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Welcome to ​KTAL-LP 101.5 FM!

KTAL brings authentic local voices to the air. Critical local issues. Live music.

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Save The Date

The KTAL-LP "Roadrunner Revue" will take place on Sunday, November 17th, 2019 (note the date change!) from 5 - 9 PM at the Rio Grande Theater.

All proceeds will go to sustain community radio in Las Cruces and the Mesilla Valley.
  • Musical entertainment from KTAL volunteers and local artists who are friends of our community radio station
  • Cocktails and hand-passed Hors d’ouevres from 5-6 pm
  • Music and entertainment begins at 6 pm
  • Silent Auction
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More information coming soon!

Grow Your Business and Support Community Radio

Grow your business while supporting true community radio in Southern New Mexico! Your announcement will potentially reach up to 80,000 people in and around Las Cruces and the Mesilla Valley. Here's what our listeners are saying:
  • “KTAL-LP is fantastic!”
  • “Twice this week I had to stay in my car to listen to the morning shows before going in to work!”
  • “It is nice to hear different local programs every morning.”
  • “We’ve never heard different community voices like this before. You’re doing a great job!”
  • “I am so happy this is OUR COMMUNITY Radio Station! Thank you to everyone involved that made this happen.”

For more information

Hear the Candidates on Speak Up, Las Cruces

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Hosts Peter Goodman and Walt Rubel will be airing a series of candidate fora on their Speak Up, Las Cruces show, Wednesday mornings from 8 to 10 am.

Here is the schedule:

September 11 - School Board District 5 and City Council District 1

September 18 - City Council District 2

September 25 - City Council District 4

October 2 - Mayor

October 9 - School Board District 4 and Doña Ana Soil and Water Supervisor District 1

October 16 - Las Cruces Municipal Judge and Doña Ana Soil and Water Supervisor Districts 2 and 5

New KTAL-LP Show Gets Us Thinking About Our Thinking

Albert Einstein is quoted as saying "We won’t solve our problems using the same thinking we used to create them". How we think matters. Join Randy Harris, Keith Whelpley and their fascinating guests for Think Again, now at their new time on Monday from 8:00 to 9:00 am to engage in the process of “meta-cognition”, thinking about our thinking.

Keith Whelpley brings decades of journalism experience, and Randy Harris brings 10 years of direct experience in over 1000 "Great Conversation" dialogue groups. Think Again explores topics of critical thinking, automatic vs. deliberative thinking, logical fallacy, sweeping generalizations, and binary thinking. We explore the allure of being right, the nature of group think, how emotions can impair our cognitive abilities, and much more.

Tune in to Think Again every Monday morning for interesting discussions on how our thinking influences our emotions, our language, our actions and our culture.

'Your Multicultural Minute' Wins Award

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Congratulations to KTAL-LP's very own Norine Dresser. Her show, "Your Multicultural Minute," just won First Place in the Radio Division of the New Mexico Press Women's 2019 Communications Contest.

Before moving to Las Cruces in 2012, Dresser wrote a Los Angeles Times column, "Multicultural Manners" (1993 to 2001), that won an award from the L. A. County Commission on Human Relations (1998) for reducing intercultural tensions.

As a folklorist, Dresser's passion is demystifying cultures unlike our own. In her columns, books, and KTAL-LP shows, she uses true-story gaffes. She reveals how cultural differences can lead to miscommunication eliciting embarrassment, anger, even laughter. The need for easing cross-cultural misunderstandings is particularly relevant now when ethnic divisiveness in this country is so prominent.      

You can hear Norine's shows at the following times:
  • Mon & Wed: 7:58 a.m.
  • Tues & Fri: 11 a.m.
  • Sat: 1 p.m.
Or, you can listen to her shows on her website.

Looking For Volunteers

​​KTAL-LP is run entirely by volunteers and can always use more. We need volunteers! No radio experience required. We'll find something for you to help with.
You can propose a show or go to the Contact Us page and let us know how you would like to help.
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