KTAL Highlights From 2020!

January: KTAL receives a grant for $2,800 from Dona Ana County and creates spots in English and Spanish to promote the Census Project.
Feb. 4: Board approves Bruce Ernst as General Manager; Nan Rubin named Executive Producer. Linda Hall would be approved later as the Program Manager.
February: The inaugural edition (January/February) of KTAL’s bi-monthly newsletter - KTAL Chronicles - is published.
March 19: Governor’s Health Orders shut down state due to COVID-19.
March: Walt Rubel and Peter Goodman began informing the community with regular Coronavirus Updates.
March: KTAL begins sharing good news stories about Las Crucens helping each other in KTAL Community Moments.
Feb. 4: Board approves Bruce Ernst as General Manager; Nan Rubin named Executive Producer. Linda Hall would be approved later as the Program Manager.
February: The inaugural edition (January/February) of KTAL’s bi-monthly newsletter - KTAL Chronicles - is published.
March 19: Governor’s Health Orders shut down state due to COVID-19.
March: Walt Rubel and Peter Goodman began informing the community with regular Coronavirus Updates.
March: KTAL begins sharing good news stories about Las Crucens helping each other in KTAL Community Moments.

May 21-22: KTAL broadcasts the drive-by Las Cruces Public Schools (LCPS) Senior Celebrations for all six Las Cruces high schools from the Field of Dreams and provides the live audio for the LCPS video stream. (From Bruce Ernst, General Manager: I just want to add that this was definitely KTAL's highlight of the year, and not just for me but for all our volunteers that participated.) Click here for photos and more reflections from our hosts. (In the photo, from left to right, hosts Peter Goodman and Walt Rubel and tech Michael Allen.)
July 1: New Mexico Arts Council awards KTAL $4,500 to produce a new series of short profiles - Las Cruces Stories - about interesting local people, places, historical figures, cultural objects and especially noteworthy events.
July 26: KTAL’s third anniversary is celebrated virtually.
August 1-8: In lieu of the live second annual Roadrunner Revue, which was cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak, a virtual KTAL Summer Sizzler Fundraiser is held online and promoted by show hosts on the air, raising more than $10,000! Thanks to our supporters!
August 26: The first of many New Mexico candidate interviews to be held during the election season airs on Speak Up Las Cruces. Candidate interviews extend through October.
July 1: New Mexico Arts Council awards KTAL $4,500 to produce a new series of short profiles - Las Cruces Stories - about interesting local people, places, historical figures, cultural objects and especially noteworthy events.
July 26: KTAL’s third anniversary is celebrated virtually.
August 1-8: In lieu of the live second annual Roadrunner Revue, which was cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak, a virtual KTAL Summer Sizzler Fundraiser is held online and promoted by show hosts on the air, raising more than $10,000! Thanks to our supporters!
August 26: The first of many New Mexico candidate interviews to be held during the election season airs on Speak Up Las Cruces. Candidate interviews extend through October.

Sept. 19: KTAL airs No Mas, an original radio play about the almost forgotten bath riots of El Paso a century ago.
November: KTAL is nominated in the “Best Local Station” and “Best Talk/News Radio Station” categories in the Las Cruces Bulletin’s Best of the Mesilla Valley poll.
Nov. 8: A newly reprised version of the notorious radio play, War of the Worlds, airs as a special broadcast.
November: KTAL is nominated in the “Best Local Station” and “Best Talk/News Radio Station” categories in the Las Cruces Bulletin’s Best of the Mesilla Valley poll.
Nov. 8: A newly reprised version of the notorious radio play, War of the Worlds, airs as a special broadcast.