CapRadio has ended production of four longstanding specialty music shows amid financial challenges after reducing our news and music staff this week.
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Three affected shows aired on CapRadio’s news stations during Saturday music blocks:
- Mick Martin’s Blues Party, which aired from 1 to 3 p.m.
- Hey, Listen!, which ran from 3 to 5 p.m. and repeated from 8 to 10 p.m.
- K-ZAP on CapRadio, which aired from 7 to 8 p.m.
The fourth affected show, At the Opera, ran on our music stations Saturdays from 8 p.m. to midnight.
This has been an incredibly hard week for all of us at CapRadio. These four shows have been on the air for years, and in some cases, decades. Each of them had loyal, dedicated listeners, and were hosted by our colleagues and friends.
As interim General Manager Tom Karlo said in a press release issued Thursday, “This is a difficult decision, but we view it as necessary to carry out the station’s public service mission during a financially challenging time for us and for media across the country.” He added that “we are deeply saddened to say farewell to such dedicated and talented staff members.”
Acid Jazz, which has run on our news station from 10 p.m. to midnight., will move to Friday nights on our music stations this fall.
Our news station will now move to a single format consistent with most other public radio stations across the country. The Saturday schedule now includes the following public radio favorites with the hallmark storytelling and conversation we offer every day:
- The Moth’s stories told on stage to a live audience will run at 1 p.m. following This American Life
- Hidden Brain will follow at 2 p.m., exploring the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior.
- The fan favorite two-hour Science Friday will get an encore airing from 3 to 5 p.m.
- Weekend All Things Considered and Bullseye will remain at their existing 5 and 6 p.m. air times.
- Snap Judgment’s “storytelling with a beat” will run at 7 p.m.
- The sound-rich, “curiosity bending” show Radiolab will follow at 8 p.m.
- and Fresh Air Weekend, highlighting the best conversations from the previous week’s Fresh Air episodes, will run at 9 p.m.
Our overnight BBC World Service will now begin at 10 p.m., mirroring its Sunday night start time.
Programming on the music station remains largely the same with singular changes on Friday and Saturday nights:
- Jazz veteran Gary Vercelli brings his long-running Acid Jazz to the music station on Friday nights at 10 p.m. The show will begin its run at its new home in mid-September.
- Replacing At the Opera from 8 p.m. to midnight will be extended Overnight and Weekend Classical Music which begins at 6 p.m. following Connections and Thistle and Shamrock at 4 and 5 p.m., respectively.
The new schedule changes take effect Saturday, September 2 on CapRadio’s news and music stations.
Ben Adler and Kevin Doherty are the program directors of CapRadio’s news and music stations, respectively.
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