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March 26, 2001
"Not the News with Roger Rosenblatt" Airs at New Time on WPBXPopular Radio Show to have Expanded Format with Invited Celebrity Guests
Contact:
Jane Finalborgo
(631) 287 8313
Fax: (631) 283 4081Having aired on WPBX-FM 88.3 in September, 2000, Not the News with Roger Rosenblatt is back after a brief hiatus at a new time in a newly-expanded format. This one-hour call-in talk show about an event in the news that touches our thoughts and feelings will air every Friday at 5 p.m. beginning April 6, 2001. With national syndication prospects, Roger Rosenblatt's on-air essay will incorporate listener participation and now add special guests.
Not the News with Roger Rosenblatt is a show about thinking creatively, deeply, and expansively about an event in the week's news, involving as much seriousness and good humor as such thinking allows. Working with calls from listeners and in-studio guests, Roger shapes those thoughts and comments into a summary of where their thinking has led. The program is an essay in progress, which is enhanced by the listeners.
In the new season, Roger will invite such guests as Ed Koch, Kathleen Turner, Alan Alda, Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Dava Sobel, Tom Brokaw, Jim Lehrer, Peter Stone, Nora Ephron, and others to join him in thinking about the topic of the day. Tune in on Fridays from 5 to 6 p.m. to hear Roger first present the subject by recapping something significant in the news that week. Molding that news item to embody a larger subject than the event itself, he sets up a tease by suggesting why a certain event is worth thinking about and then tosses out the question to the WPBX listening audience.
Listeners call in from all over Long Island and Connecticut, adding to Roger's on-air essay. Past topics have included amateur sports in America, religion and politics, lawyers, toys, and of course last year's presidential campaign. Spliced between listener and guest comments, Roger uses various audio materials such as clips from movies, books, plays, poems, and music. At the close of the fast-paced hour, no hard-and-fast conclusion is reached, and yet what is Not the News will often reveal itself to be more important than the news - the news of our thoughts and feelings that lasts and runs deeply.
Journalist, author, playwright and Parsons University Professor of Writing at Southampton College, Roger Rosenblatt is one of the most acclaimed and admired writers in the country. His essays for Time magazine and The Newshour with Jim Lehrer on PBS have won the Peabody and Emmy awards, two George Polk Awards and many others. Vanity Fair wrote, "his graceful reporting on social issues sets new standards of thoughtfulness and compassion in news weekly journalism. William Safire of the New York Times says of his work that it represents, "some of the most profound and stylish writing in America today." UPI calls him a "national treasure."
Not The News with Roger Rosenblatt, airs every Friday beginning April 6, 2001, at 5 to 6 p.m. on WPBX-FM 88.3. Listeners can contribute to the discussion by calling 631-591-7101.
For more information, please contact Nancy Marksbury at 631-591-7021, or at nmarksbury @southampton.liu.edu.