KOOP Radio – 91.7 FM ended its fall membership drive early on Saturday, March 13th reaching its goal of $52,000 a full day ahead of schedule.
KOOP wishes to thank all of its individual and business supporters for keeping community voices alive and well on the Austin airwaves.
KOOP Radio provides high quality, innovative and diverse programming with an emphasis on those communities that are under-served or ignored by mainstream media. KOOP is Austin’s community-owned, community-operated public radio station and has been broadcasting at 91.7 FM since 1994.
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KOOP is enthusiastically teaming up with 3rd Coast Music to sponsor 5 days of music showcases between March 17 - March 21! Get schedule details at the 3rd Coast Music website.
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A quick look at featured programs airing this week (3/14 - 3/20):
Tune into From the Other Side of the Mirror for host John Turner's look into another unsung female icon, blues singer and guitarist, the Queen of Country Blues, Memphis Minnie. Monday, 3/8, 3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Under the X in Texas host Ted Branson welcomes in studio Murali Coryell, who will be promoting his new CD Sugar Lips before his SXSW gig at Nuno's. Texas Tornados bandmates Louie Ortega and Ernie Durawa will also be in to talk about - and sing songs from - their new CD Esta Bueno! before their SXSW show at Kenny Dorham's Backyard. For the second hour, singer songwriter Amanda Pearcy will perform songs from her new CD Waitin' on a Sunday before a KOOP-sponsored NotSXSW showcase. Tuesday, 3/16, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Join Abigail Mahnke this week on Inner Views, which features an interview with director Jeff Malmberg. Malmberg will discuss Marwencol, a documentary being shown at SXSW about Mark Hogancamp, who after being beaten into a brain-damaging coma by five men outside a bar, built a 1/6th scale World War II-era town in his backyard, populated with dolls representing his friends and family. Playing in the town helped Mark to recover his hand-eye coordination and deal with the psychic wounds from the attack. Wednesday, 3/10, 1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Join Country, Swing and Rockabilly Jamboree host Rod Moag with Cow Island recording artist Arty Hill performing live before his gigs at the KOOP- sponsored NotSXSW showcase. Thursday, 3/18, 9:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Fiesta Musical host Isidoro Lopez welcomes Ruben Guaderrama and the Blazers from East LA live in studio before their gig at at the KOOP-sponsored NotSXSW showcase that night. Friday, 3/19, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
People United features Philip Gourevitch, a staff writer of The New Yorker, and the editor of The Paris Review, on his book The Ballad of Abu Ghraib, a critical account of the torture scandal in US-occupied Iraq. Friday, 3/19, 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 pm.
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KOOP is pleased to announce the winners of our SXSW Platinum Badge drawing: Douglas Sanderson and Erica Campa. Congratulations and thanks for your support!
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KHOTAN SHAHBAZI-HARMON OF "IDEA LOUNGE" WINS PRESTIGIOUS GRACIE AWARD
Khotan Shahbazi-Harmon, host of Idea Lounge 2:00 pm - 3:00pm Thursdays on 91.7 FM KOOP, has been awarded the prestigious 2010 Gracie Award for "Outstanding Interview Program."
The award was in special recognition of a feature interview with Dr. Shirin Ebadi, the first Iranian Muslim woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. The interview with Dr. Ebadi focused on human rights, Islam and democracy, modernity vs. westernization, and the creative lengths women go to regain their human rights in Iran today.
The Gracies are awarded by the Board of Directors and Foundation Trustees of American Women in Radio and Television. The Foundation supports educational programs, charitable activities, public service campaigns and scholarships to benefit the public, the electronic media and allied fields. The Gracie Awards, established in 1975, honors programming and individuals of the highest caliber in all facets of radio, television, cable and web-based media. Among past Gracie winners are Barbara Walters, Katie Couric, Ashleigh Banfield, and Maya Angelou.
KOOP Radio provides high quality, innovative and diverse programming with an emphasis on those communities that are under-served or ignored by mainstream media. KOOP is Austin’s community-owned, community-operated public radio station and has been broadcasting at 91.7 FM since 1994.
Posted by Kim Simpson
Over the years, KOOP Radio and certain KOOP programmers have racked up quite a number of appearances in the Austin Chronicle's annual "Best of Austin" issue. Below are just a few of those, but you can see a nice big list right here.
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