Programs
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Grey Shading Indicates Locally Produced Shows.
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Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
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5 AM The BBC World Service 5 AM
6 AM Morning Edition
News and arts features from NPR 
Mondays @ 7:19 AM Cosmic Calendar - Jim McKeegan
Ballads And Banjos
with Sonja Hedlund
Millenium of Music 6 AM
7 AM Harmonia 7 AM
7:50
AM
The Maris Calendar 7:50
AM
8 AM Democracy Now!
with Amy Goodman
Weekend Edition
News with Scott Simon
Weekend Edition
News with Liane Hansen
8 AM
9 AM The BBC News Hour Local News 9 AM
9:06 AM Weekend Edition
continued
9:06 AM
10 AM From The Desk Of... The Art of Being   Take My Word For It Retro Radio
with Steve Van Benschoten
Car Talk Sunday Brunch
with Glenn Wooddell
10 AM
10:06 AM Performance Today
Classical music, interviews and criticism
10:06 AM
11 AM Lost & Saved Folk Plus
with Angela Page
11 AM
11:04

Stolen Moments
with
Les Mattis

11:04
12 PM Afternoon
Classics

with Gandalf
Borders
with
Ron Bernthal
Afternoon Classics
with
Cecily
Fortescue

Strings Attached
with
Antoine Magliano

Local News 12 PM
12:06 PM Music From The Stage
with Muriel Goldrich and Martin Sabowitz
Panorama
with Marco Bocanumenth
12:06 PM
1 PM Country Crossroads
with
John Bachman
Piano Jazz
with
Marian McPartland
1st Sat. of Month
Open Mic
hosted by
Al Troiani
Jambalaya
with
Jesse Ballew & Al Troiani
1PM
1:30 1:30
2 PM City Arts  & Lectures Alternative Radio Bookworm Explorations

Trailer Talk
with
Sabrina Artel

E-Town 2 PM
2:30 Making Contact Counterspin Community Voices 2:30
3 PM Fresh Air
Interviews with Terry Gross

TBA

Jazz Profiles
/Specials

3 PM
3:30 3:30
4 PM All Things Considered
from NPR News
Afropop Worldwide Le Show
with Harry Shearer
4 PM
4:30 4:30
5 PM All Things Considered 5 PM
5:30 5:30
6 PM Free Speech Radio News Selected Shorts This American Life 6 PM
6:30 As it Happens
News From Canada
6:30
7 PM Spanglish con Ella
with
Emma Torres
Gift of Peace
with
Lisa Brody
7 PM
7:30 WJFF
Connections
with
Dick Riseling
Crosscurrents with
David Dann
Emotional Rescue
with
Kae Kotarski
Ramble Tamble
with John Gordon
The Richter Scale
with
Steve Richter
7:30
8 PM First Class Classicals
with Walter Keller
8 PM
8:30 Making Waves
Independent Producers' Magazine
Dead Air
with Dan Loiola
Words of Wisdom 8:30
9 PM Talking Sports
with Michael Barnofsky
& Co.
Radio
Revolution

Youth Radio Project

To Be Announced


Classics for Voice

9 PM
9:30 TUC Radio 9:30
10 PM Music Emporium with
Kusar Grace
MInd Explosion
with Eric D.
& Johnny T.

To Be Announced

Soul Spectrum
with
Liberty Green
Out, Loud & Queer
with
Kathy Rieser
Old Skool Sessions
with DJ Chucks
10 PM
11 PM

Metal Asylum
with Josh Maier

Tuesday Night
Jump Off

with
DJ Shaka-T
Audio
Visual
with Catskill Coyote
JeffHorse
various
producers
11 PM
12 AM

First Voices

Joe Frank

Studio 360

12 AM
1 AM

Sound Print

Art of the Song

On The Media

1 AM
1:30

Radio Unameable

1:30
2 AM

Hearing Voices

Expert Witness

All Songs Considered

The Deep End
with
Jeff Loeffler

BBC World Service
2 AM
3 AM Democracy Now!
with Amy Goodman
3 AM
4 AM

BBC World Service

4 AM
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Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
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Grey Shading Indicates Locally Produced Shows.

 

Guide to Locally Produced Programs
 
Afternoon Classics with Cecily Fortescue

Host: Cecily Fortescue
Airs: Wednesday from noon to 2pm

Join Cecily Fortescue, the “Queen of Dead Air," for classical music selected with impeccable taste.  The focus here is on chamber music, spanning all eras of classical music from baroque to modern.

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The Art of Being

Host: Doctor C.
Airs: Tuesday at 10am
Email: theartofbeing@wjffradio.org

The Art of Being is produced and hosted by Deborah Chandler, or “Doctor C," and focuses on psychology and personal growth. In this short segment, listen in for words about taking care of yourself, learning new techniques for communication or maybe how to recognize and deal appropriately with your feelings.  Deborah’s long career as a psychologist comes to bear in this segment.  And she even welcomes listener questions to address each week on the program.  Listen in every Tuesday night at 10am.  If you want to send her a question or topic to address, email to: theartofbeing@wjffradio.org.

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Audio Visual

Host: Catskill Coyote
Airs: Friday from 11pm to 2am

Audio Visual features an eclectic assortment of music −  from 1920s blues artists like Robert Johnson and Victoria Spivey to modern day folk/rock artists like Bonnie Raitt and Keb Mo, with a good assortment of jazz, bluegrass, newgrass and pop found in between. "You're likely to hear just about anything," host Andy LaMarca says.  He’s a fan of all different kinds of music, many of which find their way into the Audio Visual mix each Friday night.

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Ballads & Banjos

Host: Sonja Hedlund
Airs: Saturday morning from 6 to 8am
Email: ballads@wjffradio.org

Sonja Hedlund

Sonja Hedlund will start your Saturday morning right with Ballads and Banjos.  The program features a wide range of folk music, from singer-songwriter favorites such as Holly Near and John McCutcheon to folk styles gathered from Sonja's travels around the world.  With her deep roots in rural life and community, Sonja offers up a genuine slice of Catskills life each Saturday morning with Ballads and Banjos.

Click here to visit the Ballads & Banjoswebpage.


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Borders

Host: Ron Bernthal
Airs: Tuesday at noon
Email: rbern@sullivan.suny.edu

Ron Bernthal

Borders has been a regularly scheduled weekly travel segment on WJFF since the station's inception. The Borders segment contains a mix of interviews, music, and travel narratives, all within its goal of trying to bring the listener across ‘borders’ and into another region of the country and the world.

Past programs have included actual sounds and narratives from a variety of topics, including a fish auction in Galicia, Spain; a rowdy pub in Glasgow; a sailboat splashing through the Greek islands; a guitar factory in the Philippines; a metal craftsman in Nicosia, Cyprus; a bird market in Hong Kong; U.S. soldiers and residents in Kosovo; an Arlo Guthrie interview; and live commentary from music and film festivals all over the world.  Many of the programs include material of local interest as well, including segments from the Trout Festival in Livingston Manor, the Wine Festival in Hyde Park, and numerous arts-related events.

Approximately 500 different Borders segments have been broadcast on WJFF during the past dozen years, winning several awards for the station, including the prestigious Lowell Thomas Award for travel broadcasting from the Society of American Travel Writers, and several First Place awards by the North American Travel Journalist Association.

Borders’ writer and producer Ron Bernthal also produces special programming for WJFF that is distributed to NPR/PRI stations nationally.  Programs of this type include "Route 66 and the American Dream" and "An AmericanFabric."  Ron Bernthal can be contacted at rbern@sullivan.suny.edu

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The Brit Mix

Host: Graham Rice
Airs: Temporarily Taking a Break
Email: 
graham@wjffradio.org

The Brit Mix is taking a break, hoping to return soon.

The Brit Mix plays blues, folk, rock 'n 'roll, punk, the classier kind of pop, electric folk, and jazz - but it must be British.  Homemade music and studio music, big music and small, the weird and the wonderful, the sparky and the strange - and everything from the 1960s right through to the latest releases from Indie labels and even from the mega studios are all included.  Music by people whose prime aim is to become pop stars is usually disqualified from inclusion.  New singles, old rarities, forgotten classics, album out-takes, singer-songwriters - the majestic, the magic, the quirky; the catchy and occasionally the almost incomprehensible.

Check out the weekly playlists and more at TheBritMix.org and leave comments on the music you’ve heard or would like to hear.
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Classics for Voice

Host: Edie Downs, Inge Grafe-Kieklak, and others
Airs: Sunday from 9pm to 11pm

Full-length opera, choral music, and song with a rotating cast of hosts.

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Community Voices

Producer: Jason Dole
Airs: Saturday from 2:30 to 3:00pm (Airs at 3:30pm on the 1st Saturday of each month.)

Community Voices seeks to highlight the contributions of various individuals and organizations to the local communities through the arts, education, health awareness and charitable work.

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Cosmic Calendar

Host: Jim McKeegan
Airs: Monday at 7:19am, Wednesday at 4:59pm and Sunday at 6:59pm
Email: jimandlisa@pronetisp.net

The Radio Catskill Cosmic Calendar is a 90 second feature produced by Jim McKeegan and describes events in our night sky that can be observed locally.  The program makes us realize that Astronomy is more than just looking at stars.  Jim shows us how myths, stories, mathematics, religion and philosophy all contribute to our culture's awe of the sky.  Jim's interest in Astronomy began when he was a child.  After he and his wife Lisa Brody moved to Cochecton five years ago, where the skies are very dark, his interest was sparked anew. He is primarily self-taught, and his radio pieces are very accessible. You don't need any prior knowledge of Astronomy to gain from the program.  Nor do you need a lot of expensive equipment to get out and see a lot in the night sky.

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Country Crossroads

Host: John Bachman
Airs: Thursday from 1 to 2pm
Email: jbachman@wjffradio.org

John Bachman

Short enough to be interesting, long enough to cover the subject.  Checkout out playlists and more here.


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Crosscurrents

Host: David Dann
Airs: Tuesday evening from 7:30 to 9pm
Email: divadnnad@yahoo.com

Crosscurrents is a weekly jazz program that covers all eras and styles of creative improvised music, from Mamie Smith and Jelly Roll Morton to HenryThreadgill, Butch Morris and John Zorn.  Hosted by David Dann, the show usually has a theme, whether it be a musician's birthday, a regional style or a particular instrument.  Past programs have included features on Sonny Rollins in the 1950s, the Claude Hopkins Orchestra, the Downtown Scene, Big Bands on the Air and the Kansas City Sound in the 1930s.

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Dead Air

Host: Dan Loiola
Airs: Friday evening from 8:30 to 10pm
Email: deadair@wjffradio.org

Over the last few years, Dan Loiola has developed a loyal following by bringing a great collection of The Dead's live concerts and studio recordings to the airwaves.  You can hear the popular songs, the obscure recordings and the side projects.  But don't think The Grateful Dead is all you're going to hear.  Tune in for features on The Dead members' other projects and current bands, including The Other Ones, Rat Dog, The Trichromes, Mickey Hart's Mystery Box, Phil Lesh and Friends, The Jerry Garcia Band, and most recently, the newly formed The Dead.  Lately, Dan has been bringing more live music onto WJFF's airwaves as well.

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The Deep End

Host: Jeff Loeffler
Airs: Friday late night (early Saturday morning), 2 to 3am
Email: deepend@wjffradio.org

The Deep End is a rock/blues program featuring an array of album tracks, rarities, and live recordings from a wide range of artists, both known and obscure.  The theory behind the program is to present listeners with a progressive alternative to the monotony of mainstream rock radio as well as to provide a broadcast outlet for a wealth of world class music that is without a forum in the restricted world of commercial broadcasting.

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Emotional Rescue

Host: Kae Kotarski
Airs: Wednesday evening from 7:30 to 9pm
Email: rescue@wjffradio.org

Emotional Rescue is an eclectic music program which debuted on WJFF on New Year's 1997.  The title is from a Rolling Stone's song of the same name.  The host, Kae Kotarski, has a firm belief in the healing power of music, hence the idea for the show. The "Rescue" often features a theme and WORLD MUSIC - THE REAL THING is the second Wednesday of every month.  Other shows have focused on Celtic, Soul, Rhythm and Blues and Female artists.  The first Wednesday of every month is a mix, including pop.  Kae says:  "People have said they never know what to expect on the show.  That's one of its attractions for those of us who enjoy many forms of music.  I have so many genres that appeal to me, I began to think that I must not be the only one!  I wanted to create a radio program that could suit your mood, change your mood or take you to another place and time."  For more on Kae and Emotional Rescue, visit thewebpage here.

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First Class Classicals

Host: Walter Keller
Airs: Saturday evening from 8 to 10pm

Every Saturday Walter Keller draws from a deep well of knowledge and enthusiasm for classical music as well as an immaculately maintained collection of long-playing vinyl albums.  The resulting program is always first class.

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Folk Plus

Host: Angela Page
Airs: Saturdays from 11am to1pm
Email: folkplus@wjffradio.org

Angela Page

Folk Plus is a blend of music from the contemporary folk scene.  Angela Page draws from her experience of music gathered from over 20 years running college folk venues in the late 70's, the Speak Easy in Greenwich Village through the early 80's, her involvement with the production of the Fast Folk Musical Magazine and her ongoing radio work.  Starting in March 1993, Angela has been hosting Folk Plus, and posting weekly setlists since 1998.  Angela is currently a reviewer for SingOut! Magazine, and has been a NERFA showcase judge since the Fall 2002 Conference at Kutsher's Resort in Monticello, New York.  Visit the Folk Pluswebpage here.


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From The Desk Of...

Host: Patricia Adams
Airs: Monday at 10am

On Monday morning, following the BBC news hour, From the Desk Of, produced by Patricia Adams, presents listeners with brief portraits of the world's great writers, presented in the form of a literary whodunit.  From the Desk Of is one the many special short features produced here at WJFF.

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Gift of Peace

Host: Lisa Brody
Airs: Sunday evening from 7 to 8:30pm
Email: jimandlisa@pronetisp.net

Gift of Peace features music for healing and relaxation.  Selections include ambient music, women’s empowerment songs, Hindu chants, spiritual music from around the world, Native American songs and occasional guided meditations.  Interviews with various healers and spiritual teachers are also aired.  The intention for the show is to help send out healing and love through the music, and with all things like this, the love and healing have come back three-fold.

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Jambalaya

Host: Jesse Ballew
Airs: Saturdays from 1 to 2:30pm
Email: blugrassdj@yahoo.com

Join Jesse Ballew and other hosts for ninety minutes of red hot bluegrass peppered with cajun and country tunes.  Onthe air since 1994, Jambalaya is one of WJFF’s longest-running programs.

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Jeff Horse

Host: Various independent producers
Airs: Sunday evening from 11pm to midnight

There is always something new and interesting to be heard on Jeff Horse, from talk radio and listener call-in to anything-goes music programming.  This one hour on Sunday night is reserved for new producers to get their feet wet and occasional producers to show their stuff.

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Lost & Saved

Host: Ron Bernthal
Airs: Friday morning at 11am
Email: rbern@sullivan.suny.edu

On Fridays, Ron Bernthal's Lost & Saved presents stories of the historical preservation of buildings and other structures, both in our area and throughout the nation.  Ron Bernthal also produces a weekly travel piece called Borders that can be heard on Tuesday afternoons at noon.  Lost & Saved is one the many excellent short features produced here at WJFF.

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Making Waves

Host: Sabrina Artel & Rachel Brey
Producer: Kevin Gref
Airs: Monday evening from 8:30 to 9:30pm
Email: makingwaves@wjffradio.org

Producer, Kevin Gref, brings together a team of independent producers for this weekly news and culture radio magazine.

Click here to go to a gallery of photos related to the stories you hear on Making Waves.

Click here for the Making Waves Environmental Calendar of local events that focus on the environment and sustainable living.

[MW Producer site here.]

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Maris's Calendar

Host: Andrea Heyn
Airs: During
Ballads & Banjos (6-8am, Saturday) and 2:56pm Tuesday

Throughout the years Maris Hearn’s Gumbo Shop always included an impromptu “this day in history” recitation of eclectic, progressive, historical, and religious events.  Andrea Heyn, a Damascus resident who has been a member of WJFF since before it went on air, has decided to continue this Gumbo Shop tradition.  Maris's Calendar is a five minute calendar of significant events from the history of women, African Americans, immigrants, Native Americans and the LBGT community, much in the same vein as Maris’s. We are pleased to have Andrea continue this calendar in Maris’s memory.  Maris's Calendar is one the many special short features produced here at WJFF.

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Metal Asylum

Host: Josh Maier
Airs: Monday, 11pm to Midnight
Email: metalasylum@wjffradio.org
Web: Metal Asylum on MySpace

Rockers, Moshers and Headbangers alike, come spend a night in Metal Asylum.  Every Monday night at 11, Youth Radio Project Alumnus Josh Maier rocks out to the heaviest of heavy metal music.  Metal Asylum also features a call-in discussion on today's top names in metal.  Not a fan of metal?  Not a problem.  Every week, The Asylum dedicates a slower song or ballad to the non-head bangers that wish to listen.  Either way, once locked inside Metal Asylum, your Monday nights will truly never be the same again.

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Mind Explosion

Host: Eric D. & Johnny T.
Airs: Tuesday evening at 10pm
Email: mindexplosion@wjffradio.org

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"Enter the Journey to complete Mind Explosion.  We started out as young members of The Youth Radio Project Radio Revolution, then blossomed into something never before seen!"

Click here to visit Mind Explosion on MySpace.


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Monday Afternoon Classics with Gandalf

Host: Gandalf
Airs: Monday from noon to 2pm
Email: gandalf@wjffradio.org

Monday Afternoon Classics with Gandalf features minimalist and other inscrutable performances from 20th and 21st century classical music as well as frequent and lively guest interviews.  For program notes, playlists, composer information, links and more, visit the webpage for Monday Afternoon Classics with Gandalf.

 

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Music Emporium

Host: Kusar Grace
Airs: Monday from 10 to 11 pm

Get into the groove with Kusar Grace who lays down a sweet mix of vintage soul, funk, r&b and jazz.

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Music from the Stage

Hosts: Marty Sabowitz & Muriel Goldrich
Airs: Tuesday from noon to 2pm

Join Marty and Muriel for a weekly saluteto the music of Broadway and beyond.  Lively discussion, in-studio guests, and lots of show tunes make up the program.

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Old Skool Sessions

Host: DJ Chucks
Airs: Saturday evening from10pm to 5am
Email: djchucks@djchucks.com

DJ Chucksl

What you’ll hear on Saturday nights with Chucks is Old Skool.  And that, he says, is “anything that the commercial stations don’t play anymore,” or “real good music.”  You’ll hear 60’s, 70’s, 80’s music - rock, soft pop, early rock and punk, maybe even a little honky-tonk drum roll.  Chucks likes the 80’s sounds because it’s what he grew up with.  Rap was part of his street turntabling in the late 70’s, but didn’t get on vinyl and onto the radio until the early ‘80’s.  And you’ll hear those early sounds on the Old Skool Session.  Chucks' mother is from Jamaica, and her love of Jamaican music was passed on to Chucks.  Tune in for his occasional Rock Steady shows that pay tribute to the blue beat, rock steady, ska and reggae music from Jamaica.  And Chucks loves to bring us hip-hop, garage, and disco music.  Listen in on Saturday nights from 10pm on — you’ll be in for a treat!

Check out DJ Chucks' website: www.djchucks.com

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Open House

Host: Al Troiani
Airs: First Saturday of the month from 1:30 to 3:30pm
Email: aatroiani@optonline.net

WJFF's Open House is your chance to get acquainted with WJFF.  Come see the studios where all the action here at WJFF takes place.  Or tour the hydroelectric plant that produces the clean & green power for the radio station.  If you are a musician, bring your instrument and join the on-air open-mic.  Open House is great fun and a great way to deepen your connection to your community radio station.

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Out Loud & Queer

Host: Kathy Rieser
Airs: Friday evening from 10 to 11pm
Email: kathy@trashq.com

On the WJFF airwaves since 1997, Out Loud & Queer is one of the only gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender shows nationwide produced in a rural area.  Host Kathy Rieser has worked to make known the music of out musicians and share the humor, culture, and diversity of the gay community — showcasing local talent and issues whenever possible.  Click here to visit the Out Loud & Queer webpage for playlists and more!

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Panorama

Host: Marco Bocanumenth and Emma Torres
Airs: Sunday afternoon from Noon to 2pm
Email: panorama@wjffradio.org

Marco Bocanumenth

Featuring news, music, commentary, political debates and more, Panorama is WJFF's Spanish-language program for the area's Latino community.  Host Marco Bocanumenth, a native of Colombia, has always felt strongly about educating Spanish speakers and doing things to improve the quality of life and condition of the Latino community.  As Marco put it, "Persistence and dedication as a journalist who cares about making a difference is my motivation."

Estamos para su sintonia 2 horas todo los domigos de 12:00pm a 2:00pm, para entretener e informar.  Somos eluneco programa al servico de la comunidad Latina sirvendo las regionas de los Katskills northeast de Pensylvania, UpperDelawre y Mid-Hudson region.

Click here to visit the Panorama webpage.


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Radio Revolution

Host: Youth Radio Project
Airs: Wednesday evening from 9 to 10pm

Email: youthradio@wjffradio.org

Radio Revolution is WJFF's radio program by teens, for teens.  While the the show's team of producers covers pop culture -- music, movies, and more -- they also don't flinch when it comes to more hard-hitting and difficult subject matter of immediacy and importance to young people.  And did we mention music?

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Ramble Tamble

Host: John Gordon
Airs: Thursday evening from 7:30 to 9pm
Email: ramble@wjffradio.org

In the words of John Gordon, host ofthe show, "I'm still new to the D.J. business — RambleTamble debuted on 9/10/03.  I named the show after a CCR song which rambles in several different directions during its 7 minutes and 9 seconds.  There is so much great music around in so many different genres that I would never want to rule anything out.  I tend to lean toward Americana Roots, Alt Country, Early Rock and Folk, but those are just starting points.  Working at WJFF and doing a music show brings me great joy.  I have fun doing the show, and I hope you will have fun listening.  Oh, by the way, I like to throw birthday parties on my show for people like T BoneBurnett, John Prine, Rick Nelson and Tom Waits to name a few.  "Click  playlists and more on the Ramble Tamble webpage.

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Retro Radio

Host: Steve Van Benschoten
Airs: Friday from 10 to 11am
Email: vanben@wildblue.net

On WJFF's Retro Radio, host Steve Van Benschoten takes you on a delightful tour of the days when the AM radio was the most popular form of entertainment in the country, 1930 to 1955.  Steve supplies not only wonderful history tidbits, but also some incredibly useless and whimsical trivia connected with the nation's broadcast history.  Enjoy highlights from some of the top comedy programs (Jack Benny, Burns and Allen, Jimmy Durante, Abbott and Costello, Fred Allen and many more) as well as music by the top vocalists and big bands that kept America singing and dancing during the era when radio was king and the music was "swing."

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The Richter Scale

Host: Steve Richter
Airs: Friday from 7:30 to 8:30pm
Email: srichter@ezaccess.net

Join Steve for a carefully prepared hour of music -- music with something to say.  Rock, pop,acoustic: roots music in a listener-friendly atmosphere.  Hosted by one of WJFF’s longest serving hosts, a credit to Public Radio, if I must say so myself.

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Soul Spectrum

Host: Liberty Green
Airs: Thursday evening from 10pm to 1:30am
Email: libertygreen@citlink.net

Soul with a capital "S"!  Every week L.G. brings to the airwaves a stack of soul records and a whole lot more including "Silly Love Songs" and letters from listeners.

 

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Spanglish con Ella

Host: Emma Torres
Airs: Saturday from 7:00 to 8:00pm
Email: spanglish@wjffradio.org

Host Emma Torres seeks to break down barriers with an hour of Latin music every week by providing a context in English and Spanish.  Information on the music, its history, performers and writers is sure to entertain as well as inform.  Special features include highlighting the same song twice (once in English and once in Spanish), call-in translation and interviews.

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Stolen Moments

Host: Les Mattis
Airs: Friday afternoon at 11am
Email: stolenmoments@wjffradio.org

Host, Les Mattis played the drums in jazz bands and shares a musician's perspective on this uniquely American art form.  Playing recorded music from all eras of jazz's history, the program emphasizes the work of those truly creative souls who as musicians, composers, singers, and arrangers used their individual genius to form the music the world knows today.

 "The first jazz albums I had as a teenager were by Louis Armstrong, Clifford Brown and Max Roach, Benny Goodman, Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk.  From these, my love of jazz grew by listening to everybody I could and playing with diverse groups of musicians.  It is my joy to bring great music to WJFF's listeners."
 
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Strings Attached

Host: Antoine Magliano
Airs: Thursday afternoon at Noon
Email: strings@wjffradio.org

Strings Attached features a seemingly endless variety of stringed instruments:  guitar, mandolin, piano, lute, harpsichord, bouzouki and more.  Not limited to any one genre, the show encompasses musical forms from country to classical, world and folk music, jazz, rock or any other type that would exemplify virtuosity on any stringed instrument.  Host, Antoine Magliano, aims to engage and entertain the listener whose mind and ear is open to a diversity of musical styles.

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Sunday Brunch

Host: Glenn Wooddell
Airs: Sunday morning from 10am to noon
Email: sundaybrunch@wjffradio.org

Sunday Brunch, the oldest continuously running program on Radio Catskill, is aired every Sunday from 10am to noon, immediately following Weekend Edition.  Diversity is the unifying theme of Sunday Brunch.  Music of different genres and spoken word are featured each week — with Film Music taking precedence from time to time.  Other musical genres featured are theatre, folk, classical, western, vocal, popular, ethnic, light classical, etc.  Listener participation is utilized as well.

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Take My Word For It

Host: Carol Pozefsky
Airs: Thursday at 10am

On Thursdays, Take My Word For It, produced by Carol Pozefsky, offers a wide ranging consideration of language, words and phrases, and their origins and meanings.  Take My Word For It is one the many excellent short features produced here at WJFF.

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Talking Sports

Host: Michael Barnofsky
Airs: Tuesday at 9:00pm

Talking Sports breaks new ground forWJFF as the station's first regularly scheduled sports call-in talk show.  Host Michael Barnofsky is joined by Ray Cunningham and Michael "Hammer" Cunningham, who bring a wealth of knowledge and enthusiasm for the world of sports to each week's program.  Your calls are always welcome.

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Trailer Talk

Host: Sabrina Artel
Airs: Friday 2pm
Email: sabrina@trailertalk.net  
Website: www.sabrinaartel.com

Trailer Talk

Sabrina Artel's Trailer Talk is combination live performance, community event and radio broadcast based in the New York's Catskills region.  With her vintage 1965 Beeline travel trailer, Sabrina Artel travels to festivals and events where she invites individuals to participate in what she calls a "public conversation" in a relaxed and comfortable setting.  These conversations are broadcast live through speakers mounted outside the trailer, and many interviews are later aired on WJFF during the weekly program.  The New York Times described Sabrina Artel's Trailer Talk as "an unusual blend of theater, activism and broadcast journalism."

Although the conversation ranges widely from politics, arts and culture to the environment, agriculture, development and recreation, Sabrina Artel's emphasis is consistently on localism and the contribution of individuals to their communities.

Click here to visit the Trailer Talk website.  

 

 

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Tuesday Night Jump Off

Host: DJ Shaka-T
Airs: Tuesday evening from 11pm to 2am
Email: djshakat@wjffradio.org
Webpage: www.myspace.com/famousdjshakat

DJ Shaka-T

DJ Shaka-T has been dj-ing for over 15 years in the dj and entertainment business and is currently doing big things with major record labels and artists.  Make sure you check him out every Tuesday for the Tuesday Nite Jump Off.



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WJFF Connections

Host: Dick Riseling
Airs: Monday evening from 7:30 to 8:30pm

Email: connections@wjffradio.org

Dick Riseling

WJFF Connections focuses on local, national, and international issues that host, Dick Riseling, feels are tied to the lives of every individual.  The slogan, "Think globally, act locally" aptly describes the program's mission.  Each show features a topic for discussion and a guest or two.  And as a call-in show, listeners are invited to actively participate in the discussion as well.  Dick generally kicks off the dialogue with an editorial comment of his own about a particular issue.


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Words of Wisdom

Host: Lisa Brody
Airs: Sunday evening from 8:30 to 9pm
Email: jimandlisa@pronetisp.net

Words of Wisdom features excerpts of talks and books-on-tape from various leaders in the fields of religion, psychology, self-help and spirituality.  The show is hosted by Lisa Brody and airs directly after her show Gift of Peace.  Spend your Sunday nights tuned to WJFF for relaxing music on Gift of Peace (7:00-8:30pm) followed by inspiring Words of Wisdom.

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:: Locally-Produced Special Short Features::

Be sure to listen in for the many excellent short features produced here in the WJFF studios.  These pieces, ranging from three to ten minutes in length, can be heard throughout the week -- beginning with the Radio Catskill Cosmic Calendar on Monday mornings at 7:19.  Following the BBC news hour -- at 8:56 am on Monday, Thursday and Friday -- can be heard From The Desk Of..., The Art of Being, Take My Word For It and Lost & Saved , respectively.  And Ron Bernthal's award-winning travel feature, Borders, can be heard on Tuesday at noon.  You can hear The Maris Calendar with Andrea Heyn on Saturday mornings at 6:50am.


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:: Independent Producers ::

The WJFF airwaves feature the voices of a number of independent producers who contribute in a wide variety of ways including conducting interviews, producing specials, and guest-hosting on shows.


Dave & Lorraine Brown

Email: daveandlorraine@wjffradio.org

Dave & Lorraine Brown have become regular voices on the WJFF airwaves, both as on-air hosts giving the weather and announcements during Performance Today and as frequent guest personalities covering Music From The Stage, Jeff Horse and other programs.


Jonathan Mernit

Email: jonathanmernit@wjffradio.org

For many years, Jonathan Mernit hosted Soul Serenade on WJFF.  These days, he's a regular guest host on a wide variety of programs, from Ballads & Banjos to Sunday BrunchClick hereto visit Jonathan Mernit's webpage.

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