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Every weekday at noon, KZSM.org broadcasts a live update on our current COVID-19 emergency. We talk to a wide range of callers, including officials such as Mayor Jane Hughson, Judge Ruben Becerra, and Hays County Commissioner Lon Shell. Local business owners describe their efforts to stay viable and continue to serve their customers. We learn what’s being done to help underserved populations such as the homeless by interviewing social service providers like Ruben Garza of the Southside Community Center.
Our wide-ranging interviews go beyond facts and information into the personal dimensions of this crisis, as people struggle to cope and sometimes show their best selves by striving to help their community. Rob Roark, the host of our Live Emergency Update, works tirelessly to line up interviews, gather information, and ask the questions that you, our listeners, need to have answered.
If you miss the noon special, go to our web site to catch the podcast. To access the podcast, go to KZSM.org and click on the white “expand” arrow in the lower left corner of the KZSM logo. Click the red menu on the upper left, click on “Podcasts,” then select “KZSM.org News Specials” and scroll down to today’s date.
Other KZSM program hosts are working to keep you entertained and informed as you stay at home. Tuesday, April 7, 4-6 p.m., our regular talk show Bookmarked airs “Pandemic Poetry,” a special featuring local poets reading their work in response to the COVID-19 crisis. As poets have done for hundreds of years, Steve Wilson, E. D. Watson, and others will use language as a map to help us navigate an alien emotional landscape.
Our music and other programming will keep you in touch with the live entertainment you’re missing now. Thursday, April 9, 5-7 p.m., Jeremiah Wilkerson, host of Shattered Glass Radio, will interview Nick Aldis, “the National Treasure,” 2-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion. Aldis will talk about his start in professional wrestling in England, his work on Gladiators, and his upcoming title defense against “The Villain.” Marty Scurll.
In addition to our schedule printed with this column is a listing of live programs only--the complete quarterly schedule can be found on our website KZSM.org.
Tune in to KZSM.org to enjoy our regular and special programming and keep your safe social distance while staying informed and entertained.
