February 7, 2022

Our Winter Membership Campaign begins 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. Your generosity is critical to our success! We look forward to hearing from you! Contributions…

Gary Emmert
3–5 minutes

Our Winter Membership Campaign begins 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. Your generosity is critical to our success! We look forward to hearing from you!

Contributions from individual listeners, like you, keep Simply Beautiful 91.3 strong and independent, and is a vital source of funding for our programs.

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The following programs are available for listen on our homepage:

  • Bill Hecke’s Latest Weather Forecasts and Updates
  • The USO Report with Isabel Hubbard
  • The Roving Reporter with Sonja Asendorf

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 – Megamasers
  • “Megamaser” sounds like something an alien warship might use to destroy planets. The reality is a little less dramatic, but it’s no less interesting. A megamaser is a beam of energy from another galaxy. And astronomers use these beams to study galaxies — especially the supermassive black holes at their hearts.

6:30 am and 12:30 pm

8:30 am and 3:30 pm

bee bite
You may have heard that bumblebees shouldn’t be able to fly. That’s a myth actually, as any flying bumblebee will tell you. The science of their flight is now understood.

9:30 am and 2:30 pm

A recent study says that seaweed grown in farms could be a twofer: It could reduce the pollution in estuaries while producing nutritious food.

10:30 am and 1:30 pm

  • SoundBeat with Brett Barry – The Last Flight of the Lady Be Good
  • 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

  • This American Life on NestFM – A Couple Walks Into A House, Part II
  • When a mysterious letter claiming there was a plot to infiltrate and ‘Islamize’ schools in Birmingham, England surfaced in 2014, doctor-turned-journalist Hamza Syed had been intrigued. And so years after the letter came out, Hamza teamed up with producer Brian Reed to get to the bottom of a question that had never been answered: who wrote the letter? But that was only the beginning of the saga. As their investigation went on, it began to look like the whole country had been deceived in plain sight. This is the first episode of Hamza and Brian’s new podcast, The Trojan Horse Affair.
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This American Life is a weekly public radio show produced by Chicago Public Media and broadcast on more than 500 stations to about 2.2 million listeners each week. It is also often the most popular podcast in the country, with around one million people downloading each week. This American Life is distributed independently with WBEZ, and is available to stations weekly via the PRX Exchange broadcast distribution technology.

6 pm

  • Latino USA on NestFM – The Ballad of Chalino Sánchez
  • There are few artists who’ve indisputably revolutionized a music genre. In Mexican regional music, one of those revolutionary artists is Chalino Sánchez, El Rey del Narcocorrido. In this new podcast, Ídolo: The Ballad of Chalino Sánchez, we examine his extraordinary life and attempt to unravel the mystery of his death. Chalino’s story, his own narcocorrido, is the ultimate ride through the drug cartel world, the underbelly of the Mexican-American music industry and a murder mystery for the ages.
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Latino USA chronicles how Latinos are living, shaping and changing America, with in-depth reporting and candid conversations. Hosted by Maria Hinojosa.

6:15 pm

  • CenTex Sustains with Christine Luciano

7:00 pm

  • Echoes with John Diliberto on NestFM
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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
Caption: Jazz with David Basse, Credit: Nathan Arnold
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. 

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