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1 QUARTERLY ISSUES/PROGRAMS REPORT Station (call letters): Location (city, state): For quarter beginning: January 1, 20 April 1, 20 July 1, 20 October 1, 2014 KUSC Los Angeles, CA Attached hereto are descriptions of issue-responsive programming broadcast by this station during the reporting period. The listed programs aired on the station during the reporting period on the days and times indicated. Each program regularly provides information or addresses current local issues of concern to viewers in the area where the station is located

2 LOCAL ISSUES ADDRESSED DURING THE QUARTER The following are local issues of concern to the community. Programs that addressed these issues during this reporting period are listed on the following pages. Local Issue/Concern Coverage of Local Arts Brief description of local issue or concern The awareness of local artistic events from producers who share audience with classical music-minded individuals. Exposure to Classical Music To bring the best of classical music, both new and archived recordings to the public-at-large. Education/Children s Issues The impact of arts and music related curriculums on youth from a variety of socio-economic backgrounds. Arts Education and Funding Provide adequate education to the youth, as well as support performance venues Family/Children s Issues Technological Advancements Arts News Cultural and Global Awareness Provide information on how to help families in need, events and activities for parents and children to participate together, etc Advances in technology and how they relate to the arts Keep the public informed on news from local arts groups Promoting general awareness and announcing local events affecting minorities - 2 -

3 FCC Issues/Programs Reports and Related Requirements Appendix B PROGRAMS THAT ADDRESS LOCAL ISSUES The following programs that aired during the relevant reporting period regularly address local issues and concerns in the station s city of license and within its service area. Specific episodes and segments of these programs and the issues they addressed are listed on the following pages. Program Name Schedule (Day/Time) Brief Generic Description (Note whether local, syndicated or network) Arts Alive Saturdays, 8am Locally produced, news magazine formatted program that focuses on the artistic scene of Southern California with interviews of local interest. The Opera Show Saturdays, 9am Locally produced, music-based content regarding opera. Focusing on composers & performers with occasional interviews with local productions. Modern Times Saturdays, 10pm Locally produced, music-based program focusing on the past 75 years of contemporary classical music. Soul Music Sundays, 6am Locally produced, music-based program focusing on the choral component of recorded classical music. Carnegie Hall Live Saturdays at 8pm Syndicated via American Public Media - Recent performances from one of the world s most recognized performance venues, Carnegie Hall. From the Top Sundays at 6pm Syndicated via American Public Media Recent concert performances and interviews with young musicians from across the United States. The Record Shelf Sundays at 10p Locally produced, nationally syndicated program surveying historic recordings, offering buyers guides and, featuring interviews with today s greatest classical music personalities. Thornton Center Stage Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl Sundays at 9pm Sundays, 7pm (Oct Only) Locally produced music-based program featuring student and faculty performances from the archives of the USC Thornton School of Music. Locally produced concert broadcasts featuring the Los Angeles Philharmonic s summer concerts from the landmark Hollywood Bowl concert venue

4 Master Chorale Sundays, 7pm Sundays, 7pm (Dec Only) Locally produced concert broadcasts featuring the Los Angeles s concerts from the Alex Theater in Glendale & Pasadena s Ambassador Auditorium concert venues. Locally produced concert broadcasts featuring the Los Angeles Master Chorale concerts from the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles.

5 ISSUE-RESPONSIVE PROGRAMMING Local Issue: To provide audiences with programming devoted to music education, presenting interviews with major performing artists from local, national and international communities The Record Shelf 10/5 10p 1hr A Conversation with pianist Garrick Ohlsson. The Record Shelf 10/12 10p 1hr Part one of a survey of the recordings made by the Hungarian conductor Ferenc Fricsay. The Record Shelf 10/19 10p 1hr Part two of a survey of the recordings made by the Hungarian conductor Ferenc Fricsay. The Record Shelf 10/26 10p 1hr BEST OF THE RECORD SHELF - A Buyer s Guide to Scary Music The Record Shelf 11/2 10p 1hr The Record Shelf Record Reviews A survey of recently released albums. The Record Shelf 11/9 10p 1hr The Young Ansermet, Part I: Conductor Ernest Ansermet leading French music with the ensemble he put on the map: L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. The Record Shelf 11/16 10p 1hr The Young Ansermet, Part II: Conductor Ernest Ansermet with the ensemble he put on the map: L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. The Record Shelf 11/23 10p 1hr A conversation with rising star pianist Yuja Wang. The Record Shelf 11/30 10p 1hr A survey of the early voices of Russian Opera. The Record Shelf 12/7 10p 1hr The Record Shelf Guide to Gift Recordings: our annual public service for the befuddled holiday shopper. The Record Shelf 12/14 10p 1hr THE BEST OF THE RECORD SHELF: An encore of another holiday favorite, A Golden Age Christmas, featuring Christmas music sung by the great opera stars of the past. The Record Shelf 12/21 10p 1hr THE BEST OF THE RECORD SHELF: A rebroadcast of Hallelujah, Take 1 featuring early recordings of music from

6 Handel s Messiah. The Record Shelf 12/28 10p 1hr A selection of various performances from the famed New Year s Eve Concerts by the Vienna Philharmonic. Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl 10/5 7p 2hr Conductor Ludovic Morlot leads two by Mendelssohn & Kari Kriikku joins to play Mozart s Clarinet Concerto. 10/12 7p 2hr The LA Master Chorale joins the LA Phil with conductor Juanjo Mena for the epic Choral 9 th Symphony of Beethoven, with the stirring Ode To Joy. 10/19 7p 2hr Jeffrey Kahane leads some old & new with work by Beethoven, Mozart, Kodaly, & Lutoslawski 10/26 7p 2hr Jeffrey Kahane is joined by cellist Jean- Guihen Queyras for Haydn s Cello Concerto, & blind mezzo-soprano Laurie Rubin for Bruce Adolphe s Do You Dream In Color. 11/2 7p 2hr Conductor Hans Graf leads Beethoven s Pastoral Symphony & is joined by pianist Alessio Bax for Mozart s 24 th Piano Concerto. 11/9 7p 2hr Music from the classics with Mozart s Idomeneo, Haydn s Sinfonia Concertante, & Beethoven s 1 st Symphony, while the modern masterwork of Musica Celestis by Aaron Jay Kernis rounds out the program. 11/16 7p 2hr Dueling violin superstars as Jaime Laredo & Jennifer Koh play Bach s 2 Violin Concerto, while conductor James Feddeck conducts Mendelssohn s Fair Melusina & Schubert s 3 rd Symphony. 11/23 7p 2hr Jeffrey Kahane conducts Haydn s 102 nd Symphony & a world premiere from Hannah Lash, while pianost Natasha Paremski joins to play Chopin s 2 nd Piano Concerto. 11/30 7p 2hr A piano-crazy concert as Jeremy Denk, Joanne Pearce Martin, Ray Ushikubo, & Jeffrey Kahane play pianos for works by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, & Ligeti.

7 Master Chorale Master Chorale 12/7 7p 2hr A selection of works and discussion from LACO s 4 annual Baroque Conversation concerts. 12/21 7p 2hr Music for the season by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Stephen Paulus, Respighi, & Benjamin Britten s A Ceremony of Carols. 12/28 7p 2hr Choral music from the 20 th /21 st centuries selected to celebrate the organ of Walt Disney Concert Hall. Local Issue: Local arts coverage from throughout the broadcast region Arts Alive 10/4 8a 30min The LA Odyssey Project brings sea monsters and cyclops to a library near you; an interview with organist Christopher Houlihan before he makes his debut at Disney Hall; Kenneth Turan reviews "Gone Girl;" Ask the Dean teaches a singer how to breathe. Arts Alive 10/18 8a 30min Opera director Barrie Kosky wowed audiences with The Magic Flute, now he's back at LA Opera with a double bill full of suspense; enter the world of Fantasia with new video game; what's wrong with Lakme on Ask the Dean. Arts Alive 10/25 8a 30min The evolution of LA's Jewish Women's Theatre; Burning Down the House, evocative photos at the Pasadena Museum of California Art; film critic Kenneth Turan reviews a doc about a notorious leak and an animated feature about a baby in a bamboo stalk; Ask the Dean talks sax. Arts Alive 11/1 8a 30min The history of Dia de los Muertos and where in LA you can celebrate; when an avalanche threatens a vacationing family, the father's reaction is the real disaster, that's the plot of "Force Majeure," we talk to director Ruben Ostlund; the keys to composition on Ask the Dean. Arts Alive 11/8 8a 30min From Fresh Prince to King Lear & from deep space to deep betrayal, two

8 Shakespeare productions on now in LA; film critic Kenneth Turan celebrates the film bounty of fall and on Ask the Dean, does the instrument you play help or hurt when it comes to college admissions? Arts Alive 11/15 8a 30min Roger Kalia talks about a unique opportunity to learn what they don't teach you in conducting school; how two young sopranos turned swapping stories into the Redlands Opera Theatre; on Ask the Dean... what's Tchaikovsky doing on the 4th of July? Arts Alive 11/22 8a 30min Conductor Grant Gershon on the rainforest of sound in Daniel Catán's opera Florencia en el Amazonas; Cuban artist Esterio Segura gets his first solo US museum exhibit thanks to MOLAA; film critic Kenneth Turan on Happy Valley and Hunger Games; and on Ask the Dean, Caroline missed her viola, what should she do? Arts Alive 12/6 8a 30min We talk to the director of the upcoming Into the Woods movie, and one bringing a production to a SoCal stage; an interview with the author of a new book about Fiddler on the Roof, now celebrating it's 50th anniversary; Opera or Musical? That's the question on Ask the Dean. Arts Alive 12/13 8a 30min Tchaikovsky called it "ugly" but The Nutcracker became the most performed ballet in the world anyway. A history of the piece and its wide-ranging renditions; The City of Los Angeles Ballets' "The Nutcracker Swings"; Kenneth Turan on a big budget epic and a Cannes favorite; Ask the Dean talks about the anatomy of an encore. Arts Alive 12/20 8a 30min Arts Alive goes to the movies! The children of Olympian and WWII POW Louis Zamperini give their first-hand perspective on the new biopic Unbroken; Belgian film-making duo, the Dardenne brothers, talk about their latest film, Two Days, One Night; to use a baton or not to use a baton, THAT is the question... on Ask the Dean.

9 Local Issue: Education/Children s Issues From The Top Sundays 6p 1hr Weekly program highlighting performances and interviews with talented youth musicians from across the US. Arts Alive 10/4 8a 30min The LA Odyssey Project brings sea monsters and cyclops to a library near you. Arts Alive 11/7 8a 30min On Ask the Dean, does the instrument you play help or hurt when it comes to college admissions? Arts Alive 11/15 8a 30min Roger Kalia talks about a unique opportunity to learn what they don't teach you in conducting school. Local Issue: Support and Promotion of Lesser Known Local Arts Groups Arts Alive 10/25 8a 30min The evolution of LA's Jewish Women's Theatre. Arts Alive 11/8 8a 30min From Fresh Prince to King Lear & from deep space to deep betrayal, two Shakespeare productions on now in LA. Arts Alive 11/15 8a 30min How two young sopranos turned swapping stories into the Redlands Opera Theatre. Local Issue: Family/Children Issues Arts Alive 10/18 8a 30 min Enter the world of Fantasia with new video game

10 Arts Alive 11/1 8a 30min The history of Dia de los Muertos and where in LA you can celebrate. Arts Alive 12/6 8a 30min We talk to the director of the upcoming Into the Woods movie, and one bringing a production to a SoCal stage Local Issue: Technological Advancements Arts Alive 10/18 8a 30min Enter the world of Fantasia with new video game. Local Issue: Cultural and Global Awareness Arts Alive 10/25 8a 30min The evolution of LA's Jewish Women's Theatre. Arts Alive 11/1 8a 30min The history of Dia de los Muertos and where in LA you can celebrate. Arts Alive 11/22 8a 30min Conductor Grant Gershon on the rainforest of sound in Daniel Catán's opera Florencia en el Amazonas; Cuban artist Esterio Segura gets his first solo US museum exhibit thanks to MOLAA Arts Alive 12/20 8a 30min Belgian film-making duo, the Dardenne brothers, talk about their latest film

QUARTERLY ISSUES/PROGRAMS REPORT. Station (call letters):

1 QUARTERLY ISSUES/PROGRAMS REPORT Station (call letters): Location (city, state): KPSC Palm Springs, CA For quarter beginning: January 1, 20 April 1, 2015 July 1, 20 October 1, 20 Attached hereto are