Image: Me in my new morning habitat – Studio A. Selfie: Amanda Eichstaedt March 31, 2020 From Amanda Eichstaedt… We Are On the Air When the “shelter at home” order came down, KWMR had to make some tough decisions. We felt that nobody’s health was worth risking so we shut down for one week to come up…
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March 24, 2020 From Amanda Eichstaedt… Stay Home pandemic: noun: pan·dem·ic | \ pan-ˈde-mik \ : an outbreak of a disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects an exceptionally high proportion of the population : a pandemic outbreak of a disease Here is the deal with KWMR for the immediate future. KWMR continues to…
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March 21, 2020 From the relatively clean kitchen of Amanda Eichstaedt… Thank you all for understanding during our week of automation. We needed some time to be sure our folks were all safe, and to come up with a plan to move forward. And we have one! As we have stated, KWMR is not a…
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March 17, 2020 From the Messy Desk of Amanda Eichstaedt… Pic: Working from home with my trusty assistant Waylon. Selfie: Amanda Eichstaedt We are making decisions based on the news from the Center for Disease Control and the State of California, Marin County, and Federal leadership daily here at KWMR.
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March 3 2020 From Amanda’s Messy Desk… Time to Reel It In I just completed taking Fly Fishing 101 at College of Marin. May seem a bit out of left field, but not really. When I was a kid, growing up in Washington state, I did a lot of fishing with my dad. He was…
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February 25, 2020 From Amanda’s Messy desk… For years there has been a popular parlor game to see how closely actors are associated with Kevin Bacon. “Although Bacon didn’t invent the game, it is permanently associated with him. The Kevin Bacon game is based on a theory called six degrees of separation, the notion that any human on…
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Feb 18, 2020 From Amanda’s Messy Desk… When I was little, I loved to have a book read to me. Once when I was ill for many weeks in the 4th or 5th grade, my mother read “Gone with the Wind,” “Jaws,” and “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” to me. I think she was as…
Read moreFrom Amanda’s Messy Desk 2/11/2020… Radio With Impact I read yesterday that the the President (of the United States) proposed budget would rescind all but $30 million of each Fiscal Year 2021, and 2022 funding for public media. Current funding levels, which have not changed in years are at $445 million dollars annually. This is…
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February 4th 2020 From Amanda’s Messy Desk…. The Youth DJ Project is not new on KWMR. West Marin’s airwaves have been welcoming young voices since the beginning. Think back to “The Punk from Inverness” hosted by Nachi Conde Farley (who started as a wee lad) and the on air personas of Oscar Gamez Jr., and Jorge…
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Tuesday January 28th, 2020 From Amanda’s Messy Desk… Over the past ten years I have discovered that I have turned into an audio snob.” I get testy when I hear Skype callers on NPR that are not using headphones and a mic, bad cell phone calls on the air drive me nuts, and when someone…
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