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KZSM — Radio for a difficult year

Sunday, January 3, 2021

Like you, we at KZSM. org have made our best effort to cope with everything this year has brought. For six months beginning in March, we reported on the pandemic. We featured live interviews with local officials and experts, including Mayor Jane Hughson and County Judge Ruben Becerra. We also talked to health care professionals, educators, business owners, clergy, and you and your neighbors.

To accommodate our own altered reality, some of our hosts learned to broadcast remotely from home, and others recorded their shows ahead of time. Still others came to the studio, sanitized their microphones, and broadcast live.

Despite the challenges, we kept up our mission to educate, engage, enlighten, and entertain by introducing eight new shows over the course of the year.

“Freethought Radio” (Mondays from 11 a.m. to noon is underwritten by the Hill Country Freethinkers Association, exploring their tradition of protecting the constitutional principle of the separation of church and state.

Mondays from 6 to 8 p.m., “Dead Air Radio,” hosted by Vance Osborne, provides a gathering place for musicians and artists focused the concept of sound as art.

“The Big Sad,” broadcast 6-7 p.m. Wednesdays, “is a collaborative effort to try to make the idea of being sad, funny.” Host Jack Neil and Jason Johnson try to help their depressed friend Raymond Cabrera see the brighter side of life.

“The Ground Under the Rock” airs Wednesday from 10 p.m. to midnight. Host "John-Luke Pretard, the Human Cannonball" plays and comments on the full range of underground rock.

On “Philosophy and Popular Music” (Thursdays 3-5 p.m.), professor and musician Paul Wilson and his guests explore the connections between the two.

One of our newest shows, “Real Estate 101” (Sundays 8-9 p.m.) offers practical advice for prospective home buyers.

Sundays at 9 p.m., “Roscoe Taylor: The Tallahassee Tween” and his bounty-hunting horse Checkers Justice rode into the West of the imagination in an old-style radio play directed by Garrett Buss.

“Swamp Gas Uggos” airs Sunday nights from 10-11 p.m. Hosts Jordan Pilkenton and Lexi Morris conjure up spooky stories about ghosts, UFOs, and everything else that goes bump in the night.

Like you, we’re hoping for better times next year, and we have more new shows in the works.

For now, KZSM.org and the San Marcos Texas Community Radio Association wish you a happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year.

San Marcos Record

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