feeds to 3/19 – Lustre Kings – Live at the Linda (rec. 4/20/13) be in the know. - Katie Mark Gamsjager and the Lustre Kings play rock and roll the right way. The powerhouse Albany NY combo has wowed crowds at Manhattan's Rodeo Bar, Seattle's Tractor Tavern and all points in-between; and they've done it with uncommon fervor, Albany Symphony Orchestra Broadcast commitment and flair. www.wamcarts.org/event_details.php?id=273 Wednesday, March 26 at 8pm ____________________________________________________ Recorded on 3/1/14 at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall 3/12 – Dancing on The Air (not recorded at the Linda) Featuring: www.jayandmolly.com Blair McMillen – Piano 3/26 – Albany Symphony Orchestra (details on page 3) Program Highlights: Stravinsky – Octet for Winds Joan Tower – Rapids for Piano and Orchestra WAMC Executive Staff Conor Brown – New Work (World Premier) Beethoven – Symphony No. 3, “Eroica” Alan Chartock – President and CEO Witness the orchestra as it tackles one of the most important Dona Frank-Federico– Chief of Staff pieces in the history of music and romanticism – Beethoven’s heroic Third Symphony. The concert also features a work by Selma Kaplan – Senior Vice President American female compositional pioneer, Joan Tower, featuring pianist Blair McMillen, Stravinsky's Octet For Winds, and more Pat Cooney – Vice President, Operations Joe Donahue – Vice President, News/Programming Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts Saturdays at 1pm Management Staff March 1 – Borodin’s Prince Igor Meegan Finnegan – Membership Director Borodin’s defining Russian epic, famous for its Polovtsian Dances, comes to the Met for the first time in nearly 100 years.