About WOSU

Tuesday, 6 January 2009
07:01AM

Kresge Challenge Grant


Make a generous gift to WOSU to help us meet a $500,000 Challenge Grant from The Kresge Foundation. Your gift will contribute to our raising the dollars necessary to claim this important grant. Thank you for your support of WOSU Public Media.


WOSU@COSI is open to the public!

Our new media center is here! Visitors will be greetd by our digital welcome mat, and can see themselves on U•TV, an interactive exhibit where you can explore the art and science of television production. You can also take a peek inside our new studios. more...


WOSU@COSI -- A National Model

It has been a few months since WOSU Public Media opened the doors of its new digital media center – WOSU@COSI. The design and functionality of the space has received high marks from community and corporate leadership. We’ve been very excited about the many diverse projects recently at WOSU@COSI reflecting our mission of local programming, outreach, and education.

The national buzz about this project has been gratifying as well:

- A cover story and extensive piece in Government Video Magazine, a national publication for the video industry and additional stories in TV Technology and Broadcast Engineering magazines;

- Feature splashes on the front page of several national public broadcast websites including America’s Public Television Stations and National Educational Telecommunications Association;

- A presentation on WOSU@COSI for the national PBS conference in Norfolk, Virginia about the partnership with COSI and community impact of the project.

In fact, The Ohio State University posted a video feature with a tour of our facility on the front page of their web page, www.osu.edu, when we opened our doors, and it received the most attention of any video feature in 2006 with over 6,500 views of the video stream.

We invite you to take part in any of the many events at WOSU@COSI—from “live” performance and talk show productions to our special “Share-a-Story” events for children. Members receive special notification of those events and activities, so if you want to help us continue our commitment to serve the Columbus area, please join 22,000 others who support public broadcasting and WOSU by clicking through to http://wosu.org/give/pledge/.

The WOSU@COSI project has a special need until March 1, 2007 as we attempt to meet a challenge from the Kresge Foundation. If we can raise funding from a broad swath of supporters for the WOSU@COSI project, Kresge will contribute $500,000 to the project. We have a goal to meet. Please consider joining over 1,500 individuals who have answered the Kresge challenge and do so by March 1!

Thank you

Tom Rieland, General Manager, WOSU Public Media


Beyond the Gridiron: The Life and Times of Woody Hayes

A fascinating profile, of one of the most gifted and complex coaches of the twentieth century, chronicles Hayes’ rise from high school coach in a small Ohio town to college football dominance as the head coach of the OSU Buckeyes. This first-ever public television documentary on Woody Hayes also looks at the times that shaped the man, from WWII through the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement. more...

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