WSKG kicks off June with a call to Be More®. Learn more with your favorite current events programming, laugh more with our great entertainment shows, and contribute more to your community. Be more WSKG!
WSKG hopes to bring more enjoyment to your television viewing with a special round of WSKG HD-TV favorites. Catch The Roller Derby Chronicles: Rolling Thunder (with a special behind-the-scenes look at the Ithaca League of Women Rollers from Ithaca, NY) on June 1st at 9:30pm and on June 5th at 9:30pm.
On June 3rd, catch two WSKG documentaries, The Flood of '35 at 8:00pm and Watkins Glen at 9:15pm. Carole King and James Taylor reunite live at the Troubadour for a special concert airing June 5th at 8:00pm, and you can rock out all week long with Canadian Tenors - Live in Toronto on June 7th at 8:00pm, Ed Sullivan's Rock and Roll Classics - The 60s on June 8th at 9:30pm, Celtic Thunder - It's Entertainment on June 10th at 9:30pm and Big Band Years on June 12th at 9:00pm.
Off the Page hits the road again, this time journeying to Elmira, NY on June 3rd. The show will record live at Quarry Farm in a centennial remembrance of Mark Twain's life and death. Host Bill Jaker will sit down with Barb Snedecor (director of the Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College), Professor Michael Kiskis (Elmira College) and Professor Ann Ryan (Le Moyne College). The program will broadcast June 8th at 1:00pm and 7:00pm on WSKG Public Radio and will include a pre-recorded interview with actor Hal Holbrook of Mark Twain Tonight. Bring your own lawn chair and join us at Quarry Farm!
In other exciting radio news, WSKG began a collaboration with Ithaca Community Radio (ICR) on May 14th. ICR now broadcasts WSQX programming on 88.1FM in Ithaca. ICR will eventually construct a full-power station, bringing its own programming to the community, and in the meantime, WSKG has happily begun providing our service!
Our dynamic underwriting duo, Linda Cohen (Non-Commercial Underwriting Coordinator) and Susan Lake (Underwriting Account Executive), will visit the Ithaca Farmers' Market in Ithaca, NY on June 9th for Showcase Tompkins. Stop by their booth, and say hello!
Get ready WSKG Kids - our Education and Outreach Department excitedly kicks off the 3rd annual Science in the Park this June! The hands-on series brings STEM activities to children and parents throughout the Southern Tier and beyond. This summer's theme, Cyberchase, combines the popular PBS Kids show with math and the great outdoors and is funded by a Cyberchase Summer Challenge grant. In June, you can find us at Otsiningo Park Farmers' Market in Binghamton, NY on the 5th, at the OWL Ice Cream Social at Wilbur Park in Oneonta, NY on the 6th, at the Elmira Southside Community Center in Elmira, NY on the 15th and at the Johnson City School District in Johnson City, NY on the 22nd. Science in the Park runs from June through September, so keep your eye out for us all summer!
But that's not it for our Education and Outreach extraordinaires. Look for WSKG on June 1st as we head to the Delaware County Head Start in Sidney, NY. WoW partner and special guest Johnny Only will perform for the students and bring free copies of his new CD, Move It! with Johnny Only, for the classrooms. WSKG and Johnny keep on the move themselves, visiting over 250 kids at the Family Enrichment Network in Johnson City, NY on June 8th! Catch the final episode of our associated original children's television program, Move It!, on June 4th at 5:30pm.
The Education & Outreach department like to hang out online too, and they've added a great new component to their portion of the WSKG website! WSKG's literacy initiative strengthens early literacy skills through television programming, web resources, workshops and literacy-themed outreach events. And don't forget to visit local libraries for your summer reading! You can find PBS Kids Reading Corners at the Broome County Public Library in Binghamton, NY, the Moore Memorial Library in Greene, NY and the Steele Memorial Library in Elmira, NY. Anytime is learning time!
As you start out the summer season, we hope you join us in striving to Be More®!
