With the control of the House and Senate hanging in the balance, PBS NewsHour’s Judy Woodruff leads live coverage of the results as they come in. PBS NewsHour - Vote 2022: Election Night Special airs Tuesday, November 8 from 8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. on WPSU-TV
Woodruff will be joined by a panel of analysts and campaign strategists on set including New York Times op-ed columnist David Brooks, Washington Post columnists Gary Abernathy and Perry Bacon Jr., editor-in-chief of the Cook Political Report Amy Walter, former chief of staff to former Vice President Mike Pence Marc Short, and former campaign manager for Bernie Sanders for President Faiz Shakir.
Additional reporting will be provided throughout the night by NewsHour’s chief correspondent Amna Nawaz also in studio, along with Capitol Hill correspondent Lisa Desjardins, chief Washington correspondent Geoff Bennett in Georgia, White House correspondent Laura Barrón-López and PBS NewsHour West anchor Stephanie Sy at Maricopa County headquarters, and national correspondent William Brangham reporting on ballot security.
Birthdays
Chrissy Moyer - 11/3
Laura Miller - 11/3
Sarah Caterson – 11/5
Michele Chernega – 11/8
Toni Irvin – 11/9
WPSU Radio Highlights
In Case You Missed It . . .
Commonwealth University Offers Guaranteed Admission To Grads Of 50 Pa. School Districts
WPSU’s Casey Zanowic reported on the plan by Commonwealth University — formed by the merger of Bloomsburg, Lock Haven and Mansfield Universities — offering a guaranteed admission agreement with 50 school districts across Pennsylvania, including State College, Bellefonte, Jersey Shore, Penns Valley, Keystone Central, Clearfield, and Dubois. The university will also provide merit scholarships of up to $28,000 based on student's grade point averages. Listen here.
Track How Your Pa. Municipality Is Using Federal Stimulus Funding
Min Xian of Spotlight PA filed a story that explains how citizens can find out what thier tow ins doing with stimulus funding. Read here.
Democracy Works: Francis Fukuyama On The Promise And Peril Of Liberalism
It's no secret that liberalism didn't always live up to its own ideals. In America, many people were denied equality before the law. Who counted as full human beings worthy of universal rights was contested for centuries. Renowned political philosopher Francis Fukuyama is the guest on this episode and talks about how the principles of liberalism have also, in recent decades, been pushed to new extremes by both the right and the left. Listen here.
WPSU Television Highlights
Nature “Woodpeckers: The Hole Story” - Wednesday, November 2 at 8:00 pm
Get an intimate look at what makes woodpeckers so special. With over 240 species of woodpeckers identified, explore their unique evolutionary journey and the powerful role they play in every ecosystem except Antarctica and Australia.
Great Performances “NY Phil Reopening of David Geffen Hall” - Friday, November 4 at 9:00 pm
The New York Philharmonic celebrates the reopening of its fully renovated home at Lincoln Center's David Geffen Hall with a triumphant performance of Beethoven's 9th Symphony, conducted by the Phil's music director, Jaap van Zweden. The opening of the state-of-the-art facility reaffirms the essential role of New York City's cultural life, as well as marks a historic comeback for the world's most dynamic city for the arts following the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Independent Lens “Move Me” - Monday, November 7 at 10:00 pm
Who am I now? After an accident left dancer Kelsey Peterson paralyzed, she finds new allies within the Spinal Cord Injury community while testing the limits of her recovery, body, and spirit.
VOTE 2022: Election Night Special - Tuesday, November 8 at 8:00 pm
With the control of the House and Senate hanging in the balance, PBS NewsHour's Judy Woodruff leads live coverage of the results as they come in.
NOVA “Crypto Decoded” - Wednesday, November 9 at 9:00 pm
From Bitcoin to NFTs, crypto is making headlines. But what exactly is it, and how does it work? Go beyond the hype and skepticism to unravel the truth behind a technology some say will revolutionize more than just money.
Taken Hostage: An American Experience Special - Monday, November 14 and Tuesday, November 15 at 9:00 pm
Revisit the Iran hostage crisis, when 52 Americans were held hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Unfolding like a political thriller, the story is told through the eyewitness accounts of those who took part in the events.
Industry News
NPR To Launch Donation Option For The NPR Network
NPR will debut on its website this week an option to donate to the NPR Network, its new collaborative initiative with member stations.
When the NPR board approved the NPR Network plan earlier this year, it changed the organization’s bylaws to allow it to seek individual contributions. The board will determine on an annual basis how to allocate funds that have been donated to the NPR Network. Board members will have broad authority to determine how that money is used, including giving it to member stations or providing a portion to NPR. Member station leaders make up more than half of the NPR board.
Digital users will be able to give to the NPR Network, but the default choice will be a gift to their local station. The option to give to the NPR Network will be in a secondary tab.
Pubcasters Ask FCC For Help With Boosting Cable, Satellite Carriage
PBS and America’s Public Television Stations are asking the FCC to consider how the agency can help noncommercial stations overcome barriers that are limiting viewers’ access to their channels on cable and satellite services. In comments filed Sept. 26, PBS and APTS weighed in on the FCC’s efforts to change how it defines designated market areas for TV stations.
The issue stems from ratings giant Nielsen notifying the FCC last year that it would stop publishing its annual Station Index Directory, which it has historically used in combination with household estimates to help determine a TV station’s DMA for cable-carriage rights.
Among the top concerns are cable operators consolidating headends — the facilities where they receive TV signals — into fewer locations, reducing public access to public TV programs. A noncommercial station can qualify as must-carry only if a headend is located either within its service contour or within 50 miles from the coordinates defining a television market, known as the “community of license reference point.” Many public TV stations and state networks have been adversely affected because their facilities are at the edges of DMAs to better serve audiences.
The 50-mile rule is “outdated,” said Lonna Thompson, EVP, COO and general counsel for APTS. It was enacted in 1992, and APTS and PBS said in their FCC comments that cable operators can now serve more audiences with fewer headends.
“While headend consolidation may well result in cost efficiencies for cable operators, it can disrupt long-stable viewer access to noncommercial stations when a headend is moved to a location beyond a station’s contour and more than 50 miles from its community of license reference point,” the comments said.
NAB, Xperi Urge FCC To Ease HD Radio Power Limits
Digital FM radio stations could increase their power without affecting stations in adjacent channels, the National Association of Broadcasters and Xperi argue in a petition asking the Federal Communications Commission to ease restrictions on the industry. "Approving this request will serve the public interest by improving digital FM coverage and digital FM signal penetration of buildings while continuing to minimize the probability of harmful interference to adjacent-channel stations," the organizations contend.
Governmental Relations
There is no current movement on funding for public broadcasting on the federal or state side. The federal budget is currently operating under a continuing resolution (CR) that basically uses the funding amounts for the past fiscal year as a place holder until Congress can pass the budgets for the current year. All of that will take place after the mid-term election.
The King Is Back!
Helsinki - A venomous 2.2-meter (7 foot) king cobra that escaped from its home in a Swedish zoo has returned back home by itself, bringing a happy ending to over a week-long disappearance saga.
“Houdini, as we named him, has crawled back into his terrarium,” CEO Jonas Wahlstrom of the Skansen Aquarium told the Swedish public broadcaster SVT on Sunday.
The deadly snake, whose official name is Sir Vass (Sir Hiss), escaped on Oct. 22 via a light fixture in the ceiling of its glass enclosure at the aquarium, part of the zoo at the Skansen open-air museum and park on Stockholm’s Djurgarden island. As a result of an intensive search with X-ray machines, “Houdini” was located earlier this week in a confined space near the terrarium in the insulation between two walls. Holes were drilled into the walls where the snake was hiding but the cobra disappeared from the view of the X-ray cameras in the early Sunday. It turned out the snake had given up its freedom ride and crawled back to its terrarium. [AP - 10/30/22]
For Veterans Day
“The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here [at Gettysburg], have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.” —Abraham Lincoln
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