JANUARY 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE from alan Stations Help WAMC Go Green! Monthly column from Alan Chartock. You may elect to stop receiving our paper PAGE 2 WAMC, 90.3 FM, Albany, NY program guide, and view it on wamc.org. WAMC 1400 AM, Albany, NY Call us to be removed from the PROGRAM NOTES WAMK, 90.9 FM, Kingston, NY paper mailing list: 1-800-323-9262 ext. 133 What’s coming up on WAMC. WOSR, 91.7 FM, Middletown, NY PAGE 3 WCEL, 91.9 FM, Plattsburgh, NY PROGRAM SCHEDULE WCAN, 93.3 FM, Canajoharie, NY Our weekly schedule of programming. WANC, 103.9 FM, Ticonderoga, NY PAGE 4 WRUN-FM, 90.3 FM, Remsen- WAMC Staff Utica, NY WAMQ, 105.1 FM, Great Barrington, WAMC Executive Staff LIVE AT THE LINDA BROADCAST MA Alan Chartock | President and CEO WWES, 88.9 FM, Mt. Kisco, NY SCHEDULE Joe Donahue | Roundtable Host/ Senior WANR, 88.5 FM, Brewster, NY Advisor Listen to your favorite shows on air after WANZ, 90.1, Stamford, NY they have been at The Linda. 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That will be denied and a law suit from WAMC will ensue. An apology will follow. WAMC’s Selma Kaplan will be offered a very lucrative recording contract. Photo by Eric Korenman An executive at WAMC will celebrate his fiftieth anniver- sary with his long- suffering wife. Every year I offer my fearless WAMC predictions. I do that The WAMC underwriting staff will outdo themselves set- with some trepidation because sometimes I have been ting an all-time record for underwriting contracts. wrong. But hey, nothing ventured, nothing gained. Here WAMC will have the fastest fund drive in history. It will be are the rules: I predict some of these things because I so remarkable that both the Albany Times Union and the want them to happen. Some I predict in order to put the Berkshire Eagle will future three column bold faced head- whammy on them so that they don’t happen and some I lines announcing the news. actually think will happen. It’s up to you to figure out which Joe Donahue will be given the highest literary award pos- is which. sible for his work on books. I will say, “It’s about time.” Here goes: The Albany Police will stake out the WAMC parking lot Donald Trump will be caught in an illegal act so heinous and make an arrest for public urination. that his usual excuse that he can’t be prosecuted will be WAMC will receive a top educational award for its work reversed by the United States Supreme Court. Speaking sending kids to school with full backpacks to help them for the majority, Ruth Bader Ginsburg will announce from succeed the bench that in this country, no man is above the law. A substantial gift will be sent to WAMC from a contributor Thousands of people will gather in front of New York’s who will say, “I have been listening to WAMC for years Trump Tower and scream, “Lock him up!” at the top of and have never made a contribution.” The amount of the their lungs. check will be so generous that no one on our staff will be Rudy Giuliani will take a plea in the Southern District of able to believe it. When we call to thank our angel, she New York and receive a jail sentence after one of his Rus- will say, “I don’t need the money, the people do.” sian clients spills the beans. National Public Radio will aggravate WAMC staff on at Attorney General William Barr will resign his office and be least three separate occasions when they poach WAMC heard to mutter, “This just isn’t worth it.” stories without giving credit to the radio station. A blessed event will happen to someone in our Annex Wanda Fischer will officially break a record for longevity building. on the air. A marriage will take place that got its start at WAMC. It WAMC will change its vacation schedule. No longer will won’t be the first. Christmas Eve day be a day off for the station. People will Governor Andrew Cuomo will ask to be on WAMC’s air- call to thank the station for having a morning panel. There waves once again. will, however, be early dismissal at 2:00 PM. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting will significantly lower the amount allotted from federal funds to WAMC. The WAMC newsroom will gain a new staff member. She will have a major editorial position. Someone will write to me saying, “You are too old. Time to retire.” I will give that someone a lecture on ageism. 2 WAMC PROGRAM GUIDE JANUARY 2020 3 PROGRAM NOTES TINA RENICK We can see clearly now that 2020 has arrived. We’ve set For the rest of January we’ll discover amazing research clear goals and are holding fast to them (at least in Janu- into autonomous vehicles, the keto diet and brain health ary), but will need some motivation to help us along. Let’s and the imposter syndrome from professors around the see what WAMC has to inspire us as we peer into the country. Join us throughout 2020 to discover your next new year. favorite segment. The Metropolitan Opera season starts the new year with Coming up at The Linda, WAMC’s Performing Arts Studio: Strauss’ “Der Rosenkavalier” on Jan. 4, a new produc- an evening of Delta blues with Lonnie Shields presented tion of Berg’s “Wozzeck” on Jan. 11, Verdi’s “La Traviata” by The Capital Region Blues Network, Jan. 11th at 8 p.m.; on Jan. 18 and Puccini’s “La Boheme” on Jan. 25. Opera and Rochmon Record Club covers Carole King’s “Tapes- broadcasts are Saturdays at 1 p.m. try,” Jan. 30 at 7:30 p.m. Check out https://www.thelinda. org/events/ for a full list of events. This month on “Person Place Thing” we hear from danc- ers Jacques Damboise and Daniel Ulbricht on Jan. 3, Be sure to subscribe to the WAMC News Podcast. We former Dean of the Columbia University Graduate School post new episodes twice a week, featuring our most of Architecture James Polshek Jan. 10 and assistant interesting stories from across the Northeast, in-depth professor in rehabilitation medicine Maria del Mar Cortes interviews with newsmakers, and other special segments. on Jan. 17. Also coming up: Pulitzer Prize-winning author If you love Midday Magazine and Northeast Report but Jennifer Egan on Jan. 24, and president and CEO of can’t always listen on air, the WAMC News Podcast is a Northwell Health, the largest integrated health care sys- perfect way to catch up! https://wamcpodcasts.org/wamc- tem in New York State, Michael Dowling on Jan. 31. Airing news-podcast/ Fridays at 10:30 p.m. Sign up for Airwaves, our weekly newsletter, for program We hope you enjoyed the Best of the Academic Minute updates and follow us on Twitter @WAMCRadio, Face- segments that aired in late December. To start off the book @WAMCradio and Instagram @wamcradio for the New Year on The Academic Minute, we’ll feature a brand- latest news and station info. You can also ask your smart new week of segments from the University at Albany. speaker to play WAMC 24/7! Cutting-edge research on pathways from imagination to altruism, helping the homeless and political polarization will keep you informed and up to date from our friends up the street. UAlbany is poised to overtake Columbia as our most featured New York University or college. We’ll also feature a takeover week from another regional institution — Worcester Polytechnic Institute.