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WVBR News Director Jack Donnellan recently sat down with New York Times Bestselling Author Tim Johnston for the latest episode of our “Authors on Air” series. Tim is the author of the novels DISTANT SONS, DESCENT, THE CURRENT, the story collection IRISH GIRL, and the Young Adult novel NEVER SO GREEN. A New York Times, USA Today, and Indie national bestseller, Descent has been published internationally and optioned for film. Also optioned for film, The Current won the Midland Authors 2020 Adult Fiction Award. The stories of Irish Girl won an O. Henry Prize, the New Letters Award for Writers, and the Gival Press Short Story Award, while the collection itself won the 2009 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction. Tim’s stories have appeared in New England Review, New Letters, The Iowa Review, The Missouri Review, Double Take, Best Life Magazine, and Narrative Magazine, among others. After earning degrees from the University of Iowa and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Tim made a living for twenty-five years as a carpenter. He is the recipient of the 2015 Iowa Author Award and currently lives in Iowa City, Iowa.

This interview aired live on Talk of the Town on WVBR 93.5 FM on Saturday, February 10, 2024 at 3:00 PM.

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WVBR News Director Jack Donnellan sat down with author, editor, and publisher Mark Wish. Mark and his wife recently founded an annual short story anthology, Coolest American Stories, which pushes its contributors to make their fiction as compelling as possible, reminding them that readers crave “unputdownable” storytelling. Mark’s latest book, which will be released in January 2024, is Necessary Deeds, published by Regal House Titles. We hear an excerpt from the novel, in which Matt Connell, a former literary agent who’s been in prison for four years for a crime of passion—homicide by strangulation after learning his wife slept with a friend—receives an early release to join an FBI undercover investigation of multiple murders in Manhattan.

This interview aired live on Talk of the Town on WVBR 93.5 FM on Saturday, November 11, 2023 at 3:00 PM.

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WVBR News Director Jack Donnellan sits down with Ralph White alongside DZ Stone, a writer, journalist, and former WVBR staffer, for WVBR News’ newest series, Authors on Air. Ralph’s book, Getting Out of Saigon, is a political exposé, a refugee saga, a coming-of-age story, and a romance, and it is narrated by the only living person who knows exactly what happened inside that embassy during Saigon’s final two weeks when a powerful psychotic and a naïve young expatriate became locked in a test of wills with the lives of 113 refugees at stake.

This interview aired live on Talk of the Town on WVBR 93.5 FM on Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 3:00 PM.

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MONTHS MORE OF TRUMP'S NUCLEAR DOCUMENTS

A BLOCK: (0:00) Of Roy Cohn, The Rosenberg Executions, and Donald Trump (2:45) Officials predict "many months" before the Trump Theft story "plays out" (5:30) Every possible angle of "Classification/Declassification" is hyped, except Charlie Savage's note that none of the laws Trump may have broken "turn on whether information was deemed to be unclassified" (6:01) In one week Trump's Cover-Up Team produced 31 DIFFERENT excuses why Trump did nothing wrong, and I review them (11:10) This obscures the only real debate: do you pursue Trump for a 10-year sentence per count, or a 20-year sentence, because we can't do to him what Cohn did to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

B BLOCK (13:12) Every Dog Has Its Day: Cheer Bear (14:49) Postscripts To The News: The IRS coming to kill you nonsense; The Boeberts (Again).(16:50) When I met Salman Rushdie and wondered if he had enough security (19:25) How come nobody's talking about baseball's new steroid scandal? If the man the game attempted to market as the new face of the sport, who was "here to change the game" is suspended until next year, it's more than Fernando Tatis who is in trouble (23:55) The Norwegian Government, Ted Cruz and Kevin McCarthy vie for honors as The Worst Persons In The World.

C BLOCK (29:31) Things I Promised Not To Tell: 45 years ago Tuesday, Elvis Presley died. It is little remembered, but the day he shuffled off, he was due to start a concert tour in the Northeast. For his scheduled appearance in Syracuse, Elvis's promoters bought commercial time on every radio station within an hour of the arena. That included the Cornell radio station I was running at the time, and I did the commercial! (35:33) The actual Elvis concert commercial I did, from WVBR-FM, Ithaca, New York, from August 1977 - when I was 18 years old (37:17) What happened on our station's main newscast the moment Elvis died (39:20) ELVIS OWES ME MONEY. Fin.

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Andrew Modrowsky discusses the resignation of U.S. Representative Tom Reed (NY-23), Grace Fairchild investigates why the markets are down, and Jack Donnellan breaks down why you might want to reconsider your daily aspirin regimen. We also report on local news from the Ithaca/Tompkins County region, including booster vaccine availability, the Ithaca Summer Concert series, and a new program making TCAT buses free for local youth this summer. This episode features segments that originally aired on WVBR on May 14th and May 21st, our final live news broadcasts of the Spring 2022 season.

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“Being an athlete, being an entertainer, you speak for people who don’t have a voice. You’re speaking for so many people on the court, but off the court you’re representing yourself, your family, your city, your organization— so many people that, in times like this, kind of rely on you.”

NBA G League player and Cornell alum Matt Morgan joins Daniel this week to talk family, playing with heart, routines, athletes’ social justice influence, the social media “spectacle of scrutiny,” and his dad’s “Kobe Room.”

Catch Black Voices on the Hill each Friday @2pm on WVBR 93.5 FM. 

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Future women's rights attorney and advocate Anuli Ononye joins Daniel this week to talk about the meaning of home, majoring in a cultural study, what Kamala Harris means to Black girls, and so much more.

Note: Episode was recorded before the election! Daniel and Anuli did not know that Biden & Harris won at the time of recording. 

Catch Black Voices on the Hill on air each Friday at 2pm EST on WVBR 93.5 FM, Ithaca's Alternative. 

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Catch Black Voices on the Hill on air each Friday at 2pm EST on WVBR 93.5 FM, Ithaca's Alternative. 

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In this episode, Finley welcomes senior teammate Joie Phelps '21! Joie and Finley have lived together throughout their Cornell career and share some embarrassing, some inspiring, and some unforgettable moments in this episode.

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Produced by Finley Frechette ‘21 (Cornell Women’s Ice Hockey) 

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ORIGINAL BROADCAST: October 21, 2020

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Big Red Banter is BACK ON THE AIR! Now airing BIWEEKLY on WVBR 93.5FM on Saturdays from 4-5 PM EST!

Skyler Holzman '22, Jake Richards '22 and Mike Seitz ‘22 talk OBJ’s crazy LSU suspension, the New York football teams’ atrocious play, and their World Series predictions. Plus, Skyler and Jake talk through their awful MLB playoff brackets.

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ORIGINAL BROADCAST: October 9, 2020

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Big Red Banter is BACK ON THE AIR! Now airing BIWEEKLY on WVBR 93.5FM on Saturdays from 4-5 PM EST!

Skyler Holzman '22, Jake Richards '22 and Mike Seitz ‘22 discuss the Astros dominating the MLB playoffs, Brady’s terrible mistake against the Bears, and how the Lakers carried momentum into Game 5 despite Jimmy Butler’s incredible performances.

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