Ohio’s Second Casino Almost Ready For Opening
The Hollywood Casino in Toledo will open in just over a week, but developers will be giving the media a preview of the $320 million casino on Monday.
This Saturday at 1 pm on WOSU TV — The Chefs of Columbus
The chefs of 2012 Chefs in the City with Chef Hubert Keller (second from right)
For the past several years, WOSU has produced a wonderful fundraising event called Chefs in the City, which is captured for later broadcast because it highlights the work of a celebrity chef and some of the best we have in Columbus. This year’s participants includes chefs from Ella, G. Michael’s Bistro, Jenis Splendid Ice Cream, [...]
WOSU Providing New Public Radio Service for Coshocton
88.3 FM will provide 24-hour NPR programming to Coshocton for the first time.
A public radio news service that will bring popular NPR programs to the city of Coshocton will debut on 88.3 FM this Friday May 11 at 2:30 pm. WOSU Public Media is providing the service through a radio translator approved by the FCC earlier this year. We’re very excited to provide this new 24-hour NPR [...]
Chefs in the City 2012 – Extraordinary
CHEFS IN THE CITY 2012 aerial view at the WOSU@COSI Studios from May 3, 2012. Note the kitchen set in the distance.
We’re so lucky at WOSU to have such dedicated staff, board and community volunteers, who all came together last night to create a three hour experience of food, drink and fun at CHEFS IN THE CITY 2012. Of course, the planning started many months ago for this one-night event that sold out quickly. Celebrity Chef [...]
Bicentennial Pavilion Opens at Columbus Commons
View from the newly christened Bicentennial Pavilion at the Columbus Commons on May 2, 2012.
The christening of the new pavilion at the Columbus Commons downtown included a nice lunch for perhaps 150 on stage sponsored by the Columbus Foundation. I think our table was approximately where the tattoo parlor was in the demolished City Center Mall. But what a transformation of space from the claustrophobic mall to open space [...]
WOSU celebrates 90 Years!
Robert Higgy, the first Director and Chief Engineer of WOSU, in a photo from the 1920s.
On April 24, 1922, Ohio State President William Oxley Thompson stepped to a microphone and said the first words heard on a radio station in Columbus: “We are starting tonight the first of a series of programs of entertainment and instruction for the citizens of Central Ohio. These programs will be of the highest type, [...]
In The Know – Dublin Scioto takes home the Championship
Westfield Officials and host Bill Schiffman with the Dublin Scioto ITK Team
Our congratulations to Dublin Scioto High School for their victory in the IN THE KNOW quiz competition. With the generous sponsorship of Westfield Insurance, WOSU is proud to have IN THE KNOW as its longest running regular local program – 29 years! The host for all those years continues to be Bill Schiffman, who [...]
WOSU news and classical music streaming on your Smart Phone
Listen to WOSU Radio on your Smart Phone!
A new Pew Research poll found that half of Americans now have a smart phone. Mine arrived just a few weeks ago and I’m trying hard to discipline myself and not buy every .99 app that someone thinks is cool. One free app that I want to share though is from NPR NEWS. It’s a [...]
Harper Lee – Tonight on WOSU TV
Harper Lee continues to live in Alabama with one publication to her name – To Kill a Mockingbird. I am proud owner of a signed version of her seminal book and have one Harper Lee story to share involving, of all things, a radio pledge drive. I once worked at Alabama Public Radio at the [...]
Final Four Fantastic
2012 Final Four logo
Unlike years back, you won’t see much Ohio State sports on WOSU TV or hear it on WOSU Radio, but WOSU is proud of the play of Thad Matta’s team and thrilled to see the Buckeyes in the Final Four for the first time since 2007. This is the type of team you have to [...]
American Graduate – Let’s Make it Happen
WOSU is part of a major national initiative on the high school dropout crisis.
WOSU is providing new online resources, the result of broadcast, and community activities it initiated as part of ”American Graduate: Let’s Make It Happen,” a national public media initiative funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to help Columbus and other communities across America to address the high school dropout crisis. WOSU is one [...]
