WOUB Public Media at Ohio University, Athens, produces a series entitled “Our Town,” an educational documentary film about the history and heritage, events and personalities that comprise communities within our broadcast coverage area. The hour-long program features interviews with local historians, community leaders and authors who help tell the story of the town from its beginning to present day. The station hosts a free premiere screening open to the entire community before it airs on WOUB-TV.
NET partnered with the University of Nebraska Lincoln campus and key departments across campus to set up screenings of independent films and discussions focused to promote dialogue and understanding between diverse groups.
A town hall forum co-sponsored by KANW, the Albuquerque Journal and City of Albuquerque Dept. of Senior Affairs. The project emerged from an Albuquerque Journal series by reporter Diane Dimond on New Mexico’s court-monitored guardianship program for senior citizens. The resulting Town Hall Forum was held in the Journal auditorium and broadcast live. Issues included the lack of transparency in the legal system and insufficient process of managing the costs of court-appointed advisors.
In front of a live audience in our studio we conduct an interview with three creative, influential Nashvillians from different fields using a common theme. For example, in a theme about investigators, we included an investigative reporter, a private eye, and a disease detective. Following the taping, we serve refreshments and provide an opportunity to meet our guests. We edit each interview session into a 25-minute podcast and a few short radio pieces, garnering as many as 80,000 downloads.
Atlanta PBA has launched a year-long series of community events focused on civic engagement and policy education with a secondary goal of enticing a younger, more diverse audience into political involvement. PBA plans to develop community conversations on Governance & Politics, Education, Health and Healthcare, Gentrification & Income inequality, Environmental Sustainability & Conservation, and Diversity in Arts & Culture. Each of the events will be recorded for broadcast on either the radio, TV or web.
Join hosts Jim Braude and Margery Eagan on Boston Public Radio for smart local conversation with leaders and thinkers shaping Boston. A 3 hour daily, local talk show that provides a “town square” for Boston and surrounding communities. Ask the Governor, Ask the Mayor, Ask the Police Chief. Combines Local and National Topics, phones, regular guests, news quiz… sounds like no other public radio show, consistently #1 in market
Precious Lives is a multiplatform civic engagement project that examines the crisis of gun violence among young people in the Milwaukee area. Over its two-year life, it aspires to “open conversations” between individuals, organizations and community constituencies. Partners include 371 Productions; public radio’s WUWM-FM; WNOV-AM, a black community-oriented commercial station; the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; and the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism.
WCTE launched a parental engagement program with a local company, Jackson Kayak, to reach at-risk families in the workplace. The parents who are employed by the company needed support and hands on training to improve their ability to parent their children to help them prepare for school and life. Twenty-five parents now attend monthly lunchtime sessions with each session centered around PBS KIDS programs, activities, and take-home projects to provide engagement moments with their kids.
Double Down, now in its 13th season, is a televised Jeopardy-like half-hour weekly game show for teams of high school students from WCNY’s viewing area. Teams of students compete in matches that consist of four rounds, answering questions on a variety of topics. Each show is recorded without interruption in the television studios at WCNY and shows are broadcast on Sunday nights. The season kicks off in October with a “Qualifying Day” and ends with the Finals Matchup in January.
WMRA partnered with a local micro-brewery to host an evening of conversation with a published—often local—authors. Each person with a member card gets a free beer. These events proved were so successful that we had to limit crowds by offering on our website. Since the brewery does not offer complete dining, we also helped local restaurants and a food trucks who made their services available to the attendees.
Our local discussion series hosted at bars, brew pubs… it’s growing in popularity. “Politics and a Pint is back! Join WOSU Public Media for a second round of lively political discussion in a casual setting on Wednesday, March 16 from 5:30-7:30pm at Dempsey’s Food & Spirits on S. High Street.
Have you ever wondered what makes a new song into a good song? Or why we like the songs we like? West Virginia Public Broadcasting hosts #WhyListen: First Listen Music Party at venues throughout the state. Free by RSVP required by email. Meet Mountain Stage hosts and vote on your favorite new bands and songs.
Annual Classical Talent contest for Minnesota High school singers, instrumentalists, composers. Part of Classical MPRs social engagement with young musicians. We also do instrument drives and artist in residence programs.
Kids Recording Kids is KMFA’s week-long summer radio camp for rising eighth and ninth graders. Camp participants have the opportunity to create radio spots, record live performances, and conduct interviews with local young musicians. Over the course of the week, Kids Recording Kids campers learn: on-air speaking techniques, live recording skills, radio interviewing skills and editing and audio production techniques. KMFA created this program in 2011 to expand community outreach.
Unheard L.A. is a three-part, live event series where storytellers share tales about life in Southern CA. To gather stories, we used the Public Insight Network, texting through Groundsource, postcards at 70 public libraries, multiple social media platforms, eventually collecting 250 submissions. We placed 25 storytellers in 3 live events, which L.A. Weekly made its ‘pick of the week.’ An attendee called it “The best reflection of L.A. that I have ever seen on stage.” Facebook event posts reached nearly 38,000 people.
Over the past two years KSJD has worked to develop and produce three story-telling initiatives that showcase the importance of first-person story – The Raven Narratives (themed live events with story-tellers from the Four Corners region); Dragon Tales (live events with at-risk youth telling their stories), and Mesa Verde Voices (a podcast series with the voices of archaeologists who study the prehistory of the Southwest and the voices of modern Pueblo peoples who descended from the prehistoric peoples that lived there.)
SD.Net is a service of South Dakota Public Broadcasting. SD.net furthers SDPB’s mission by providing citizens with live and on-demand access to hearings and floor debate of the South Dakota Legislature, Public Utilities Commission Meetings, other Boards & Commissions, Supreme Court Hearings, SDHSAA Championship events, and many, many more types of events. We offer audio and video webcast services to state agencies, boards and commissions, the state legislature, and for hire.
Lost Rivers Sessions started as a musical TV program and expanded to a monthly radio and live concert series showcasing emerging artists in Bowling Green.
