Author: WRKC Administator
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An Album A Day
What have you been doing for lunch lately? Having it with us? Gosh, you’re sweet. We’ve been painstakingly working on serving up great albums in their entirety every day at noon. If you’ve been tuning in, we hope you’ve heard things you love. If you haven’t, here’s what you’ve missed:
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Little Dragon, big sounds
Little Dragon return with a more popular audience-centered record on Nabuma Rubberband. Though the band can’t help but work into the weird sides of music– sometimes noisy, but always soulful– their contributions on their latest record make you really appreciate their craft in songs like “Let Go” and “Klapp Klapp.”
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Award-winning, again! (it never gets old)
What can we say? We’re winners. The Society for Professional Journalists granted us the Mark of Excellence award for Best All-Around Newscast for The News at 5 and Matt Mezzacapo won for his story “Take Back the Night” in the field of Radio News Reporting. Contests are a testament to our students’ devotion to the…
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Show Spotlight: The Phillips Family Fun Time Show
Pete & Marissa Phillips are not married, but they do host a “family” show on WRKC Wednesdays at 7:00 PM. They became friends who had the same last name many years ago, then took their occasionally witty banter to the airwaves in between half-hour sets of music. The show is known for its many theme…
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Fr. Carten Retires from RHV
WRKC’s own champion of decades, Fr. Tom Carten, has retired from his daily broadcast, The Radio Home Visitor. For well over 30 years, Fr. Carten has spoken into the ears of many listeners in the program he built to reach the homebound and visually impaired. Working with hundreds of other voices, programs, and mini-discs over…