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We have an exciting new opportunity for you to show the larger community that you care about and support KLRU.

For its second anniversary the “I Live Here, I Give Here” campaign is holding a contest that will award one Central Texas nonprofit The Big Prize of $10,000 for excellence in donor relations at The Big Give Event. The Big Prize will be awarded to the agency with the most support of their donor relations practices. From September 1 – September 30 show your support for KLRU by voting at the “I Live Here, I Give Here” web site. The winner will be announced at The Big Give event on October 22 at 7 p.m. in KLRU’s Austin City Limits Studio. Cast your vote for KLRU here.

We need your support to show Central Texas how much KLRU means to you. Vote now for KLRU in the Arts and Culture category or the Education/Training category.

Due to some necessary maintenance, KLRU will be signing off one hour early Sunday (8/30) night at midnight instead of 1 a.m. KLRU will be back on the air at 6 a.m. Monday (8/31).

Filmmaker Ken Burns is seeking stories for his upcoming film “The Dust Bowl.” Burns writes “… Like our earlier films on World War II, Jazz, Baseball, and The Civil War, we think the Dust Bowl is an important event in all of American history. We’re in the early stages of our research, but we know that Oklahoma will be a major part of the Dust Bowl story we want to tell. We’re looking for first-person stories of Oklahomans who lived through those hard, hard times, especially out in the Panhandle, where the Dust Bowl was the worst. We hope to find people who can share their experiences with us - or their photographs, diaries, or home movies from the 1930s, to help us tell this important story.”

If you have or know of a person who has a dust bowl story to share,

email: dustbowl@oeta.tv
call: the Oklahoma PBS station OETA at 1-800-846-7665
or writing to:
OETA Dustbowl Stories
P.O. Box 14190
Oklahoma City, OK 73113

Quirk, Quip, Quest, Quality, Quark, Quench, Quintessential, Queso

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KLRU announces a new channel featuring entertaining and inspiring shows about history, music, science, nature, food and more. The channel called Q will begin broadcasting Wednesday, July 1. Q will feature ‘blocks’ of programming throughout the day, with genres chosen specifically for the Austin audience. The channel will be available over the air on 18-3. KLRU also broadcasts its core PBS programming on 18-1 and KLRU Create on 18-2 featuring how to, do-it-yourself and crafting shows.  Schedules for all channels are available on KLRU’s Web site at klru.org/schedule.

“One of the great things about the switch to all digital broadcasting is our ability to deliver more programming to Austin viewers, and we have designed KLRU-Q to be diverse, informative, entertaining, and fun., We are really excited to be able to bring a new channel to our Central Texas viewers that features a different lineup from KLRU but with the same quality of programs you’ve come to rely on,” said Bill Stotesbery, general manager of KLRU. “Some of the programming will be familiar and some will only be available on KLRU-Q, but it will all have the same high quality long associated with PBS.”

The daily block schedule is include on the graphic (just click to enlarge it).  For example every day at 11 p.m. you can tune to Q and find a music program like Austin City Limits or an American Masters documentary on a music legend or every Thursday at 8 p.m. you can watch Q to find a program on the theme of Sailors, Soldiers and Spies like Battlefield Britain, M15 or Carrier. Other Monday to Friday highlights of this channel are the morning and afternoon tea Britcom blocks at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.; the talk show block featuring encores of Charlie Rose and Tavis Smiley at noon; the Newshour at 7 p.m.; and the morning and afternoon stretch with some of your favorite PBS fitness programs at 6 a.m. and 2 p.m.
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KLRU is experiencing intermittent interruptions due to equipment issues which can leave the station temporarily off the air. Our engineers are working on the problem and hope to have it fixed ASAP.