Hopefully, we will be able to add to the two top honors from last year and four special mentions. Winners will be announced at the annual NYSAPBA awards banquet on June 2.
Congrats to our news team for their continued excellent news coverage and accomplishments!
By Rebecca Howell
WNED also holds an Antiques Home Show. The event, which will be held this year on Saturday, May 12, is a local version of the “Antiques Roadshow.” Here, you are given the opportunity to bring your antiques that are lying around at home and they will be evaluated by expert appraisers. Pretty cool!
Hope you enjoy your Friday!
By Rebecca Howell, WNED corporate communications intern
The Darwin Marin House was built between the years of 1903 and 1906. It was considered to be one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s greatest prairie houses, and it’s still around today! It is located on Jewett Parkway right in downtown Buffalo.
Have a good weekend!
It’s Friday! While Friday signifies the beginning of the weekend, it also means that it is time for your weekly dose of fun facts pertaining to WNED.
We are also very lucky to have had our news stories from WNED-AM 970
We have a lot of talented people who work for WNED and a healthy handful of those people have previously worked for NPR and PBS member stations; one person has even worked for PBS headquarters in Arlington, Va. How cool is that?! For this week’s Factoid Friday, I’ve compiled a list of those people we’ve been lucky enough to steal away from other member stations.
Back in 2008, WNED began providing WNED-FM’s analog sub-channel to the Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service (NFRRS) as their new main broadcasting outlet.
NFRRS provides daily access of printed materials (like The Buffalo News, National Geographic and The New Yorker) to thousands of blind and print-handicapped people in Western New York and Southern Ontario.
Volunteers broadcast daily readings to listeners who are provided “reading radios,” which are small radios that can be turned on to the agency that ‘gives the blind a chance to read…everyday.”
By: Annmarie Dean
Happy Friday! I’m still learning new things every day about WNED and today is no exception. Did you know that in 2010, WNED-TV was the most watched public television station in the United States? That is pretty impressive and because it’s the holidays, we wanted to take the time to thank our viewers, yes, that means you! A thousand “thank you’s” for tuning in!
So WNED’s Hockey: More Than A Game aired last night. We sure hope that you enjoyed it! In sticking with the hockey theme, WNED-AM 970’s Jay Moran is this week’s Factoid Friday.
Jay can be heard on every drive into work as the local host of Morning Edition…or at Sabres games! He even traveled over to Berlin for the team’s stint in Europe this past fall.
As the public address announcer, Jay is responsible for introducing the players, announcing goals and keeping the crowed excited during games. He began his career with the Sabres after acting as the public address announcer for the NCAA basketball games that were being held at the Arena. The then-director of game presentation heard Jay and said that the team would try using his talent for a couple of games which turned into seven years!
There you have it, a little fun fact about one of our employees here. I like Jay a lot better than this guy, by the way.
We produce a lot of TV and radio programs here at WNED. I bet that you didn’t know that we are the producers of a PBS writing contest for children in Kindergarten through third grade. In fact, our 15-year “Reading Rainbow” contest has been re-branded into the PBS KIDS GO! Writers Contest.
The greatest feature about the website is the Make-A-Mashup feature. Children are able to create their own story using pieces of other stories written by their peers. They can pick out the place, character, object and words that they want used in their one page story.
It’s actually a lot of fun (I created a Mashup while doing research for this blog post) and a great way to get and keep kids interested in reading!
Happy Veterans Day! We are using this week’s Factoid Friday to honor both veterans who work for WNED and WNED military families. Here’s a fun fact: November 11th marks the anniversary of the singing of the armistice that ended World War I.
Facts are fun! Starting every Friday, we will be bringing you interesting tidbits about WNED including but definitely not limited to: awards and recognition, national productions, local productions, education, community outreach, collaborations and strategic alliances, and cool ways we’ve used our building. We want to share our story with you and what better way by presenting factoids every Friday. Enjoy!
