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 KCUR is proud to have been recently recognized by the KC Press Club as "Radio Station of the Year" - an honor which KCUR has received every year the title has been awarded! Many of our staff also won awards for specific shows or stories, as listed below: NEWS PROGRAM GOLD: Sylvia Maria Gross, Susan B. Wilson, Alex Smith and Annie Walsh, KC Currents, 12/21/08 BUSINESS REPORTING GOLD: Maria Carter, "From Wall Street to Main Street" BRONZE: Frank Morris, "Brazilian Beef Company Takes Over US Industry" TALK RADIO GOLD: Steve Kraske, Stephen Steigman, Danette Alexander, Kara Caldwell, "Up To Date" FEATURE REPORTING GOLD: Frank Morris, "Greensburg Anniversary" SILVER: Sylvia Maria Gross, "Paying to Burn the Prairie" HONORABLE MENTION: Steve Bell, "The Matthew 25 Project" INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING GOLD: Dan Verbeck, "Kansas City Homicides: Beyond Data"
 12 OCLOCK JUMP DEBUTS ON KCUR THIS SUMMER Live broadcasts of Saturday Midnight jazz, blues and comedy show begin July 4 (Kansas City, Mo, May 4, 2009) Theater League’s jazz, blues and comedy hour, 12 O’CLOCK JUMP, will make its own jump to live broadcast this summer, when KCUR, Kansas City’s public radio station, starts carrying the program from midnight to 1AM on Saturday nights. The weekly broadcasts of the show, LIVE! from the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City’s 18th and Vine Historic District, begin on Saturday, July 4. “We’re very excited to be selected for broadcast by KCUR,” shared Theater League president Mark Edelman. “The show has been fun to produce and our audiences at the Foundation have had a great time. Now, we’re going to send the jazz, blues and comedy out to KCUR listeners throughout the metro area and—via their website, kcur.org—all over the world.” KCUR General Manager Patty Cahill joined Edelman in praise for the new program. “I attended a few of the 12 OCLOCK JUMP pilot shows,” she explained. “This is a perfect entertainment and educational program for our station and its audience. We want to spread the word about what’s happening at the Foundation, the 18th and Vine District and KC’s exciting jazz scene.” Learn more 'HERE AND NOW' PREMIERES ON KCUR 89.3 fm Vibrant news magazine hosted by journalist, documentarian Robin Young  (Kansas City, MO 2009-03-17) — KCUR announces plans to expand its news lineup with the addition of "Here and Now" an energetic news magazine produced by WBUR/Boston and distributed by Public Radio International. Hosted by Robin Young, Here and Now combines the best in news journalism with incisive conversations that range from public policy to science and technology. Each hour-long program also boasts special features on the arts and culture. "Here and Now" will begin airing weekdays at noon on Monday, March 23, following Up to Date.Here and Now is a superb addition to our news lineup," says Bill Anderson, KCUR Program Director. "Robin Young is an experienced journalist whose drive and enthusiasm are positively infectious, and I'm confident our very discerning audience will love her." For one energetic hour each weekday, Here and Now combines the best in news journalism with intelligent, broad-ranging conversation to form a fast-paced program that updates the news from the morning and adds important conversations on public policy and foreign affairs, science and technology, and the arts: film, theater, music, food and more. The guest roster boasts such notables as Professor Anita Hill, actor and director John Malkovich, authors Isabel Allende, Jonathan Safran Foer, Marilynne Robinson, "The Wall Street Journal's" John Harwood, jazzman Sonny Rollins and actress Jane Fonda.  Robin Young brings over 25 years of eclectic broadcast experience to her role as host of Here and Now. She is a Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker and has been a correspondent for the Discovery Channel, CBS, ABC, and for several years was substitute host and correspondent for the "Today" show on NBC. Here and Now is produced by WBUR/Boston and distributed nationally by Public Radio International. It is made possible in part by Mathworks, Harvard University, ReMax of New England and Verso Advertising. |
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