Thursday, February 10, 2022

Our Winter Membership Campaign continues! 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…

Gary Emmert
3–4 minutes

Our Winter Membership Campaign continues! 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!

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  • Bill Hecke’s Latest Weather Forecasts and Updates
  • On the Dock with Rick Smith

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 – Morning Mercury
  • When you have one of those days that seems to last forever, just be grateful you’re not on the planet Mercury. There, a single day lasts for two years.r left of the Moon as they set, in the wee hours of the morning.

6:30 am and 12:30 pm

8:30 am and 3:30 pm

kelp forest
It might surprise you to hear that there are forests underwater.
In temperate oceans near the shore, kelp grows. It’s technically not a plant, but algae–specifically, a brown macroalgae.

9:30 am and 2:30 pm

The horrific images remain vivid long after the Asian tsunami of 2004: An unstoppable wall of water surging inland, flattening buildings, tossing around cars like bathtub toys, sweeping adults and children out to sea. It killed more than a quarter of a million people – all because the ocean floor moved.

10:30 am and 1:30 pm

  • SoundBeat with Brett Barry – If I Had a Hammer
  • 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

  • Live Wire on NestFM 
  • Hanif Abdurraqib, Clint Smith, and Melanie Charles
  • In celebration of Black History Month, host Luke Burbank and announcer Elena Passarello share conversations with some of Live Wire’s most remarkable guests: MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellow Hanif Abdurraqib discusses his highly acclaimed collection of essays, A Little Devil in America, which poetically praises the cultural and historical significance of Black performance of all kinds; writer Clint Smith takes us on a journey of his best-selling book How the Word is Passed, which examines the legacy of slavery through various sites across the country, from Angola prison all the way to Wall Street; and genre-bending powerhouse Melanie Charles soars with a “reimagining” of Marlena Shaw’s “Woman of the Ghetto.”
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Live Wire artfully blends unpredictable conversation, live music, and original comedy from all types of cultural talent and creative minds, from emerging artists to established acts.

6:15 pm

  • The I14 Sports Report with Dan Hull

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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