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A Note About Our Schedule Changes: As part of our schedule change on June 26th, you may have noticed that WEOS will no longer be airing Harry Shearer's Le Show, Women in Music, GRIT Radio with Laura Flanders, and Conversations From the World Cafe. There are several reasons for these shows being removed, some are interrelated. All are connected with the addition of a very strong program (Marketplace) and the need to find room to air it. Le Show was added in 2007 as Harry's biting satire seemed appropriate for the political climate, but since the Presidential campaign has ended we have had multiple listeners express that Harry just seemed too bitter. With little positive feedback we felt Le Show just wasn't strong enough to stay on WEOS. Women in Music is an excellent show that, unfortunately, fell during a time when it was frequently pre-empted by HWS sports games that we are obligated to air. Since it was never able to build an audience, it, too, wasn't strong enough. But it was a very tough choice. By the way, WiM's replacement, This American Life, is a show people have asked to be added to the Saturday lineup. And even though it is likely to be pre-empted by sports at least some of the time as well, TAL also still airs at 11am on Sundays. Conversations From the World Cafe is material that has already aired during the week's normal World Cafe broadcasts. It's great stuff, but again, the schedule is already full and we had to make tough choices to find room. GRIT Radio recently announced that they are ceasing distribution via "ContentDepot", the primary method that all NPR-affiliate stations (like WEOS) get our programming. Combined with the added work needed to continue airing the show, the fact that GRIT Radio is really just the audio feed from GRIT TV has been a source of concern. The show is now clearly aimed at, and produced for, a television audience...and it shows. The pacing, audio quality, and production all were not of sufficient quality to meet WEOS standards given the relatively small audience. We want to point out that many, if not all, of these shows' material can be found on their websites, as well...so even though WEOS isn't airing them, it's not like they're bad shows! Feel free to check them out on the web! And now, for something completely different...  |
NEWS: Every day, stay informed with NPR mainstays like Morning Edition and All Things Considered, plus the news behind the headlines with Democracy Now! and Free Speech Radio News. And join the conversation with On Point in the mornings and Talk of the Nation every afternoon! No fancy graphics, no shouting, no partisan spin - it's exactly what you need: the who, the where and the why...in other words, it's the news! ARTS: Celebrate the rich arts & culture of the Finger Lakes - and beyond - with Fresh Air, This American Life, and Out of Bounds with Tish Pearlman. Or take a walk on the lighter side with Car Talk, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me! and Only a Game. Plus we have many special broadcasts of live panel discussions, lectures and symposiums like the Fisher Center Lectures and the President's Forum. MUSIC: Midmornings, tune in to the World Cafe, a Triple-A music & interview extravaganza. Every evening it's another dose of World Cafe plus the soothing ambient music of Echoes. And on weekends, join us for favorites like American Routes, Mountain Stage, Blues Before Sunrise,and our own Stuck in the Psychedelic Era. SPORTS: WEOS, along with our sister station: WHWS 105.7FM, is the home for HWS Athletics! Check out our full sports coverage for both WHWS & WEOS. 06/26/09 : WEOS Adds Marketplace, Changes Schedule  As promised during our fiscal-year-end fundraiser, WEOS is adding Marketplace to our broadcast schedule! Tune in every weekday at 6:00pm to get business news for the rest of us! It will also repeat Monday through Thursday at 8:00pm.Partly because of Marketplace, and partly because of other listener requests, we are also changing our broadcast schedule in some other times as well. If you want a visual reference, click here for a two-page PDF of the new schedule. Here's a rundown of the affected programs:
Summer 2009 : Taughannock Falls State Park CONCERT SERIES  Join WEOS this summer as every Wednesday night at 9:00pm we'll broadcast the previous Saturday's live concert from Taughannock Falls State Park. Here's the scheduled list of performers and the dates of the WEOS broadcast. As always, broadcasts are subject to change due to weather or other circumstances. For more info, visit the New York State Parks calendar of events for Taughannock Falls. Date of Broadcast - Name of Band July 8 - The Burn Sisters Band July 15 - The Buddhi July 22 - The Stoutmen July 29 - Ithaca Dixieland Band August 5 - Blue Sky Mission Club August 12 - El Rumbon August 19 - The Sim Redmond Band 06/05/2010 : Michael Feldman's WHAD'YA KNOW?!? Comes to Ithaca SAVE THE DATE! Join us for a live broadcast of Whad'ya Know at The State Theater in Ithaca on Saturday, June 5, 2010! Yes, we're giving a whole YEAR to prepare yourselves! :-) Details, ticket prices and ticket sales will be posted here as they become available. Also keep your eyes peeled for news about these live shows:
06/03/09 : Advertise on WEOS.ORG via Project Wonderful!  If your business is looking for a economical way to support WEOS and reach loyal WEOS listeners, considering advertising on WEOS.org via our Project Wonderful ad boxes. They're located up on the left side of the page, right next to our "Listen Live" link...our most common listener destination!It's really simple and easy to do, too!
Details and current statistics are all available at the WEOS Project Wonderful page, check it out! * All ads and bids are subject to approval by WEOS management. 06/04/09 : NPR Newscasts vs. Tech Nation's Five Minutes Commentary  Over the past several months, we've gotten requests from listeners to air more top-of-the-hour NPR Newscasts during the evening shows (6pm - 9pm) since there's not many places you can get a quick news update during those hours. Accordingly, we've been putting in the newscasts wherever we can during those shows...not every show is structured to allow for it.Most recently we've added the newscast to Tech Nation, Wednesday nights at 7pm. That means the Five Minutes commentary by host Moira Gunn is replaced by the newscast. So far we have received word that at least one person misses the commentary, and I checked with Moira - Five Minutes is not available as a podcast on the web yet, but there are plans to do so later this year. In the meantime, we have, with Moira's permission, rigged up a way to download the Five Minutes commentary from our website. It will update every Wednesday at about 7:00pm, and be available to download for one week. Only the most recent week will be available to download. To get the Five Minutes audio download, go to this URL: http://www.weos.org/technation/5min02.mp2 Note that this is an MP2 audio file, not an MP3. Most software like Windows Media Player, Winamp, or iTunes, can play MP2 files...but they may need to convert it.  05/18/09 : Ithaca - Time Warner Cable changes WEOS frequency to 95.1FM If you're a resident of Ithaca with Time Warner Cable TV service, and you have a radio with FM antenna jacks (especially a coaxial jack...the same kind as your cable TV box uses) then you can connect your radio directly to the cable jack on the wall, and tune it to 95.1FM to hear WEOS in perfect stereo reception. Previously TWC had WEOS on 98.9FM, but this week they had to move us to 95.1FM to accommodate another project on the cable network. 05/05/09 : Interview with Mark Neveldine, Writer-Director   Join WEOS as Aaron Read speaks with writer-director Mark Neveldine, Hobart Class of 1995. His first major movie was the Jason Statham action hit Crank, which he's now followed up with this year's Crank 2 : High Voltage. His next movie, Gamer starring Gerard Butler, is scheduled to be in theaters this September.Mark tells us about Crank 2, about how he got to where he is today and how his Hobart education helped get him there, and about where he feels the movie industry is moving towards in the future. Missed the interview? You can download an MP3 of it in the WEOS Jukebox.  The Fisher Center Lecture Series The Fisher Center is maintaining and expanding its theme of "Animation" for the Spring 2009 semester! The Fisher Center brings together faculty, students, and experts in gender-related fields in the arts, humanities, and social and natural sciences to foster mutual understanding and social justice in contemporary society.
 President's Forum SeriesThe President's Forum series is designed to bring a variety of speakers to campus to share their knowledge and ideas with students, faculty, staff of the Colleges, as well as with interested community members. For any U.S. president, the first 100 days in office are crucial, setting the tone of a presidency and predicting how his or her four years in office will play out. This is especially true for President-elect Barack Obama, who comes into office with astonishingly high expectations and approval ratings in this time of international and economic uncertainty. For Spring 2009, The President's Forum Series will explore his first 100 days.
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Are you a former WEOS staff member / DJ? We want to hear from you! WEOS is putting together a new initiative: Where Are They Now? Show off that you can make it to lofty heights, in spite of your lowly WEOS beginnings. :-) Send us as much of the following info you care to:
FINAL RUNDOWN OF THE WEOS FISCAL YEAR-END FUNDRAISER: $9032 raised - surpassing our $8000 goal by over a thousand dollars! Thanks so much to EVERYONE for supporting WEOS! If you still have questions about the fundraiser, here's the F.A.Q. that was posted on our website before:
Okay, that's being a little silly, we know - we're just really excited about making our goal! :-) Seriously, though, if you want to donate please feel free to do so. Every dollar we raise, whether it's towards this fundraiser or not, helps support programming costs, event costs, engineering costs and all the other various aspects of operating WEOS and bringing you Public Radio for the Finger Lakes!
Yes it does! And yes, it does mean our program schedule will be changing somewhat. We're going to do some audience feedback work and other analysis to determine what's the best way to do that. Look for announcements here and on our airwaves over the next couple of weeks for the details.
Our fiscal year ends May 29th (actually it's May 31st, but that's a Sunday so realistically it's May 29th). We are facing two major issues with our finances this Spring, and we need listener support to help ensure that we close the fiscal year not just in the black, but on a strong note.
First is that our parent organization, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, contributes a great deal towards WEOS's annual budget every year. Moreso than any other funding source. However, given the state of the economy and the increasing cost of providing quality public radio programming, it's both necessary and fair for WEOS to look beyond HWS for financial support.
No, FSRN will remain a part of the WEOS schedule. If we raise enough funds to start airing Marketplace, we will run it at 6pm, and move FSRN to 6:30pm. Other programming would be rearranged as well, but we'd avoid dropping any particular shows wherever possible. We'll post the details as we get closer to the $8000 goal.
Not exactly. Marketplace does cost several thousand dollars per year...but we wouldn't try to cover the cost of an entire year's worth of programming in just one fundraiser. The $8000 figure is an "informed estimate", arrived at after weighing several factors, including the aforementioned contributions from Hobart & William Smith Colleges. $8000 alone cannot replace everything that HWS contributes, but it's a good starting point. Also, if the economy continues to deteriorate, then these funds will go a long way to helping us stay afloat. On the other hand, if the economy suddenly improves a lot...then the funds will be used towards building our new station, WITH 90.1FM in Ithaca.
No, this fundraiser is specifically for dealing with our current fiscal situation. See also the above Q&A, but building WITH will require substantially more funds than just $8000! We're hoping to arrange for a more organized fundraising campaign for WITH sometime early this summer.
Yes! If you'd like to donate your car through the Car Talk Vehicle Donation Program, just click here or call (866) 789-TMCP (8627) Take My Car Please! Donations of cars will ultimately result in a financial donation to WEOS.
On-line donations are the fastest, just click here to be taken to our donation page.
Sure, go ahead and e-mail the General Manager, Aaron Read. He'll do his best to respond as quickly as possible.  |
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