In the final season of this “instantly irresistible saga”, nurse Sarah Nordmann and the wealthy Bligh clan return for more romance, intrigue, and family drama in this satisfying send-off to the beloved Australian series.
PBS NewsHour Challenge
Congratulations to Jessica Peters, the WPSU team, and everyone who helped publicize and champion this successful social media campaign! The goal of $5,000 by Friday, February 28th was met easily and means that the station will not be interrupting the PBS NewsHour during the March on-air drive. Huzzah!
Birthdays
Allen Goldate - 3/1
Jennifer Bryan - 3/6
Topher Yorks - 3/8
WPSU Radio Highlights
BookMark 03/05 & 03/08 – “Pennsylvania Furnace” by Julie Swarstad Johnson.
On BookMark, the community book review show, WPSU listeners talk about the books they’ve recently enjoyed. This week, a book of poems about 19th-century Pennsylvania. Reviewer Abby Minor is the founding director of Ridgelines Language Arts, a nonprofit that provides community writing programs.
In Case You Missed It . . .
PSU Professor Focuses On Women Of Color In The Suffrage Movement WPSU's Kaitlyn Aguiles talked with Lori Ginzberg, the author of "Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life,” during the 100 year anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. The women's suffrage movement is linked to promiment figures like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. These two women are remembered as fighting for the rights of all women. But Ginzberg says that while Cady Stanton was passionate about the suffragist movement, she did not think everyone deserved the right to vote.
WPSU’s Health Minute: Go Red for Women Go Red for Women is a national movement sponsored by the American Heart Association to end heart disease in women.
Democracy Works: Black Politics Then And Now
This week, Michael Berkman is taking over the interviewer's chair for a roundtable discussion on black politics with Ray Block and Candis Watts Smith, who are associate professors of African American studies and political science at Penn State. Block is the author of "Losing Power: Americans and Racial Polarization in Tennessee Politics". Smith is the author of "Stay Woke: A People's Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter" and "Racial Stasis: The Millennial Generation and the Stagnation of Racial Attitudes in American Politics.”
WPSU Television Highlights
Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement Guide - Sunday, March 1 at 6:00pm
Join the acclaimed personal finance expert for essential advice on planning for and thriving in retirement. With empathy, straight talk and humor, Suze provides information about key steps for anyone trying to achieve their "ultimate retirement."
The Best of Celtic Woman - Sunday, March 1 at 8:00pm
Be transported to Ireland to celebrate magical moments and memories from 15 years of making music. Filled with favorite songs from their journey so far, this new special showcases Celtic Woman's angelic voices and instrumental virtuosity.
Julia Child’s Best Bites - Monday, March 2 at 8:00pm
]Celebrate the first lady of cooking with Martha Stewart, Jacques Pepin, Vivian Howard, Marcus Samuelsson, Jose Andres, Eric Ripert, Rick Bayless and more. Chefs and celebrities share personal insights as they screen Julia's most-beloved episodes.
Chuck Berry: Brown-Eyed Handsome Man - Monday, March 2 at 9:30pm
Celebrate the father of rock-'n'-roll with legendary artists including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Jimi Hendrix, Tom Petty, Linda Ronstadt, Jeff Lynne and more performing favorite songs by their self-proclaimed hero.
Secret Life of Farm Animals - Wednesday, March 4 at 8:00pm
Against the backdrop of a farming season we follow the birth and development of three animal characters – a lamb, a calf and a piglet and a whole supporting cast of animals – from harvest mice to ducklings – who make their own contribution to farm life.
Rise Up: Songs of the Women’s Movement - Friday, March 6 at 8:30pm
Celebrate the centennial of women's right to vote through popular music, including performances by Aretha Franklin, Lesley Gore, Helen Reddy, Loretta Lynn, Gloria Gaynor, Dolly Parton, Joan Jett, Cyndi Lauper, Melissa Etheridge, Tina Turner and more.
Sesame Street: 50 Years & Still Sunny - Tuesday, March 10 at 8:00pm
Join host Gloria Estefan for a 50th anniversary celebration of the iconic children's series. This new documentary includes celebrity appearances, interviews with puppeteers and video clips of Sesame Street's most unforgettable moments.
Bluegrass Now! - Tuesday, March 10 at 9:30pm
Join Rhonda Vincent and Jim Lauderdale for a grand celebration of Bluegrass with artists Alison Brown, Becky Buller, Dan Tyminski, Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen, Larry Sparks, Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper, Missy Raines and Molly Tuttle.
Celtic Thunder Ireland - Saturday, March 14 at 8:30pm
A celebration of 10 years of Celtic Thunder, featuring the songs and performances that launched the group into the hearts of fans around the world.
Doo Wop to Pop Rock: My Music Celebrates 20 Years - Sunday, March 15 at 6:00pm
Celebrate 20 years of greatest hit songs from the 50s to the 70s featuring legendary performers The Kingston Trio, Glen Campbell, Aretha Franklin, Engelbert Humperdinck, Judy Collins, Davy Jones, Mel Carter, Patti Page and more.
Legislative Update
Board Chair Greg Petersen, Board Emeritus member Peggy Morgan, General Manager Isabel Reinert and Community Engagement Director Carolyn Donaldson made visits this past week to members of Congress including; Congressman Glenn GT Thompson, (R-15th PA); Congressman Fred Keller, (R- 12th PA); and Congressman John Joyce's Legislative Asst. Frederic Sottnick (R- 13th PA), to advocate for public broadcasting funding. The group thanked them for their continued support and asked for a much-needed increase in funding of $50 million for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to $515 million in Fiscal Year (FY) 2023. The group also requested a small increase in funding of $1 million for the Ready To Learn program to $30 million and to maintain level funding of $20 million for public broadcasting interconnection in FY 2021.
One additional ask was for $20 million that would be administered by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for stations to use to refurbish and make resilient their transmission facilities. Public broadcasters have embraced their public safety mission and are focused on maximizing their broadcast spectrum to help keep the public safe. Public television stations are the backbone of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) through which the President of the United States can alert the American people to national emergencies. Many local public television stations also serve as their State’s primary EAS hub for sever weather and AMBER alerts. Public television spectrum is critical to the Wireless Emergency Alert system that sends cell subscribers geo-targeted text messages in the event of a local emergency – reaching them wherever they are in time of crisis.
A report on the APTS Summit meeting that Peggy, Isabel and Greg attended prior to the congressional meetings, will be included in the next NOOZ.
Industry News
New Podcast Focuses On Stories Of Recovery, With A Host Who’s Been There
“I’m Vic Vela. A journalist. A storyteller. And a recovering drug addict.” That’s how Vic Vela introduces himself as the host of Colorado Public Radio’s newest podcast, "Back From Broken," which began 2/28. "Back From Broken" is what Vela calls How I Built This but with a focus on recovery. Vela, a host and reporter for CPR, draws out from interviewees stories of dealing with drug use, mental illness and physical ailments. He also opens up about his own history with drugs and recovery. The show’s 10 episodes will drop every other Friday. Guests include singer-songwriter Anders Osborne, who discusses his own substance use disorder, and Boston Red Sox groundskeeper David Mellor, who became afflicted with PTSD after a car accident. Vela guides his subjects through their stories, sharing his emotional responses and celebrating their recoveries.
Minnesota University Considers Selling Radio Station To Local Pubcaster
A public television station in Duluth, Minn., has agreed to a letter of intent to buy public radio station KUMD in Duluth. If approved by KUMD’s licensee, the University of Minnesota system, the station would be sold to the Duluth-Superior Area Educational Television Corp., which owns PBS station WDSE, for $175,000. The University of Minnesota Duluth also signed the letter of intent. It is “increasingly difficult” for the university to provide necessary financial support for operations and maintenance of the station and its broadcasting equipment, Lendley Black, chancellor of the University of Minnesota Duluth, told the board of regents’ finance and operations committee Thursday.
A rider on the New York City subway employed a novel way of protecting his personal space on Feb. 7, Fox News reported. The seated passenger removed a bottle of ketchup from his bag and squirted a squiggly perimeter on the floor around his seat, apparently hoping to keep fellow straphangers away. Twitter erupted with funny comments after one user posted a photo: "Gotta protect yourself from the mustard demons they can't cross the barrier" and "What brand of ketchup though?" New York City Transit got a taste of the problem and promised to clean it up right away. [Fox News, 2/8/2020]
Quotables
"Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year." - Ogden Nash
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