KGOU Newsletter for April 2006
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Spring Membership Drive A Success!
The staff of KGOU wants to send a very heartfelt 'thank you' to everyone who contributed to the success of our Spring membership drive:
A successful spring drive means KGOU's unique blend of news, talk, music and cultural programs will continue to be an important part of the media mix in central Oklahoma. Your pledge of support is a contribution not only to KGOU, but to a healthy marketplace of ideas. Thank you all very much!
Programming Change:
"Fools" End Radio Program
The Motley Fool Radio Show ceased production at the end of March and the final episode aired April 3 on KGOU. For those who may have missed it, it was a fine retrospective of their four-year run on NPR. You can still hear it at the "Motley Fool" link on npr.org. KGOU was proud to offer the program and we hate to see it end, but the hosts are focusing their talents elsewhere. We certainly wish them well.
You now have two opportunities to laugh with and learn from Tom and Ray Magliozzi (a.k.a. “Click & Clack”): Saturdays at 9 a.m. and now Mondays at 11a.m. on KGOU.
KGOU News Wins Murrow Awards!
The Radio and Television News Directors' Association (RTNDA) has awarded KGOU two regional Edward R. Murrow Awards! KGOU falls under the Small Market heading in the RTNDA Awards, in the region that includes Oklahoma and Texas.
And Still More Awards!
The staff of KGOU have the great pleasure of helping educate and train the next generation of broadcast journalists through our student production
Assignment: Radio which airs selected Sundays at noon. Two episodes of Assignment: Radio have been recognized at the recent Oklahoma Broadcast Education Association Awards.
Brooke Clinkenbeard, Assignment: Radio student producer/host for this school year, was awarded First Place in the News Magazine/Talk Show category for an episode from the Fall 2005 semester. Arash Davari (pictured receiving award from OBEA Awards Chair Rick Lippert) produced and hosted the Second Place entry, "Good Works," an episode from April 2005. Congratulations to Brooke and Arash, and all the students who contributed segments to those shows!
Tell Your Congressman 'Public Matters'
Soon Congress will be addressing proposed budget cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides approximately eleven percent of KGOU's funding.  We recently received a letter from Michael Riksen, Vice President for Government Relations at NPR, in which he commended public radio listeners for informing their Congressmen of their support for public broadcasting during last session's debate. "The subsequent successful conclusion of the FY ’06 appropriation for public broadcasting occurred because our listeners and our supporters engaged in the political process.
But that was last year. The task before us now is to replicate that outpouring of support . . .The timeframe for action is now."To that end, NPR, PBS, and APTS, (the Association of Public Television Stations) together have created Tell Them Public Matters, a web-based, legislative advocacy resource for mobilizing listeners and supporters to communicate with Congress. No federal tax dollars were used in the site's creation. The website provides resources to identify who represents you in Congress, and an e-mail link to convey your wishes to those representatives. Highlights from NPR: Mixed Signals: Smarter Than Your Average Blog
 Have you ever wondered how NPR reporters come up with story ideas? Or what goes on at NPR editorial meetings? Behind-the-scenes insights are just part of what you can learn
from NPR Online's Web log Mixed Signals.
Edited by NPR's Andrea Seabrook, the blog is designed to complement the news coverage you hear on the air, and makes very interesting reading. Give it a look! NPR's Day to Day features OKC Band
 KGOU's newest program addition, Day to Day from NPR News,
had a distinctly local flavor on April 12th. Day to Day contributor and independent music critic Christian Bordal interviewed Wayne Coyne, lead singer of the iconoclastic rock group The Flaming Lips (which originated in Oklahoma City in 1983) about their new CD, At War With the Mystics. Hear the story at npr.org. The Flaming Lips were also featured on Morning Edition on April 13. This I Believe to Begin Second Year
The national project that explores personal values and beliefs in America today is taking a break. This I Believe will return to the air on Monday, May 1, to start its second year of thought-provoking essays. Listeners may submit an essay by visiting theThis I Believe link at npr.org.
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Among the things the "Motley Fools" stressed most in their program was fiscal discipline. Keeping our expenses in check (especially given the recent addition of NPR’s Day To Day) is just one of the reasons why we’ve decided to fill the vacancy left by The Motley Fool Radio Show with another NPR favorite (and one that won’t cost any additional money), Car Talk.
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