ISSUES/PROGRAMS WOSU Public Media 89.7 April 1, 2012 – June ...

ISSUES/PROGRAMS
WOSU Public Media 89.7
April 1, 2012 – June 30, 2012
With our extensive public affairs and issues coverage, the majority of stations’ issues/programs commitment
Is covered by the programs listed below as heard on All Sides with Ann Fisher on 89.7
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Arts/Culture Opening day for the Columbus Clippers baseball team. 4/2 10:04/56 mins
Guest: Joe Santry, Director, Media and Community
Relations, Columbus Clippers.
Arts/Culture Restaurants in Central Ohio. Guests: 4/6 11:04/56 mins
Rich Terapak and Rich Terapak (father and son), WOSU
Food Critics, Steve Stover restaurant and food writer and
Contributor to “Edible Columbus” magazine.
Arts/Culture Arts. Guests: Tim Veach, Artistic Director, Columbus Dance 4/13 11:04/56 mins
Theater; Tim Sarsany, Artistic Director, Columbus Gay Men’s
Chorus; Eugenie Grunewald, OSU School of Music, Opera
Project Columbus.
Arts/Culture Cooking and preserving local foods. Guest Marilou Suszko, 4/24 11:04/54 mins
Author.
Arts/Culture The birth of Hair Theater and creating a show about our 4/30 11:04/54 mins
Hopes and dreams. Guest Pat Wynn Brown, performer,
Author and humorist.
Arts/Culture Chefs in the City: two restaurant chefs talk about the 5/2 11:04/54 mins
Switch from strictly vegetarian gourmet cuisine to cooking
With meat. Guests: Hubert Keller, world renowned chef and
Restaurant owner and Magdiale Wolmark, Chef/Proprietor,
TILL dynamic fare.
Arts/Culture Young adult fiction comes of age. Guests: Ohioana authors 5/10 11:04/54 mins
Tom Batiuk, comic strip creator, “The Complete Funky
Winkerbean”; Cinda Williams Chima, author, “Gray Wolf
Throne” and Casey Daniels, author, “A Hard Day’s Fright.”
Arts/Culture Summer movies. Guests: Grad Keefe, Web Editor/Film 5/11 11:04/54 mins
Critic, Columbus Alive; Hope Madden, Film Critic, The
Other Paper and Melissa Starker, Freelance Film Critic.
Arts/Culture Best Books and Reading. Guests: Kassie Rose, WOSU
Book Critic; Kevin Griffith, poet and English Professor,
Capital University and Dan Chaon, writer and Associate
Professor, Oberlin College.
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Arts/Culture Ohio Travel. Guests: Josh Knights, Executive Director, 5/24 11:04/54 mins
The Nature Conservancy; Patricia Williamsen, Executive
Director, The Ohio Humanities Council and John Ross,
Assistant Editor, Columbus Monthly.
Arts/Culture Special Live Broadcast at the 2012 Columbus Arts Festival: 6/1 10:04/54 mins
Guests: Scott Huntley, Director, Columbus Arts Festival;
Elizabeth Dekker, co-founder, Wild Goose Creative; Tim
Easton, singer/songwriter.
Arts/Culture Special Live Broadcast at the 2012 Columbus Arts Festival: 6/1 11:04/54 mins
Creating a vibrant downtown Columbus. Guests: Susan
Ungar, President, Downtown Residents Association of
Columbus; Alan McKnight, Director, Columbus Parks and
Recreation; Nate Caplin, Realtor, ColumbusLofts.com.
Arts/Culture Billy Elliot the Musical/Gender stereotypes facing boys. 6/8 10:04/54 mins
Guests: Rich Hebert and Cullen Titmus, cast members;
Jackson Sarver, BalletMet Dancer; Susan Brooker, BalletMet
Academy Director and William Pollack, psychologist and author.
Arts/Culture Restaurants. Guests: Richard Terapak, WOSU Food Critic 6/8 11:04/54 mins
And Jim Budros.
Arts/Culture 40 th Anniversary of ComFest/state of counter culture in 6/21 11:04/54 mins
Central Ohio. Guests: Connie Everett, Com Fest Organizer
And peace activist; Elaine Schleiffer, Occupy Columbus;
Harvey Wasserman, author, activist for environmental and
Progressive causes and Stuart McIntyre, OSU student power
Activist.
Arts/Culture Arts in Central Ohio. Guests: John Kuhn, Artistic Director, 6/22 11:04/54 nubs
Actors’ Theatre; Bill Conner, CEO, CAPA and Lou Ross,
Executive Director, Lancaster Festival.
Economy The impact on gambling in Ohio as the first Ohio casino 5/14 10:04/54 mins
Opens. Guests: Reginals Fields, Columbus Bureau Chief,
Cleveland Plain Dealer; JoAnn Davidson, Chair, Casino
Control Commission and Rob Walgate, Vice President,
American Policy Roundtable.
Economy Real estate outlook in Central Ohio. Guests: Todd 5/21 11:04/54 mins
Helpbringer, President, Helpbringer Mortgage Service and
Rob Vogt, Partner, Vogt Santer Insight.
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Economy The new geography of jobs and employment. Guest: 6/7 10:04/36 mins
Enrico Moretti, author and Economics Professor, University
Of California, Berkeley.
Education Revisiting the Race Exhibit at COSI: what’s been the 5/2 10:04/54 mins
Impact? Guests: David E. Chesebrough, President/CEO,
COSI; Elfi Di Bella, President and CEO, YWCA; Diane
Bennett, Executive Director, Action for Children and Candice
Barnhardt, Chief Diversity Officer and Vice President,
Nationwide Insurance Company.
Education Governor Kasich’s “third grade reading guarantee” policy. 5/7 10:04/54 mins
Guests: Stan Heffner, Ohio State Superintendent of Public
Instruction and Donald Hernandez, Professor of Sociology
Hunter College, City University of New York.
Education Update on Governor Kasich’s proposed third grade reading 5/14 11:04/54 mins
Guarantee/remedial reading programs in Central Ohio.
Guests: Catherine Candisky, Reporter, Columbus Dispatch;
Rev. Susan Smith, Pastor, Advent United Church of Christ;
Laura Young, Senior Organizer, Children’s Defense Fund of
Ohio and Susan McLaughlin, Director of Curriculum and
Instruction, Licking Heights Local School District.
Education Creative education in the summer. Guests: Mimi Brodsky 6/4 11:04/54 mins
Chenfeld, author and educator; Nicole Gnezda, author and
Educator.
Education Higher education: a right or a choice. Guests: Frank 6/6 10:04/54 mins
Donoghue, Faculty Professor, English, The Ohio State
University; Sandy Baum, Senior Fellow, Graduate School of
Education and Human Development, George Washington
University and Jane Shaw, President, John W. Pope Center
For Higher Education Policy.
Education A conversation with OSU President E. Gordon Gee. 6/7 11:04/54 mins
Environment Going green and conserving water with rain barrels and rain 4/16 10:04/54 mins
Gardens. Guests: Ryan Pilewski, Watershed Implementation
Coordinator, Franklin Soil and Water Conservation District;
Stephanie Suter; Habitat Conservationist, Franklin Soil and
Water Conservation District and Josh Kessler, Project
Manager, COSI.
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Environment Changes made by Rumpke for the city’s new curbside 4/17 10:40/40 mins
Recycling. Guests: Jonathan Kissell, Corporate
Communications Supervisor, Rumpke Recycling; Deanne
Toto, Managing Editor, Recycling Today Media Group.
Environment Gardening with native plants in Ohio. Guest: Charlotte 4/23 11:04/56 mins
Adelman, author.
Government A new law supports artisan distilleries and microbreweries. 4/2 11:04/56 mins
Guests: David Goodman, Director, Ohio Department of
Commerce; Greg Lehman and Dave Rigo, Owners of
Watershed Distillery and Eric Bean, President-Elect, Ohio
Craft Brewers Association/Owner Columbus Brewing
Company.
Government Two points of view on comprehensive immigration reform. 5/9 10:04/36 mins
Guests: Mark Krikorian, Executive Director, Center for
Immigration Studies and Benjamin Johnson, Executive
Director, American Immigration Council.
Government President Obama’s support for same-sex marriage and 5/15 10:04/54 mins
Reaction in the African American community. Guests:
Sam Gresham, Jr., political commentator, James Petersen,
Africana Studies Professor, Lehigh University and Elder
Michael Reeves, Pastor, Corinthian Missionary Baptist Church.
Government Funding retirement and changes in Ohio’s public 5/22 10:04/54 mins
Retirement systems. Guests: Diane Oakley, Executive
Director, National Institute on Retirement Security; Laura
Bishoff, Correspondent, Dayton Daily News and Greg
Daugherty, Executive Editor, Consumer Reports.
Government Statehouse news update. Guests: Karen Kasler, Bureau 5/30 10:04/54 mins
Chief, Ohio Public Radio Statehouse News Bureau; Jim
Siegel, Statehouse Reporter, Columbus Dispatch and
Jackie Borchardt, Correspondent, Dayton Daily News.
Government A career on the Ohio Supreme Court and specialty courts 5/31 10:04/54 mins
For the mentally ill and for veterans. Guest: Justice
Evelyn Lundberg Stratton.
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Health Breakthroughs in research on autism and Fragile X 5/8 10:04/36 mins
Syndrome. Guests: David Amaral, Professor of
Psychiatry/Director of Research, UC Davis MIND
Institute; Mark Bear, Professor of Neuroscience, MIT/
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Judith
Maloney, parent of two sons with Fragile X Syndrome.
Health Long term brain injuries for football players/football helmet 5/16 11:04/54 mins
Safety/ethical issues for football fans. Guests: Dr. Julian
Bailes, MD., Medical Director, Center for the Study of Retired
Athletes; Mike Oliver, Executive Director, National Operating
Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE);
Ariel Kaminer, Ethics Columnist, New York Times and Alan
Schwartz, Reporter, New York Times.
Health Barriers to breastfeeding/breastfeeding initiatives in the U.S. 6/6 11:04/54 mins
And Ohio. Guests: Emily Taylor, Senior Projects Director,
Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute; Marie Cooper, Nurse
Manager, Labor and Delivery, Riverside Hospital; Jill Beverly,
Director, Perinatal Services, Mount Carmel St. Ann’s Hospital
And Rachelle Lesteshen, breastfeeding advocate and mother.
Health Access to dental health care in Central Ohio. Guests: Miles 6/25 10:04/54 mins
O’Brien, correspondent, FRONTLINE, PBS; Earl Lintz,
Associate Pastor, Stowe Mission of Ohio and David
Maywhoor, Project Director, Dental Access Now,
UHCAN Ohio.
Health Hunger in Central Ohio and Mid-Ohio Foodbank “Food 6/19 10:40/20 mins
Fight”. Guests: Marilyn Tomasi, Vice President of
Marketing and Communications for Mid-Ohio Foodbank and
Margaret Standing, Communications Director, Bob Evans
Restaurants.
Politics Gay Boy Scot leader is forced to resign and Ohio River 5/3 10:40/20 mins
Valley Council Boy Scouts board member resigns in
Protest. Guest: David Sims, attorney.
Politics Legal experts review Death Penalty in Ohio to determine 6/18 10:04/54 mins
If it is administered fairly across the state. Guest: Andrew
Welsh-Huggins, Legal Affairs writer, Associated Press;
Justice Paul Pfeifer, Ohio Supreme Court Justice and Joe
Deters, Hamilton County Prosecutor.
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Science The transit of Venus and scientific discoveries. Guests: 6/5 10:04/54 mins
Mark Anderson, science journalist and author and Richard
Pogge, OSU Astronomy Professor.
Technology Technology upgrade of the OSU Football Stadium, 5/15 11:04/54 mins
Consumerism and gadgetry. Guests: Don Patko, OSU
Associate Athletic Director, Facilities Management; Will
Ellerbruch, Region Manager, Large Sports Venues,
Daktronics; Steve Fox, Editorial Director/Vice President,
PC World and Russell Holly, Tech Blogger, geek.com.
Technology Update on TEDx Columbus. Guest: David J. Staley, 5/31 10:40/20 mins
Director, The Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching
at OSU.