More Local Shows in February
Here at CVCR, we’re excited to bring more and more of the community into the station. Starting in February, we’ll welcome 10 new programmers onto the air. Their shows will mostly be music shows, adding diversity to our playlists and making our weekends, middays, and early mornings even more “live and local.”
These additions mean about 60 of your neighbors will bring you views, community connections, and musical selections across 50 eclectic shows every week.
This is a huge milestone for the station. Less than a year ago, only 30% of our main schedule was local. Now, 80% is locally made.
Continue reading for specific days and times for these new shows and the few additional changes to the schedule.
As always, the Programming Committee is open to your feedback. Use our listener survey to tell us what you think and other thoughts on existing programming.
Thanks for continuing to listen and support your community radio stations of WGDR and WGDH and please help us welcome this new group of programmers in the coming weeks.
The 8 new local shows include:
Sundays
10am-noon: “Audio Ergo Sum,” a music show by Darien & Ruby McElwain, variety of music
4-5pm: “Swivel Radio,” a music by DJ Effery, variety of music
6-7pm: “The Tim Show w/ DJ For Now,” a music show with DJ For Now, indie rock, psych rock, and more
9-11pm: “Spiral Galaxy,” a music hosted by Tom McMurdo, psych rock, prog, jazz and more.
Tuesdays
6-8am: “Styrofoam Stereo,” a music show by Thomas Mattera, blues, rock, folk, roots and more (bi-weekly), alternating with Full Moon Hacksaw.
Wednesdays
6-8am: “Discoverances,” a music show by Savannah Bailey. Take your first listen to something new with DJ Savannah, who will be actively discovering new and old artists to love! Pulling from WGDR's extensive physical and digital music libraries, the name of the game is discovery, with a special focus on women musicians who did not get the airtime they deserved.
2-4pm: “Soul Joy,” a music show by returning programmer Jacquette Landrum, gospel and Christian music, and interviews
Thursdays
11am-noon: Talking Vermont,” a talk show about the prison industry in Vermont by Tim Burgess (bi-weekly show)
To make room for these local shows, the following syndicated shows will move to these new slots:
On Sundays:
12am-2am - Green Bubble Tea
2am - Café Chill
On Tuesdays:
6am - The five day airing of Background Briefing with Ian Masters at 6am will be reduced to just three days a week, Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays.
9am - Peace Talks Radio
9:30am - Sprouts
11am - Rising up Sonali
2pm – Straight Up Soul (new syndicated music show)
3pm – First Voice Radio
On Wednesdays:
11pm-1am - Most Fluids (new syndicated music show)
On Thursdays:
12pm – Afrosonic Taxi
1pm – Rocking the Rez
4pm – Law and Disorder
On Fridays:
2am – Modern Jet Set
On Saturdays:
6:30am – Food Sleuth Radio
8am – Bike Talk
A few existing local shows also have moved or changed:
Country Sounds in Modern Times, with Barry Matthews is now just one hour, earlier on Wednesdays at 4pm.
Woodwarbler’s Jazzgrass Show with Brian Aust is now live at 7pm on Wednesdays.
The Jive Turkey Show with Turkey Joe is expanding to two hours on Fridays, starting at 11am.
The Hoi Polloi with Damian Taylor will be retiring from the schedule.
Bon Mot, with Rick Agran, is returning to live broadcast Sundays at 5pm
These changes also mean we have reached the point where we have limits in the schedule.
First, there are limited local slots for new programmers. This means late nights, a handful of slots during middays on weekdays, and early mornings will be where new folks will have a chance to start shows with us. We will also offer options for new applicants to become subs or be involved in the station in other ways while being on a waitlist for when more local slots open up.
These changes also mean we will be retiring a few syndicated shows Short Wave Radio, For the Wild, Write the Book, All Things Cage, Woodsongs Radio, and the Final Straw. These shows all can be listened to directly on their websites.
