Kudos & Brickbats Received From Listeners [Fall 2014 Edition]

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• We love Folk Salad. - Broken Arrow
  
• Your programs make my commute much more enjoyable. I sometimes have to sit in the parking lot at work or the driveway at home to finish a program! - Tulsa
  
• Too many repeats on "Selected Shorts". - Broken Arrow
  
• I'm a weekend warrior.  Love being challenged and stimulated constantly by NPR. - Tulsa
  
• "Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me" is my favorite - Tulsa
  
• Great classical and jazz programming. great news and informational shows. Wonderful hosts. No radical changes, please. - Tulsa
  
• Thank you for great work KWGS! Thank you for your supportive PSAs for local arts organizations! - Tulsa
  
• We would like our donations to go to classical 88.7.  This station has been a huge help to our family. Our son with ADHD has come to enjoy listening to it every morning on the way to school. It helps him to feel good and be calm when he goes into his classroom.  It has also become our family favorite on Sundays. We listen to it while we drive to church, home, and throughout the day. - Tulsa
  
• Keep up the great work. I'm a huge fan of StudioTulsa, This American Life, Radiolab, and Marketplace. While I no longer live in Tulsa, I always appreciated the traffic reports in the morning. - Bartlesville
  
• Listen to your classical music daily - it keeps me sane! - Leonard
  
• I've listened to your stations ever since you've been on.  It's playing every day.  My fingers cannot play the keys anymore, but my ears can listen.  You are so very important to me. - Tulsa
  
• I live in Beaumont, TX, support, and listen to the local public radio, KVLU. It's mix is more eclectic and jazz. I stream KWTU on my phone's NPR app. Love Performance Today; would support you for that if nothing else. - Beaumont, TX
  
• Favorite local programs: All This Jazz, StudioTulsa, BusinessWorld. Favorite national programs: Fresh Air, All Things Considered, Morning Edition, On Being, Radiolab, Diane Rehm.Show. - Tulsa
  
• I enjoy the classical station and play it 24/7. I hope my donation continues to keep classical music on the air. Thank you for providing this service to the community of Tulsa. - Tulsa
  
• Love Doug Brown's Wind and Rhythm shows. Also the Saturday morning movie themes. - Tulsa
  
• I was listening to "Fresh Air" on the way home from work (as I do every day), not to mention all the other times--your station is really the only one I EVER listen to--it seemed  important to support your work. Thank you for being here! - Muskogee
  
• Don't forget to be awesome. - Tulsa
  
• So very grateful to have full time classical music--I always have your station on-at my home. - Tulsa
  
• Please accept our contribution in honor of the beloved Edward Dumit. I am so happy to still hear his beautiful voice on the station identifications. Thank you to KWGS and to Edward's family for allowing this tradition to continue. - Tulsa
  
• Love StudioTulsa!  What a local treasure! - Bixby
  
• Thank you for bringing back StoryCorps. I'm looking forward to it.  - Tulsa
  
• Please bring back "Selected Shorts" to the noon hour instead of evening - Tulsa
  
• I'm good with NPR on most levels, but please - please - please, restrict your comments to neither liberal or conservative. I am a conservative, and I find the constant liberal bent disturbing. - Bartlesville
  
• The music turns the insanity of the world into a calming peace. Thank you. And we miss Ed Dumit, whom I met as a student more than 50 years ago. - Tulsa
  
• Thanks for keeping us in touch with the world. - Tulsa
  
• Will send matching form from Phillips 66. Love the Sunday am programming including Krista Tippett.  Love Prairie Home companion, Diane Rehm, Swing on This, Wait Wait, and much more. - Bartlesville
  
• Long time listener. First time caller. Ira Glass' pitch at 4:45pm this afternoon was the one that got to me. We will now be pledging at every fund drive. - Claremore
  
• We enjoy your programming so thanks for keeping us entertained and aware as we travel daily. - Broken Arrow
  
• I'm very happy to finally be able to provide some monetary support to my favorite station!  Can't imagine a world with Morning Edition and Wait! Wait! Don't Tell Me! - Owasso
  
• Less talking about pledge drive, please! What news and stories did we miss when you all went on and on and on?!  I have actually turned the radio off several times this week. - Jenks
  
• Love the local programming - Tulsa
  
• We both listen to you daily...my alarm is set to NPR - Muskogee
  
• Goofy listens to NPR in my studio every day. He's on a budget, and has given up cat treats for a month so he can support KWGS. - Eucha
  
• Please send bill so I can include matching paperwork from MetLife Foundation. I love NPR.  Best reporting and most in-depth journalism.  Couldn't do without it. Thanks much!! - Tulsa
  
• I miss Talk of the Nation!! - Broken Arrow
  
• I love your station!  I listen mostly online.  I do have problems with the stream disappearing for hours or days at a time, though. - Glenpool
  
• Thank you for making my day all the more enjoyable.  Good local and world news.  Excellent entertainment. - Tulsa
  
• Love that Rich Fisher, he's great! - Tulsa
  
• Keep up the good news analysis with John Durkee - Turley
  
• Please keep up the good work that you are doing at KWGS!  We listen pretty much from the minute we get up until we go to bed at night.  We are so delighted and very much appreciate that KWGS is able to provide local news, weather, and traffic updates as well.  I have spent many moments in the car in a parking lot or in my garage listening to the rest of a story.  KWGS ROCKS!!! :) - Tulsa
  
• This is for Classical music - Bixby
  
• Love the content and not having to listen to the same thing every day.  No commercials is the icing on the cake.  Keep up the good work! - Broken Arrow
  
• I can't go a day without listening to public radio. It starts my day!  - Tulsa
  
• I wake up with you every morning and so appreciate the addition of the local news. Also love StoryCorps. - Tulsa
  
• KWGS is an absolutely essential Tulsa institution. I've been a listener since the late 1950s. Thanks for providing the best public affairs programming in the state! - Tulsa
  
• Rich Fisher and the rest of the staff are always interesting. - Tulsa
  
• I LOVE NPR! I listen for hours each day and enjoy most all the programming. It keep me informed and entertained...just like you say! P.S. I received my degree from TU at the age of 43! (I'm 80 now.) Edward Dumit was one of my instructors as I stood working the TV camera. I thought he walked on water!  - Tulsa
  
• Great Station KWTU -- would like to hear more avant-garde music.  There are too many warhorses on this station. We need locally produced program.  How about a "Classics by Request? I realize that KWTU's coverage is limited as it is only a 5000-watt FM station.  But we are lucky to have it here. - Tulsa
  
• We always love the Fred Child's Piano Puzzler, and listening to the weekly theme of Bruce Adolf. Saturdays would be empty without Car Talk and the local show with Louis Coleman and cohorts. - Tulsa
  
• The only radio I listen to.  This morning I listened to Tiny Desk Concerts with Jackson Browne on my iPad.  Where else can you get that?! - Bixby
  
• I met Ed at a fund drive several years ago.  What a gentleman!  Love to still hear his wonderful voice. - Tulsa
  
• I would love to be able to stream 89.5 HD 2, but I'm happy to be able to hear local and state news, This American Life, Snap Judgement, Radiolab, TED Radio Hour, StudioTulsa and Scott Gregory's All This Jazz when I can catch it.  Thank you, guys. - Tulsa
  
• There isn't one day that I don't listen to KWGS at some point during the day.  News is hugely important to me, and even if I'm too busy for a full program, I often go to the archives to pick up a story I was interested to hear or share.  I'm also generally very happy with the programming KWGS has selected over the years.  Thank you for being a station of such high quality! - Tulsa
  
• I listen all day long!  What rich programming!  There are some shows I like better than others, but there's nothing that comes on that makes me want to not listen.  I am so grateful for KWGS. - Tulsa
  
• Please just send me a receipt, no junk mail. Also, please ask the lady announcer in the morning to lose her funeral voice and to talk normal. - Tulsa
  
• Moved here from D.C. Metro, to Tulsa this year. I initially missed WAMU, but you fill my ear holes in a lovely way. - Tulsa
  
• I wake up to NPR every morning.  I especially like the one quirky story that's thrown in for a laugh. - Tulsa
  
• StudioTulsa is one of the best 30-minutes of my day.  Keep up the good work. - Tulsa
• On your website, it's very difficult to find where to contribute. I had to work my way through several pages before I could get to the donation page. Keep up the good work! WE LOVE YOU!!!! - Tulsa
  
• You gotta get John Wooley talking about bad film and "The Skid Row Slasher Vs. the Hollywood Strangler"! - Tulsa
  
• I especially love the classical music with minimal chat. Also I like TED talks, This American Life, Big Band Saturday Night, and Swing on This. - Tulsa
  
• In honor and memory of Edward Dumit, a treasure to TU and Tulsa!  Thank you for honoring him in this fund drive. - Tulsa
  
• Please investigate "The Thomas Jefferson Hour."  I learned more about American History listening to this program on NPR in Fresno, CA than I ever got from school. It is exceptional! It was always one of those "sitting in the driveway" moments - sometimes for a half hour. Thank you for our public radio! - Tulsa
  
• No gift is necessary.  I listen to the Saturday morning shows and Science Friday most frequently. Keep up the good work. - Tulsa
  
• I commute from Tahlequah to Tulsa every week day - I listen to Morning Edition on the way in and Fresh Air and All Things Considered on my way home... - Tahlequah
• KWGS is doing a great job.  We listen some every morning to get the national and international news, and also appreciate the frequent updates of Tulsa area news.  Sometimes we get a chance to hear programs during the day, and we always find those to be intriguing, informative, and inspiring.  My favorite evening shows are Snap Judgment, Selected Shorts, and the replay of Studio Tulsa, and we hardly ever miss the Saturday afternoon entertainment shows.  Thanks for your hard work and excellent programming. - Muskogee
  
• To honor my friend and hero Edward Dumit...what a remarkable guy!  I can't imagine a day without hearing that classic tenor..."The Voice of God"...remind me that, "This is FM89 KWGS...a service of the University of Tulsa...now in HD!"  Of course I also look forward to drinking my coffee from that Morning Edition mug.  I love you, KWGS! - Tulsa
  
• Public Radio Tulsa is our only real news source. Local programming is especially great. Thank goodness we have KWGS and KWTU here. - Tulsa
• This contribution is to support news and classical music and is in memory of Edward Dumit. - Tulsa
• This is the second pledge of the morning.  I want to continue my tradition of carrying all Public Radio promoters. - Tahlequah
  
• We love both your stations!! - Claremore
  
• We depend on your local and national news coverage every day. We especially enjoy the Diane Rehm show and Fresh Air. Great job! Keep it up! - Tulsa
• I would like to receive the flat of pansies, please. Thanks to Southwood for making this possible. - Tulsa
  
• We travel a fair amount and we notice over and over how superior the programming is on KWGS. How could we choose a favorite?  Diane Rhem.  Morning edition.  Wait Wait Don't Tell Me.  All Things Considered.  This American Life.  We could go on and on.  - Tulsa
  
• Love NPR and the variety of the entire schedule - although I can't speak to the early AM BBC. - Tulsa
  
• Love NPR! Thank you Southwoods for encouraging me to skip procrastination! - Tulsa
  
• You are so important to my daily life - Tulsa
  
• I love the classics!  - Tulsa
  
• Yea...all your great programming, a super looking mug, and pansies, too! - Tulsa
  
• Have loved your programs for years.  They just keep getting better. - Claremore
  
• Can't get my day started without the calm presence of John Durkee and the NPR Morning Edition folks. As a former journalist, I'm glad everything is not breaking news or a developing story -- just news and good in-depth insight. Also love Saturday night lineup (especially Big Band Saturday Night) and your classical music station. Occasionally sneak in All Things Considered. I know it takes money to do things, and hopefully others will join during your low-key (much appreciated) pledge period. - Tulsa
• I would like the mug and the pansies. Please make this in memory of Ed Dumit.  He was a very special person. - Tulsa
• Love, love, love your programing!  This donation is made in honor of John Wooley.
  
• Keep up the good work everyone. - Glenpool
  
• Love your station.  I've been supporting you, by fits and starts, for several years.  I'm putting the whole thing on a card this time so I can get the Southwood pansies. - Tulsa
  
• You begin and end everyday! - Tulsa
  
• Splendid Table always appreciated, Morning Edition, Radio Lab, Fresh Air also favorites - Tulsa
  
• The only radio station I listen to. Not for political reasons, but because everything else seems loud, coarse, obnoxious, and unthoughtful. - Tulsa
  
• I would love a Saturday or Sunday morning gardening show. I am looking forward to planting my Pansies. - Tulsa
  
• Edward [Dumit] was my professor, my boss at KWGS and a friend.  We all miss him and want Public Radio Tulsa to continue and grow in his honor. - Tulsa
  
• A great travel companion for those long commutes.  - Tulsa
  
• Thank you for all the news programming! - Tulsa
  
• Enjoy your programming. Keep up the good work. - Broken Arrow
  
• I know that you can not separate [NPR] from KWTU in fund raising contributions but please know that I consider my contribution to be entirely for KWTU and none for [NPR]. - Broken Arrow
• Really enjoying the additional digital [HD Radio] channels. - Tulsa
• I appreciate the daily earthquake reports from John Durkee. - Tulsa
  
• Thank you! my main news source :) - Broken Arrow
  
• I love NPR.  It is my number one source of continuing education.   Thank you for all you contribute to society. - Eucha
• Please don't forget that some of your listeners are "Red" and want to hear both sides of an issue. Also wish there were more domestic stories and less international focus. I love StoryCorps and Science Friday. Thanks for your efforts. I enjoy being able to listen, be educated, and not endure panelists who yell into the mic. - Claremore
• Keep up the great work! John Durkee is an excellent news dude. Rich Fisher is a great interviewer. To The Best Of Our Knowledge, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me and Marketplace are favorites! - Tulsa
• Swing on This!!!! The best! - Tulsa
• A daily pleasure, so $365 seems an appropriate donation. Love the Saturday night jazz and daily BBC news bulletins. Also Diane Rhem. Ditch the Commonwealth Club! - Tulsa
• Keep up the noble work of real journalism in a sea of media blather. -- 20 years a listener/supporter - Bartlesville
• Love having PRadio here in Tulsa !! - Tulsa
• I've been a slacker over the last couple of years with my donation, but just had a massive driveway moment which helped to offset my inertia and donate.  You are a major part of my day. - Owasso
• I'm loving RadioLab right now.  And Science Friday is my perennial favorite.  Don't like the local Saturday morning show with the 3 guys so much, but I love the local daily news coverage. - Tulsa
• I love the Diane Rehm show, all the shows based in Oklahoma and Saturdays with the which I know they retired Car Talk, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me.  I listen in the company car when I have to be out and about.  I got tired of listening to music and found your station and just love listening to what's going on locally and people talking about money and different books.  Very good station!!! - Tulsa
• Less local news; more NPR coverage.  After all it is NationalPR, NOT TulsaPR! - Tulsa
• Commute from Tahlequah to Tulsa daily to work....love the morning shows (from 5:15 to 6:30) and in the afternoon from 3:30 until 5:00 pm....like to listen to Terry Gross' interviews. - Tahlequah
• NPR makes spending so much time in the kitchen, cooking for my large family, almost bearable. THANK YOU!!! - Tulsa