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Skagit TalksSkagit Talks

Skagit Talks is now airing four evenings per week at 5 p.m.!

Learn the latest about what's happened and what's happening in the Skagit Community and beyond, during this locally produced half-hour news and information program. Each weekday evening program has a unique focus, and our news reporting team is so good, you'll never hear the exact same news story reported on twice.

Skagit Talks Interview from September 17, 2010
Click on the player below to listen to Dave McConnell as he interviews Elizabeth Elliot about the USDA Rural Development Program.

My Point of ViewMy Point of View

This is a bilingual call-in talk show about issues surrounding our community.

In Spanish, this show is called Mi Punto de Vista.

Hosted by Gus Ramos.

Creature FeaturesCreature Features

Creature Features is a 2-minute weekly feature (module) specifically about Puget Sound mammals and sea life. Each program will feature a different creature. Written by the Skagit County Beach Watchers, a volunteer organization trained by Washington State University.

Radio stations will find this an educational feature, especially northwest stations.  

Produced by Joseph C. McGuire
Edited by Jay Charles
Narration by Dr. Ernest Tutt

Written by the Washington State University Skagit County Beach Watchers
Made possible with a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Pet TipsPet Tips

A fact filled weekly reminder to all pet owners of the things that you can be doing for your pets. Your host Fagan Sanchez is a member of SPOT (Saving Pets One at a Time) and writes these tips with advice from a local veterinary.

Written and Hosted by Fagan Sanchez
Edited by Jay Charles
Produced by Joseph C. McGuire
Theme music is Bingo, recorded and performed by Stuarto Glasser.

Made possible by a grant from the Corporation for the Public Broadcasting and KSVR Studios.

The Tune StranglersThe Tune Stranglers

There are six programs of great screwball fun. Each thirty minute program features a different theme. With a smorgasbord of stringed instruments, washboard and the occasional clarinet, they perform fabulous hot jazz and old-timey music of the 1920's and 30's.

Featuring the Talents of:
Scuff "Skuff" Acuff washboard and vocals
Harry "Boom Boom Sweets" Levine upright bass and vocals
James "Rattler" Schneider 4 string banjo, guitar and vocals
Rich "Papa Silo" Sikorski guitar, ukulele, and crooner extraordinaire
Eliza Welch fiddle, vocals

Produced by Joseph C. McGuire
Recording Engineering by Ben Nason
Edited by Jay Charles
Shows written by the Tune Stranglers
Recorded at the Skagit Valley College before a non-existent audience.

Kitchen CuisineKitchen Cuisine

A program of food talk with recipes that are actually being made while being recorded.

The program has four parts:

  • An interview with about the food.
  • The recipe.
  • A cooking or food tip of the week.
  • Sometimes a cooking minute.

Produced by Joseph C. McGuire
Edited by Jay Charles
Recording Engineer Ben Nason

Chefs Martin Hahn, Suzanne Butler
Cooking Minute by Stuarto Glasser

 

Imagination StationImagination Station

An entertainment and creativity development program for children and their families. Each section of the show provides an opportunity to participate in an expressive arts activity that supports a variety of child development skill areas.

Produced by Joseph C. McGuire
Hosted and researched by Laura Hale
Stories created by Laura Hale, Judi Landi with the children from the StoryWorks Ink Workshop
Theme Song performed by Euphoria
Play performed by the Children's Radio Players

Made with a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

LOCAL PROGRAMMING
   • Half-Hour Programs

My Point of ViewSkagit Talks

NATIONAL PROGRAMMING
   • Half-Hour Programs

Imagionation Station Kitchen CuisineTune Stranglers

   • Short Informational Features

Pet TipsCreature Features