• In Memoriam: Barbara Krauss

    It is with a heavy heart that we inform the WYSU community of the untimely passing of Barbara Krauss on Friday, February 15. Barbara had been the voice of WYSU-FM for the past three decades.

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    YSU Board of Trustees Meeting

    The YSU Board of Trustees Institutional Engagement Committee meeting will be held on Wednesday, March 6 at 9:30am, and the General Meeting will be held on Thursday, March 7 at 10:00am, both in the Trustees Meeting Room in Tod Hall on the YSU campus. The YSU Board of Trustees could address WYSU business at these meetings. The meetings are open to the public.

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    The 2019 Cleveland International Film Festival

    WYSU-FM is proud to again be a media partner for the 2019 Cleveland International Film Festival!

  • Paula Poundstone in Youngstown on May 17, 2019

    Paula Poundstone at the DeYor on May 17!

    WYSU-FM is excited to be a sponsor of Paula Poundstone's appearance at the Ford Family Recital Hall inside DeYor Performing Arts Center on May 17th. Tickets can be purchased ON-LINE HERE, at the DeYor box office, or by phone at 330-7

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    Shop, Click, and Support WYSU!

    Your online purchases can benefit WYSU, if you shop at Amazon via our WYSU website.

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    WYSU-FM Open Meeting Policy

    The Youngstown State University's Board of Trustees is WYSU-FM's supervisory board. The Board's general meetings and Institutional Engagement Committee Meetings address WYSU business. These meetings are open to the public.

    The WYSU Advisory Board meetings are also open to the public.

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    NPR has learned that the 2020 White House budget set to be released Monday will call for increased spending on child care and propose a new initiative to address shortages.

  • It Takes A Village To Save A British Pub

    The Packhorse pub sits in the tiny village of South Stoke in the west of England amid rolling hills dotted with sheep. For more than a century and a half, it played a crucial role in the village and marked milestones in the lives of local families. Gerard Coles, who was born half a...
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  • Beneath the hills of southern Lawrence County, Pa., warehouses stocked with everything from powdered whey to classic cars are kept “safe from fire, flood and enemy attack.” So says an old, framed advertisement in the offices of Wampum Underground, a subsurface commerce center at 1605 Old Route 18...
     
  • YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – With the end of car production at General Motors Lordstown, John DeGarmo faces the prospect of leaving his fifth auto industry plant. Before transferring to GM Lordstown from Lake Orion, Mich. in 2010, DeGarmo had worked at four other plants, including three with GM. He shared...
     
  • YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – With the end of car production at General Motors Lordstown, John DeGarmo faces the prospect of leaving his fifth auto industry plant. Before transferring to GM Lordstown from Lake Orion, Mich. in 2010, DeGarmo had worked at four other plants, including three with GM. He shared...
     

Composer's Datebook

  • Following the successful premiere of his First Symphony in 1876, the New England composer John Knowles Paine finished a Second, to which he gave a German subtitle: “Im Fruehling” or “In Springtime.” In 19th century America, “serious” music meant German music, and “serious” musicians like

  • On today’s date in 1706, the German composer and organist Johann Pachelbel was buried in Nuremberg, the town where he was born some 53 years earlier.

  • In Bucharest on today’s date in the year 1903, a 21 year-old Romanian composer named Georges Enescu conducted the premiere of two “Romanian Rhapsodies” he had written. These flashy orchestra showpieces quickly became his most popular works—a little to the composer’s later chagrin.