Program Changes for 2009

For the New Year, KALW continues to innovate, bringing you new programs that expand your understanding of the world, introduce you to new ideas, and explore the creative spark. SOUND OPINIONS - Sundays at 2pm Produced at Chicago’s WBEZ, home of This American Life, Sound Opinions fires up smart and spirited discussions about a wide range of popular music, from cutting-edge underground rock and hip-hop, to classic rock, R&B, electronica, and worldbeat.    CONCERTS FROM THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS - Mondays at 9pm Bill McGlaughlin hosts these broadcasts, featuring performances held in the Library's historic Coolidge Auditorium. Artists include Joshua Bell, András Schiff, the Beaux Arts Trio, the Borromeo Quartet, and the Venice Baroque Orchestra performing works from Mozart to Gershwin. EARTHBEAT - Tuesdays at 2:30pm Produced by Radio Netherlands Worldwide, Earthbeat examines our footprint on the planet and tells the stories of the people trying to make that footprint lighter. THE FORUM: A WORLD OF IDEAS - Tuesdays at 11pm BBC correspondent Bridget Kendall brings together remarkable minds from around the world to talk about the subjects they’re experts on – and the ones they want to know more about. Diplomats question composers, scientists challenge historians, and poets converse with statisticians. And every week, one of them has 60 seconds to describe a simple, practical idea to make the world a better place. (Tune in for a special prime-time preview of The Forum on Tuesday, January 6th at 7pm.) THE WORLD TODAY - Monday-Friday at 3pm For years, KALW has run the BBC’s Newshour tape-delayed. In the interest of bringing you the latest news from the World Service, we’ll begin offering you the newsmagazine that is live at 3 o’clock. To expand the range of news sources available to KALW’s afternoon listeners, we’ll present the program with headlines from NPR. Please note:  We’re also making two schedule changes that build on the strength of our current local programming: Crosscurrents, the daily local news magazine from KALW News, will be rebroadcast at midnight, Monday through Thursday.  And Out in the Bay, “gay radio for San Francisco and beyond,” will move up a half-an-hour to 7pm on Thursdays, to be followed by This Way Out at 7:30. As always, we welcome your comments about these changes. mailto:kalw@kalw.org

Miss a recent special or series?

Don't despair!  Follow the links below to hear or download available copies: Explorations in Music:   The Alexander String Quartet and Robert Greenberg highlight the connections between contemporary composers and the classic string quartet repertoire, hosted by Alan Farley.  I'd Eat That!:  Pilot edition of a show about what we eat, where it comes from, and what makes it delicious, produced by Emily Wilson and Molly Watson.  This show's topic:  meat Winter Soldier:  Witness to Occupation:  Five part original series featuring the voices of US soldiers who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. Islam & The West:  Tamim Ansary tells the story of the last fourteen centuries from an Islamocentric perspective.

Manager's Report to the Listeners

Click here to listen to KALW General Manager's most recent Report to the Listeners, and if you have comments or questions for Matt, please send him an e-mail. SEVEN SIMPLE WAYS TO SUPPORT LOCAL PUBLIC RADIO: 1)  If you’re not a member, become a member.  And while you’re at it, get yourself some Local Public Radio gear - something useful that tells the world about KALW. 2)  Sign up for our e-mail newsletter.  It’s free, and when you get it every couple weeks, it will let you know about programming highlights, you’ll get invitations to special events, even the chance to get free tickets now and then. 3)  Volunteer!   If you’re in a position to take a morning or afternoon a week to come into KALW and work, become a regular volunteer for us.  It’s not glorious work, but it really helps us stretch our resources and you’ll definitely get to be part of the day-to-day life of KALW.  If you’re someone who’d like to spread the word in public about KALW, join our new “street team”.  We’ll put you on a list, and every time there’s an event where KALW is going to have a presence, we’ll drop you a line to see if you can pitch in. 4)  Listen to KALW on-line.  Bookmark KALW’s webstream on your computers at work and at home.  If you’ve got a blackberry or some other portable device, put it on there.  If you use iTunes, check our new MP3 stream in the public radio listings.  I say this as someone who resisted on-line listening for a long time – you will enjoy KALW more if you give yourself more ways to hear us.  If you’ve ever had problems receiving KALW (and with only 1900 watts in the midst of so many hills, I know it’s an issue for lots of listeners), our MP3 stream sounds great.  Click here to go to our on-line listening page. 5)  Get one of our new stickers.  We’ve got some sharp new stickers that say “91.7 KALW Think globally.  Listen locally.”  Click here and we’ll make sure you get one. 6)  If you know about news in your community, call the Crosscurrents tip line.  The tip line is 415-264-7106, and you can also send an e-mail from the Crosscurrents website. 7)  Drop a line to a show you love. The people who create our local programs thrive on your feedback.  Click here for the e-mails for local hosts and producers or send postcards and letters c/o KALW, 500 Mansell Street, San Francisco 94134.