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.
In order to expand the reach and impact of its health content to low-income and underserved audiences, ideastream partnered with a Federally Qualified Health Center to distribute ideastream’s locally-produced three-hour healh video compilation throughout the Center’s five clinics. The initiative is called the Be Well Health Network.
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.
“What Listening Looks Like” asked people to show us where they listen to our radio services and had them take a selfie and send it to us to be shared on our website. We had an underwriter who would donate $5 for every photo submitted.
WETA launched Boundary Stones Local History Blog in 2012 to dig up interesting stories from the community past. To date, over 400 articles have been posted on a variety of DC-area history topics including politics, music, pop culture, crime, sports, and weather. Pieces are promoted via the station’s Facebook and Twitter accounts where they are routinely among the most popular. The station also has a dedicated Boundary Stones Twitter account to discuss the articles and engage around local history topics.
For two years WXXI Classical has presented Performance Rochester. During April, the station broadcasts live performances of local groups recorded in local concert halls or at WXXI, highlighting one group performance each day. Many ensembles are involved and the music covers all time periods and a variety of instrumentation and voices. WXXI’s lists all pieces on its website with links to pages with more detail and podcasts of each piece. Social media is used to promote the initiative.
Columbus Neighborhoods is a multi-platform project that originally produced 12 one-hour historical-cultural TV documentaries. It is now a magazine-type weekly primetime 30 min TV series with a robust digital presence. The project has high local recognition and is now partnering with WOSU’s radio news operation on a series about Vietnam vets and another about the wealth disparity in Columbus. The video segments are evolving from pure history to history as context for serious local issues.
Over an intensive two-days in November 2016 WGBH welcomed parents, early childhood educators, librarians, pediatricians, designers, and developers to brainstorm apps that parents could use with their children. Working teams focused on apps for family health and wellness. Outcome ideas, included Lil Chef that involves children in cooking and mealtime prep, and, Arthur Out Loud that allows children to practice speaking aloud by themselves or with others using ARTHUR characters as their avatars.
A partnership between WXXI and the Golisano Foundation to promote inclusion for people with intellectual and physical disabilities in all aspect of community life. As a result of this project, the news department has developed an inclusion beat — the Inclusion Desk — that will develop stories of inclusiveness to be broadly shared. Partnerships include local universities, museums, educators, and major local foundations.
When our long-time classical music retired, we rearranged our schedule and created In the Moment, a daily news and culture magazine program….”[with] a rooted sense of place, and that place is South Dakota. In the Moment features authentic conversations with news makers, scholars, artists, and everyday South Dakotans. We bring you world-class radio storytelling featuring the highest journalistic integrity.”
Each weekday in June we post a new audio diary, as it is aired on Maine Public Radio and Maine Public Classical, with listeners sharing their passion and love for a particular piece of music that has affected them. It’s a powerful reminder of the role music plays in all our lives.
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.
In early 2017 WABE launched a dedicated news desk – WABE Health – focused on health reporting. Content includes significant local coverage produced by the health desk staff in addition to national- international stories. Content is posted on the station’s website and selected pieces are aired on the radio and TV platforms. A future radio documentary is in the planning stage and will be presented in conjunction with a major community engagement event to further outreach and promotion efforts.
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
A Hearken Project exploring a deeper partnership with the local daily newspaper (under new ownership). “Are you curious about Columbus? Find yourself asking questions about the city, the region or the people of central Ohio? Then submit your question to Curious Cbus and we’ll work on getting answers, together, through the resources of 89.7 NPR News, WOSU TV, Classical 101, and the WOSU Digital Media teams.”
A locally produced community commentary series. “Tell us the personal philosophy and core values that guide your daily life, and hear stories from others.” This I Believe is based on the 1950s radio program of the same name and the media project (launched in 2005) from This I Believe, Inc. and Atlantic Public Media. WPSU-FM invites you, as a central Pennsylvania resident, whatever your background, to speak out.
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.
“i go home” is a one-hour 2016 TV documentary produced by WITF chronicling the journey from institution to inclusion for people with intellectual disabilities in the 1960’s. This title honors a man with intellectual disability who was institutionalized at Pennhurst State School and Hospital in eastern Pennsylvania during childhood and could only say those three words. The goal of the film was to increase society’s awareness of the journey of Pennsylvanians with intellectual disability and their contribution to American life.
Arthur, Illinois, population 1,600, is “The Heart of the Illinois Amish Country,” a place where “You are a Stranger Only Once.” For this 7th edition of a continuing series we invited Arthur’s leading citizens too help us shape the program. We partnered with the newspaper. We trained 28 residents as “storytellers,” who captured video footage, provided photos and memorabilia. Their work was edited into a 2-hour program that became a treasured experience of community celebration, made possible by WEIU TV.
A collaborative statewide effort by Florida’s public radio stations: WLRN, WJCT, WUSF, WFSU, WQCS, WUFT, WMFE, WUWF and WGCU. We hired an editor for a 6-month election project. 11 stations aired features. Five talk show hosts worked on a state-wide talk show focused on the election (1 hr. per week each week for 10 weeks).
