KGOU Newsletter for February 2007
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Talk Show Host To Visit OKC |
KGOU is pleased to welcome Diane Rehm to Oklahoma City, with an opportunity for listeners to meet her.
On Thursday, February 22, Diane will speak at a benefit luncheon for the Girl Scouts' Red Lands Council. She was invited by the Scouts' Juliette Low Leadership Society to speak at their annual Thinking Day event.
The luncheon is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. at the Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club. Tickets are $50, and can be purchased from the Red Lands Council at 528-3535. |
Diane Rehm |
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Successful Drive to Raise Capital
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| KGOU thanks everyone who pledged support to our ongoing capital campaign during our recent on-air drive. More than $50,000 was pledged during our 5-day drive January 22 - 26! |
Thank You ! |
All donations to the Expanding Horizons Capital Campaign since July 1, 2006 are being matched dollar-for-dollar by the Edith Kinney Gaylord Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation; so far, donations eligible for the match total more than $60,000.
Add to that nearly $89,000 donated the previous fiscal year, and more than $16,000 pledged in the future. We are well on our way toward paying off the $800,000 debt for our new studios! |
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Cirque du Soleil Ticket Giveaway
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Delirium |
KGOU has eight pairs of tickets to Cirque du Soleil's Delirium at the Ford Center in Oklahoma City March 15 and 16 at 8 p.m. We'll give away four pairs of tickets for each evening's show. Watch a preview and get more info about Delirium.
We will hold a drawing Friday, March 2 to give the tickets to eight lucky listeners. To enter, use our online entry form or call us at 325-0022, no later than 5 p.m. March 1.
One entry per person, please. |
OETA's Legislative Week Begins New Session on KGOU
 With the beginning of a new session of the state legislature, OETA's Legislative Week returns to KGOU Mondays at 11:30 a.m. Join the Oklahoma News Report’s George Tomek for the latest news coming out of the Oklahoma State Capitol and learn about new and proposed legislation. The program airs Sundays at 1 p.m. on OETA.
Third Coast International Audio Festival Coming to OKC
KGOU and the Third Coast International Audio Festival will present an evening of memorable audio beginning at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 21 at Untitled [Artspace], 1 Northeast 3rd Street in Oklahoma City.
 The program, part of the TCF Listening Room series, will feature a diverse selection of documentary audio work, including cultural documentaries, narrative personal stories and sound-rich audio portraits.
Hosted by TCIAF Managing Director Julie Shapiro and KGOU News Director Scott Gurian, the evening’s program will include some of Scott's award-winning work as well as submissions from the TCIAF’s audio experiment "99 Ways to Tell a Radio Story".
Described as a book club for radio, the TCIAF is based at Chicago Public Radio.
There is no charge for the evening, but donations are appreciated.
KGOU Welcomes Engineer
The staff of KGOU is pleased to welcome Patrick Roberts, our new Chief Engineer. Patrick comes to us after about 14 years at a group of commercial radio stations in Oklahoma City. He's already hard at work, continuing the fine tuning of equipment following KGOU's recent move.
Our former Chief Engineer for nearly 24 years, David White, retired at the end of 2006. We thank him for his dedicated service, and wish him a happy retirement. He'll stay busy, but he's enjoying his freedom from pagers going off at all hours of the day and night, signaling a problem with the broadcast equipment.
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A ritual peculiar to broadcast engineers known as "the passing of the pager" |
Happy retirement, David, and to Patrick, welcome!
Exclusively for Subscribers: Gardening School Ticket Giveaway
KGOU has one pair of tickets to the Oklahoma Gardening School, Saturday, March 10, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. at Stage Center. We will hold a drawing
Friday, March 2 to give the tickets to one lucky e-newsletter subscriber. To enter, send an e-mail no later than March 1 to Membership Director Laura Knoll at membership@kgou.org, or call her at 325-0022. One entry per person, please.
KGOU Producer's Photography in Traveling Exhibit
KGOU Office Manager and Producer Susan Shannon's photography will be included in "Art from Indian Territory 2007: the State of Being American Indian".
Sponsored by the American Indian Cultural Center & Museum and the Chickasaw Nation, the exhibit will be traveling the state over the next year.
Centennial to Include Storytelling Project
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, KGOU and NPR are receiving some admiration. Central Oklahoma's Metropolitan Library System and the Arts Council of Oklahoma City
are taking a page from NPR's StoryCorps oral history project. They are  launching a year-long effort to record stories of elder Oklahomans and "community builders" as part of the Oklahoma Centennial Celebration.
They're calling it "Oklahoma Voices" (again, we're flattered) and will kick off the storytelling project February 15 during the Arts Council’s annual WinterTales Storytelling Festival. Later this spring, library personnel will
travel to senior Oklahomans where they live, to gather more stories, and then will finish the year with recording sessions at 12 library locations for three days each.
Organizers hope to gather 250 interviews. If you know an Oklahoma County resident who'd be a good candidate to tell his/her story, contact Dana Morrow with the Metropolitan Library System at 606-3833.
Highlights from the Networks:
New from StoryCorps: The Griot Initiative
The griot (pronounced gree-oh) is part of West African tradition. It is a role of honor, designating someone who maintains community tradition and memory through storytelling, music, and dance.
 It's a fitting name for StoryCorps' new one-year initiative to collect interviews from African-Americans. For the next year, the StoryCorps Griot Initiative will make stops in nine locations across the nation, partnering with radio stations, historically black colleges and universities, and other cultural institutions and membership organizations.
So far, stops are planned in Atlanta, Ga. and Newark, N.J. StoryCorps also provides do-it-yourself StoryKits for those who cannot visit a mobile booth.
The StoryCorps Griot Initiative will place a special emphasis on the stories of African-American World War II veterans and men and women involved in the Civil Rights struggle. Funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the initiative's goal is to help ensure that the voices, experiences, and life stories of African-Americans will be preserved and presented with dignity. Griot segments will be featured on Morning Edition over the next year.
Oklahoma Mining Town a Victim of Its Success
 Soon all that's left of Picher, Oklahoma may be the heaping piles of mining waste and the collapsing mine shafts of the country's most hazardous EPA Superfund site. The ongoing government buyout of homes there will likely finish off what's left of the town. Some call it a mercy killing. But the few remaining Picher residents see it as more of an execution. Frank Morris told that side of Picher's story on All Things Considered Sunday, February 11. Hear it on npr.org.
The Widening Gap Between Haves and Have-nots
An America where some have more money than others is nothing new. But recently, the gap between the rich and everyone else has grown ever wider. NPR News has been exploring the human face of income inequality in its series of reports aired on NPR's news programs February 5 through 9. Read the series overview and listen to the segments on npr.org.
 Guide to the Best Valentine's Chocolate
It might be too late to mail order these chocolates for this Valentine's Day, but maybe it's not too late to make some yourself. (Plus, you'll know exactly what you're getting.) NPR's Kitchen Window series has a recipe for chocolate-tipped candied orange rind that is high on npr.org's most-e-mailed list. In any case, these just might give you inspiration for next year!
NPR Signing Off from the Former New York Bureau
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NPR's New York City news bureau is moving into new studio space. The closing of the old bureau offers an opportunity for reflection, and Scott Simon offered his memories of all the characters and adventures it's seen – those personally witnessed by him and those passed on by others as legend – on
Weekend Edition January 27.
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Norah Jones Back with Not Too Late
After taking a much-needed break from her career, the singer has released a mix of ballads, jazz and country-tinged pop songs on her new album, Not Too Late. NPR's Susan Stamberg interviewed her in Manhattan for Morning Edition January 29; hear their conversation, and some tracks from the album, at npr.org.
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