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Live by Request: John Fogerty
8 pm Saturday on WILL-TV (repeated 10 pm)
You make the set list for rock legend John Fogerty!
Call in during the show—1-888-4-LIVEBY (888-454-8329)—to make a request. You might get to talk live on the air directly to John! Or email your request during the show to (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Vote for NPR’s 50 Great Voices
NPR is picking 50 great voices. Go to WILL-FM’s homepage to explore some of the nominated voices and vote.
How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin
9 pm Monday on WILL-TV
The extraordinary and untold story of how the Beatles punctured the Iron Curtain.
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“Red Grange Remembers” DVD Now Available!
Highlights and Reflections of Football’s First Superstar
WILL-TV’s newest production featuring never-before-broadcast portions of Grange’s last significant interview interspersed with photos and film of his career.
Buy the DVD and watch it anytime! Perfect for Illini and sports fans on your gift list! Or support WILL and receive the DVD.
Read more and watch a video clip.
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From AM580 News
Early Prisoner Release Set to Begin Tuesday
Former Iroquois County Clerk Sentenced for Defrauding Taxpayers
2010 Champaign County Budget Plan Due for County Bd Vote This Month After Committee Passage
Urbana Women’s Shelter Faces Funding Shortage, Possible Closure
Degorski Sentenced to Life in 1993 Killings
All AM580 News and Archives...
Next on Focus 580
Monday, November 09, 2009, 10:06 AM
Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do?
Monday, November 09, 2009, 11:06 AM
Burma/Myanmar: What Everyone Needs to Know
All Focus 580 progam info & archives
Next on The Afternoon Magazine
Monday, November 09, 2009, 1:06 pm
Robert Allerton: The Private Man & the Public Gifts
Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 1:06 pm
Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist
All Aft Mag program info & archives
Agricultural Broadcasting
Timely market reports and expert analysis
AM 580 Agriculture Offers NEW Daily Ag Weather PODCAST!!!
Get the latest WILL Ag Audio/Market Analysis...
The Public Square
Citizen commentaries on AM580
4:45 and 6:45 pm on Fridays
October 30, 2009:
Conrad Wetzel on When a Parent is in Prison
All Public Square commentaries
Media Matters with Bob McChesney
Sundays from 1 to 2 pm Central on AM580
Sunday, November 08, 2009:
Mark Contreras, Vice President News Operations, EW Scripps
Live and Local with Kevin Kelly
Weekdays noon to 1pm
On Friday’s “Live and Local,” I’ll talk with singer-songwriter Neko Case, who appears at the Canopy Club in Urbana Friday night; flutist and dancer Kevin Locke, who performs with his Native Dance Ensemble in Springfield next Tuesday; and the Xtension Chords, who present their X-fest of a-cappella groups at the University of Illinois on Saturday.
Live and Local progam info & archives
Prairie Performances with Roger Cooper
8 pm Thursday
Host Roger Cooper presents Sinfonia da Camera’s “Tales of Shakespeare” concert. Inspired by the venerable bard, it’s music for the concert hall, the dance, and Broadway. Ian Hobson conducts with Yvonne Redman, soprano; Ricardo Herrera, baritone.
Classics of the Phonograph with John Frayne
10 am Saturday
The famous composer/pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff made records up to 1942. These 78 rpm records have been reissued frequently. Now a Zenph Re-Performance CD claims to have reproduced in modern digital sound the experience of Rachmaninoff playing a Steinway grand. I’ll play some pieces from this new CD and compare it with the original recordings.
The Morning Express with Vic Di Geronimo
6 am to 10 am weekdays
Vic invites you to come on board for classical music, weather and NPR news headlines.
WILL Wins PBS Award
WILL/Illinois Public Media has been awarded the PBS Award for Excellence in Overall Development, the highest honor for station fundraising activities during the 2009 fiscal year.
WILL-TV Documentaries Win Emmy Nominations
The WILL-TV documentaries Lincoln: Prelude to the Presidency and Memorial Stadium: True Illini Spirit have been nominated for four Mid-America Emmy Awards.
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Local Actors Star in Fundraiser for Book Mentor Project
Words in the Wind
7:30 pm Saturday, Sept. 12
A fundraising event for Illinois Public Media’s Book Mentor Project, featuring actors from The Station Theatre, Parkland College Theatre and the University of Illinois Department of Theatre, bringing to life various children’s books in a concert-style performance.
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