Northwest Folk Life 2025
May 18, 2025 - 2:45 am
Join KBCS at the 54th Annual Northwest Folklife Festival, taking place May 23-26 at Seattle Center. The theme and cultural focus for this year’s festival is Ikigai (Pronounced: Ee-kee-guy), meaning “A life worth living”. The concept of Ikigai marks the next phase in our cultural focus exploration that began by looking inward at our personal …
May 13, 2025 - 11:59 am
The White House has put forth an annual budget that requests eliminating public media funding at the federal level for FY26. The proposal asks Congress to eliminate nearly all $1.1 billion in funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which supports more than 1,500 non-profit stations across the country, including KBCS. As it stands,
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May 8, 2025 - 8:46 pm
We’re excited to announce that long-time KBCS program, The Caravan, hosted by John Gilbreath, will return to KBCS on Tuesday, May 13th.
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May 2, 2025 - 1:44 pm
We are deeply concerned by the executive order to cut NPR and PBS funding. On May 1, 2025, the White House directed the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and federal agencies to end funding for NPR and PBS. While KBCS is not directly affiliated with NPR, we stand firmly with our colleagues in public media
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Friends of Little Saigon For KBCS.
April 30, 2025 - 6:00 pm
April 30th marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon to the North Vietnamese Army and the end of the Vietnam war. Many thanks to Nam Nguyen, Executive Director of WA State Commissions on Asian Pacific Affairs, and Jennie Cecil Moore, Independent Journalist and Producer and KBCS Contributor for this interview featured on our
KBCS Retro Radio Theatre 4.26.25
April 24, 2025 - 5:00 pm
91.3 KBCS presents on Saturday from 12 AM to 1 AM, a weekly LATE NITE showing of The KBCS Retro Radio Theatre! This week, your host Jack Newman presents two classic, historical radio dramas from the Golden Age of Radio! The Columbia Workshop: “They Fly Through the Air with the Greatest of Ease” – Written and
Auntmama, Co-Host of Sunday Folks, Sunday's at 9am
April 24, 2025 - 6:00 am
In 2001, Mary Anne Moorman (Auntmama) was awarded a contract with Bellevue College to create an operational plan for KBCS. Consulting led to telling stories on Walkin’ the Floor and in 2003 she began co-hosting Sunday Folks on Sunday’s, 9am to Noon. “Playing music for the KBCS community is an honor.”
KBCS Retro Radio Theatre 4.19.25
April 17, 2025 - 5:00 pm
The KBCS Retro Radio Theatre, only on 91.3 KBCS, presents a LATE NITE show this Saturday from 12 AM to 1 AM! Tonight, we have two really awesome radio shows from the Golden Age of Radio! The Columbia Workshop – “Radio Primer” – Written and Directed by Norman Corwin! Original Air Date: 05/04/1941 Inner Sanctum
KBCS Retro Radio Theatre 4.12.25
April 10, 2025 - 5:00 pm
The KBCS Retro Radio Theatre Presents at 12 AM this Saturday, a LATE NITE show featuring 2 fantastic, historical radio dramas from the Golden Age of Radio! This week, we have got: The Columbia Workshop – “My Client Curley” – Directed by Norman Corwin! Original Air Date: 03/07/1940 The Whistler – “Letter from Cynthia” –
Levi Sweeney, Host of Retro Radio Theatre, Saturday at Midnight
April 10, 2025 - 6:00 am
Hi, I’m Levi Sweeney. I’m one of the newest hosts at KBCS, and I host the 12 AM to 1 AM Saturday show The KBCS Retro Radio Theatre. I’m a pioneer in applied AI audio and radio dramas. If you tune in to my late, late, show at midnight, you’ll hear me playing the character of “Jack Newman,” unlicensed, back-alley dealer of Old Time Radio.
