Volume 43 – Issue 4 October/December WWYYSSUU IS In This Issue: 4455 So we partied like it was 1969! WYSU marks a big birthday on October 23. That is the date the station first went on the air in 1969. This past August station staffers and supporters got a jump on the celebration by gathering for an anniversary party at the Tyler History Center in downtown Youngstown. The crowd of 200 enjoyed a cocktail party with a menu that reflected parties of the late 1960s and music of the era Page Three Who We Are at 45 by the local trio Following June. Some guests even took the theme to another level by dressing for the period! Thank you to all of our supporters and YSU friends who came out to celebrate with us. Enjoy the pictures!
Page Six What We Have Been Up to This Summer!
Page Four Alaska on the Horizon
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Radio you need to know. Program Listings 2014 October/December MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY Mid. Mid.
1:00 Jazz 1:00 Midnight - 2 a.m. 2:00 Classical Music 2:00 Midnight - 5 a.m. (Mon. - Fri.) 2 a.m. - 6 a.m. (Sat. - Sun.) 3:00 3:00
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6:00 6:00 Hearts of Space Alternative Radio Morning Edition 6 a.m. - 7 a.m. 6 a.m. - 7 a.m. 7:00 5 a.m. - 9 a.m. 7:00 On the Media On Being 7 a.m. - 8 a.m. 7 a.m. - 8 a.m. 8:00 8:00
Weekend Edition Weekend Edition 9:00 8 a.m. - 10 a.m. 8 a.m. - 10 a.m. 9:00
10:00 10:00 Car Talk Classical Music with Barbara Krauss 10 a.m - 11 a.m. A Prairie Home 11:00 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Companion 11:00 Wait, Wait ... Don’t Tell Me! 10 a.m. - Noon 11 a.m. - Noon Noon Noon TED Radio Hour Car Talk Noon - 1 p.m. Noon - 1 p.m. 1:00 1:00 Fresh Air Weekend Wait, Wait ... Don’t Tell Me! Performance 1 p.m. - 2 p.m. 1 p.m. - 2 p.m. 2:00 Classical Music with Gary Sexton Today 2:00 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. Travel with Rick Steves Says You! 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. 3:00 3:00 Fresh Air Sound Medicine A Way with Words 3 p.m. - 4 p.m. 3 p.m. - 4 p.m. 3 p.m. - 4 p.m. 4:00 4:00 Only A Game The Splendid Table 4 p.m. - 5 p.m. 4 p.m. - 5 p.m. 5:00 5:00 All Things Considered Weekend ATC 4 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. 5 p.m. - 6 p.m. 6:00 6:00 On the Media A Prairie Home Marketplace, 6:30 p.m. - 7 p.m. 6 p.m. - 7 p.m. 7:00 Companion 7:00 Looking Out, 7 - 7:30 Fresh Air 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. Thistle and Shamrock 7 p.m. - 8 p.m. The Allegheny Front 7 p.m. - 8 p.m. 8:00 8:00 Folk Festival with Charles Darling 9:00 9:00 World of Performance Today The Jazz Sofa with The Jazz Sofa with 8 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Opera Rick Popovich Rick Popovich 8 p.m. - 11 p.m. Classical Music, 9:30 - 10 10:00 8 p.m. - 11 p.m. 8 p.m. - 11 p.m. 8 p.m. - 11 p.m. 10:00 Harmonia 10 p.m. - 11 p.m. 11:00 11:00 Classical Music Jazz Now’s the Time Classical Music 11 p.m. - Midnight 11 p.m. - Midnight 11 p.m. - Midnight 11 p.m. - Midnight Mid. Mid. All programs are subject to change without notice.
2 • WYSU educates. As the university teaches through classes, WYSU teaches the community by means WHO WE 88.5 FM 88.5 FM of its programming. Through commentaries provided by university ARE at personnel and the community at large, as well as high quality local public affairs and news and As WYSU marks this anniversary • WYSU reaches deep into the information programs, WYSU 45Radio you need to know. during a challenging year, we think community. WYSU reaches more encourages thoughtful discussion and it is important to reflect on what we members of the community on a offers a forum for civil discourse. The do and why we matter, and to share daily and weekly basis than any other station provides an atmosphere of these thoughts with you, our valued entity of YSU,88.5 and FM it disseminates fairness and openness necessary for information about campus and the critical-thinking person to make friends and supporters. Radio you need to know. community activities completely free important decisions about politics, • Who we are. Youngstown State of charge. social culture and human awareness, University owns and operates WYSU- • WYSU provides valuable experience and provides an opportunity for the FM, a 50,000-watt radio station at for students. Youngstown State free exchange of ideas in a respectful 88.5 FM, that serves the Mahoning University students whose and scholarly atmosphere. and Shenango Valley region from its qualifications meet professional • WYSU is a university for the public. studios in Cushwa Hall. The station broadcasting standards are employed WYSU makes learning accessible to primarily broadcasts a mix of news to support various aspects of the everyone. WYSU helps listeners in and information, classical music and station’s operations, including air their life-long learning pursuits, helps jazz on its main analog channel, and a work, providing them with valuable them grow, make more informed 24-hour classical music service on its hands-on learning experiences decisions, lead more fulfilling lives, HD2 channel. that add substantially to their become better and more involved • WYSU’s reputation. WYSU-FM is future work resumes. There are citizens, and helps make northeast non-commercial, listener-supported, many opportunities for students to Ohio and western Pennsylvania a community-based public radio, which supplement their formal education better place to live. has built a reputation over the past with the daily in-depth news and • WYSU provides a home for classical 45 years as the region’s leading source information services provided by music. WYSU is the community’s sole for quality programming. Its mission WYSU. These public radio programs radio source for classical music, one of to provide trusted, in-depth news; are also often used in classrooms. the treasures of our culture. With the engaging conversation on important • WYSU advances YSU’s mission. steady decline of fine arts instruction issues; and music that stimulates the WYSU directly supports the mission in our schools today, WYSU may well mind and spirit, has earned it the and strategic goals of Youngstown be the only readily available source for reputation of being a cultural and State University in the following ways: classical music in years to come. intellectual bastion for this area. • Being a key disseminator of • WYSU operates efficiently. Twenty- • WYSU is the University’s most knowledge to the region at large four hour per day radio coverage powerful ambassador. As one • Fostering collaboration to enrich on two major channels is managed of Youngstown State University’s the region and the world by a staff of seven highly motivated strongest daily links to the and dedicated full-time professional • community, WYSU strives to be a Integrating teaching, learning, personnel who work together to valuable asset to that community by scholarship, and civic engagement cover air shifts, marketing and providing a forum that promotes the • Fostering understanding of underwriting, engineering, IT and artistic and intellectual activities and diversity, sustainability, and global clerical duties for the station. (It may values of the university, its faculty perspectives be worth noting that this number and personnel. Thousands of listeners • Advancing the intellectual and is significantly below the staffing throughout Northeastern Ohio and cultural life of the city, region and enjoyed by other public radio stations Western Pennsylvania equate WYSU world. serving similar sized markets.) – and by extension, Youngstown State continued on page 4 University – with integrity, cultural growth and intellectual advancement. 3 Who We Are at 45 • WYSU is an excellent investment. support through underwriting for by $74,294, or 12.2%, and the ongoing The quantitative return on YSU’s about 12% of the station’s operating pursuit of increasing our audience investment in WYSU is 4 – 1.* For budget. The strategy for FY2015 and corporate support will no doubt every dollar YSU invests in WYSU, is to increase membership by 10% be critical in addressing future WYSU returns $4 in public service over FY2014, underwriting by financial demands. It will be a difficult and public relations annual value to 10% over 2014, and to establish endeavor, considering the economic Youngstown State University. That a major gift support program for realities of this area, but WYSU is equates to around $2.1 million per general operations, thus lessening constantly striving to find ways to year. the financial responsibility on increase exposure and revenue, and • Listener support and corporate Youngstown State University. if past experience is an indicator, our underwriting contribute greatly • WYSU’s economic outlook. These are loyal audience will prove pivotal to to the station’s self-sustainability. extremely challenging economic times our success. Membership support for WYSU-FM for YSU, and for WYSU. WYSU has *University Station Alliance Quantitative accounts for about 25%, and business already reduced its operating budget Worth Study, July 2013 LASKAN CRUISE A is on the Horizon for WYSU Tour! by Barbara Krauss If you’ve ever dreamed of visiting Alaska, your chance is coming up, and as hundreds of past travelers can tell you, there is simply no better way to do it than with the WYSU tour group! Everything is managed by the travel experts at Go Ahead Tours out of Boston, and this package is almost entirely inclusive, covering round trip airfare, most of your meals, a full time tour guide and passage on the Royal Caribbean’s Celestial Solstice for a tour along Alaska’s western coastline. There will be an opportunity to experience some of Alaska’s winding waterways, some magnificent towering blue glaciers and rushing waterfalls, and whale sighting is practically guaranteed! If that is not enough for you, Gold Rush history, spectacular cities from Seattle to Skagway, and the blooming gardens of Victoria, British Columbia, are all part of this wonderful trip. Departure is next July, but our roster is filling up fast, so please call or write for a free brochure today: 330-941-3363, or e-mail krauss@wysu.org for more details.
More Staff Flashbacks For our Staff Flashback this month – and just in time to give you some ideas for a Halloween costume – we have a great group shot at some now forgotten event circa 1991. Can you guess who the current or past WYSU employees are in this photo?
4 ALASKAN CRUISE
5 More photos from the th Anniversary 4455 Party
6 So what were WYSU folks up to this summer? Take a
Gary and Sue Sexton at the Fellows Riverside Gardens Party look!
Rick Popovich and Tricia Perry at the Summer Festival of the Arts
Bill George at Art On The Green, Hudson, Ohio
Blossom Musical Festival
Gina Marinelli at the McDonough Museum for the Blossom Musical Festival STORYCORPS PROJECT
7 CHANGES COMING FOR ASHTABULA OPERATION by Ron Krauss
Very shortly, our operation in the Commission resulting in the granting If you live in the Ashtabula area Ashtabula region will undergo some of a construction permit. Replacement or otherwise use our Ashtabula changes. W211AL - 90.1 will be equipment has been ordered, and it transmitter, we invite you to submit any changing to W201DP - 88.1. We is anticipated that the work should be reception reports to engineering@wysu. are making these changes to avoid completed by the end of September. org (the engineer) after the frequency potential interferences to other licensed Any outage experienced in the change has taken place. broadcasters in the area. Ashtabula area is expected to be a brief one while awaiting final Commission 88.5 FM In order for this move to take place, approval after 88.5all the equipment FM is engineering studies have been installed and operating as outlined in completed, and a displacement our construction permit. application has been filed and approved with the Federal Communications
save the date RadioWhere you need is to know.Lisa Long Going 20th Anniversary Celebration and Why? This past spring we were excited to introduce you MAD to Lisa Long,88.5 who filledFM the position of WYSU’s About the Arts Development Director after Ed Goist departed. UnfortunatelyRadio you need Lisa’s to know. time here has ended all too Friday soon, and we said good-bye to her at the end of February 20 August. We want you to know this was not OUR 2015 plan, nor was it Lisa’s. Budget cuts campus-wide new venue moved people out of their jobs, and depending Stambaugh Auditorium on their seniority status in YSU’s labor unions, Ballroom some of those people had the ability to bump A benefit for WYSU 88.5 FM into other positions on campus. That is what has happened here at WYSU. While we are sad and the McDonough Museum of Art to say good-bye to Lisa, we are happy to report YSU’s Center for Contemporary Art that she has found a great job as the head of Advancement at Salem Regional Health Center. save the date We wish her well! Doing Good Join us for Doing Good hosted by Gina Marinelli Tuesdays at 6:45 and 8:45 a.m. on 88.5 WYSU. From council meetings to community gardens to the latest news at YSU, this interview program highlights those making a positive difference in the Mahoning Valley.
Dr. Donna DeBlasio, YSU History Department and Gina Marinelli
8 Now’s The Time with Martin Berger, Saturday, 11 pm
10/4 Art Blakey. Forceful, ebullient but the polish didn’t drown out the 12/6 Chuck Berry. One of the drummer and leader, with several liveliness. great tenor saxophonists of the ’30s, generations of his Jazz Messengers including several recordings with the and in other settings. 11/8 Zoot Sims. A strong, forceful Cab Calloway band; a brilliant career personal development of the Lester cut short by a car crash in the WYSU- 10/11 Wayne Shorter. Influential Young linear approach to jazz tenor FM listening area. saxophonist, one of the many saxophone. Messengers alumni. 12/13 Joe Henderson. One of the 11/15 Sean Jones. Trumpeter, one most proficient and prolific tenormen 10/18 Jazz and the Second World of our own, quickly risen to great of the modern era. War - Traditional Revival. A boom eminence, including his latest and in original formula New Orleans most spontaneous recording. 12/20 Ray Brown. Revered modern and Chicago styles challenges the bassist, who played with everybody dominance of the big bands. 11/22 Orrin Evans. Rising star he deemed worthy; we can’t explore as pianist and leader, frequent all of his associations, but we’ll sample 10/25 Jazz and the War – Bop. A colleague of Sean Jones. widely. revolutionary new idiom emerges. 11/29 Kenny Burrell. Modern 12/27 Charles Mingus. Bassist and 11/1 Stan Kenton. The modern mainstream guitarist, as leader and leader, including material from the jazz big band, sometimes really big, sideman. posthumous Revenge release.
DO YOU HAVE AN EVENT? WE HAVE A CALENDAR!
Did you know WYSU provides a Community Calendar page as a public service? You can enter your event by going to our website – wysu.org. Everyone is welcome to submit events to the calendar, though not everyone’s submission will be published or announced on air. We specialize in fine and performing art events, large community events and YSU events. This is a free service to the public, but as such, we do not promise airing frequency or location. You can contact Tricia at 330-941-1777 if you would like something more guaranteed, such as underwriting or a day sponsorship. It is easy to enter your event. Go to wysu.org and visit the Community Calendar page under the COMMUNITY menu. Remember to input all the necessary information, including a contact number or email address.
9 WYSU STAFF Folk Festival, with Charles Darling Chris Hartman - Sunday, 8:00 pm Assistant Broadcast Engineer for IT & Operations Barbara Krauss - Announcer/Producer Ron Krauss - Broadcast Engineer 10/5 Jimmie Rodgers: A Musical 11/23 Folk Sampler, Part CXIX. Old David Luscher - Associate Director Retrospective. “The Singing and new sounds with the Carolina Tricia Perry - Funding Officer Chocolate Drops and Dom Flemons Brakeman” has inspired performers Rick Popovich - Announcer/Producer from Woody Guthrie to Bob Dylan, with 1920s blues updates. Much more. Gary Sexton - Director from Leadbelly to Elvis Presley. Features Rodgers and musicians who 11/30 Folk Music from A to Z, Part Laurie Wittkugle - Administrative Assistant recorded his music. VII (S-Z). Ending the brief survey of folk music with: the Seegers, Bessie PROGRAM HOSTS/PRODUCERS 10/12 Country Cookin’, Part XIIIC. Smith, Rosalie Sorrels, Sonny Terry, Martin Berger - Now’s the Time From Old Crow Medicine Show to Dave Van Ronk, Doc Watson, Josh Sarah Brown-Clark - Looking Out Lefty Frizzell, from Tad Marks to Bob White, et al. Bonnie Burdman - Looking Out Wills; the recipes’ ingredients are Charles Darling - Folk Festival long-lasting. 12/7 Pearl Harbor: A Day of Infamy. Willie Lofton - Production Assistant Relive the dark days of December, Gina Marinelli – Doing Good 10/19 Folk Sampler. A folk music 1941, and the brighter days that would George McCloud - Looking Out potpourri. Show your support follow with a musical trip back to David Porter - Looking Out for Folk Festival, which I have World War II. hosted since 1969, by listening and STUDENT STAFF becoming a member. 12/14 Play it again, Sam, Part IX. Contrasts two or more versions of Aamber Hopson - Office Assistant 10/26 Supernatural Tales, Part II. A the same song, including “Sam Bass,” Dakesha Jordan - Weekend Announcer Halloween collection of magical and “Rolling Home,” “This Land Is Your Daniel Paterson - Weekend Announcer menacing tales with Steeleye Span, L an d .” Gregory Sili - Music Librarian Roberts & Barrand, Gordon Bok and Rachael Swanson - Music Librarian, Weekend Announcer Archie Fisher. 12/21 A Christmas Celebration. Tyler Tsangaris-Braatz - Office Assistant Appropriate folk and religious music in keeping with the season. 11/2 Forty-Five Years and Still ADVISORY BOARD Counting. I began Folk Festival on November 1, 1969, so this features 12/28 Celebration Fortieth – Update. 2009/2012 2012 folk music from then to the 46th year! An encore with five additional years Lark Dickstein Stacey Adger added at the end. Lynn Griffith LuWayne Annos 11/9 Animal Folk. Dogs, cats, frogs, John Polanski Judy Barron manatees, elephants, and certainly Fr. Bob Bonnot 2010/2013 Leslie Cusano penguins are subjects or objects Nancy Marsh in this musical toast to the animal World of Opera Melinda Crawford Perttu Monday, 8:00 pm Bill Brennan kingdom. Gina 2013 Schiavone Matt Alspaugh 11/16 Extended Sets, Part VL. World of Opera listings were not Rebekah Karen O’Malia-Zauderer Rambling Jack Elliott, Townes available at press time. Sheeler Van Zandt, and the New Lost 2014 City Ramblers, each in 30-minute 2011/2014 Heidi Daniel segments. All programs are subject to change Gary Patricia Fleming without notice. Davenport Lynn Green Maggie Tom Hull McClendon Chris Meta Jessica Winters This newsletter is printed on recycled paper. The newsletter is also available online at wysu.org 10 Current WYSU Underwriters
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