Our Winter Membership Campaign continues today! We have a goal of $35,000 and know with your help we can meet it to continue our mission and tradition of bringing you the music and programming you have come to rely upon.

Thank you to everyone who donated early and called in yesterday. Your support helped us exceed over $7,000 in donations on our first day. And we would like to pay special gratitude to our renewing Founders Club members:

• IFR Flight Training
• Red Oak Property Management
• Ruth Walden and Fred Ganske
• A Friend in Georgetown

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The following programs are available for listen on our homepage:

• Bill Hecke’s Latest Weather Forecasts and Updates
• CenTex Sustains with Christine Luciano

Here are some of the amazing special programs available today on both KNCT and our HD2 station, NestFM.

5:57 am and 4:57 pm

• StarDate – February
• The first three months of the year feel a little like a sandwich — thick slabs of January and March, with a thin layer of February in the middle. But it took a while to get that recipe to its current form — mainly because calendar makers kept changing how “thin” February should be.

6:30 am and 12:30 pm

• The Sound of Texas with Tumbleweed Smith
• Kathy Murphy of Hawkins

8:30 am and 3:30 pm

• EarthDate – Legends of Amethyst
• To Egyptians and ancient Greeks, amethysts were as precious as diamonds, rubies, and sapphires. The stone was thought to cool tempers and prevent drunkenness, so it was cut into jewelry for wise kings and crafted into wine goblets for those who hoped to stay sober.

9:30 am and 2:30 pm

• Science and the Sea – Tracers
• Scientists learn a lot about the oceans by measuring a pinch of this and a smidge of that. These tiny amounts can help trace ocean currents, determine the abundance of microscopic life, measure pollution, plot past changes in the climate, and find out how the current climate is changing.

10:30 am and 1:30 pm

• SoundBeat with Brett Barry – Drum Boogie Revisited
• Got 90 seconds? Then you’ve got time for a trip through the history of recorded sound! Sound Beat is a daily, 90-second show highlighting the holdings of the Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive. Belfer is part of Syracuse University Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center and is one of the largest sound archives in the United States. Each Sound Beat episode focuses on one particular recording from the Archive and provides a back story detailing its place in recording history.

3 pm to 5 pm

• Echoes with John Diliberto on NestFM
• Echoes is a daily two-hour contemporary music soundscape distributed by PRX and broadcast on over 120 radio stations across the country that brings together a wide array of styles, from acoustic to electronic, jazz to space music, the avant-garde to rock. Echoes is a sound that is cross-cultural and trans-millennial, merging cultures and forms, technology and tradition, the ancient past and the possible future.

5 pm

• Bioneers – Revolution from the Heart of Nature on NestFM 
• We’re All Chimps: Or Are Animals People Too?
• This series features “the Bioneers” – social and scientific innovators with breakthrough solutions for people and planet. It’s leading-edge – charismatic – provocative – hopeful – timely and timeless. These are ardent voices of brilliant visionaries with both feet on the ground. They span the arc of the human endeavor transforming today’s crises into a future environment of hope. Produced by Bioneers, an internationally acclaimed nonprofit educational organization. Learn more at http://www.bioneers.org.
• In Western civilization, human beings are considered the exceptional species and uniquely intelligent. Yet science is consistently revealing our intimate biological kinship with all species, especially the primates with whom we share 99% of our DNA. Breakthrough primatologist researchers Roger and Deborah Fouts take us on their amazing journey with chimpanzees that shows that, not only are people animals, but animals seem to be people too.

5:30 pm

• Groks Science Show on NestFM
• Bradley Schurman discussed his book, The Super Age: Decoding Our Demographic Destiny.
• Weekly science radio program hosted by Dr. Charles Lee and Dr. Frank Ling. Each show features interviews with scientists and technical innovators, humorous commentary on recent discoveries, plus the Grokotron 5000 and the World Famous Question of the Week! Tune in every week and rediscover the world as you think you know it. For more information, visit the website at WWW.GROKS.NET

6:00 pm

• The Takeaway with Melissa Harris-Perry on Nest FM
• “The Takeaway” is a one-hour daily news show that reveals unexpected insights into the day’s news, fills a need for greater context, and interacts with audiences in a way that no other public radio news program offers. “The Takeaway” convenes conversations across social divides to give listeners not just the information, but the complex, nuanced perspectives they need for understanding and participation. It features voices of Americans from all walks of life who may have different struggles and challenges but often speak to the same desires, dreams, and hopes for the future of their families and communities. It does not shy away from big and complicated stories; through exceptional sound design and production, the show breaks down complex policy and connects listeners with stories that touch their lives and their experiences.

7:00 pm

• The World with Marco Werman on NestFM
• ”The World” is a US radio news magazine with an emphasis on international news and global journalism.
• “The World”’s unique editorial perspective brings energy and passion to each day’s broadcast. The goal: to take us beyond borders and boundaries, and fire up our curiosity about a fascinating, messy, contentious, and beautiful planet. It’s about exploration and risk, war and peace, fun and folly, and how our daily drama plays out around the globe. “The World,” the radio program, is heard every weekday on nearly 300 public radio stations across North America.

9:00 pm to Midnight

• Jazz with David Basse on NestFM
• Jazz with David Basse surveys jazz’s wide range of forms and influences. You’ll hear everything from roots music and rare classic cuts to blues, Latin and the latest releases. Drawing on his lifelong experience as a jazz musician and recording artist, David punctuates his handpicked tracks with insights, anecdotes and brief interview snippets with well-known or up-and-coming artists.