Saturday Night Music ReturnsWith WMNR's live Tanglewood broadcasts ending, we welcome our traditional Saturday night line-up back to the dial. Saturday evenings begin at 6:00 p.m. with One Great Song, followed by Big Bands with Susan Kennedy then On the Record with Dan Lenore. At 10:00 p.m. WMNR Fine Arts Radio is debuting a new program, Turntable for One, which is featured below. This replaces Jazz Decades with Ray Smith which can be heard online anytime by following this link to the Jazz Decades website. Just JAzz with Mike Shakinovsky continues it Saturday night presence from 11 pm to midnight.
Please click here for WMNR Fine Arts Radio's complete fall schedule. Turntable for One Premieres
Turntable for One will debut on WMNR Fine Arts Radio on Saturday, September 4 at 10:00 p.m. Turntable is one hour of music, jazz-influenced and mostly vocals, including pieces from the 1950s to today. Each evening is organized around a theme, chosen by host H. William Stine.
Bill Stine is a writer and video producer who has been creating media for more than four decades. His career has included work for the American Cancer Society's national office. He has won more than 30 Telly Awards for his work. In 2009, Bill launched his own company, Bill Stine Media. He is also the co-author, with his wife Megan, of more than 60 books for young readers. Together they collaborated on comedy scripts for a well-known New York radio personality and wrote television pilot scripts for CBS and ABC.
With his new program on WMNR, Bill returns to his first love - radio. Having started out as a young announcer at WOSU-AM-FM, where he hosted classical music shifts, produced a folk music program, and wrote and co-hosted programs of original comedy and album-oriented rock, Bill has longed to return to radio for many years. 
Introducing Jazz NightcapIn addition to Big Bands on Sunday evenings, Susan Kennedy will be hosting Jazz Nightcap on Fridays. Beginning at 11:00 p.m. Jazz Nightcap follows Night Cafe with a wonderful selection of smooth, instrumental jazz. Although best known to WMNR listeners for her big band program, Susan's first love is jazz and she's put together the perfect program for Friday nights. Her first program features Jerry Mulligan, Dexter Gordon, Dave Brubeck and Oscar Peterson. WMNR's Mt. Kisco frequency to changeAround September 7, 2010 WMNR's Mt. Kisco, New York translator will be moving to a new location on the FM radio dial. It is now on 88.9 FM and will change to 89.5 FM. This is to accommodate a new public radio station that will be using the 88.9 FM frequency.
WMNR uses two type of transmitting facilities as authorized by the Federal Communications Commission. The first type is called a station and they have call letters like WMNR Monroe or WGRS Guilford. Stations are protected facilities that are guaranteed their location on the dial. The second type is called a translator and they are identified by a combination of letter and numbers, like W220AC Fairfield. Translators
are secondary facilities and must give way to new stations, should they be able to operate where a translator is located.
Our Mt. Kisco, New York facility is a translator and so it must move to make way for a new station that is planned to go on the air mid-September.
WMNR's new dial location in the Mt. Kisco area will not get out as well as our current dial location does ... but we hope to improve its operating range in 4- 5 months when we expect that it will be moving again to a new frequency.
For those listeners in the Mt. Kisco area who may have difficulty receiving WMNR after its move to 89.5 FM, you can listen to WMNR over the internet at http://www.wmnr.org.
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