CVCR 2023 New Schedule Changes
New voices are coming to Central Vermont Community Radio. This will be our biggest schedule change in a long time and one that everyone at CVCR feels both proud and excited about. The new programs and voices are part of our continuing effort to put the community at the center of Central Vermont Community Radio.
It’s been three years since Covid forced us to reduce live and local programming. We know that many listeners have tuned out due to losing so many local voices. This revamped schedule will return us to majority live and local programming. Changes will occur across April and May.
We are eager to have you tune in, give the new shows a listen for a while, and then let us know what you think.
This new schedule will double the number of locally made programs, from 23 to 50 shows. We will continue to air long-loved national shows like Letters & Politics, Sprouts, UpFront Soul, All Mixed Up, Democracy Now, and many more, some with changed airtimes.
These 27 new local programs will:
give voice to a diverse mix of folks of various backgrounds, social identities, and ages, including five youth!
offer a variety of music currently not heard on WGDR: bluegrass to world, to metal to hip hop.
dig into more discussions with listeners and members of the community. We’ll have many more shows that will take live calls and talk about various creative and cultural content.
You’ll hear these new shows coming on the air throughout April and May. A current schedule can be found at WGDR.org and once completed, a printable schedule will be available by June.
For the most current schedule and on-demand listening via our archive go to WGDR.org.
This schedule was carefully curated by the CVCR Programming Committee. This committee is made up of six community members, including three programmers, a past programmer, and former and current long-time Vermont journalists. These folks were appointed by the board and/or voted for by current programmers late last summer. The committee spent the last six months recruiting new programmers and developing a schedule that prioritizes local content, retires rerun shows, and continues airing beloved syndicated programming. They’ve also curated each day to have less long “talk blocks” of shows, shifting to music by midday, then back again for a couple of hours of talk/news programming, then back to music. The majority of the new local schedule is set, with shows coming on the air between now and mid-May. You will now hear nearly all local programming airing between 9am-11pm, everyday! Our early overnight programming is still being worked on.
You can explore the new schedule line up, with the air days and times of all current, and new shows. You will see where new shows are booked and where some syndicated shows have been moved.
In this new schedule, we are going from 23 to 50 locally-made shows and from 40 to 53 syndicated shows. In total, we’ll go from the 63 shows you were hearing to 103 shows. Indeed, we’re going to sound better than ever! From all these changes you are going to find so much more great programming in our schedule.
New Locally-Made Programs
The Immanent Grove w/ Conni Mags - cultural music, traditions, and stories that celebrate diversity and will entertain.
The Revel Level w/ Emma Manion-Kohr - a music show with a variety of music to make you dance.
Kaleidoscope w/ Will Ibey - a youth-programmed music show of progressive rock and beyond.
Blluminations w/ Stefanie Lingenfelter - a talk show focusing on healing, plant medicine, and more through interviews and music.
Delia Gillen’s show - a music show with world, folk, cajun, and bluegrass.
Theme Time Radio w/ Sydonia Axis - themed shows with poems, musings, and music from all parts of the world.
Gilded Splinters w/ Kevin Titterton - a free-form music show with experimental, obscure psych rock, ambient and global sounds.
Borderlands w/ Stefan Nickum - dance music, from house to electronic music, celebrating club culture sounds.
Deep Blues w/ Les Mawson -a music show keeping the love of blues alive.
All the Crooked Saints w/ DJ Sacramento - A music show featuring covers and educational content on themes and topics of the day.
Get Fresh with DJ Llu - new music focus, featuring the latest releases in rock, R&B, and RPM each week.
Still Life with Club Soda w/ Serena Matt - a variety show of music and talk, focused on community engagement and sharing of resources.
Still Live with Orange Peel Ada Bowman - a variety show of music and talk, focused on community engagement and sharing of resources.
Merry Gangemi’s Show - A talk and interview-based show (returning on the air & live!)
Country Sounds in Modern Music w/ Barry Matthews - a music show focusing on Americana and non-mainstream country.
Rumblestrip w/ Erica Heilman - A Peabody award winning Vermont based podcast, telling the stories of Vermonters everyday lives.
August’s Show - a youth-programmed variety of music
Oliva’s Show - a youth-programmed variety of music
The Jive Turkey Show w/ Turkey Joe - a youth-programmed variety of music
Barndance Bluegrass w/ Daniel & Kellon Menucci - bluegrass music featuring traditional and local music
Fire and Ash: Talking about Death w/ Poa Mutino - a talk-based show celebrating the diversity of ways humans age and embrace death.
Bread & Salt w/ Maria Shuman - a story-based show of family oral histories and traditional music.
Pollinator Report w/ Emily Lanxner - a talk show with interviews and other content focused on Vermonters focused on protecting pollinators in our state.
Kitchen Permaculture w/ Rebecca Beidler - a talk show about local and seasonal food, cooking, growing food, and more.
Predictably Unpredictable w/ Chris Buckridge - a music show celebrating creativity and freedom of off-beat expression in genres of rock and beyond.
The Metal Edge w/ Willis Pratt (returning on the air!) - a music show featuring rock and heavy rock.
Hoi Polloi w/ Damien Taylor - a variety show of music and talk focusing on activism and the issues of our day.
The weather with Bob has also returned to its former schedule, Monday-Friday live at 9am and Sundays live at 7am.
Continuing Locally-Made Programs
Curse of the Golden Turnip w/ Alan LePage and Steven Farnham
Transformational Listening w/ Dennis Darrah
Thought Pasture w/ Maura Quinn
Spanning the Chasm w/ Peter Goreau
Bon Mot w/ Rick Agran
Personal & Political w/ Stephanie Fraser
Trailing Edge w/ David Ferland
InCommon Sounds w/ Brother B
Gathering Peace w/ Joseph Gainza (returning live!)
The Quilting Hour w/ Maura Quinn or Sasha Thayer
Spawning Stones w/ Ben Bashore
Music as Art w/ Uku Meri
Relocalizing Vermont w/ Carl Etnier
Hittin’ the Note w/ Bill Hahn
Xav Wax w/ Xav Jimenez
Flow Eclectic & Heavy Metal Radio w/ DJ Eben Flow
Magical Mystery Tour w/ Tonio Epstein
Long and Winding Road w/ Dave Tucker (now 3 hours!)
Geezer Rock w/ Jeff Lindholm (now 2 hours and back live!)
The Meltdown w/ KingTone
Amy’s Kids’ Show w/ Amy Hornblas
Boxful of Blues w/ John Foster
Acoustic Harmony w/ Mark Michaelis
The Beatdown w/ Z-Point
New Syndicated Shows
Food Sleuth - a national program exploring food systems and challenges in the U.S.
Green Bubble Tea - a music show focusing on the music of South-Eastern Asia
Prison Pipeline - a national program
Train to Skaville - a music show focusing on Jamaican music and the genre of ska
Around 12 more new talk and music syndicated shows are to come as well starting in May.
Continuing Syndicated Shows
Woodsongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Big Picture Science Show
Timeless Oldies Radio Hour
Short Wave Report
Rock Sexy
Out of the Woods
For the Wild
Thom Hartmann Program (1 hour best of) - We will be alternating THP with Ian Masters’ Background Briefing Monday-Friday in the 6am-7am slot.
Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Democracy Now, 8am live show and 6pm daily rerun
Making Contact
Economic Update
Full Moon Hacksaw
Letters & Politics (Monday-Thursday)
Deep Threes
Rising Up with Sonali
Alternative Radio
The Final Straw
All Mixed Up
New Dimensions
Woodwarbler’s Jazzgrass Show w/ Brian Aust (shifted to WRMW-LP as his local station during covid, not a locally-made show for now)
And You Don’t Stop
Oldies Time Machine
Indigenous Music
Afronsonic Taxi
Upfront Soul
Baroque and Beyond
Counterspin
Law and Disorder
Peace Talks Radio
Sprouts
This Way Out
TUC Radio
Radio Free Albany Blues Show
What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?
Planetary Radio
The Children’s Hour
Syndicated Shows Retiring
Juke in the Back - Retired due to violation of the DMCA law, a liability we could not risk with broadcasting and streaming the show anymore.
Moccasin Tracks, Dark Side of the Tune - Retired due to frequent technical and length issues.
Explorations - Retired due to no longer providing new content.
Thom Hartmann Programm (3 hour full show, overnights)
Feedback on the Schedule
We know that these changes may not please all listeners. However, we’re confident that once you hear about these new shows, you will enjoy the freshness and diversity that it adds to our schedule. It’s a work in progress, and we’ll adjust as the need arises.
We welcome your feedback about our programming at CVCR. You can send an email to the Station Manager, Llu Mulvaney-Stanak at Llu@WGDR.org and they will pass it on to the Programming Committee.
These changes come as the station celebrates two major milestones. 2023 marks WGDR’s 50th year of broadcasting, an anniversary that also coincides with our second full year as a community-owned station after Goddard College gifted the licenses to CVCR. Altogether, there is so much to celebrate in community radio being made right here in Central and Northern Vermont.
Thank you for listening.
