Thursday, March 5, 1992
WPSE does business
with Erie listeners
Mark Owens
The Collegian
There once was a time when
Erie's radio waves were filled
with stations that promised "less
talk, more music." Then along
came WPSE, which was all talk
and little, if any, music. People
said it wouldn't last, that Erie
was a Top 40 town.
But talk radio's popularity
grew -- so much that another Erie
station, WLKK, jumped on the
talk radio bandwagon.
Now WPSE, Behrend's
student-operated radio station, has
joined the Business Radio
Network, changing the face of
radio in Erie again.
"ARN (the American Radio
Network) collapsed just a month
ago," said Fred Anzivino,
WPSE's station manager, in
explaining the programming
change. "They weren't able to
provide us with programming, so
we weren’t able to provide our
listeners with continuous quality
programming either."
Anzivino and the WPSE
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be severely-damaged, according to
Wattleton.
"The reproductive options of
all women, including those in
this state, will be left to the
whims of the state legislatures,"
Wattleton said.
"We are determined to do what
is necessary to take the matter
into the hands of the people and
to change the trend that is now
threatening them (the people)
and forcing them into the back
alleys," she added.
The PPFA release noted that
"On April S there will be an
assembly in the nation's capital
to send the federal government
the message: that the
fundamental right to privacy and
reproductive choice cannot and
will not be taken away.
"The pro-choice majority is
determined to try to overturn the
"gag-rule" ban on abortion
information placed on federally
funded family planning centers
last year."
According to Wattleton, gag
rules would prevent poor women
from proper counseling.
"The gag rule discriminates
against poor women and reactions
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University, Jerusalem; The
University of Maryland and the
John Hopkins University
School of Advanced
staff scrambled to connect with
another network and discovered
the Business Radio Network.
"We felt this was a good
time to try something new,
something that hadn't been done
before in the Erie market,"
Anzivino said. "We were the first
to bring talk radio to Erie and the
first to simulcast TV news
(WPSE simulcasts WJET-TV 24
newscasts five times a day). Now
we have the chance to something
new in the Erie area."
The Business Radio Network
(BRN) has been broadcast on
affiliate stations for almost a
decade, said Anzivino, and has a
solid reputation in the
broadcasting indusffy.
"BRN provides listeners
with continuous programs of a
wider nature than their name
implies," Anzivino said. "Much
of their programming is very
timely, especially in light of the
economic challenges facing the
country right now."
Often compared to CNN's
Headline News, BRN features a
format for busy professionals or
listeners on tight schedules.
arenthood president
reproductive rights
of outrage to the policy have
built a coalition of Americans
who understand that if one
fundamental right is destroyed
others are imperiled as well. We
do not want to see women die
again," said Wattleton.
The issue of reproductive
choice is increasingly becoming a
political issue.
"Our most personal
reproductive choices are being
subjected to great debate," said
Wattleton.
"Restrictions placed on
women will force them into the
back alleys again and they will
die again, those women who
suffered the imprisonment of
unwanted pregnancies and
unwanted children will suffer
again."
In regards to the pro-life
movement Wattleton said, "Their
morality should not be imposed
on others. The question is: is the
woman more important than the
fetus or the fetus more important
than the woman."
Planned Parenthood's "First
Things First" program can help
young people avoid unintended
pregnancies by encouraging
sexuality education at home and
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"The network is designed for
listeners who tune in for five or
10 minutes to find out tidbits of
precise information," Anzivino
said. "It includes special features,
lifestyle reports, health, business,
national and global economics,
news and sports."
WPSE continues to be
affiliated with CBS for news and
sports, the Penn State Sports
Network for University sports, as
well as producing local
programming.
The station's new
programming has received mixed
reactions from area listeners -
some miss the talk radio format
while others appreciate the new
source of information.
"It's a different audience we’re
serving now," Anzivino said.
"The new format is focused on a
specific audience, which may
have cost us some listeners, but
is, in many ways, easier to sell
to advertisers.”
WPSE, one of the few
student-operated radio stations in
America licensed to sell and
broadcast commercials, is located
at 1450 on the AM dial.
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Other features include access
to family planning, particularly
for poor women and teens, and
lobby to make the research and
development of new birth control
options a national priority.
"I think that young people are
waking up to the danger (of
losing the right of choice), that
this generation of young adults is
the first generation who have
never known illegal abortions or
unavailable contraception," said
Wattleton. "There is a
tremendous amount of growing
interest in what could happen
(if the choice is lost)."
World
AGDAM, AZERBAIJAN - 120 bodies of
Azerbaijanis killed while fleeing an
Armenian assault in Nagorno-Karabakh were
recovered Tuesday, and police officers said
they were being blocked from retrieving
more dead. Armenian officials denied claims
that 1,000 were massacred in the attack last
week.
Nation
The race for the Democratic presidential
nomination remains wide open after Paul
Tsongas and Bill Clinton won primaries on
Tuesday. Meanwhile Bush captured elections
in Georgia, Maryland and Colorado but
Republican challenger Patrick Buchanan
vowed to fight on. Tsongas won primaries in
Maryland and Utah,; while Clinton won his
first victory of the campaign in Georgia.
Brown, the blapk ■>'. sheep of ' the DemoC'r&tic
candidates, held a surprising lead for a while
in Colorado. Exit polls revealed a decidedly
unhappy electorate Tuesday, with 40 percent
of Democratic voters wishing there were
more candidates to choose from. Eight out of
10 Buchanan supporters said they would
support a Democratic candidate in the fall
election.
WASHINGTON Economists, pointing to a
surge in the government's main economic
indicator along with a jump in new home
sales say the economy is beginning to perk
up. Any recovery will be slow, however, and
analysts say the recovery will be a very small
and gradual one.
NEW YORK' -- Salvadore "Sammy Bull"
Gravano, government witness and former
right-hand man to mob boss John Gotti,
continued his testimony Tuesday, claiming
Gotti watched the assassination of former mob
boss Paul Castellano. Gotti, the alleged head of
the Gambino family, the nation's most
powerful crime syndicate, is being tried on
federal murder-racketeering charges. Gotti,
51, has been acquitted three times in six years
on racketeering and assault charges, earning
him the nickname "Teflon Don."
Local
ERIE The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
has decided 'to eliminate three breakwalls
from the $18.4 million project. The
breakwalls, located near Beach One at Presque
Isle State Park, were eliminated because of
the longstanding stability of the beach and a
computer simulation which showed they were
unnecessary. A total of 55 breakwaters will be
built on the western side of the Penninsula.
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