Thursday, February 17th

17 Feb 2022

3–4 minutes

The first blog of the day is primarily centered on special programming that is offered on our two primary stations, KNCT and NestFM. While each station has their own unique playlist, the special programs for both are intended to entertain and inform. We welcome feedback in all forms and encourage you to let us know if there is a topic that you would be interested in hearing more of. As we continue to expand our programming, we want you to know how grateful we are for your continued support.

The following programs are available for listen on our homepage:

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 – Close Calls
A couple of cosmic boulders will slide past Earth early tomorrow. Neither one is big enough to see without a large telescope. And neither is a threat to hit us. But they show that Earth shares this region of space with some potentially nasty neighbors.

6:30 am and 12:30 pm

The Sound of Texas with Tumbleweed Smith
Steve Dunbar of Dayton

8:30 am and 3:30 pm

EarthDate – Cycling Milanković

2019 Serbian stamp celebrating the scientific accomplishments of Milutin Milanković — A 2019 Serbian stamp celebrated the scientific accomplishments of Milutin Milanković on the 60th anniversary of his death.

9:30 am and 2:30 pm

Science and the Sea – Bioremediation

The IXTOC I exploratory well blew out on June 3, 1979 in the Bay of Campeche off Ciudad del Carmen, Mexico. By the time the well was brought under control in 1980, an estimated 140 million gallons of oil had spilled into the bay.

10:30 am and 1:30 pm

SoundBeat with Brett Barry – Black Bottom Blues
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
Michael Schur, Demi Adejuyigbe, and Shovels & Rope
Host Luke Burbank and announcer Elena Passarello reveal the tiny unethical things our listeners admit to doing; television writer and producer Michael Schur (Parks and Recreation, The Good Place) discusses his new book How to Be Perfect, which attempts to break down moral philosophy into a conversation-starter; comedian Demi Adejuyigbe explains why he won’t stop making fake credits for Will Smith productions; and folk duo Shovels & Rope describe why they think of themselves as a “manticore” of music-making, before performing their new track “Domino.”

6:15 pm

The I14 Sports Report with Dan Hull

7:00 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