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The following programs are available for listen on our homepage:

• Bill Hecke’s Latest Weather Forecasts and Updates

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 – Dog’s Head
• The stars that outline the head of the big dog are all late in life. But that doesn’t mean they’re the same age. In fact, their ages vary by about 10 billion years. Canis Major, the big dog, is in the southeast as night falls. It’s home to Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky.

6:30 am and 12:30 pm

• The Sound of Texas with Tumbleweed Smith
• Rena Harris of Greenwood

8:30 am and 3:30 pm

• EarthDate – Beneficial Viral DNA
• In earlier episodes, you heard that trillions of viruses live peacefully, even beneficially, within each of us today. And that our ancestors battled now-extinct “fossil viruses,” which are preserved in our own genetic code. Turns out, that’s been beneficial too.

9:30 am and 2:30 pm

• Science and the Sea – Headed South
• Warming oceans have damaged or destroyed many coral reefs. But some appear to be adapting to the warm-up. Reef systems in a part of the central Pacific Ocean, for example, have suffered less damage from a couple of recent underwater heatwaves than from an earlier one. That could mean that coral offspring that are more resistant to heat are taking hold.

10:30 am and 1:30 pm

• SoundBeat with Brett Barry – Joe Hill
• 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.

5 pm

• The Softer Side with Carl Rossi
• The Softer Side is an hour long music program that explorers the tapestry of modern music. Each episode puts together songs from various generations and connects them in a way that only our host, Carl Rossi could do.
• Previous episodes are available on both our home page and under the podcast section of our streaming website and phone app.

6:15 pm

• On the Dock with Rick Smith

7 pm to 9 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.

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.