Monday, February 14, 2022

Happy Valentine’s Day from all of us at KNCT and congratulations to the Los Angeles Rams on winning Super Bowl LVI yesterday. Thank you to everyone who helped make our Winter Membership Campaign a success this year. Despite losing two full days of live pitches to Winter Storm Landon and the many Austin listeners lost…

Gary Emmert
3–5 minutes

Happy Valentine’s Day from all of us at KNCT and congratulations to the Los Angeles Rams on winning Super Bowl LVI yesterday. Thank you to everyone who helped make our Winter Membership Campaign a success this year. Despite losing two full days of live pitches to Winter Storm Landon and the many Austin listeners lost due to interference from another station, we consider this campaign a resounding success. Please remember that you can always contribute to KNCT online by visiting the website below.

Join or Renew your membership with Simply Beautiful 91.3 KNCT-FM >>

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 – Giant Comet
  • A big visitor from the fringes of the solar system is headed for its closest-ever encounter with the Sun. It won’t reach that point for another nine years. And even then, it’ll be a long way out. But it should be bright enough to allow astronomers to learn a lot about it. Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein was discovered in 2014.

6:30 am and 12:30 pm

8:30 am and 3:30 pm

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot, stands on the surface of the Moon near the leg of the lunar module, Eagle, during the historic Apollo 11moonwalk. Astronaut Neil Armstrong, mission commander, took this photograph and is reflected in Aldrin’s visor. Columbia command module pilot Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit while Aldrin and Armstrong explored the Moon’s Sea of Tranquility. Credit: Neil Armstrong, NASA.

9:30 am and 2:30 pm

The mid-ocean ridge (colored blue) threads its way along the floors of all the oceans. Photo: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration / Department of Commerce.

10:30 am and 1:30 pm

  • SoundBeat with Brett Barry – If I Only Had A Heart
  • 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 – Apocalypse Creep
  • A woman wakes up and discovers her backyard has disappeared. A young man in Miami watches his town lose ground to the sea. What it’s like to live in a world that’s slowly dissolving.
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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 – Dra. Polo: “This Is Who I Am”
  • In this episode of Latino USA, Dra. Polo reflects on her TV show Caso Cerrado’s impact on Latino TV and culture and her role as a Latina entertainer. She also addresses her personal and professional paradoxes: like how Caso Cerrado was often dismissed as low brow culture yet was hosted by a highly educated Latina and how she has been a long-time queer advocate but has kept her own sexuality private –– until now.
  • Also on the show… Dr. Jessica Hernandez, a Zapotec and Maya Ch’orti’ scientist, breaks down why Indigenous peoples and science need to inform the decisions made about the future of our environments.
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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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