Make your year-end donation today, and you can have it matched by Garten’s Music! Your support will be doubly-meaningful in this special time. A $10 monthly gift becomes $240 worth of good that Radio Kansas can do in the coming year – making your favorite shows more sustainable and allowing us to continue to serve you! Matching dollars are limited, and first come, first served, so pledge right now!

Bookmark Our News

We don’t intend to be your sole choice for news, or even your first choice. We’re here to help you re-calibrate your understanding of world events. Your first choice may be Fox, or CNN or MSNBC, but you turn to our international perspective to corroborate your facts. Our morning news block Daybreak features live news from the best-resourced english language news service on the planet, the BBC from London. We’ve also created the resource page news.RadioKansas.com as your one stop for links to our sources and our stories. Whether you heard a story and want to hear it again, or you’ve missed a whole show and want to catch up, news.RadioKansas.com is your place to start. Bookmark it right now. You’ll be glad you did.

Weekends are for You!

Our re-invigorated Saturday lineup focuses on your world and your health. BBC News starts at 1 a.m., and Science Saturday gets underway at 6 with environmental news on Living on Earth, current events with NewsHour at 7, then science of all sorts on Unexpected Elements from 8 to 9. This Old House Radio has the science of building and design at 9, then A Way With Words at 10. Dr. Moira Gunn’s Tech Nation runs from noon to 1.

Sundays offer time for friends, family and stories. There’s a BBC Documentary at 10, and then more good stories on The Moth at 11. Swap recipes and family traditions with The Splendid Table at noon!

News of The World

WGBH’s The World airs at both 6 am and 5 pm weekdays.

Radio Kansas gets its state news from the Kansas News Service, national news from American Public Media, and world news from the BBC and WGBH. As with everything we do, this mix has been perfected through years of listener response! Click here to find out more.

We’ve Been Evicted! (temporarily)

Our building is undergoing asbestos abatement along with other work cutting through concrete walls and ceilings. The dust is dangerous, and local rules and federal law compliance means that all of our staff have been evicted from their normal offices. We won’t all fit in the available space at the same time, and so we must rely on “taped” programming and computer switching more than we would like. If you hear silence, or skipping or two things at once, it means something has gone amiss (as happens some percentage of time that computers are in charge!) and the person to fix it may be in another building. Qualified crews are completing the work as quickly as they can, but in the mean time we hope you’ll understand why we don’t sound like we wish!

Mel’s Back!

If you’ve listened to Radio Kansas for a good long while, you may recognize that one of our “new” voices is actually returning host Melissa Ousley!

She stumbled into a career in broadcasting in the late 80’s when she moved to Wichita to be near her soon-to-be husband. The attraction (to radio work, that is) was immediate and the chance to be around great music without having to practice piano was irresistible. After establishing herself as a host and producer at Radio Kansas, Melissa moved to Minnesota and continued her work at WCAL in Northfield and Minnesota Public Radio in St. Paul.

You’ve heard our statement of purpose “Bringing you the world of classical music,” and we’ve long recognized that the full scope of classical can be explored only if we engage a wide variety of hosts and producers. Even after moving to Minnesota, we’ve chased Melissa down to host 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. early each week. Lynne Warful hosts 10 to 3 (with a break for lunch) on other weekdays.

Melissa grew up near New York City. As a teenager, she attended the Preparatory Division of the Manhattan School of Music. Her bachelor’s degree in music education is from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. Mel’s morning classical show at WCAL was twice named “Best Classical Radio Program” by the Twin Cities paper City Pages. When she’s away from the airwaves, Melissa loves to run, read, and spend time with her family.

Disaster Recovery

You’ve likely read elsewhere about some non-profit radio stations losing grant money that they were counting on this year. Yes, Radio Kansas is one of those stations with a true budgetary disaster, but listeners get to decide how it’s managed.

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There’ve been national stories about the cuts other stations have already made to programming and services. Here, Radio Kansas members will be in charge. If we wish to preserve your shows as they are we need to increase income from individuals by 30%.

If all of our current members increase their giving by 30%, that works. If 30% more people make this their moment to start giving, great. We’ll accept whatever solution our listeners offer. We just ask you to recognize the historic nature of this challenge and do whatever you can. Be a current member by donating 10 or 15 dollars per month …or more if you can… and designating it to the preservation of the shows you choose.

We know some of our listeners approve of these cuts and wish to help prove we don’t need this past grant support. Others oppose these cuts and don’t wish to lose programming. Either way, just do your part. We get to keep doing every program that listeners choose to fund together.

Give Today!

Your pledge is your vote that something you hear on air has value and you wish it to continue. Each show is powered by donations, and our future programming can include only the shows that people like you help make sustainable. Donate what you can. Suggested giving levels (and thank-you gifts!) are here. If you genuinely can’t give, contact us about a fund that other listeners have set up to make a donation on your behalf. It’s that critical for everyone to get in touch. You know the number…1-800-RADIO-KS. That’s 1-800-723-4657.

This Old House Radio – Saturdays at 9 am

Radio host Jenn Largesse with TV host Kevin O’Connor on the set of *Ask This Old House.*

Be with us every Saturday morning at 9 for This Old House Radio! Jenn Largesse hosts a program featuring all of your favorite experts from the TV show, taking your calls and diving into building science, design trends, and home innovation. It’s a fun part of Science Saturday, starting at 6 a.m. with Living on Earth, and featuring our call-in block with This Old House at 9, and A Way With Words at 10. Call-in numbers are here. Check out the full schedule online. Plan on joining Jenn and the crew each week!

Get the App!

App QR Code — Point your phone here to open our mobile app!

We invite you to use all of our services – on air and online – for free and in private, and then trust on the honor system that you will take part as a contributor. This trust is one reason we don’t have an app in Google and Apple “app stores” that you have to install after accepting a bunch of terms and conditions. Our mobile “app” is simply the mobile-formatted web page here. It can’t track you or save or steal your information in any way. Rather than having to download updates, you’ll just find that the page is more capable as time goes on. These updates are delivered each time you refresh the page. You’ll find “installation” instructions in the app. If you’ll go to that bit of trouble, we can save the hundreds of dollars we’ve been quoted to have someone build and maintain software for the app store. We’ll keep those dollars invested in the radio you use each day.

Digital Fidelity Online

We recently streamlined our streams, eliminating the need for special software. Just click a link in our website banner above to start listening! If you do have a favorite app, you’ll find us more places than ever – in the iHeart Radio app, the Radio Kansas Mobile App page, TuneIn app, etc. Voice Assistants like Alexa and “Hey, Google” now work better, even if they do sometimes think that when you say “Radio Kansas” you mean “radio, Kansas,” and they start playing 70’s progressive rock by the band! (Prompt those assistants with “Radio Kansas on iHeart Media,” and you may do better.)

You’ll find updated instructions on our streaming page and updated links above. If you’re away from your radio or in a basement where FM can’t reach, fire up an app on Wi-Fi and take a listen!

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