KPLU Debuts New Weekly Saturday Show On January 10
Sound Effect, 88.5 KPLU’s first locally-produced weekend news and culture magazine will debut Saturday, January 10, 2015 from 10 to 11 a.m. following Weekend Edition Saturday. Bob Edwards Weekend, which has occupied that time slot on KPLU since 2006, is no longer in production and is currently in re-runs; KPLU will air the show through December 27.
Show host Gabriel Spitzer describes Sound Effect as “Your weekly tour of ideas, inspired by the place we live.” Each week the show presents provocative and smart conversations with insight and humor—capturing the warmth of community radio with the gleam of professional polish. Segments are produced by the KPLU News team and other contributors. Spitzer says, “We’ll introduce listeners to our new show by bringing them along on our adventure into the very idea of newness, with all its thrills, pangs and, we hope, hunger for more.”
Sound Effect’s inaugural show appropriately explores the concept of “newness.” A Seattle researcher describes the feeling of discovering four new planets and a transplant recipient explains what it’s like to have a new part of your body. KPLU’s Ed Ronco tries out a brand new experience (in tap shoes), and Radiolab’s Jad Abumrad tells us why creating something new is such a gut churning enterprise. Each week’s show begins with a roundtable discussion exploring what’s in the news and on people’s minds, with different panelists every week. The panelists on January 10 are Phyllis Fletcher, Managing Editor of the Northwest News Network; Rosette Royale, Interim Editor of Real Change; and Anna Minard, former City Hall Reporter for The Stranger. Sound Effect’s Senior Producer is veteran public radio producer Arwen Nicks.