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12/29/2025

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12/27/2025

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12/23/2025

Happy Holidays from all of us at WAMC!

Your support makes it possible for us to continue delivering trusted, local journalism and the programming you rely on every day.

Holiday Special Programming – Dec. 24 & 25

Wednesday, December 24
9 a.m. – Selected Shorts: What You Wish For
10 a.m. – A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
2 p.m. – The Sound of Cinnamon
3:30 p.m. – Science Unscripted: The Batman Effect

Thursday, December 25
9 a.m. – The Christmas Revels
11 a.m. – Reel Music: Christmas at the Movies
2 p.m. – No Small Endeavor: Practices of Hope
3:30 p.m. – Science Unscripted: To Whom Should I Give My Money?

Tune in on-air, online at wamc.org, or on the WAMC app and enjoy the season with WAMC.

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12/23/2025

Your support powers regional stories, rigorous reporting, and 24/7 service. Help us enter 2026 strong—make your year-end gift today: https://bit.ly/4b1zQrI

Pictured: Zack Malloy, Master Control Operator

Did you know WAMC’s Master Control operates 24/7? Our engineering team works around the clock to ensure everything is running smoothly. When outages happen anywhere in our listening area, they’re already on it - working quickly to get us back on the air.

12/22/2025

Tune in today at 11 a.m. on-air, online at wamc.org, and on the WAMC app to hear WAMC On The Road from Gallery 40 in Poughkeepsie, NY for a thoughtful discussion on the state of journalism, the strength of our democracy, and the ongoing need to protect First Amendment rights.

This event was recorded live on November 13, 2025.

12/22/2025

Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan, who has served as Albany’s mayor for 12 years, will leave office in January after deciding not to seek a fourth term. In her waning days leading New York’s capital city, WAMC's Capital Region Bureau Chief Jesse Taylor spoke with Sheehan about the past, present and future of the city.

Kathy Sheehan, who has served as Albany’s mayor for 12 years, will leave office in January after deciding not to seek a fourth term. In her waning days leading New York’s capital city, I spoke with Sheehan about the past, present and future of the city.

12/21/2025

This week, WAMC Live in Concert brings you “Holiday Wishes” in the form of Professor Louie & The Crowmatix Holiday Dance Party and Justin Friello’s Holiday Cabaret. Host Peter Hughes catches up with Professor Louie and Justin Friello for some solstitial good cheer.

WAMC Live in Concert airs Sundays and Wednesdays 8-10 p.m. on WAMC Northeast Public Radio. You can listen on-air, online at wamc.org, or on the WAMC app.

12/19/2025

U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik said Friday that she is suspending her campaign for governor and won’t seek re-election to Congress, a move that spoils the plans of New York Republicans who saw her as their best candidate to defeat Gov. Kathy Hochul.

Stefanik, 41, who also won’t seek re-election to Congress, said she reached the decision after spending time with her family before Christmas.

12/19/2025

WAMC is proud to participate once again in the Adopt-a-Family program through the Albany County Department for Children, Youth and Families.

Yesterday, several staff members gathered for our annual “wrap party,” wrapping gifts donated by WAMC employees for this year’s family.

Deena Salzman, Assistant to the CEO/President, shared:
“I’m so happy that WAMC has again participated in the Adopt-a-Family program. It’s a wonderful way to give back during the holiday season, and every year I’m blown away by the amazing generosity of our staff. Through this program, we help a family enjoy a joyful holiday while also providing necessities for the year ahead.”

12/18/2025

Pulitzer-prize winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes’s debut novel “The White Hot” shares a story of generational female domestic acquiescence boiling over in April Soto – a mother who must find a new way to exist or risk perpetuating the cycle. On the difference between writing a play and penning this novel, Hudes says: “The opportunities for subtlety and immediacy are quite different, and so I loved this notion that I was going to get to whisper in a reader's ear. Especially because the beginning of the book really is like a runaway freight train. It’s wild, it's intense, it's kind of exciting, it's very fanged and thorny. Then we get to more contemplative registers, and I just love feeling like the reader can be an audience to her quiet moments, too.” Sarah LaDuke spoke with Hudes on The Roundtable.

Full interview: https://ow.ly/T1ob50XLxlh