February's full moon provides theme for Fordham radio broadcast

Published: 2006-01-25

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- What goes with "moon"? Pull out your rhyming dictionaries, but here's a head start: June, spoon, croon, tune. Those words no doubt will all be heard on WFUV, Fordham University's public radio station in New York City, when it airs two editions of its music show "The Big Broadcast" featuring nothing but moon songs -- 101 in all -- in February. The programs will air on two Sundays, Feb. 12 and 19, 8 p.m.-midnight EST each night. For those who can't pick up 90.7 FM, the shows will be simulcast live on the Web at: www.wfuv.org, and archived there for later listening. The idea to do moon-themed shows was suggested to the program's Catholic host, Rich Conaty, who started "The Big Broadcast" 33 years ago when he was a freshman at Fordham and has continued it weekly ever since. "My listeners actually came up with the topic," Conaty told Catholic News Service in a telephone interview from his home in Hudson, N.Y. "The next thing I knew, the listeners had come up with 200 titles. I thought, this could be something interesting -- and, not incidentally, promotable."

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