Local Features

Sunday, 14 March 2010
01:10AM

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...


In the Know
Now in its 24th year on WOSU TV, this ever-popular quiz program hosted by Bill Schiffman attracts enthusiastic participation from high schools throughout central and southern Ohio. The program host asks questions of eight students (four on each team), with a judge officiating and tabulating the scores.The questions are based on general high school subjects ranging from science to visual arts. The Ohio State University awards scholarships to the top four high school teams.

Airs Sundays at 9:00am

October   1, 2006  Dublin Jerome vs. Grove City
October   8, 2006  Bishop Ready vs. Grandview Hts.
October 15, 2006  Upper Arlington vs. Watkins Memorial
October 22, 2006  Bishop Hartley vs. Central Crossing
October 29, 2006  Bishop Watterson vs. Westerville North
November   5, 2006  Dublin Scioto vs. Teays Valley
November 12, 2006  Gahanna vs. Granville
November 19, 2006  Buckeye Valley vs. Dublin Coffman
November 26, 2006  Portsmouth West vs. Washington Court House
December 17, 2006  Mt. Vernon vs. Village Academy
December 24, 2006  Bishop Hartley vs. Upper Arlington
December 31. 2006  Wellington vs. Worthington Kilbourne
January   7, 2007  Dublin Scioto vs. New Albany
January 14, 2007  Columbus Academy vs. Olentangy Liberty
January 21, 2007  Fisher Catholic vs. Olentangy
February   4, 2007  Bellefontaine vs. River Valley
February 11, 2007  Worthington Kilbourne vs. Upper Arlington
February 18, 2007  New Albany vs. Pickerington North
February 25, 2007  Gahanna vs. Westerville North
March 25, 2007  Coshocton vs. Hilliard Davidson
April   1, 2007  Delaware Hayes vs, Dublin Coffman
April   8, 2007  Columbus Academy vs. Fisher Catholic
April 15, 2007  River Valley vs. Upper Arlington

Final teams and airdates:
4/22- New Albany vs. Westerville North
4/29- Dublin Coffman vs. Hilliard Davidson
5/06- Fisher Catholic v. River Valley
5/13- Dublin Coffman v. Westerville North
5/20- Fisher Catholic v. Dublin Coffman (Championship Game)


1st Place
$7,000 school grant from Westfield Insurance

2nd Place
$5,000 school grant from Westfield Insurance

2 Semi Finalists
$2,000 school grant from Westfield Insurance

4 Quarter Finalists
$1,000 school grant from Westfield Insurance

Additonally, The Ohio State University awards eleven scholarships, totaling $22,000, to finalists.

Westfield Insurance is the exclusive sponsor of "In The Know"

Westfield Insurance



Saturday at the Pops

Boyce Lancaster hosts an eclectic blend of old favorites, such as George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, John Philip Sousa, and Irving Berlin, mixed with today’s composers, such as Jay Ungar and Molly Mason, Mark O’Connor, Bobby McFerrin, and Wynton Marsalis.  To complement these recordings, Boyce brings you performances of local pops concerts featuring the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, and live broadcasts with Byron Stripling and the Columbus Jazz Orchestra. more...

Metropolitan Opera

Saturday afternoons on WOSU 89.7
The Met launches its 2006-07 Radio Broadcast Season on the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network. Live backstage interviews and dynamic new content will revitalize iconic broadcast series to appeal to a broader audience. Season launches with Mozart’s Idomeneo on Saturday, December 9, 2006 and runs through Saturday, May 5, 2007. more...