WHYY Specials

Over the past year WHYY has responded to community needs with multi-platform programs that shed light on intricate topics and add local definition to national conversations.

WHYY Remembers delved into the 9/11 tragedy one year later highlighted by eleven days of local and national programming including reports on Delaware Tonight and Morning Edition, and WHYY-produced specials such as the Emmy-Award winning Delaware Tonight: Kids Coping with Terror, and You Bet Your Garden on healing; A Chef’s Table on the fate of New York City restaurants; Voices in the Family on forgiving; and Fresh Air with thoughts by writers and musicians. A virtual message board on whyy.org encouraged our audiences to talk to one another.

We added regional perspective to national initiatives. WHYY’s Preview Forum zoomed in on a television series on race. Two Towns of Jasper presented another opportunity for a town meeting on race, as did the TV series This Far By Faith. Delaware Valley Voices was part of a national civic engagement with town meetings, followed by the WHYY-TV special on how immigrants to America view this country.

Teens, working with WHYY’s Community Advisory Board, were Friday Forum guests on a topic of their choosing, Teens Talk About Stress. This innovative broadcast grew out of WHYY’s efforts to cultivate a high school audience and to teach them about media.

WHYY’s multi-part specials are there when people need them, establishing them as a keystone of WHYY’s trusted regional news and information service.

In FY'03 WHYY produced 1,190 hours of original programming on FM and 201 hours on TV.

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