SDPB Radio
SDPB Radio Shows
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In the Moment with Lori Walsh is SDPB’s daily radio program.We bring you world-class radio storytelling featuring the highest journalistic integrity. We tell true stories of our state and true stories of people who are doing something or creating something for a reason. We tell these stories with intelligence, fairness, compassion and imagination. We bring our listeners into the conversations and keep them In the Moment.Monday through Friday, at 9 a.m., 12 p.m. and 7 p.m. CTFollow In The Moment on Instagram, Facebook, X and YouTube
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SDPB brings you coverage of South Dakota news each weekday. We then compile those stories into a daily podcast.
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When a woman asked pianist Fats Waller what jazz was, he replied, “Lady, if you got to ask, you ain’t got it.” Writer Whitney Balliett described jazz is the “sound of surprise.” However you care to define jazz, we’ve got it on SDPB Radio. Every weeknight Jazz Nightly host Karl Gehrke brings you a wide variety of jazz from classics by the great legends to the latest sounds by today’s exciting, young artists.
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ON RECORD with host Matt Weesner is music for grownups, featuring a wide variety of sounds, Saturday nights at 7 pm CT, 6 MT. Matt Weesner is a former SDPB Radio Program Director and he's been playing music on the radio for more than 20 years. Weesner started hosting ON RECORD back in early 2004. He also plays piano and keyboards for the Hazel Miller Band and the Joey Canyon Show.
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Swing, bop and jive to the best big band music from the heyday of the swing era through today. Every Sunday night at 9 CT (8 MT) learn about the sounds, leaders, players & arrangers with host Karl Gehrke.A lifelong Big Band afficianado, Gehrke was listening to Benny Goodman and Woody Herman while his dad was listening to Janis Joplin and Steppenwolf. Gehrke has been hosting Big Band Spotlight since 1993. His "day job" is hosting SDPB Radio's Jazz Nightly.
Local Radio News Headlines
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A school district facing declining enrollment is in the midst of a debate to build and pay for a new school, or dissolve entirely.The Oldham-Ramona-Rutland school district held its first informational public meeting in regard to a possible dissolution.
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A Rapid City brewery is purchasing a popular brewery building in the Black Hills that closed in December. As SDPB’s Lee Strubinger reports… it’s the brewery’s first expansion.
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Crews with the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead say they’ll undergo the careful process of lowering about 380 steel beams a mile underground soon. Each beam weighs about 12,800 pounds.
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South Dakota US Senator Mike Rounds is asking the Department of Interior to open a tribal law enforcement training center in the Great Plains. Currently, prospective officers are sent to the Indian Police Academy in New Mexico for training.
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NewsThe South Dakota Library Association is receiving full federal funding.
SDPB Daily News Podcast
- Lawmakers want more accountability on governor's credit card expenses | May 12
- Lake Mitchell makeover set to begin fall 2025 | May 9
- Legislative leaders approve property tax task force membership | May 8
- Self-defense questions remain after Brave Heart receives 30 years | May 7
- Controlled burn at Rapid City park encourages native plant regeneration | May 6
- Tariff consequences felt in most recent Midwest economic report | May 5
- Bengs announces another bid for U.S. Senate | May 02