Discovering the sonic signature of the Bay Area page 4 Andrea Seabrook declares independence DecodeDC: Now on KALW page 7 Chew on This comes to San Francisco Four live tapings — be part of the audience page 6 Remembering Alan Farley A special section of photos, recollections and appreciations pages 8, 9, 12 & 13 Winter 2013 KALW: By and for the community . 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Sloan, Eva Soncin, Kevin Stamm, Anna Sterling, Peter Sturges, Tim Sullivan, Rai Sue Sussman, Bian Tan, Ann Temple, Yuyu Thein, Sal Timpano, Kathy Trewin, Coban Tun, David Vartanoff, Mike Vezzalli, Sheila Walsh, Charlie Wegerle, Kara Weisman, Harry Weller, Patrick Wheeler, Steve Wilcott, David Wilshire, Greg Wynn, Gadi Zohar OUR LICENSEE, THE SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Superintendent: Richard Carranza • Board of Commissioners: Sandra Lee Fewer, Matt Haney, Kim-Shree Maufus, Hydra Mendoza, Emily Murase, Rachel Norton, Jill Wynns • Director, Office of Public Outreach and Communications: Gentle Blythe KALW Personnel Matt Martin, General Manager Martina Castro, Managing Kyung-Jin Lee, Reporter William Helgeson, News Editor Nancy Mullane, Reporter Operations Manager Audrey Dilling, Producer Rose Aguilar, Host David Latulippe, Administration Chris Hoff, News Engineer Malihe Razazan, Producer Phil Hartman, Engineering Erica Mu, News Tech Support Ali Budner, Producer Annette Bistrup, Membership Seth Samuel, News Engineer Emily Algire, Membership Hana Baba, Host/Reporter Part-time announcers Joe Burke, Announcer Casey Miner, Reporter/Editor Eric Jansen JoAnn Mar, Announcer Julie Caine, Reporter Debi Kennedy Holly Kernan, News Director Jennifer Chien, Reporter David Latulippe Ben Trefny, Executive News Editor Leila Day, Reporter Bob Sommer Nicole Jones, Reporter Kevin Vance Eric Wayne ABOUT KALW KALW is a pioneer educational station licensed to the San Francisco Unified School District, broadcasting since September 1, 1941 — the oldest FM signal west of the Mississippi. Mailing address: KALW Radio Offices: (415) 841-4121 500 Mansell Street Fax: (415) 841-4125 San Francisco, CA 94134 Studio Line: (415) 841-4134 KALW program guide edited by Matt Martin and David Latulippe, designed by Georgette Petropoulos © Contents KALW 2 Manager’s Notes Dear listener, Every human institution is defined by a When Alan flow of individuals, each one playing a role at Farley first came their particular moment. Now, the younger to KALW as an an- voices Alan believed in and encouraged – nouncer in 1975, it Roman Mars, Martina Castro, Sandip Roy, was what he called David Latulippe, Rose Aguilar, Chloe Velt- a “mom and pop” man, Eric Wayne, Hana Baba, and others — operation. will carry forward the work to which he was so committed. Programming was a patchwork, and the station was in transition from its roots as a KALW is thriving today because so many training institution to its future as a full- people who never come near a microphone fledged public broadcaster. Alan told stories have given their time, attention, and about how the chief engineer would dangle resources to this station — and for many of an antenna out the window to receive BBC them, Alan was their primary connection. shortwave broadcasts and then put them I hope the selection of appreciations and on 91.7 FM. And although the station was an farewells in this guide will give you some early NPR affiliate, that simply meant running sense of what Alan meant to this station and All Things Considered, the network’s sole to this community. program at the time. Sincerely, Alan’s career spanned the transformation and growth of KALW, and of public radio as a whole. And he kept working well past the Matt Martin age when most people retire because he was General Manager passionate about books and music and the [email protected] arts, and because he loved being part of a station where new talents could emerge and develop. What’s happening with Car Talk? In my most recent Manager’s Report, I talked about plans to identify a program to replace Car Talk now that Tom & Ray have retired and new shows are being produced from years of archived tape. I solicited your ideas, and said we’d start auditioning some of the candidates in January. But, as you can see on the program grid (or hear on Saturday mornings), Car Talk is right where it has been. So what’s up? Well, after hearing ideas and opinions from dozens of listeners, I ended up without the TED Radio Hour — a journey through a clear sense of the direction we should head ideas based on the world-famous TED Talks. in. And given that so many people continue But instead of doing that here on Saturday to appreciate Car Talk, I decided not to mornings, we’ll give you a chance to hear hurry to change. them on Tuesday nights, and 9pm and 10pm We are auditioning programs that could respectively. Please tune in, and let me know have a place in our weekend mix: Ask Me what you think! Another — a new quiz show from NPR — and — Matt 3 What’s the sound of your place in the Bay Area? KALW reporter Julie Caine on “Audiograph” What’s is Where have your Audiograph? first forays to collect Julie Caine: Audio- sound taken you? graph is about the sonic JC: I started with things signature of the Bay that are seasonally-sen- Area. As a reporter, I say sitive, that are about to the words “Bay Area” come to an end or have so many times a day, a limited time window. but I’m largely talking The first thing I did about San Francisco and was to go to Napa and Oakland. In fact, it’s a record the end of the nine-county region, and grape harvest, in late with very few excep- October. It starts in tions, most people who the middle of the night, live here can’t even around two o’clock in name the nine counties. the morning. You go out We’re in a region where into the fields and they so many of us are from light them up with these somewhere else, and big floodlights and so those things aren’t drive tractors through always obvious. Audio- the rows of vines and all graph is about bringing these guys are cutting forward the stories of grapes by hand all night that larger Bay Area, starting with sound. long. And so we went through that process, How will people hear the sounds and and then the next day I went to the winery stories you collect? and recorded what all that sounds like when the wine’s actually being made. We’ll start with kind of a listening game— starting in mid-January, during Morning I also went up to the Mount Tam firewatch Edition and All Things Considered, we’ll play tower in Marin County, right at the end of sounds from around the Bay Area. We won’t fire season, right before the rains started. necessarily identify them, at least not at first There’s always somebody who stays and — and we’ll challenge listeners to figure them sleeps up there and actually looks out at this out. Every month, there will also be a sound- incredible 360 degree view of the Bay Area, rich feature story on Crosscurrents — sonic up above the fog level, to see if there are any portraits or cultural histories of the nine Bay fires.