WAMC Program Guide March 2015 - Volume 21 Issue 3 Hello Spring. We’re glad to see you! One For The Books March Programming Notes Alan S. Chartock Katie Britton WAMC President and C.E.O. WAMC Programming and Outreach Director Here we are, just a few short weeks after the historic Hear Me Roar! WAMC fund drive. Between the locked box that raised half of the money before the on-air drive Greetings and salutations, WAMC Land. It’s the started and three and a half days of actual fund time of year that we groan when we see the white drive, we ended up with a million dollars in the stuff falling from the skies, the negative bank. temperatures make us feel like 20° is a day in Hawaii, and nothing is better than hunkering down The on-air talent was extraordinary. Ray Graf sat in the house with a cup of tea. Well, we have a across the table from me every morning, Joe great month of specials and events to keep you Donahue was there with either Sarah LaDuke or company and warm you up. Selma Kaplan most of the day; Jessica Bloustein Marshall pitched with Ray at midday; David In celebration of Women’s History Month, on Guistina anchored every morning, making sure that March 5th and 6th at 11AM on both days, we’ll be everyone had the weather in those super snowy bringing you a new two-part series entitled The days; and Brian Shields brought us up to date on the Hidden World of Girls. Groundbreaking writer, news every afternoon. actress and comedian, Tina Fey hosts the program. From the dunes of the Sahara to a slumber party in The stalwart volunteers showed up, despite the fact Manhattan, from the dancehalls of Jamaica to a that there were days when they couldn’t see two feet racetrack in Ramallah, Tina Fey takes us around in front of them. We couldn’t have survived without the world into the secret life of girls and the them and just didn’t know what we would do if they women they become. couldn’t make it in. But there they were. Somehow, someway, in the dink and the dank of the night they Sound-rich, evocative, funny, and powerful -- stories of coming of age, rituals and rites of Continued on page 2 passage, secret identities -- of women who crossed a line, blazed a trail, changed the tide. These specials are produced by Peabody Award-winning I N S I D E T H I S I SSUE producers, The Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva), in collaboration with NPR reporters 2 Spotlight on our Underwriters and foreign correspondents, independent producers 3 Metropolitan Opera Broadcast Schedule and listeners around the world. 4 WAMC Program Schedule at a glance On March 20th at 11AM, we’ll go back in time with She Wrote the Song: Women Composers of 10 Underwriter Directory Early Popular American Music. The program 23 WAMC HD2 Program Schedule highlights standards written or co-written by continued on page 3 WAMC Program Guide 1 Chartock continued from page 1 arrived and so did all the generous gifts from so many people who have become a part of the WAMC story. Underwriter Spotlight There were the coffee people, the bagel people, cheese people Sholes & Miller LLP and the hundreds of restaurants who gave away premiums of When medical professionals, hospitals, nursing meals. They didn’t have to but they did. These are places that homes and other health care providers in New York are filled every night, no matter what, but they depend on and Connecticut have legal concerns, they turn to WAMC. Everywhere I go, the people who run them tell me the experienced and reliable law firm of Sholes & how proud they are of “our radio station.” Miller. The attorneys at Sholes & Miller have a long history of successful representation of Every evening, the night crew worked their magic, adding physicians and professionals in many heath care thousands of dollars to the growing total. Like Rumpelstiltskin, specialties. www.sholesmiller.com Ian Pickus and James Farison would turn straw into gold and make my heart beat with joy when I saw that they and their “night people” had done it once more. Safe Harbors of the Hudson Safe Harbors of the Hudson is a large scale, non- And then there were all those people behind the scenes, like profit re-development project in the City of Meegan Finnegan, Felicia Berke, Colleen O’Connell, Casey Newburgh with the mission of transforming lives Chapman, and Deena Salzman who would always be there to and building communities through housing and the greet me with the coffee no matter how early I arrived. arts. The Safe Harbors project includes the Everything was ready for the volunteers and staff as they Cornerstone Residence, supportive housing for 128 wandered in, bleary eyed. of our most vulnerable neighbors; the Lobby at the Ritz; the Ann Street Gallery, and the historic Ritz In the end, though, the real heroes of the fund drive are you. Theater, which Safe Harbors is committed to People ask me all the time what our WAMC secret is but we restoring into a large scale performance space for know, don’t we, that if people didn’t come together as a the community. www.safe-harbors.org community to make us what we are, there would be no WAMC. There’s no secret. There’s no one person. It has Godfrey Financial Associates never been anything but the knowledge that together, we built Godfrey Financial Associates is a different kind of this station one brick and one program at a time. I could cry as financial advisory firm –for 20 years, they have I see your names rush by. been disrupting the status quo. The typical “Wall Street” approach is generally not in the best Some people will give more than once, wanting to help make interests of the end consumer. At Godfrey a challenge or make the point that in our community, we don’t depend on a few wealthy donors to make it happen. It is, and Financial, a strict fiduciary relationship is will always be, each according to their ability. Just think of it - maintained with all clients. This means that your - someone who has nothing gives twenty-five dollars, another interests come first, always. Godfrey Financial generous person puts a thousand dollars into the kitty, saying Associates provides retirement planning, estate that she couldn’t live without the station. Imagine that, a planning, and investment management for women thousand dollars. and baby-boomers throughout New York’s Capital Region.www.godfreyfinancial.com Back in the early days when we first started the fund drives, the then Mayor of Albany, Erastus Corning, wandered in with eight hundred dollars in his pocket and made the first challenge grant. We thought it was more money than we would ever see. We matched it on the radio with just three phones in a few minutes and that’s how the challenge thing began. It is so interesting. A thousand dollar challenge can inspire a virtual frenzy of activity. Humongous grants of five, ten and even twenty-five thousand dollars will come in, sometimes as total surprises. You have no idea how it feels when we see them and know that in the language of the fund drive, “We’re saved, I tell you, we’re saved!” Thank you. We love you. - Alan Alan Chartock relaxes before the Winter Fund Drive begins. WAMC Program Guide 2 Programming Notes continued from page 1 WAMC-FM broadcasts 365 days a year to eastern women composers who, in the early decades of American New York and western New England on 90.3 MHz. popular song, had to struggle for the limelight, as women Our studios and offices are in Albany, NY. had to in so many areas of American life. Some of the highlights from the program are Dorothy Fields partnering The WAMC transmitter is located atop Mount Greylock in Adams, with Jimmy McHugh and Jerome Kern to give us classics MA. The WAMC-AM transmitter is located in Albany, NY. WAMK’s such as "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" and "The transmitter is located on Overlook Mountain, Woodstock, NY. Way You Look Tonight", and Una Mae Carlisle, a teen protege of Fats Waller who went on to score hits with WAMC transmits on these frequencies: "Walkin' By the River" and "I See a Million People" WAMC-FM 90.3 - Albany, NY (recorded by Peggy Lee with Benny Goodman). WANR- FM 88.5 - Brewster, NY WCAN-FM 93.3 - Canajoharie, NY WAMQ-FM 105.1 - Great Barrington, MA And it doesn’t stop there! Not only do we have specials on WAMK-FM 90.9 - Kingston, NY air, but we have two Women’s History Month events that WOSR-FM 91.7 - Middletown, NY th WAMC and 51% are a part of. On March 8 , the station and WWES-FM 88.9 - Mount Kisco, NY 51% are community sponsors of One Woman, One World, WCEL-FM 91.9 - Plattsburgh, NY which is celebrating the 104th International Women's Day in WRUN-FM 90.3 - Remsen, NY Saratoga Springs, New York. 51% host Allison Dunne will WANZ 90.1 FM - Stamford, NY WANC-FM 103.9 - Ticonderoga, NY be there conducting behind the scenes interviews, I’ll be at WAMC-AM 1400 - Albany, NY our table to talk about the station, and an amazing group of female intellectuals, authors, and politicians will be Translators: conduction “TED-style” talks throughout the day.