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Change is Coming to KGOU Program Schedule
The impending loss of two programs has given KGOU the opportunity to make some changes to our program schedule, without incurring any additional programming costs.
Replacing Day to Day Fans of Day to Day know the ax is falling – the final program will be broadcast on Friday, March 20. NPR was forced to cancel the show because of declining national underwriting. We found this video co-produced by a former D2D staffer, Shereen Meraji, about the cancellation.  In that time slot, noon on weekdays, KGOU will broadcast a similar show produced by WBUR, Here & Now beginning Monday, March 23. Hosted by veteran broadcaster and documentary filmmaker Robin Young, Here & Now is a newsmagazine with features on technology, personal finance, film, theater and music.
Replacing Calling All Pets Calling All Pets stopped producing new shows in mid-2008, and has been airing reruns since then. Soon the producers will stop making those archived shows available as well. We've had success with repeating a weekend program mid-week (Car Talk), and so starting on March 25, KGOU will repeat the previous Saturday's This American Life on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. Adding Programs on Friday Evenings and Weekends We're taking this opportunity to enhance jazz programming and the KGOU weekend schedule overall by adding new programs and moving others. These programs will make their KGOU debuts the weekend beginning Friday, March 27:
Visit our programming page for more information about our new programs, and see the new program schedule here.
Phone Volunteers Needed!
 If you're looking for a way to give your valuable time to a worthy cause, consider volunteering to answer phones and take pledges during our upcoming membership drive.
It's an enjoyable time at KGOU, when you'll get to talk with other public radio listeners while also supporting KGOU! You can view the shift schedule and sign up online, or call Membership Director Laura Knoll at 325-0022.
Tickets Available for This American Life Live!
 It's back for a second year – This American Life Live! will be beamed via satellite to more than 400 movie screens nationwide on Thursday, April 23. KGOU will host the event at CineMark Tinseltown USA in Oklahoma City and also at Norman's Hollywood Spotlight 14 theatre.
Ira Glass will host an actual episode of the radio program, joined onstage by some of the program's most popular contributors. Dan Savage, Starlee Kine, and Mike Birbiglia will tell stories, David Rakoff and Dave Hill will conduct a ‘special investigation’, plus more stories and interviews to round out the two-hour show. Tickets are available for $21 each. Drawing for e-Newsletter Subscribers!
Blue Note 70th Anniversary CD  To mark the 70th anniversary of Blue Note Records, the historic label has launched a concert tour and released a new album featuring some of today's finest jazz musicians. Mosaic: A Celebration of Blue Note Records is a concert CD by the all-star septet known as The Blue Note 7: Peter Bernstein, Bill Charlap, Ravi Coltrane, Nicholas Payton, Steve Wilson, Peter Washington and Lewis Nash.
We'll draw for three winners on Monday, March 16. Our winners are Linda, Quin and Larry!
The tour makes a stop at Norman's Sooner Theatre on Wednesday, March 18. More info and tickets are available here.
Highlights from the Networks:
Wall Street Blame Game: Tag, You're It
 Who is the scapegoat for the current economic mess? To paraphrase Dick Meyer, NPR's opinion editor, the idea of blaming one person for the downfall of the economy is just nuts. Read his Against the Grain column at NPR.org. Nuts or not, NPR's Planet Money team is asking listeners to identify who they believe the culprits are – name names on the Planet Money blog. Finding Freedom in Forgiveness
 Jennifer Thompson-Cannino was certain that Ronald Cotton was the man who raped her in 1984. But she was wrong. After Cotton spent 11 years in jail, DNA evidence proved his innocence. Now, the two have a friendship based on their belief in forgiveness. Hear their This I Believe essay, one of the most recommended stories on NPR.org.
Lemony Snicket's Musical Murder Mystery
 There's a mystery to be solved in the orchestra: The composer is dead, and the suspect is still at large.
Author Lemony Snicket, a.k.a. Daniel Handler, best known for the popular Series of Unfortunate Events children's books, tells the tale in both a picture book, illustrated by Carson Ellis, and an accompanying audiobook CD, with music scored by Nathaniel Stookey and performed by the San Francisco Symphony.
Hear and read excerpts at NPR Music.
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