Media Release: WKMS Partners with the Murray Shakespeare Festival
Date: 01-13-12
Contact: Membership Coordinator Jenni Todd (270-809-4748 or jtodd14@murraystate.edu)
Murray State’s listener-supported public radio service WKMS partners with the Murray Shakespeare Festival for the third year to present “A Minute with Shakespeare,” brief one-minute recordings featuring the words of Shakespeare, to promote this year’s festival.
WKMS New Media and Promotions Coordinator Matt Markgraf worked with the directors of the festival, Barbara Cobb and Rusty Jones from the English and Philosophy Department at Murray State, to coordinate the on-air promotion. Barbara and Rusty, along with Bill Phillips of Playhouse in the Park, Lilia Murray of MSU’s Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology, and WKMS Announcer/ MSU student Kevin Colbert voiced ten different “Shakespeare Minutes.” Starting January 16 and continuing through February 10 the recordings air on WKMS two times a day, at 7:19 a.m. and 4:19 p.m. and can be found at www.wkms.org.
From February 7 through February 11, The American Shakespeare Center On Tour from Staunton, Virginia, will come to Murray State's campus during their “Almost Blasphemy Tour” for two performances of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream and one performance of The Winter’s Tale. The Murray Shakespeare Festival will also feature several events including films, lectures, workshops and A Midsummer Flash Mob! Information about events and tickets is available by calling (270) 809-2397 or online at www.murraystate.edu/shakespeare.
WKMS operates with funding from individuals, underwriters, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and Murray State University. See a listening schedule for WKMS programming at www.wkms.org. The station's media services include 91.3 WKMS, Murray; WKMS HD-1 and All-Music HD-2; 90.9 WKMD and WKMD HD-1 and HD-2, Madisonville; 89.5 WKMT, Fulton; 99.5 Paris, TN; and All-Music 92.5 Paducah and 101.5 Madisonville. The station also streams both WKMS HD-1 and HD-2 at www.wkms.org. The station also offers the toll-free line 800-599-4737 for further inquiries.
