Your Grandparents' Antenna! WYSU-FM’S New Antenna

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VOLUME 40 ~ ISSUE 1 ISSUED 6 TIMES PER YEAR not JANUARY & FEBRUARY 2011 Your Grandparents' Antenna! WYSU-FM’s new antenna. What all the fuss was about. See photo spread inside. WYSU Listener Appreciation Party

�ere’s no denying it, November was a tough month for WYSU, but with our antenna project now behind us, it’s time to celebrate! In appreciation for all of your patience and support during this past year WYSU is having a party, and you’re invited. We hope you can join us on �ursday evening, January 6, from 5:00 until 8:00 pm at the Lemon Grove Café (lemongrovecafe.com) in downtown Youngstown for an evening of entertainment listen to live jazz and thank you, our loyal listeners, for all and light refreshments. �is free, family-friendly event of your support and best wishes. If you need more infor- is open to all. Whatever the outdoor temperatures, the mation, contact Melinda Bowen-Houck at 330-941-1777. atmosphere indoors will be warm and welcoming as we We’ll see you there!

In �is Issue: New WYSU-FM Antenna FALL Fund Drive Success Help Us Make History Game of Hope WYSU’s 12th note 88.5 MHz, 90.1 MHz, 97.5 MHz

Program Listings 2011 January & February MON TUES WED THURS FRI SAT SUN Mid. Mid. Jazz 1:00 1:00

2:00 2:00 Classical 3:00 Music 3:00 4:00 4:00

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6:00 6:00 Hearts of Alternative Space Radio 7:00 Morning Edition 7:00 On the 8:00 Media Being 8:00

9:00 Weekend Weekend 9:00 Edition Edition 10:00 10:00 Car Talk A Prairie 11:00 Classical Music with Barbara Krauss Home 11:00 Wait, Wait... Companion Don’t Tell Me! Noon Noon Only A Game Car Talk 1:00 1:00 Travel with Wait, Wait... Rick Steves Don’t Tell Me! 2:00 Classical Music with Gary Sexton 2:00 Sound Says You! 3:00 Medicine 3:00 Fresh Air The Splendid A Way 4:00 Table with Words 4:00 Fresh Air The Splendid Table 5:00 All Things Considered 5:00 Weekend ATC 6:00 6:00 On the Marketplace A Prairie Media 7:00 Home 7:00 DW Newslink Companion Thistle and Lft, Rgt & Ctr Shamrock 8:00 Lincoln Ave. 8:00 Folk Festival with 9:00 NPR The Jazz Sofa The Jazz Sofa 9:00 World Performance Today with with Charles Darling Classical Music 10:00 of Rick Rick 10:00 Opera Popovich Popovich Harmonia 11:00 11:00 Classical Music Rhythm Now’s the Classical Mid. Sweet & Hot Time Music Mid.

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Over 1,240 Contributors Help Station Raise Over $114,000 The WYSU 88.5 FM Fall Fund Drive is a Success! Thank you for your generous support!

Fund drive volunteers and YSU students Elizabeth Johnson and Heather Miller.

WYSU-FM raised $114,722 during its Corporate and Foundation support for recently completed Fall Fund Drive, more the drive was provided by Go Ahead Tours, than $4,000 over the goal for the drive. 1,247 Internet Data Management Inc., Park Vista listeners contributed to the station during the Retirement Community, YSU Metro Credit, drive, including 196 new members. Stambaugh Auditorium, �e Frances & �e week-long fund drive featured many Lillian Schermer Charitable Trusts, and an giveaways and other incentives and challenges, anonymous local foundation, all of which including Daily Prize Packages, a New provided matching grants during pledge Member Prize Basket, and a Pennsylvania periods. Member Prize Package. All of the prize �e WYSU sta� would like to thank all packages included a new HD radio. of the listeners, volunteers, vendors, and Listener Don Corpier of Can�eld, Ohio, sponsors who helped to make our 2010 Fall won the grand prize, a trip for two to Italy. Fund Drive such a rousing success!

Discount Offer for WYSU Members Like you, Park Vista Retirement Community, the Mahoning Valley’s only Continuing Care Accredited organization, is a friend of WYSU and believes in supporting this wonderful asset to our community. Because of the special relationship we share, we are extending an offer to WYSU members. If you are considering retirement options for yourself or a 1216 Fifth Avenue loved one, ask about the opportunity to save up to $200 off per month for 6 (330) 746-2944 months or $2,500 off the entrance fee* for Independent Living and Assisted www.parkvista.oprs.org Living.** For more information, or to schedule a tour, please contact Josie Polis at 330-746-2944, Ext. 1550.

Up to (*Subject to meeting admissions criteria, and **currently not receiving Medicare covered services. $ 2,500 This offer may be discontinued at any time.) in savings

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Join WYSU & Barbara Krauss on Grand Tour of Italy

DEPARTURE DATE: JUNE 25, 2011

15-DAY TOUR INCLUDES:

• Round-trip air transportation with a major airline, airport transfers • The services of a bilingual Go Ahead Tour Director • A licensed local city guide in Milan, Venice, Bologna, Florence, Pompeii, Vatican City and Rome • 13 nights accommodations in comfortable, well-located hotels with twin beds and private bath or shower • All hotel service charges and tips, baggage handling and local taxes • Buffet breakfast (B) daily • 6 three-course dinners, including wine or beer (D) • Private deluxe motorcoach • Guided sightseeing and entrance fees to select sights For more information contact Barbara: as described • Go Ahead travel gift and membership in our World phone 330-941-3363 Traveler Club which includes credit toward your next tour email krauss@wysu.org or visit wysu-barbarakrauss.grouptoursite.com

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2 Panel from old antenna coming down. rs pole Assembly of 300 pound Old antenna with climbe 3 . 1 disassembling it. mounts for new antenna

p, All nine antenna panels u 5 ready for cables. First three of nine antenn Three climbers on anten 4 a 6 panels are up. installing cables. na,

6 WYSU 12th note January & February 2011 e Attaching cables from th Surveyors lining up pane 8 splitters to the antenna 7 ls 9 Part of the cable rat’s ne to correct azimuth. panel inputs. st.

The �nished product, 11 viewed from below. Note all the cables. This is not your grandparents’ antenna.

10 One of the 18 connector leaks discovered by the water highly technical “soapy” technique.

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WYSU PARTNERS with E AM OF H Saint E G O H P S�� T E Paulon WYSU HD2

Join us every Sunday at noon WYSU is pleased to announce a new partnership with �e Hope for Saint Paul Sunday on Foundation of the Mahoning Valley. �e Hope Foundation was WYSU HD2. Each week host founded in 2007 to continue the tradition established by “�e Game Bill McGlaughlin welcomes of Hope Charity Classic” that began in 2005. �e HFMV hosts internationally renowned events that raise funds for chronically and terminally ill children 365 musicians into the studio for days a year. artistry and conversation, a combination the Los Angeles WYSU members will receive a $3 discount on tickets at the door for Times calls “ultimately the Game of Hope when you present your Need to Know Card. �e addictive.” game will take place on Saturday, January 29 at Beeghly Center on the campus of Youngstown State University. Bill McGlaughlin has hosted Saint Paul Sunday since its Since 2005, the Game of Hope and the foundation have raised nearly inception in 1980. He has $45,000 for charities through the charity basketball game (�e Game served as an educator, as a of Hope Charity Classic,) �ag football, and so�ball charity events. performer (trombonist with the Philadelphia Orchestra In the evening a�er the game on the 29th, HFMV will host a and Pittsburgh Symphony), fundraiser at Antone’s Banquet Center on Market Street in Boardman and as a conductor—seven called Wine for Hope. Wine for Hope will feature �ve dining years as associate conductor stations, a gourmet dessert station and �ne wines. Tickets and more with �e Saint Paul Chamber information about this event are available at www.hopemv.org/wine. Orchestra—followed by periods as music director of orchestras in Eugene, Tucson and San Calling all High School Students! Francisco. Most recently, he Can you sing? Dance? Juggle? Stand on your head? served a 12-year engagement Can you do two of them at the same time? as music director of the Kansas City Symphony.

In the YSU College in High School Program students are Also starting this January, you earning both high school and college credit at the same time. will be able to hear Barbara Now you can win an Apple iPad for showcasing what Krauss every Saturday at noon TWO talents you can do at the SAME time! on WYSU HD2 for four hours of a�ernoon classical music. WANT MORE INFO? Check out our website: or Visit us on Facebook: www.ysu.edu/metro_credit YSU College in High School

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WEB SERVICES In addition to installing a new antenna that will significantly increase our broadcast coverage area, we have been working hard to develop new web services that our listeners will find useful. Search iPhone app Despite our best attempts to present information to our �ere are some things you just can’t do users, many times it’s just easier to type a few keywords on our mobile website, like rewind into a search bar and browse the results. So, we’ve added our live audio or browse previous a Google-powered search feature to our website. Users episodes of syndicated can take advantage of Google’s highly sophisticated programming. With the search algorithm to �nd the content they want on WYSU iPhone app, wysu.org. all that and more is possible. �e Media Player iPhone app �e feature we’re most excited about is the addition is free of of the WYSU Media Player. Until recently, we’ve only charge o�ered the ability to listen to the station through third- and free of party so�ware like VLC or Windows Media Player. advertising. However, we’re pleased to announce our �rst ever in- Not using an browser media player. As long as you have Adobe Flash iPhone? Hang or a capable HTML5 browser (such as Google Chrome tight—an Android app or Safari), you’ll be able to listen to our HD1 and HD2 is on the way as well! channels without ever leaving our website! In addition to playing audio within your browser, the WYSU Media Customized News Player will also display up-to-the-minute information �ough we’ve had news from NPR on our website for about what program is currently airing. sometime, it hasn’t been until recently that we’ve o�ered users a way to customize their news experience on the Mobile Website WYSU website. Just go the NPR News page on our site, With the advent of the current mobile revolution, we scroll to the bottom, and click “Customize your news.” have been working on a mobile website for smartphone You’ll be taken to a page where you can select categories users. �e WYSU Mobile Website at m.wysu.org has to be displayed in the NPR news section. You can either many of the features of our main website, including save those changes permanently for that computer or the ability to listen in-browser (if your phone have your preferences forgotten when you leave. supports Adobe Flash or HTML5 audio), view WYSU information, browse NPR news, and more. Of course, A Request the advantage of WYSU Mobile over our current site is We always keep our listeners in mind as we develop new a streamlined design geared toward performance over services. We use reporting data from several sources wireless networks and functionality on a small screen. to see why people come to our site and what services they use. However, statistics can’t tell us everything, so we need your feedback! If you love something, hate something, or want something, just shoot a friendly email to [email protected]. If we can do it, we will. If we can’t, we’ll let you know.

January & February 2011 WYSU 12th note 9 WYSU’s 12th note 88.5 MHz, 90.1 MHz, 97.5 MHz Now’s the Time 1/16 Folk Sounds of the 1960-1980 1/17 Cherubini: Lodoiska. Parco Era, Part II. Combos with an Anglo- della Musica, Rome; Le Cercle de with Martin Berger Scots-Irish �avor: Steeleye Span, l’Harmonie, Les Elements Chorus; Saturday, 11:00 pm Clancy Brothers, Tannahill Weavers, Jeremie Rhorer, conductor. Like 1/1 �elonious Monk. Unique artist, and Fairport Convention. Beethoven’s Fidelio, Cherubini’s Lo- who found unfathomable depths in 1/23 Country Cookin’, Part doiska is known as a “rescue opera,” the piano, in jaunty moods as well as LXXXIII. Warren’s Jerry Douglas but it was Cherubini’s drama, appear- re�ective. joins Iris Dement, Connell & Rigsby, ing about 15 years earlier, that truly helped establish the genre as a box of- 1/8 Eddie Miller. Tenor saxophonist Lily Brothers & Don Stover, Stanley �ce favorite in Europe’s opera houses. with Bob Crosby, et al., a �uent Brothers, et al. performer in the Bud Freeman line. 1/30 Contemporary Folk, Part L. 1/24 Wagner: �e Flying Dutchman. Washington National Opera; Heinz 1/15 Johnny Hodges. �e most Features Jonathan Byrd, Drew Nelson, Fricke, conductor. Wagner’s stormy glorious sound ever extracted from Sam Pacetti, and many more. one-act opera focuses on one of the alto saxophone. (�is is the show 2/6 WYSU-Folk Festival Concert. Wagner’s favorite themes—the that technical issues de�ected in �e bluegrass group Copus Hill redemptive power of love. November.) was featured at last November’s 1/31 Mozart: Don Giovanni. Vienna 1/22 Ralph Sutton. A great pianist, concert at YSU, made possible, in part, State Opera; Franz Welser-Most, o�en in the stride idiom. by listener support. conductor. Don Giovanni is a brilliant 1/29 Jimmy Rowles. Another piano 2/13 Blues in the Night, Part combination of stark human tragedy master, sly and witty, usually in a later XVI. Stars John Cephus & Phil and realistic comedy, all set to music idiom than Sutton but �rmly rooted in Wiggins, Jimmy �ackery, Victoria of limitless genius. the grand traditions. Spivey, Bessie Smith, et al. 2/7 Smetana: �e Kiss. Wexford Op- 2/5 Ralph Lalama. One of YSU’s 2/20 Humor and Satire in Folksongs. era Festival (Ireland); Jaroslav Kyzlink, �nest contributions to the jazz major With Lenny Anderson, Alan Sherman, conductor. Like Beethoven, Smetana leagues, with some newish small- Bob Miller, Gamble Rogers, Jody became deaf later in life. �e Kiss was group releases. Guthrie, �e Foremen, et al. his �rst opera a�er the onset of that 2/12 Sean Jones. Dazzling trumpeter, 2/27 �e Ballads of F. J. Child, deafness, which may account for the another YSU gi� to the wider world, Part XII. �e classic ballad emotional depth of the characters that whose prominence has not dimmed survey continues with “Clerk inhabit this touching story of troubled the �re of his playing. Saunders,” “King John,” “�e Carnal love. and the Crane,” “�e Devil’s Nine 2/19 Count Basie. Demonstrating 2/14 Verdi: La Forza del Destino. Questions,” and others. that relaxation and power can coexist, Maggio Musical, Florence; Zubin establishing a model to which other Mehta, conductor. From the historic jazz big bands might aspire. NPR World of Teatro Communale in Florence, Zubin Opera Mehta leads Verdi’s relentless drama of 2/26 Jack Teagarden. Genial, charm- politics, passion and revenge. ing entertainer, and in his time a Monday, 8:00 pm virtuoso who transformed the concep- 2/21 Mozart: Cosi fan tutte. Vienna tion of what a trombone might do. 1/3 Donizetti: �e Elixir of Love. La State Opera; Vienna State Opera Or- Fenice, Venice; Matteo Beltrami, con- chestra and Chorus; Jeremie Rhorer, Folk Festival ductor. It’s some of Donizetti’s �nest conductor. Deceptively complex, this music, and it takes the opera beyond with Charles Darling comic farce leaves many listeners a the world of farce to a place where a little bit queasy, pondering the future Sunday, 8:00 pm simple con�dence leads to life- of their most treasured relationships. changing revelations. 1/2 New Year Folk Sampler, Part 2/28 Wagner: Tannhäuser. Royal CVII. A mixture of old and new, near 1/10 Beethoven: Fidelio. Lucerne Opera House, Covent Garden; and far, contemporary and traditional Festival; Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Semyon Bychkov, conductor. folk songs. Arnold Schoenberg Chorus; Claudio Wagner’s �amboyant opera is also a 1/9 Extended Sets, Part XXXII. Abbado, conductor. Fidelio is one of cautionary tale, dramatizing the perils Features Doc Watson, Peter Paul and opera’s greatest stories of salvation, of meaningless pleasure and the risks Mary, and Mark Whitman in both literal and spiritual. incurred by artists who stretch the 30-minute sessions each. boundaries of propriety.

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Metro Credit Hiram Education Department College Bahá’ í Faith

The Butler Institute of American Art

The Schwebel Family Foundation

The Ruth H. Beecher Charitable Trust National City Bank, Co-Trustee John Weed Powers, Co-Trustee

The William B. and Kathryn Challiss Pollock Foundation

Niles Iron & Metal ® Company, Inc. polkaudio The Walter E. and Caroline H. Watson Foundation The Pamily H. Proctor Charitable Foundation National City Bank, Trustee

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WYSU-FM STAFF 2005/2008 2009 WYSU-FM April Antell-Tarantine—Announcer/Producer Nancy DeSalvo Tyler Clark Youngstown State University Melinda Bowen-Houck—Development O�cer Ron Ditullio Lark Dickstein One University Plaza Ed Goist—Development O�cer Lynn Gri�th Youngstown, OH 44555 STAFF Chris Hartman—Assistant Broadcast Engineer for John Polanski IT and Operations 2006/2009 330-941-3363 Barbara Krauss—Announcer/Producer Sherry Linkon www.wysu.org Ron Krauss—Broadcast Engineer Sarah Lown 2010 [email protected] David Luscher—Associate Director Mollie Hartup Matthew D. Gurbach Rick Popovich—Announcer/Producer Madelon Sabine Nancy Marsh-McGarry Gary Sexton—Director Susan Yerian Bill Brennan Laurie Wittkugle—Administrative Assistant Gina Schiavone Tom Zocolo—Assistant Broadcast Engineer 2007 Rebekah Sheeler ADVISORY BOARD VOLUNTEER PROGRAM Richard Hahn HOSTS/PRODUCERS Paul Kobulnicky Martin Berger—Now’s the Time Isadore Mendel The 12th Note program Charles Darling—Folk Festival Andrea Wood guide is also available Sherry Linkon—Lincoln Avenue on-line at wysu.org Victor Wan-Tatah—Focus: Africana Studies Willie Lo�on—Production Assistant 2008 wysu.org Fred Alexander STUDENT STAFF Ralph Peters Matthew Browning—Weekend Announcer and Joan Lawson Production Assistant Susan Stewart Dan DeMarco—Weekend Announcer Krystle Kimes—Weekend Announcer Shelley Taylor Joshua Kotlar—Weekend Announcer and Production Assistant Adrienne Lehotsky—Weekend Announcer Tawni McClendon—O�ce Assistant Patrick Shelton—O�ce Assistant

All programs are subject to change without notice.