Signal | WSIU Radio | August 2011

Vol. 4, No. 8: August 2011

Signal

An Online Newsletter from WSIU Public Radio P o w e r e d b y Yo u ®

This Month on Morning Conversations August 2 • SIUC Chancellor Rita Cheng August 9 • SIU Faculty Association August 16 • Glass-blowing Workshop We’ll talk with Jennifer Halvorson, who is coordinating a new glass-blowing class at SIUC this fall.

August 29 • SIU President Glenn Poshard We get updates about the SIU Board of Trustees meeting, budget expectations, and other issues.

All Morning Conversations episodes are available on air and on our live stream www.wsiu.org/live. You can also find them on our podcast page at www3.wsiu.org/radio/morningconversation.

Morning Conversations anchor Jennifer Fuller.

Photo: Monica Tichenor.

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Celtic Connections is Second in the Nation

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ccording to DAR.fm, a new online digital audio recording service created by Internet entrepreneur Michael Robertson, Celtic Connections, is now the second-highest rated Celtic music program in America, just behind The Thistle & Shamrock. Using millions of hours of actual recording and listening data, DAR.fm tracked more than 15,000 shows based on popularity and ranked them within a variety of genre categories.

We’d like to offer our congratulations for an honor well-deserved to Celtic Connections host Bryan Kelso Crow, who has faithfully shared his extensive knowledge of and passion for Celtic music to listeners regionally and around the country for the past 20 years. WSIU Radio is proud to be the producing station for this popular and well-received music series. Learn more about Celtic Connections online at celticconnectionsradio.org.

Bryan Kelso Crow.

Photo: Suzanne Milano.

SIRIS Volunteer: Kevin Boucher school. A graduate of SIU Carbondale’s Radio-Television program, he worked in commercial radio before becoming the Traffic and Continuity Manager at WSIUTV in 1995.

Kevin Boucher. Photo: Katie Tullis.

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eard any enlightening radio stories about nature on SIRIS recently? If you have, then you’re listening to SIRIS volunteer and WSIU employee, Kevin Boucher. “I read articles about animals, the prehistoric world, the Earth, space, the environment...you name it,” he says. “I love exploring the natural world.”

Boucher was born in Newport, Rhode Island, but his family didn’t stay in the picturesque coastal city. A self-described ‘army brat,’ he traveled the country and the world at a young age. Although it was challenging to move so frequently, Boucher saw each move as “a chance to learn something new.”

In the Fall 2007, Boucher enrolled in the Master’s program Professional Media and Media Management Studies in the College of Mass Communication & Media Arts, which he successfully completed in Spring 2011. While in graduate school, he rediscovered his passion for radio and decided to produce a radio documentary as his Master’s thesis. “Even though I make my living working full time in TV,” he says, “I’ve always loved radio.” The end result was entitled Sounds and Stories of the Shawnee Forest. The 15-minute documentary aired on WSIU Radio as part of the Radio Voices series and can be found online at wsiu.org by selecting “WSIU Podcasts” under the Radio tab.

After graduating in May, Boucher says “I suddenly had this huge chunk of spare time on my hands, and I wanted to use it wisely. I knew SIRIS needed volunteer readers and I thought, ‘Well, I like reading In 1976, his family settled in Murphysboro, stuff.’ And the rest is history!”

Illinois where Boucher finished high

One of the things Boucher says he enjoys most about SIRIS is “helping somebody by doing something I love.” He adds, “If I can help people go places that they otherwise would be unable to go, then I’ve done my part.”

Boucher also says that volunteering for SIRIS not only has encouraged him to read more, “it’s helped me to develop my knowledge of the outdoors and it allows me to share my love for nature with others.”

In his spare time, Boucher likes to hike, garden, cook, and spend time with his wife, Loraine Hunziker, an Academic Advisor in the SIUC College of Engineering.

Favorite WSIU programs include NPR News and Storycorps segments on WSIU Radio, and WSIU-TV programs such as NOVA, Nature, and Masterpiece.

Boucher continues to create new radio features that showcase the natural wonders of our region. He recently completed a Radio Voices segment entitled Owl Encounter (also available by podcast at wsiu.org), and is working on a story about monarch butterfly migration in Southern Illinois.

Eye on the Market is coming to WSIU Radio

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SIU Radio is excited to announce the premiere of a new local program! Eye on the Market with David England will air Thursdays at 8:30am beginning Thursday, August 4. WSIU also will feature a half-hour of news and financial information on Thursdays at 6pm.

In Eye on the Market, David England, an Associate Professor of Finance at John A. Logan College will join Jennifer Fuller to discuss issues in finance, investing, trading, and more.

Local financial expert, David England.

Photo: CourierIndependent.com.

England, who is an active trader and investor, stock market analyst, columnist, and speaker, also teaches financial entrepreneurship stock market classes and hosts market investing seminars. Visit his popular website at thetraderseye.com to learn more.

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Wanted! Your Old Vinyl Records

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SIU Radio needs you! Donate your old record albums, CDs, DVDs, eight-track tapes, cassettes, VHS tapes, electronic games, and working stereo equipment for a public sale in September to benefit the Southern Illinois Radio Information Service (SIRIS), a service of WSIU Public Radio and SIU University Carbondale provided to individuals who are blind or whose physical condition prevents them from reading.

WSIU, in partnership with the University Mall in Carbondale, will host the 4th Annual SIRIS Classic Vinyl & Media Sale on Saturday, September 10 from 10am to 9pm and Sunday, September 11 from noon to 6pm, next to Hot Topic at the Mall.

Music donations of rock, country western, jazz, and blues would be most welcome. All music and equipment donations must be in good condition and will be accepted now through Friday, August 19 at the following locations: CARBONDALE | University Mall Guest Services, 1237 East Main, SIU Credit Union, 1217 West Main and 394 Giant City Road

Honey, Stop the Car!

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h, summertime... the season of sun, fun, and picnics also includes road trips with the family to destinations near and far.

Hit the road with NPR this August as Morning Edition, Weekend Edition Saturday, and Weekend Edition Sunday present Honey, Stop The Car!, a series that highlights those special moments when you spot something along the road that compels you to pull the car over and investigate.

A memorial to Smoky the Terrier in Cleveland, Ohio is one of many intriguing monuments, statues and markers examined in NPR’s summer series Honey, Stop the Car! Photo credit: Paul Cox for NPR.

You’ll hear the stories behind monuments honoring local heroes, statues on the square of favorite sons and daughters, and roadside signs celebrating a town’s history or an important event.

Wed, Aug 3 • Morning Edition Preacher Smith, Deadwood, SD

Sat, Aug 6 • Weekend Edition Saturday Reverend Haddock, Sioux City, IA

Wed, Aug 10 • Weekend Edition Sunday Smoky the Terrier, Cleveland, OH

Sun, Aug 14 • Morning Edition

DUQUOIN | DuQuoin Public Library, 28 S. Washington

John Henry, Summers County, W.Va.

ELKVILLE | Lyn-Nita Winery, 514 Coal Road

Wed, Aug 17 • Weekend Edition Saturday

MARION | SIU Credit Union, 2809 Outer Drive MURPHYSBORO | Wright Do-It Center, 208 South Williams

Sybil Ludington, Mt. Carmel, NY

Sat, Aug 20 • Weekend Edition Sunday Colonel Buck, Bucksport, ME

Volunteers also are needed to help sort records, to assist with set-up and clean-up, and to work on sale days. SIUC students, you can get volunteer credit for helping with the sale! Volunteers also enjoy a “sneak preview” sale, as well.

Wed, Aug 24 • Weekend Edition Saturday

For more information about the sale and volunteer opportunities, contact SIRIS director Vickie Devenport at (618) 453-6148 or vickie.devenport@wsiu.org. You may also contact the SIRIS office at (618) 453-2808 between 1pm to 5pm, Monday through Friday.

Sun, Aug 28 • Weekend Edition Saturday

Titanic Heroes Fountain, Washington, DC

Jimmie Foxx Statue, Sudlersville, MD

Celtic Connections host Bryan Kelso Crow.

Photo: Rachel Snow King.

Airs Saturday @ 7pm • Sunday @ 6pm August 6 • New Releases Stay tuned for our top-of-the-month roundup of great tracks from new and recent releases.

August 13 • Long Tracks This week we opt for fewer performers and longer songs and medleys from some top Celtic performers.

August 20 • The Bryans This episode features musicians named Bryan or Brian, or whose last name is O’Brian (in various spellings), as well as songs with characters with that name.

August 27 • Festival Preview We preview some of the performers who will be at Celtic festivals this fall, including the Celtic Fest Mississippi, the Northeast Louisiana Celtic Festival, the Southern Illinois Irish Festival, and the Weston Missouri Irish Fest.

Thank You, Underwriters!

Please join us in thanking the underwriters who recently began, renewed, or expanded their partnerships to make public radio possible:

Murphysboro Apple Festival, Murphysboro, IL Olney and The Greater Richland County Chamber of Commerce, Olney, IL Peter J. Pirmann, D.D.S, Carbondale, IL Southern Illinois Radon Awareness Task Force, Inc. The Velvet Hammer Ltd. Cobden, IL For a complete list of WSIU sponsors and information about sponsoring WSIU programming, visit us online at www.wsiu.org or call (618) 453-4286.

“A cup of coffee and Morning Edition jump start my day.”

- Robin Haller, Carbondale, IL

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y morning routine is always the same. Feed the cats, turn on the radio, make the coffee. A cup of coffee and Morning Edition begin my day – one jump starts my body, the other awakens my mind.

I’m Robin Haller from Carbondale, IL and WSIU Public Radio is Powered by Me!

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