Weather Boss is a collaboration with Bryant Elementary School

Dr. J gives us history and context for the first opera ever written expressly for television in the United States: Gian-Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors. Hear the original production from Studio 8H in Rockefeller Center, 1951, conducted by Thomas Schippers.

Josh Nannestad guides us through glorious music from musicians that we lost in 2025. This episode includes songwriter Tom Lehrer, conductors Martin Neary and Matthew Best, and composer Sophia Gubaidulina.

Josh Nannestad guides us through glorious music from performers we lost in 2025. This week we remember conductors Christoph von Dohnanyi and Roger Norrington as well as pianist Alfred Brendel.

Listen To This offers highlights from Morningside University's Christmas program "Heal Our World, Great Prince of Peace". Choirs, bands, string ensemble, and pipe organ music around the theme of peace.

What's The Frequency Bests of 2025 include Hill House Arts Collective, USD music museum, riverfront recreation, immigration conversations & Bob Dylan

With C-plus rating, Sioux City Mayor Bob Scott looks back at 2025, plus ahead at 2026 city projects.

Weather Boss is a collaboration with Bryant Elementary

On this edition of Manager’s Special from Siouxland Public Media, host Mark Munger invites listeners along on a walk through a living prairie on the campus of Western Iowa Tech Community College. Joined by members of the Loess Hills Wild Ones, including prairie steward Rod Tondreau and seed collector Elisa Zapacosta, Mark experiences firsthand the careful art of native seed collecting—and the trained eye it takes to see what’s growing beneath the tangle of grasses and flowers.

The tectonics of life have shifted dramatically this year. For all who love and rely upon public media, the landscape tilted. The CPB was defunded by Congress by way of a rarely taken act. The promise of independent journalism and media withdrawn by politicians. Many public stations have dramatically cut staff and programming. Our own fall fund drive would determine our immediate future, and I’m so grateful to say that we had tremendous community support. John Daniels, President of the Friends of Siouxland Public Media, joined me to recap this moment.