WKAR | Shawn Turner| Celebrating a Century of Service
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WKAR | Shawn Turner| Celebrating a Century of Service
WKAR is celebrating a Century of Service to mid-Michigan! On Aug. 18, 1922, WKAR first took to the air waves as an AM radio station, broadcasting agricultural news and information from Michigan State University. One hundred years later, WKAR is a robust media organization that includes WKAR Television, WKAR Radio, wkar.org, Radio Reading Service, WKAR Digital Studios and WKAR Family and much more.
WKAR | Shawn Turner| Celebrating a Century of Service
Special | 1mVideo has Closed Captions
WKAR is celebrating a Century of Service to mid-Michigan! On Aug. 18, 1922, WKAR first took to the air waves as an AM radio station, broadcasting agricultural news and information from Michigan State University. One hundred years later, WKAR is a robust media organization that includes WKAR Television, WKAR Radio, wkar.org, Radio Reading Service, WKAR Digital Studios and WKAR Family and much more.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(upbeat music) - WKAR went on the air a hundred years ago on August 18th, 1922.
And for the next year, we're going to be having a lot of celebrations and events around the community to commemorate WKAR'S 100th anniversary.
- Hi!
- Oh, awesome.
- Public media is an essential part of our daily lives and a central part of delivering the kind of information that people need to be able to be connected to their community.
- Let's give 'em all a big round of applause.
(people clapping) - Looking to the future, we're gonna continue to innovate in ways that are synonymous with who we are here at WKAR.
That means we're gonna focus on next-generation television.
It means we're gonna focus on digital broadcasting and making sure that we are meeting our viewers and listeners where they are.
- [Speaker] Very good.
- WKAR is here to support the community and no matter what that takes, we're gonna continue to make sure that we evolve and innovate to deliver for the people who have supported us all these years.
(upbeat music)
