Christmas Day: Friday Noon to 5:00, The Beat Farm-Plus
Noon – 5pm or later: Big Dave hosts an afternoon of free-form radio with co-host Fran Kaliher; a collection of holiday & non-holiday music and stories. A rough and fluid schedule, subject to change:
12:15 “The Drummond Grade String Ensemble” (featuring Fran & her neighbor Sunny)
1:00 Tom Koehler reading ‘Dancing Dan’s Christmas”, a Damon Runyon story
2:00 Musicians Kelly Lusk and Duane Madison (also Knife River historian)
3:00 Tim Russell’s A Comedy Christmas Carol, other readings and music
4:00 [or whenever they happen to show up] Musicians Dennis Swanson & Mike Holbeck;
Dave Stanko, “The Singing Mailman” and accordion player, Royal Miller.
Appearing on the Beat Farm this weekend is Larry Sandretsky, a poet and singer who writes a poem each year published by the Two Harbors Chronicle. He will read/recite the poem on the air live Friday night between 7:00 and 8:00 pm, in addition to talking with Dave and singing. Rebroadcast of the show is Sunday between 3:00 and 5:00 pm.
Watch for special programming around the holidays on KTwH! Besides special holiday episodes of some of our regular shows (such as Superior Jazz at 7:00 on Wednesday December 23), we will have an afternoon of live programming from our studios on Christmas Day, beginning at noon. Big Dave Anderson of The Beat Farm will host the collection of alternative holiday music including non-holiday music, for the holiday-weary. We are working on live musician guests and will have some seasonal stories. Keep tuned for details…
Now eight weeks into its broadcast life, KTWH community radio is planning to celebrate its existence with a day of special programming on Thursday, November 12, including the debut broadcast of last winter’s Cabin Fever Reliever Variety Show. The timing was chosen to coordinate with the statewide Give to the Max day of charitable giving.
The five morning show hosts, who usually take one morning each from 7am to 9am, will instead each take a two hour shift in succession that day. Each will share their respective areas of interest and musical tastes as they do on their regular weekly shifts, as well as playing examples of programming offered throughout the week by the wide variety of both local and outside programs. Besides a day of low key on-air fundraising pitches for community radio on KTWH interspersed among a wide range of programming, they also plan to share information about other local non-profits, hoping that listeners will indeed be “giving to the max” on November 12.
Running throughout the day will be a friendly competition for who among the hosts can raise the most funds through both the Give to the Max website (GiveMn.org) and KTWH’s own website (ktwh.org), or from walk-in donations at the studio.
A highlight of the day will be the inaugural broadcast of the wildly popular Cabin Fever Reliever Variety Show produced last winter at the Harbor Theater in Two Harbors. The show was both a fundraiser for Two Harbors Community Radio and a chance to showcase our local talent and preview things you will hear on KTWH. The show played to an enthusiastic sold-out crowd on a cold February night. The two hour show will be run as excerpts throughout the day on November 12, and will also be broadcast in its entirety on the evening of Saturday, November 14, from 7pm to 9pm.
The centerpiece of the Cabin Fever show was a production by the local No-see-um Radio Theater troupe, A Stranger in the House, a reenactment of a 1940’s radio production. This debut of local live radio drama will be featured between 6pm and 7pm on the 12th, including commentary by the actors who took part.
November 12 will be a day to showcase the variety of programming aired throughout the week on KTWH at 99.5FM and streamed at ktwh.org, and to celebrate the wide range of non-profits working on behalf of all of us in the Two Harbors area.
We are making changes in our schedule as we go along, it might be a while before it stabilizes, but nothing drastic either. See the October update here:
And some of the program descriptions are still available at
Prog Descrips for grid,sept2015
We welcome your feedback! call 218-595-6195 or send us an email at ktwh995@gmail.com
Meanwhile, some pictures from our studios and our open house…
Ribbon Cutting – 1:00pm September 13, 2015!
THUG performs at our Open House!
Harbor Landing atrium – site of our open house
Bruce Holmen, aka “Electron Bruce”, our engineering angel
Mel Sando, Dave’s guest on the Beat Farm
You may view the KTWH program schedule below as well as a very brief description of the local programs and some of the non-local programs. Space does not allow for all the outside programs, but the music show titles are mostly self-explanatory.
In general, weekdays are a morning show from 7am to 9am, each morning with a different host and flavor. This is followed by music shows until noon, then community events for five minutes or so at noon. This is followed by 2 hours of talk and informational shows, including programs about books, public affairs, etc, including – most importantly! – a half hour of stories for little kids from 12:30 to 1:00pm.
From 2:00 to 6:00 is generally music programming from outside but unique sources, not heard elsewhere on the radio dial in our area. At 6:00 we repeat the community events announcements, and evenings are music shows hosted and curated by local programmers.
Dale at the controls
Youth-produced programs include Will’s Sports Wrap, a summary of recent and upcoming sports events in our community by Will Peterson, and The High School Show by Dale Peterson (no relation) – an update on happenings at the high school and some of Dale’s favorite music. These both run early Friday afternoons. If you want to bet on the sports events in this community, sites like 벳위즈 may be worth checking out.
Weekends include repeats of several of our programs, especially local ones, giving you more of a chance to hear things you would like, or to listen again to those especially good shows. Our music spans many different genres, so if you don’t like what you are hearing, try us at another time. You will certainly find something you like!
Yes, we ARE going on-air this Sunday! We hope you can join us at the Harbor Landing building, 7th and 7th, to hear some great local music, have some good snacks, and record your greeting to the community. You can also stream at ktwh.org of course!
Details for Sunday afternoon:
1:00 – sign-on! broadcasting at 99.5fm, and streaming at ktwh.org
and in the Harbor Landing atrium:
1:15 – Austin Engelhardt, violin/fiddle virtuoso
2:00 – THUG – Two Harbors Ukulele Group
3:00 – Jim Madison, singer-songwriter
3:45 – Hannah Rey
and sometime during the afternoon we’ll have a short acknowledgments segment in the atrium.
Meanwhile KTWH on-air will be interspersing radio-themed music with short interviews of many of our programmers to get a sense of who they are and what they will be doing. Music in the atrium is not being broadcast, but each of the performers will be interviewed on-air as well. The entire afternoon’s broadcast will be recorded for broadcast at some future time. So come to the open house, and listen to the broadcast at a later time – we would like to see you here!
Below are our launching program grid and a short description of many of the programs. The schedule is subject to change as we evolve.
It’s Official! KTWH will launch on Sunday, September 13 with special programming and an Open House Sunday afternoon from 1:00pm to 5:00pm. Regular programming will begin on Monday, September 14 at 7:00am.
Stay tuned for more details soon!
A day of golf, food, and fun will be held at Lakeview Golf Course on August 21 to support KTwH.
Golf teams can register at the Lakeview National Pro Shop or contact them for more information.
KTwH will be testing its on-air signal using a three hour sample of upcoming programming. Tune in at 99.5fm between about 10:00am and 6:00pm on Saturday July 11!
We will air pre-recorded samplings of programs as well as you and your neighbors giving our station ID between segments. It will be about a 3 hour loop, repeated through the day. Be sure to check us out and let us know where you can hear us! You may communicate with us via Facebook (Two Harbors Community Radio), our email THCommRadio@gmail.com, by stopping at our Heritage Days booth, or calling our new office phone: 218-595-6195! (Sorry, anyone out of the area – we won’t be streaming online this time. But we will be once we get on-air and stay there.)
