So We Partied Like It Was 1969! WYSU Marks a Big Birthday on October 23
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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 more photos on page 6 88.5 FM 88.5 FM Radio you need to know. 88.5 Youngstown 90.1 Ashtabula 97.5 New Wilmington Radio you need to know. 88.5 FM 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 4:00 4:00 5:00 5:00 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.