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First Coast Connect
Weekdays LIVE 9 a.m., Rebroadcast 8 p.m. and 1 a.m.

First Coast Connect is an hour-long call-in program that features local newsmakers, civic and community leaders, artists and people planning a variety of events across Northeast Florida, along with a roundtable of local media personalities and civic leaders each Friday.

First Coast Connect is sponsored in part by Baptist Health and North Florida TPO.

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  • Anthony Austin, evening anchor at First Coast News, donates bone marrow which will be transplanted into a leukemia patient.
    First Coast Connect
    On Thursday’s show: Anchor and donor Anthony Austin
    How a promise made 17 years ago led the First Coast News anchorman to help a stranger with leukemia.
  • First Coast Connect
    The economic impact of immigration policies
    How changing immigration policies are making it tougher for employers to comply with the law.
  • Still images taken from a viral video show 22-year-old William McNeil Jr. after JSO officers break his driver side window and strike him in the head.
    First Coast Connect
    Viral video shows JSO officer punching motorist
    A traffic stop in February becomes topical news after the driver’s attorney releases the shocking video.
  • Noah Hertz, St. Johns County reporter with Jacksonville Today.
    First Coast Connect
    St. Johns County headlines
    We check in with Jacksonville Today beat reporter Noah Hertz about what’s happening in the state’s fastest growing coastal county.
  • First Coast Connect
    First Coast Week in Review
    It’s the week’s biggest headlines, from questions about Alligator Alcatraz contracts to City Council politics over committee appointments.
  • Mayor Donna Deegan gives her annual budget address to City Council on Monday, July 14, 2025, as President Kevin Carrico looks on.
    First Coast Connect
    Breaking down the budget
    Government expert Chris Hand helps decipher what the mayor’s spending plan means for government priorities — and taxpayers.
  • Formal group photograph of the Supreme Court as it was comprised on June 30, 2022, after Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson joined the court. Seated from left are Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., and Justices Samuel A. Alito and Elena Kagan. Standing from left are Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Neil M. Gorsuch, Brett M. Kavanaugh and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
    First Coast Connect
    A SCOTUS term like no other
    From the shadow docket to the expansion of presidential powers, we ask experts in constitutional law to help interpret a consequential Supreme Court term.
  • A sexual assault evidence collection kit is checked in by a forensic analyst for testing in the biology lab at the Houston Forensic Science Center Thursday, April 2, 2015, in Houston. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
    First Coast Connect
    Prosecuting cold case rapes
    A lead sex crimes prosecutor explains how federal funding and advanced DNA testing have helped the local State Attorney’s Office build successful cases out of the state’s rape kit backlog.
  • First Coast Connect
    Florida doubles down on noncompete agreements
    We ask a local attorney how the state’s extension of noncompete restrictions on employees could affect your next job hunt.
  • Sylvia Perry, editor, Jacksonville Free Press
    First Coast Connect
    First Coast Week in Review
    It’s the week’s biggest headlines, from deep cuts to Jacksonville’s Emerald Trail to deep fakes of Marco Rubio.