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Fall 2011 Newsletter

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PLATINUM LEVELBob BurtchWayne and Mary ChaunceyVincent Ciccarino and Sylvia MatousekAndrew CohenTina DabrowiakRussell DombrowRobert HansonRichard Mather Fund and Stephen Chase,

TrusteeDorothy and Marshall M. Reisman

FoundationJeffrey G. Smith and Leslie J. KohmanAn Anonymous Donor from Syracuse GOLD LEVELDamian G. AllisMichael & Michele AmeighGuthrie and Louise BirkheadCharles BlitmanJohn and Elet Callahan

Daniel F. Chambliss and Susan MorganEdward and Paula ConanJohn and Mary DrukeTim and Nickcole EvansJohn and Diane FerryBarbara FitzGibbonVincent GuarneiriRichard and Katrina HannaMichael HattalaLee and Nancy HerringtonJoyce D. HomanGary and Chris JohnsonMolly G. KingRichard and Barbara KnaulDavid KolbRobert LabergeMichelle LeombroneJulia LoughlinJohn F. Mannion & Honorable Stephanie

MinerGerri McCarthy

Michael Meguid, MD, and Deborah Spadaro

Jason and Jennifer MeyersJeff Morris & Laurie RicherEric and Judy MowerLee M. MurrayJerrold O’BrienSeth and Laurie OvadiaLisa Parlato & Clark BrownRalph and Mary Lou PennerSharon and Christopher PernisiWilliam and Rosemary PoolerDavid and Nancy PrinceBrian RauSabra and Bill ReichardtAndrew RotterBruce and Lenora SchuchertMansukh J. ShahNancy Shaheen and Kirk EvansJary and Julie ShimerDavid and Claudia St. John

Cornerstone Members make WRVO’s mission possible by providing the highest level of support. Comprising nearly 200 members, these leadership donors make annual gifts of $500 or more to WRVO and receive several special benefits. The above list reflects donors who contribute at the Gold and Platinum Cornerstone levels-WRVO will publish the full list of Cornerstone members in an expanded WRVO Annual report.

BBC commentator Fergus Nicoll, London-based contributor to the most listened to daily program on the BBC World Service, The World Today, will be WRVO's guest for a series of events to be held in Oswego and Syracuse October 10-12. Mr. Nicoll will serve as moderator for a WRVO Community Forum titled 'Culture Under Siege in Pakistan,' being held in conjunction with a week-long exploration of Islamic art and culture at SUNY Oswego. The forum is open to the public and will be held Monday, October 10th, at 7PM at City Hall Commons in downtown Syracuse. The forum will include a musical performance in the Islamic Sufi tradition. WRVO was awarded a grant from Public Radio International (PRI) to cover Mr. Nicoll's visit. PRI distributes BBC World Service programs in the United States that air on WRVO-1 and WRVO-3. The panel will include Dr. Asma Barlas, Professor and Director, Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity at Ithaca College; Mara Ahmed, a Pakistani-born independent filmmaker whose documentaries have been acclaimed worldwide; and Ustad Tari Khan, a performer of Qawwali, a traditional form of Islamic song found in India and Pakistan. A performance by Tari Khan and ensemble will follow the panel discussion which is free and open to the public.

WRVO and Syracuse Opera have collaborated on a novel outreach effort to bring opera back into historic opera houses in the WRVO coverage area, and to give up-and-coming singers the opportunity to perform before the Syracuse Opera season gets underway in October. Performances of 9 Operas in 90 Minutes, a review of popular opera songs and scenes, were given at the Clayton Opera House, the Earlville Opera House, the Smith Opera House in Geneva, N.Y. (now the Smith Center for the Performing Arts), and auditoriums at Oneida High School and Utica College. Syracuse Opera's distinguished Young Artist Series provides excellent training for rising opera stars. WRVO is proud to partner with Syracuse Opera on this exciting project.

The WRVO on-air fall fundraiser, scheduled for October 15 - 22, is ready to launch, and the excitement is building. The fundraiser provides an opportunity for current and lapsed WRVO members to renew, and for first-time donors to learn about the many benefits of membership. This event is also a critical source of program funding. WRVO network programming will cost nearly $500,000 this year, all of which must be generated from membership support. The fall fundraiser goal is $195,000, and with your help we can reach it.Please renew your membership and consider making an additional pledge of sup-port for WRVO. It is through contributions from listeners like you that WRVO is able to provide high-quality programming Please join us for the on-air fundraiser.

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This is an exciting time for those of you who want to take WRVO with you beyond the reach of our eight FM broadcast transmitters. We recently launched an online player that gives you the option of listening to any one of our three live program streams on your smartphone or iPad. In addition to live streams you can select various programs on demand. In other words, if you missed an episode of your favorite program, now you can bookmark the program, then navigate to the program website to download past episodes at your convenience. The player is also accessible at our website by selecting the ‘Listen Now’ button at the upper left of our WRVO.org web page. For more information, contact Jeff Windsor at windsor@wrvo.fm, or call Jeff at 315-312-3690.

NPR 'Founding Mother' and Senior National Correspondent Linda Wertheimer addressed WRVO Cornerstone Society members at Phoebe's Restaurant in Syracuse June 16th. Long-time WRVO listeners will recall Linda's familiar voice from All Things Considered, a program she hosted for many years and for which she served as executive producer when it first appeared. More recently she has served as fill-in host on both All

Things Considered and Morning Edition. Speaking to more than 350 NPR fans at Hendrick's Chapel Linda described critical challenges faced by NPR as it evolved from a loose network of public radio stations in the 1970s into the most listened to radio network in the U.S. today.WRVO Public Media carries a daily schedule of NPR programs including Morning Edition, The Diane Rehm Show, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, Tell Me More, Talk of the Nation, and All Things Considered. NPR News is heard at the top of each hour and every 30 minutes during Morning Edition and All Things Considered. Peter Black and Marcia James with Ms. Wertheimer

Linda Wertheimer addresses Cornerstone members at Phoebe’s Restaurant.

Linda Wertheimer, NPR Correspondent and Host, Speaks at WRVO Events

Matt Seubert on the Air

Gearing Up for the Fall On Air Fundraiser: WRVO to Raise $195,000

BBC Commentator and Journalist Fergus Nicoll to Moderate WRVO Community Forum

Fergus Nicoll

WRVO Public Media, Syracuse Opera take to the Road in Support of Young Artists Series

Young artists performing on stage at Clayton Opera House, Clayton, N.Y.

Underwriters Benefit from WRVO Radio Network’s Extensive Upstate Coverage

While many WRVO listeners think of our service as one radio station broadcasting from Oswego, in fact our signal is broadcast over a network of eight transmitters serving more than 15 counties in central and northern New York. The service reaches a weekly audience of close to 100,000 listeners. And, two additional stations carry our signal much of the time; WRCU, licensed to Colgate University, and WSUC at SUNY Cortland. WRVO transmitters are located in Oswego, Syracuse, Utica, Watertown, Hamilton, Norwich, and Geneva. Ratings agencies consistently rank WRVO’s network among the most popular radio services in the upstate region, particularly among educated, engaged members of the communities we serve. The WRVO Underwriting Department is available to meet with representatives of your organization to discuss opportunities that result from having your company or organization’s message associated with WRVO’s distinctive format. Contact Matt Seubert, Director of Development and Underwriting, for more information toll free at 800-341-3690.

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Pardon Our Dust: WRVO Public Media, Under Construction

- Michael S. Ameigh, General Manager, WRVO Public Media

Summertime, and the livin’ is easy. Well, maybe for Porgy and Bess, but not for WRVO staff. A major renovation of technical systems that has been underway since early this year really got rolling over the summer. We replaced 35-year-old guy wires on our main tower at Oswego and installed new systems for downloading and streaming programs, managing membership data and organizing news content. And, we updated our website to provide a higher degree of interactivity and functionality. Many of these changes required hours of staff planning and training. Our goal is to bring all our technical systems up to industry standards before the end of the year.

You will notice we have adopted the name WRVO Public Media. While our network of broadcast stations continues to be our primary means of distributing programs, many WRVO members listen on digital devices - iPhone and Android smartphones, iPads, as well as desktop and portable computers. In fact, two of our program streams, WRVO-2: Public Radio Remix and WRVO-3: WRVO International, are only available online and on mobile Wi-Fi devices (WRVO-2 is available on broadcast HD channels in the Oswego and Syracuse areas).

Our updated name reflects the reality that many listeners are shifting to new ways of receiving our signal. There is an emerging generation of media consumers that rarely if ever listens to conventional radio. Because WRVO Public Media is committed to serving listeners wherever they may be, we will continue to diversify our platforms.

I am delighted to report that WRVO recently partnered with Syracuse Opera to bring four extraordinary artists to the far reaches of our coverage area for live performances. Standing ovations and shouts of ‘Bravo!’ punctuated performances at the Clayton Opera House, Earlville Opera House, Smith Opera House in Geneva, and in Oneida and Utica. Thanks to those of you who came by. I very much enjoyed meeting you and hearing your comments about WRVO. WRVO Public Media partners with many arts organizations in an ongoing campaign to get the word out that our region is home to many cultural and artistic treasures. Let’s all support them.

And, please note that Fergus Nicoll, distinguished international journalist and commentator on The World Today, the most listened to program on the BBC World Service, will be our guest October 10th as moderator of a WRVO Community Forum at City Hall Commons in downtown Syracuse. Listener feedback indicates BBC World Service broadcasts are increasingly popular with you, our listeners, and we are grateful to Public Radio International (PRI) for funding Mr. Nicoll’s visit. The forum is being held in conjunction with Caravanserai, a week-long series of events at SUNY Oswego featuring performances and lectures on Islamic art and culture.

Finally, I want to thank you for your ongoing financial support. We are here because you make that possible.Please renew your pledge this month and help strengthen this critically important service to the Upstate New York region.

Two SUNY Oswego students spent the summer working with WRVO staff to advance new initiatives. Adam Wolfe and Leah Landry were awarded summer-long stipends by the SUNY Oswego Summer Scholars Program. Adam worked with New York Sea Grant staff to prepare environ-mental reports. Leah worked to promote WRVO's new smartphone and iPad apps that allow access to WRVO pro-gram streams from anywhere Internet and mobile Wi-Fi are available. Adam and Leah presented posters describing their accomplishments during a summer scholars event on the SUNY Oswego campus September 9th.

WRVO's list of summer projects included the launch of the WRVO Discovery Tour, a periodic series of excursions to exciting destinations around the region. On July 19th more than 50 opera fans boarded the first WRVO discovery tour to the Glimmerglass Festival near Cooperstown for a stunning performance of Bizet's famous opera Carmen. The trip included a backstage tour, private preview, catered lunch, and seats at the matinee performance. A second sold-out tour to Glimmerglass Festival August 15th enjoyed the classic Broadway musical Annie Get Your Gun starring Deborah Voigt. A third excursion, to the Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, included a private tour of 'Wedded Perfection,' a widely acclaimed traveling exhibit featuring 200 years of wedding gowns from the collection of the Cincinnati Art Museum.

Planning is underway for the first-ever WRVO seven-day Autumn cruise scheduled for September 8-14, 2012. Passengers will board the elegant Caribbean Princess in New York, sail to Halifax, Nova Scotia, then stop at St. Johns, Bar Harbor, Boston, and Newport on the return to New York. Passengers will have the option of roundtrip transportation by tour bus

from Syracuse. This is a great opportunity to get connected with WRVO. We’re planning on-board lectures and other events of particular interest to fans of NPR and other public radio programming. The WRVO Fall cruise, like the Discovery Tour series, is a fundraiser for WRVO technology support. As we indicated in the last newsletter, recent federal budget legislation in Congress eliminated the long-time Public Telecommunications Facilities Program (PTFP) that has provided matching funds for transmitter maintenance and upgrades for most public broadcast stations for many years. A portion of the all-inclusive per person cabin fee will be a tax deductible donation to the WRVO technology fund. Mark your calendar now for September 8-14, 2012, and watch WRVO.org for more details.

Thinking of an Ocean Cruise in 2012? Consider WRVO’s 7-day Fall Cruise to Canada

Live on-board entertainment

One of four pools aboard the Caribbean Princess

SUNY Oswego Summer Scholars Make a Positive Difference at WRVO

The New York State Broadcasters Association recently honored WRVO for two outstanding public affairs programs aired during 2010. One, a Community Forum on the science of hydrofracking recorded at the SUNY Oswego Metro Center in Syracuse in 2010, won in the category ‘Outstanding Public Affairs Program or Series.’ The second award was for a feature story on the health risks of eating too many fish. That story won in the category ‘Outstanding Feature Story.’ The awards were presented to WRVO Public Media General Manager Michael Ameigh by NBC News anchor Brian Williams during the annual NYSBA meeting in Lake George, N.Y. June 27th.These honors capped an extraordinary year in which WRVO received a total of nearly 30 awards from the Syracuse Press Club and the Associated Press of New York State. Particularly notable is the Steve Flanders Award, a tribute to the radio station in New York State that received the most first place awards for news and public affairs coverage.

WRVO Cited for Excellence by New York State Broadcasters

NBC’s Brian Williams congratulates WRVO GM

Michael Ameigh

Discovery Tour backstage at Glimmerglass Opera

Can’t Afford to Become a WRVO Member?Consider becoming a volunteer with the WRVO stations.If you want to support the quality NPR programs on WRVO, but can’t quite afford a monetary donation, consider donating some of your valuable time by volunteering with WRVO. WRVO is seeking volunteers to answer phones during our upcoming Fall fundraising campaign. You’ll provide an important service and meet fellow listeners and the WRVO staff. We provide beverages and snacks to volunteers during our drives.The Fall fundraiser is scheduled for Saturday October 15, 2011 through Saturday, October 22, 2011. Many shifts are available during the weekday and on the weekend. Please contact Bonnie Prime at 1-800-341-3690 if you want more information about volunteering.

SUNY Oswego students Adam Wolfe and Leah Landry