January 3, 2016
This is from the Manager’s Desk.
As we start 2016, I want to note some accomplishments from 2015, accomplished with help from listener-supporters.
Last year, KGOU provided 8,760 hours of news, conversation, information and entertainment, including 572 hours of programming produced locally.
Over the last year, KGOU has produced more than 800 news and feature stories for broadcast and/or our website.
At least 29 times, our reporters contributed long-form stories to national programs – averaging more than three reports each month. Fifteen were fromStateImpact Oklahoma and 24 were by KGOU staff. A list of these reports is below, and these do not include headline news reports we have contributed.
KGOU and StateImpact Oklahoma were honored with 50 awardsin 2015, 29 for the KGOU staff, 10 for StateImpact Oklahoma, and 11 for student broadcasters.
2015 was a great year. As you might have heard us say, listener support is what keeps it all going.
Thank you -- for listening, for visiting our website, and for your financial contributions. We are looking forward to 2016.
From the Manager’s Desk, I’m Karen Holp.
KGOU and StateImpact Oklahoma stories used by the national programs Morning Edition (ME), All Things Considered (ATC), Here and Now (H&N), Weekend Edition Saturday (WESAT), Weekend Edition Sunday (WESUN), Reveal, and The Takeway, and public media collaboration Harvest Public Media (HPM):
KGOU
Mar. 9 ATC Kate Greer OU Frat Closed After Racist Chant
Mar 10 ATC Kate Greer SAE Banned From OU
Mar 10 ME Jacob McCleland OU Cuts Ties With Frat
Mar 26 ME Kate Greer Ex-OU student Apologizes For Racist Chant
Mar 27 ATC Kate Greer OU SAE Investigation Results
Apr 17 Takeaway KGOU Staff Oklahoma City: 20 Years of Healing Continues
Apr 18 WESAT Kate Greer OKC Bombing Victims Fight Stigma for 20 Years
May 21 H&N Kate Greer More Training Proposed for OK Volunteer Police
May 27 ATC Jacob McCleland Oklahoma Flooding
May 27 H&N Jacob McCleland Gaps in OK’s Spanish Language Weather Warning
June 9 H&N Jacob McCleland OKC School Chalkboards from 1917
Jun 17 H&N Jacob McCleland OK Rain mixed blessing for ranchers
Jun 23 ME Jacob McCleland OKC School Chalkboards from 1917
Jul 16 ATC Kate Greer Obama Visits OK Federal Prison
Jul 26 ATC Kate Greer OK Looks at Police Seizures and How It’s Spent
Aug 10 H&N Kate Greer Same-sex Marriage Denied to Tribal members
Aug 17 ATC Jacob McCleland Do Troops killed in OKC Bombing Deserve Medal
Aug 25 ATC Jacob McCleland Cattle Theft on the Rise
Sep 16 Takeaway Brian Hardzinski Oklahoma Execution Puts Spotlight on Death Penalty
Nov 12 ATC Jacob McCleland Rising Sea Level Threatens Indigenous Panamanians
Nov 13 ATC Jacob McCleland Diversity Wake-Up Call Led to Change at OU
Nov 23 ATC Jacob McCleland Are Death Penalty Delays Cruel?
Dec 11 ATC Jacob McCleland OKC Jury Convicted Former Police Officer
StateImpact Oklahoma
Jan 13 ME Joe Wertz OK Braces for Crude Crash
Mar 11 ATC Joe Wertz High Voltage Transmission Lines
Mar 27 ATC Joe Wertz Oil Hubs Run Out of Storage Space
Apr 19 ATC Logan Layden Murrah Bombing & OKC’s Downtown Revival
Apr 23 ME Joe Wertz Okies Know Why They Feel More Earthquakes
May 26 ME Joe Wertz Lawmakers Pass Law Preventing Local Fracking Bans
Jun 13 Reveal Joe Wertz The Perilous Price of America’s Energy Boom
Jun 22 ME Joe Wertz OK Quakes Linked to Oil & Gas Wastewater
Jul 31 ATC Logan Layden Aging Midwest Dams & Repair Costs
Sep 16 ATC Joe Wertz OK Oil Regulations and Earthquakes
Oct 1 ATC Joe Wertz EPA Restricts Ozone Emissions
Oct 7 HPM Logan Layden Farmers School Themselves on Soil Health
Nov 29 WESUN Joe Wertz OK Yearly Bison Health Check-Up
Nov 30 ATC Joe Wertz OK Looks to Shake Up Its Oil Regulations
Dec 5 WESAT Joe Wertz OK Oil Workers Worry About Earthquakes
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