tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-208419122012-01-07T11:24:48.746-06:00An insider's look at WORT 89.9 FM Community Radio's News department. News Facilitator Nathan Moore posts station info, updates, thoughts, reflections, volunteer openings, and overall Good Things.WORTNewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16900023258391312869noreply@blogger.comBlogger261100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20841912.post-1166202405464743282006-12-15T11:05:00.000-06:002006-12-15T11:06:45.476-06:00

WORT-FM Community Radio (an AA/EOE employer) seeks aNEWS & PUBLIC AFFAIRS FACILITATORThis is a full-time position, responsible to the Board of Directors. The salary for this position is $25,000/year, plus health, dental, & disability insurance and a generous leave package.This is primarily an off-air position to facilitate approximately 115 on-air volunteer news and public affairs programmers,

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I'm on a bunch of listservs, and many of them have been abuzz lately at the news of the seeming end of "The Mic 92.1". And by "seeming end," I mean that the format of WXXM will change from progressive talk (Air America) to Fox Sports. WXXM will still be WXXM, and still owned by Clear Channel.Today, another WORT host sent me a link to a story about the whole situation. This one was to a Capital

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Community & campus activist joins lineup of hosts for "A Public Affair" call-in programMADISON – The radio station that provides community access to the airwaves has just added another voice from the community.WORT 89.9 FM has chosen community and campus activist Chris Dols as a volunteer host for "A Public Affair," WORT's midday call-in program. Dols will be heard every other Tuesday, 12:00-1:00

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As a lot of you likely know, a group of "National Socialists", aka Nazis, has announced plans to hold a rally in Madison this coming Saturday. Several weeks ago, local activists formed a group cleverly called "No Nazis in Madison". The group has been organizing a counter-rally, as well as trying to use this as a catalyst to bring attention to issues of institutional racism beyond the knee-jerk

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...especially from the Magnum camp, if I may say so.And here's why. First, Magnum's camp sends this press release out today announcing that Baldwin has agreed to do seven debates with Magnum, but he wants more.http://www.thewheelerreport.com/releases/Aug06/Aug9/0809magnumsource.pdfThen Baldwin's folks send out a rebuttal, saying that no, they did not agree to any debates yet and encouraging

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/Remember, you can hear BBC's flagship program "Newshour" on WORT, 5-6pm. Plus, we run the BBC headlines at noon and at the top of the hour during our morning classical programs.

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From Patricia Harrison, CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting...Today, the House Appropriations Committee approved the Fiscal Year 2007Labor, HHS, Education Appropriations Bill that provides funding for theCorporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). The legislation approved by the full Appropriations Committee thismorning increases the Labor-HHS Subcommittee's initial FY 2007allocation

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RedHerring.com reported a couple weeks ago on a GlobeScan poll conducted to learn people's opinions about news media trustworthiness. Interesting findings:* bloggers rank lowest on the scale of trusted news sources - just 25% trust blogs; 23% distrust blogs; half don't seem to know.* National TV was the most trusted news source overall, trusted by 82 percent; distrusted by 16%National and

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Grassroots Radio folks, it's time to cross-pollinate...COME TO THE GRASSROOTS RADIO CONFERENCE 11JULY 27-30, 2006MADISON, WIThe GRC is an annual gathering of folks interested in grassroots, volunteer-powered, community radio to connect, learn new skills, discuss critical issues, and do some partying. And you're invited!Visit www.GrassrootsRadio.info today! From there, you can:- Register for the

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Wall-to-wall bilingual coverage of "Day Without Latinos" rally on Madison's community radioMADISON – On Monday, April 10th, the recent national controversy over immigration reform comes home to Madison with the "Day Without Latinos" rally and march. WORT 89.9 FM, Madison's listener-sponsored community radio, will broadcast live bilingual coverage of the entire event."This is a historic event in

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WORT 89.9 FM Community Radio is looking for a person to host A Public Affair every first and third Thursday of the month. The volunteer position requires one hour of on-air time every first and third Thursday from 12 to 1 PM, as well as 4+ hours of off-air prep time per show setting up guests, gaining background knowledge, and honing interview skills, etc."A Public Affair" aims to engage

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As per the headline, WORT will be hosting the Grassroots Radio Conference here in Madison on the weekend of July 28-30, 2006.The GRC is an *excellent* conference, and I'm very excited that so many Madison radiophiles will have the chance to attend this year! In addition to skills workshops and discussion of media issues, it's also a great chance to talk with people from other stations around the

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Alright, if you live in Madison, you surely remember the name Audrey Seiler. The UW student who kidnapped herself and drew national attention to the swampy fields south of Madison. Broom Street Theater ran a parody of her called "Audrey Seiler, Where Are You?"Of course, if you ever tune in to any cable news station, you know that Audrey is far from the only pretty, young, white woman who has

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I just love Lyse Doucette and Judy Swallow, to say nothing of Robin Lustig and Julian Marshall. That gang of Newshour folks puts together a bangup newscast every weekday, which WORT broadcasts at 5:00pm, Monday-Thursday.I'm happy to announce that if you're one of those technophiles, with your fancy handhelds, MP3 players, and sundry other "mobile devices," you can listen to the BBC wherever you

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Friday 8 O'Clock Buzz, 8 to 9 am, March 17Jonathan Zarov runs an interview with George Clinton, the Godfather of Funk. Hear Clinton opine on the birth of funk, who is and is not funky (John Ashcroft is not entirely unfunky, but Barry Manilow is), getting naked on stage, and what to expect at the upcoming show at the Barrymore Theatre.

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So WORT finished up its Winter 2006 fundraiser on Saturday at midnight, and we all breathed a collective sigh of relief. I know I wrote about the benefits of grassroots fundraising (scroll down a bit to read it...), but honestly, pledge drives are kind of a pain in the neck.Speaking of pains in the neck, I had to visit the doctor yesterday to have a little cyst removed. This perhaps veers into

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Just came across Action Wisconsin's continuing blog coverage of the WI State Assembly's efforts to take away more freedoms and rights. On November 7th of this year, Wisconsiners are likely to find a proposed amendment to the state Constitution on their ballots. The proposed amendment would permanently ban marriage and civil unions for gay and lesbian couples in our state.I want to use this

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So if you've tuned in to the station anytime in the past six days, you've likely heard phrases like, "pledge your support..." and myriad entreaties to convince you why your financial support of WORT is important at this time. You've probably heard the phone number 256-2001 about seventy billion times. We're approaching the halfway point of our Winter 2006 "World Wide WORT" pledge drive.Before I

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Howdy Madisonians--For those of you in far-flung places, Wisconsin is currently being blanketed in snow. How many inches so far? I don't know. Enough such that two of my coworkers and several of our volunteers haven't been able to make it in today.For those of you reading this locally, I wanted to post some of the closings and snow-related news that I know about so far today:-- 6-8 horses

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Yes, "cheap" does belong in quotes, especially when I remember that gas was less than a buck a gallon when I graduated from high school in 1998. Nowadays, I don't actually drive a car on a daily basis. I mostly bus or bike to WORT, depending on the weather. (I experimented with winter biking a couple years ago, but that didn't go so well.) But my wife has a car that we share, so I fill it up

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Woohoo, WORT now has a high-quality webstream!Actually, it's been up and running for about a week now. I've just been so busy here at the station gearing up for our Winter '06 pledge drive, which starts this coming Sunday.So next time you're traveling to Caracas, Kathmandu, Constantinople, or Canada, point your internet browser to http://lists.wort-fm.org/testsite/stream.shtmlFor most of the

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A couple weeks ago, I taught Mel how to record stuff on the computer here at WORT, and he's just running with it. Can't get enough of it. And he's been recording the Mel & Floyd shows as digital Em-Pee-Three files. So after he records the shows, I copy them to WORT's online archive server for your perusal and download. Or at least I try to remember to do so. Those MP3 recordings can be found here

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So WORT is now airing "Democracy Now" five days per week. It's an extraordinarily popular program among WORT News listeners, and the Programming Committee, after several years, found a way to fit it into the Friday schedule.That makes for a new volunteer opportunity - being the on-air engineer during Friday's Democracy Now, 4:30-5:30pm. It's a very easy shift, mostly involving babysitting the

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The Wisconsin Broadcasters Association held its annual awards banquet the day before yesterday, and I attended for the first time. It's the first time in a long time (if ever) that WORT has been represented at the WBA (except for Lea Zeldin the day before).Now I typically don't put a lot of stock into WBA activities, since the organization tends to be more commercial-broadcast oriented. Many

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The World Social Forum is happening right now in Caracas, Venezuela. For those of you who don't know about it, the WSF brings together activists, NGOs, grassroots organizers, and even the occasional government representative to disccus political-social issues and connect struggles from around the world. Participants range from social democrats to anarchists, with many stripes in between. The

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My oh my, I've been dealing with that bottleneck of work that always seems to come this time of year. Just after the holidays. Everything seems to smack at once. But I've finally rounded the corner on my to-do lists, so the dust is beginning to settle.This blog is sort of an inside peek into WORT's operations, at least from my perspective. I'll try to post something each morning when I come

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