Programs/Content
Wisconsin Public Radio draws on station talent to spice up weekend sound
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The new show Beta is the first production spawned by WPR Next, an initiative to generate new programming ideas.
Programs/Content
‘Whad’Ya Know?’ to end production after 31 years
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The show has seen a substantial drop in carriage and audience.
People
Jim Packard, announcer of Whad’Ya Know?
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Jim Packard, longtime announcer on public radio’s Whad’Ya Know?, died June 18 at a New York City hospital. He was 70. Michael Feldman, host of the national comedy quiz show produced by Wisconsin Public Radio, itold the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that Packard suffered from cardiopulmonary disease, and that “his lung function had been decreasing visibly” for the past eight months. Packard had been in New York for a live broadcast of the popular show on June 9, at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at New York University, the Journal Sentinel reported. Packard entered the hospital on June 10.