Sound Effect Debuts This Saturday on KPLU

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.  The show, hosted by KPLU Assistant News Director and Health & Science reporter Gabriel Spitzer, is “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.

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. 

Listen to a preview of Sound Effect’s debut show.

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Ranked as one of the most popular public radio stations in the nation, KPLU provides award-winning local and NPR news and jazz to the Puget Sound region through a broadcast network of 10 signals including 88.5 FM in Seattle-Tacoma and 89.3 FM serving Victoria, B.C., and its digital platforms.  KPLU reporters cover the region from studios in Seattle, Tacoma and throughout the state.  KPLU’s all-jazz web service, Jazz24, is one of the most listened-to music streams in the world at Jazz24.org and can also be heard on KPLU’s HD2 channel.  KPLU’s mission is to inform, educate and entertain the public, increase appreciation of the arts, and promote a deeper understanding of the human condition.  KPLU is a community service of Pacific Lutheran University.