WMMT has a new monthly newsletter and you can read the first edition below. You can also subscribe to the newsletter and have a copy emailed to you each month! Find out the latest news from YOUR Community Radio Station - WMMT FM, every month we will be highlighting one of our hardworking volunteer programmers, you be able to keep up with WMMT's special featured programs,including our public affairs line up. Plus much more, so dear listeners please read on ~
 
Happy New Year from everyone over at WMMT-FM 88.7. The staff and volunteer programmers hope 2010 will be a wonderful year for all of our listeners.

Every month we will be highlighting one of our hardworking volunteer programmers and for the month of January we want you to get to know Greg Napier.

Greg Napier is the host of Sunday night's The Rock Show that airs from 9pm-12am. He's originally from Hazard, Kentucky and has been with WMMT since 2004. I sent Greg some interview questions and his answers follow:
 
Q: You’re obviously a lover of music, particularly of rock ‘n roll, when do you first remember music becoming an important part of your life?
A: My sister was a huge Beatles fan; she had all the albums. My first love was listening to all the Beatles music as a young boy around the age of 5. My mother tells me..morning,noon,and night.I could not get enough of the Beatles and this was years after they broke up. Then I heard "Dream On" by Aerosmith. I was hooked, I literally wore out the 8 track..yes I said 8 track. I then ventured on to Led Zeppelin, Kiss, Van Halen, and Jimi Hendrix as a young child. Those bands were my induction to Rock N Roll.
 

Q: When did you first become aware of WMMT-FM?
A: It was in November 1994. I was coming home from college and was on the Daniel Boone Parkway in Leslie County; it was around dusk. I was listening to Ben Gish and he played Robin Trower's “Bridge of Sighs".  I stopped my truck and listened to about a hour before I drove on. It is still one of the best sets of music that I have ever heard on Fm Radio. That was one of the greatest radio moments I have ever had. From that night on, I was hooked on WMMT.
 
 
Top 5 desert island albums?
Led Zeppelin-Song Remains the Same
The Beatles-Let it be...Naked
Dokken-Tooth and Nail
The Allman Brothers-Live at the Fillmore East
Jimi Hendrix-Axis: Bold as Love

 
January's Public Affairs programming schedule isn't complete,
but here's what we have scheduled so far:
 
 
Radio-Gram: January 2010
 1/5 - Forecasts - How to tell the weather by the signs; Pac Mans Almanac; Check in on last years predictions and a few new ones.
 
1/12 - Warmth - How are people keeping warm this winter; what it means to be warm; climate change in the mountains.
 
1/19 - Reality Check - A year after Barak Obama was elected President amid a range of hopes and fears - what are people thinking now? Interviews with Katie Dollarhide, Nell Fields, Thomas Anderson, Harold Grear and others.
 
1/26 - Games - Sports and spats; how games affect our lives; unexpected outcomes, when the final score doesn't tell the whole story.
 
Kids Radio: January 2010
All month long Kids Radio will be re-running the popular series Coon Hunters Notebook featuring 10 year old Brandon Turner from Cutshin Creek in Leslie County.
 
Coon Hunters Notebook will air 1/10, 1/12, 1/17, 1/19, 1/24, 1/26, 1/31.
 
Mountain Talk: January 2010
1/6 - What's Cookin'

1/13 - TBA

1/20 - Mountain Talk will have guests from The Corinth Baptist church in Fleming Neon, Kentucky. The Church is the oldest Black Church in that part of Letcher County. Members of the congregation will discuss the Martin Luther King celebration held at the Church and history surrounding the Church and community.

1/27 - Census 2010-Andra Sluss from the U.S. Census Bureau will give
information about the 2010 census, which begins soon.
 
Thanks so much and you'll hear from us again in February!