Signal Radio Newsletter - Nov 2014

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Vol. 11, No. 11 • November 2014

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Morning Conversation November 4

Tune in at 8:30am & 5:30pm on Tuesdays & other weekdays, as scheduled. Questions or comments? Contact host Jennifer Fuller at jennifer.fuller@wsiu.org or call (618) 453-6101. Check out our web page at www.wsiu.org/programs/morningconversation to listen to past broadcasts.

November 19

Community cinema – A preview science cafe – The future of Energy of the upcoming film screening & with Professor Tomasz Wiltowski. discussion, set for November 15 at 2:30pm at the Carbondale Public Library. November 24 siu president randy dunn

November 12

author phil klay will be visiting southern Illinois to talk with veterans.

November 18

Host Jennifer Fuller.

Photo: Kaitlyn Conrad.

SIU Carbondale Chancellor Paul Sarvela

November 25

Carbondale downtown revitalization – an update with committee members about their work.

Fall 2014 Community

Support Celebration

Thank you to our WSIU Radio listeners who helped make our 2014 Fall Community Support Celebration a success! Listeners pledged nearly $20,000 to help offset the station’s FY 2015 programming bill, which totals $281,000.

NEW LOCAL SCHEDULE:

Listener contributions provide about a third of the station’s annual budget and allow WSIU to invest in your favorite radio programs, including Morning Conversation, All Things Considered, and Celtic Connections.

Special thanks to WSIU’s Laura Cobin, Susan Patrick, and Lisa Morrisette for all the hard work they put into making this event a success.

WSIU also appreciates the staff, students, and community members who volunteered by answering phones, working on-air, and supplying food for our volunteers.

Beginning November 17, NPR is making changes to its newsmagazine clocks, which impacts our local break schedule.

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Morning Edition; Morning Conversations (Tue)

Volunteer Kennedy Braasch.

Photo: T.J. Price.

If you weren’t able to make a contribution during our Fall Community Support Celebration, you can make a secure donation online at wsiu.org. Just click the green “Pledge & Renew” button on the upper right-hand section of our homepage to get started.

Thank you for your support. WSIU is Powered by You®!

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Local newscast Local weather Local news update Local almanac/comm calendar Local weather Local feature Local newscast Feature/Morning Conversation

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All Things Considered 3:20pm Farm market report 3:49pm Stock market report 4:30pm Local weather 4:32pm Local newscast 4:44pm Local feature 5:04pm Local newscast 5:30pm Local weather 5:30pm Local newscast 5:44pm Local feature/expanded news

WSIU TO LAUNCH NEW & IMPROVED WEBSITE – Article by Katrina Stackhouse, WSIU

Changes that are in store include a News webpage, which will serve as an expanded digital newsroom featuring breaking and local news, as well as national headlines about the issues and events important to

Billie Donas – Article by Sarah Maher, WSIU

Billie Donas has been a volunteer at Southern Illinois Radio Infomation Services (SIRIS) for almost a year, which is also how long she has been the Office Manager at WSIU Public Broadcasting. Donas saw a pamphlet at a radio pledge drive for SIRIS shortly Billie Donas. after she started working for Photo: Sarah Maher WSIU and signed up right away.

Exciting changes are on the way at WSIU! We’re changing the look and feel of our online presence with Digital Services Manager, Katrina Stackhouse, uploads the launch of a new content. Photo: Kaitlyn new website.

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The new site, which was designed by Element 74 of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, will continue to provide key information about our programs and services, but with a few new changes.

“This has been a project that has been in the works for some time,” shares Katrina Stackhouse, WSIU’s Digital Services Manager.

“The re-vamped site comes with a host of new features, such as our digital newsroom, and a trove of online streaming programs at watch.wsiu.org. Even more so, the new site is built to better connect with our audience, whether they are accessing our media from their smartphone, tablet, or desktop computer.”

SIRIS Volunteer

Donas has always done her part to give something back to her community. “There is such a great need for volunteers in many community services,” she says. “Every single person makes a difference.” our community. The site also will provide information about new television and radio programs coming to WSIU, as well as updates about what’s happening behind-the-scenes.

Plenty will also stay the same at wsiu.org.

Visitors can access our WSIU HD, WORLD, and CREATE television schedules or watch On Demand. They can access our radio schedules and playlists, listen live, or download podcasts of their favorite radio programs. Visitors can also check out our community calendar to see what activities and events are going on around the region. And, if you love WSIU, you can continue to show your support by making secure donations online.

Originally from West Frankfort, Illinois, Donas volunteered for 2 years as a GED tutor for the John A. Logan Extension Center. Regarding her work at SIRIS, Donas explained that she really enjoys, “doing something nice for others, and the reading keeps me up to date on current news events!”

Prior to coming to WSIU, Donas has worked for the past 18 years in various other departments on the campus at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She lists some of her favorite public media programs as Lidia’s Italy, America’s Test Kitchen, Simply Ming, Downton Abbey, and Independent Lens. When not working or volunteering, Donas enjoys thrift shopping, reading on her Kindle, shopping on Amazon, and spending time with her family.

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Monday, November 3

12th Congressional District Debate: Belleville Recorded on 10/29/14 at Lindenwood University in Belleville. Candidates: William Enyart 9D-Belleville), Mike Bost (R-Murphysboro), and Paula Bradshaw (G-Carbondale). 8

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Tuesday, November 4

Election Night Coverage

Join WSIU Radio, Illinois Public Radio, and NPR for live election night coverage on Election Day – Tuesday, November 4. Live, around-the-clock coverage begins at 8pm. The WSIU news team will keep you up to date on several local races, as well as the big state races in the 115th Illinois House and the 12th U.S. Congressional District. Illinois Public Radio will provide state-wide coverage of the Governor’s race, as well as the race for the U.S. Senate while NPR examines the big picture of this mid-term election and puts the national political scene into perspective.

50 Great Teachers Project Airs during Morning Edition & on npr.org/blogs/ed 50 Great Teachers is an ambitious yearlong series from NPR’s Education Desk featuring on-air and online content.

Throughout the school year, the reporting team will celebrate great teachers, and report on what makes teaching - past and present - great.

New Program coming to Wednesday Evenings!

Inside Classical Guitar | 8pm Beginning November 5th

There’s a new program coming to WSIU Radio! Join us on Wednesday evenings at 8pm for Inside Classical Guitar.

This weekly hour-long show is produced by the St. Louis Classical Guitar Society. Hosts Bill Ash and John Clayton play a variety of beautiful music of the classical guitar, as well as provide listeners with insight and knowledge of the instrument and its music.

They also tell about guitar happenings in the St. Louis region. Inside Classical Guitar airs Wednesdays at 8pm beginning November 5 on WSIU Radio.

The New Boom: NPR’s Millennials Series On Morning Edition & All Things Considered

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The Hapa Generation

All Things Considered | Sunday, November 1

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Between 1981 and 2012, one million extra twins were born in the US. The culprits are older mothers and in vitro fertilization, which both come with risk of multiple births. But in the last couple years the twin birth rate has leveled off, due in part to better fertility treatments. That means the so-called Millennial generation is the “twin-iest” generation that ever was (or ever will be). NPR’s Becky Hersher reports.

In 2010, 15% of all new marriages were interracial, up from 3.2% in 1980. In the last census, the number of people reporting as "2 or more races" grew by more than any other group. This means that Millennials will be giving birth to a greater number of multiracial children than ever before. What does this growth mean for racial identity? NPR’s Lauren Migaki reports.

Black Marriage

All Things Considered | Week of November 3 Recent research from the Pew Center found that 36 percent of African Americans older than 25 have never been married. That's a greater number than any other racial demographic, and a dramatic rise in the last 50 years. NPR's Shereen Marisol Meraji talks with experts about why that is, and how that affects young African-American couples who have decided to get hitched.

Did you miss an episode of

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Visit npr.org/series/352990765/new-boom to read additional series details, listen to past episodes, read transcripts, and more.

Saturday 7pm & Sunday 6pm November 1 & 2 New Releases Check out the best in vocal and instrumental tracks from new and recent releases in this week’s program.

The Race Card Project November 7&8•Join us WSIU RADIO STORY BOOTH NOVEMBER 8 10:45AM-1:45PM • CARBONDALE CIVIC CENTER

November 8 & 9 Music of World War I

WSIU Radio is teaming up with Carbondale Community Arts for its commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Carbondale Community Arts University 2014 takes place on November 7th and 8th at the Carbondale Civic Center. The event will feature a local installation of The Race Card Project. The Race Card Project was initiated by NPR’s Michelle Norris in 2010. It encourages people to condense their observations and experiences about race into one sentence with just Six Words. Since it began, the Project has received tens of thousands of Six Word stories from all over the world.

November 15 & 16 Jimmy McCarthy Songs

Be sure to stop by WSIU Radio’s story booth (see above) to share your own experiences about race. Some of the conversations will become part of a future radio series on WSIU, as well as part of a research project on rural civil rights.

With this year marking the 100th anniversary of the start of the first World War, we will explore music from the war era as well as songs written about the war in more recent years.

Jimmy McCarthy is one of Ireland’s leading contemporary songwriters, with songs covered by Mary Black, Christy Moore, and many others. This week we feature his songs in the hands of a wide variety of singers.

November 22 & 23 Six in the Spotlight

Six new releases by Celtic bands get the spotlight this week, as we dig a little deeper into their vocal as well as instrumental work.

November 29 & 30 Old Favorites

Recordings from the past 5 decades form the basis for this week’s Celtic assortment.

THANK YOU!

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

Maxwell’s Silver Hammer Carbondale

Natural Health Improvement Center Murphysboro

KRCU Public Radio Cape Girardeau

F-W-S Countertops

November 18

2:30pm @ the Carbondale Public Library [405 W. Main St.]

In this documentary a filmmaker confronts his past, dissecting the circumstances that led him to commit a bank robbery as a young man, and his journey since that act.

Discussion Moderators: Christopher Mullins, Associate Professor, SIU Criminology & Criminal Justice Najjar Abdul-Musawwir, Associate Professor, SIU School of Art & Design Yolonda Simon, Dean of Students, Retired, Carbondale Middle School

Carbondale For a complete list of WSIU sponsors and information about sponsoring WSIU’s programs and services, visit us online at wsiu.org or call (618) 453-4344.

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