In This Issue
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WHAV Names ‘Corporate
FM’ Documentary Panel; Reserve Your Seat
McGravey and Hoyt join
WHAV as Interns
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Program
Highlights
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Open Mike Show
Tim Coco is host of the
more than 50-year staple of democracy, Open Mike Show. The
two-hour program is also seen on WHAV.TV.
Mondays, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Community Spotlight
Someone You Know is on
WHAV! Merrimack Valley non-profit organizations are invited to submit
news of events, fundraising appeals and other community calendar
announcements. Use the form on the News
page
to submit your information. Only local radio can bring you this level
of public service, but only WHAV does. This program is supported in
part by a grant from the Haverhill Cultural Council, a local agency
which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state
agency.
15 past every
hour.
Wave Weather
The Boston media
doesn’t always understand unique Valley weather conditions. Acclaimed
WHAV Meteorologists Rob Carolan and Gary Best and the rest of the team
provide Merrimack Valley’s most accurate weather forecasts every half
hour, 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week.
Every 30 minutes.
Democracy
Now is an award-winning investigative news magazine highlighting a
grassroots perspective and efforts to ignite democracy. Hosted by Amy
Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, the program pioneers the largest community
media collaboration in the United States. Interviews take place with
politicians, celebrities, muckrakers, academics, artists and “just
folks.”.
Thom
Hartmann is the nation’s top progressive radio talk show host,
according to Talkers Magazine, and is listed among the trade
publication’s “Heaviest Hundred: the 100 most important radio talk show
hosts of all time.” He is a four-time Project Censored-award-winning,
New York Times best-selling author of 22 books in 17 languages on five
continents.
International newscast
utilizing on-location
stringers of all nationalities, for-on-the- ground and unembedded news.
Anchored by Dorian Merina with headlines by Nell Abram and Jes Burns.
Produced by Dr. Michio
Kaku, Explorations in Science features news and interviews with leading
scientists on science, technology, politics and the environment.
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Web
WHAV.net
WHAV.TV (Open
Mike Show only)
WHAV.org
Cable TV
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Andover: Channel 8
• Haverhill: Channel 22
• Methuen, Channels 8 + 22 (Comcast) &
32* (Verizon Fios)
• Plaistow,
Channel 17
• Sandown, Channel 17
* Methuen
Channel 32 is heard statewide in communities with Verizon Fios cable
television service.
A special thanks to the
boards, management, staffs and members of the public access television
stations above for bringing not-for-profit WHAV to those without
Internet access! If you would like to hear WHAV on your cable
television system, call your cable company or public access station.
For more information, call (978) 374-2111.
Radio
1640 AM
Cell Phone
Visit www.WHAV.net with your smartphone and be automatically directed to a page specially formatted for your small screen.
About WHAV
The WHAV call letters
have been associated with local broadcasting since 1947. WHAV is today
operated by Public Media of New England Inc., a not-for-profit
corporation. Since 2004, the call has served the Merrimack Valley’s
pioneer Internet radio station at WHAV.net and a number of public
access cable television stations in Andover, Haverhill and Methuen, and
Plaistow and Sandown, N.H. The station is also heard over AM 1640 in
northern Haverhill and Plaistow, N.H.
Public Media of New
England, Inc.
WHAV
189 Ward Hill Ave.
Haverhill, MA 01835
Business Office: (978) 374-2111
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Dr. Donna L. Halper |
Dan Kennedy |
Marc Lemay |
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Seating is Limited!
Purchase Tickets at www.WHAV.net
or call
(978) 374-1900
Ext. 114
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William J. Macek |
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Kevin McKinney |
Movie’s
New England Premiere Just 10 Days Away!
WHAV Names ‘Corporate FM’ Documentary Panel;
Reserve Your Seat
Five
experts will discuss the state of the media following nonprofit WHAV’s
New England premiere screening of “Corporate FM: The Killing of Local
Commercial Radio,” Wed., June 19.
The panel includes
Corporate FM Director Kevin McKinney; Dan Kennedy, assistant professor,
Northeastern University School of Journalism; Donna L. Halper,
associate professor of communications, Lesley University; William J.
Macek, owner of WPKZ, Fitchburg, and New England radio owner/operated
for 22 years; and Marc Lemay, communications manager, Greater Lawrence
Family Health Center, and former WHAV news director.
The documentary
screening begins at 6 p.m., Wed., June 19, at Chunky’s Cinema Pub, 371
Lowell Ave., Haverhill. Tickets are $60 for WHAV members and $85 for
nonmembers and may be purchased at www.WHAV.net or by calling (978) 374-1900.
Proceeds from the movie will benefit nonprofit radio station WHAV.
McKinney’s feature
documentary work includes camera and sound on “Body of War,” directed
by veteran talk-show host Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro. He is a winner
or the Aspiring Filmmakers Award for his previous film Planet Trash.
McKinney graduated from the University of Kansas with a double major in
Sociology and Theatre/Film. He believes the sociological impact of
radio for local community support is more powerful than the Internet or
any other technology.
Kennedy is a regular
panelist on “Beat the Press,” WGBH-TV’s weekly roundtable program on
media issues; maintains a weblog, “Media Nation;” and contributes
articles to the Huffington Post and Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab.
From 2007 to 2011, he wrote a weekly online column for The Guardian’s
“Comment is Free America” section. Previously, he served as the Boston
Phoenix’s media columnist from 1994 through 2005 and remained a
contributor until the newspaper’s closing earlier this year. While at
the Phoenix, he was the recipient of the 2001 Rowse Award and the
Association of Alternative Newsweeklies’ 1999 award for media
reporting. Kennedy was also as a reporter for The Daily Times
Chronicle, Woburn, Mass., for 10 years. He has published two books,
“Little People: Learning to See the World Through My Daughter’s Eyes”
and “The Wired City.”
Dr. Halper has spent
more than 40 years in broadcasting and print journalism, and has often
been called upon to comment on trends in media. She has made guest
appearances on PBS, NPR, the History Channel and local radio and
television stations. While she was in radio, she discovered the rock
group RUSH, who dedicated two albums to her, and she appears in a 2010
documentary about them. She is a director of the Massachusetts
Broadcasters Hall of Fame and recently published the book “Boston Radio
1920-2011.”
Macek, a nine-term
Haverhill city councilor, has been on the board of the Massachusetts
Broadcasters Association since 2007 and currently serves as radio
chair. Since 2006 Macek has been owner of WPKZ, Fitchburg, 1280 AM and
105.3 FM. Previously he owned WMOO FM, Derby, Vt. and WIKE, Newport,
Vt., and WINQ-FM, Winchendon, Mass. Previously, he was a professional
radio announcer from 1973 to 2005 and founded Macek and Co. real estate
in 1976. He has been an attorney in the general practice of business
and family law since 1996 and is a member of the Massachusetts Bar
Association.
Lemay is heard weekdays
on WHAV as host of Greater Lawrence Family Health Center’s “Health
Minute.” He entered radio as a 13-year-old intern at WALE AM 1400, Fall
River. When the station was sold in 1989, he was there to sign off WALE
one night and sign on again as WHTB the next morning. In 1990, Lemay
moved to WHAV as news director. After three years at WHAV, Lemay went
to work in other areas of communications including Yellow Pages,
newspaper publishing, graphic design, television (public access) and
Internet. In 2004, Lemay returned to radio when he joined WCCM. There,
he served as afternoon drive host, production director, IT manager,
morning show news anchor/co-host and finally morning show host.
“Corporate FM: The
Killing of Local Commercial Radio” features interviews with Jewel, The
Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne, former Butt Hole Surfers manager Tom Bunch
and a wide array of DJs and experts who have witnessed radio’s
destruction from the inside. McKinney warns “the death of privately
operated local radio stations is not just destroying the stations that
are bought up, but damning the future of all stations on the dial—the
public and college stations as well. The entire medium of radio becomes
threatened when there are only two stations worth listening to.”
Both
Students Reside in Haverhill
McGravey and Hoyt join WHAV as Interns
Haverhill residents Brian P.
McGravey and Benjamin D. Hoyt have joined WHAV as summer interns.
McGravey recently
completed his education at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and
will receive a bachelor’s degree in Music Business upon completion of
the internship. Hoyt is a student at the Massachusetts College of
Liberal Arts with a major in English Communications. He is
participating in the internship as a way to gain basic knowledge in the
field.
McGravey has performed
in several bands over the past several years in Massachusetts, Maine,
Rhode Island and New Hampshire. He sings and plays piano, bass guitar,
harmonica, mandolin and tenor saxophone. He performs in two bands,
“TallBoys”—a band that plays original music also a wide variety of
classic rock, funk, pop and dance songs. The band features his twin
brother Randall on lead guitar and backing vocals; friends Jonathan
Loya on bass guitar, alto saxophone, percussion and backing vocals; and
Jared Ghioto on drums and lead vocals.
“When I was about 10
years old my father brought me to see Aerosmith live and I have been
involved in music ever since and will do anything to make a living with
my passion,” says McGravey. He explains he has been interested in music
and radio since he was young. “I am excited to be a part of WHAV and
will help out the station in any way possible.”
Hoyt attended Whittier
Regional Vocational Technical High School with a focus on
computer-aided drafting, where he discovered an interest in the
communications process when he participated in the school’s Model U.N.
Debate Club. Using it as a way to try to break out of his shell, Hoyt
soon found more to public speaking than he expected.
“I found I enjoyed
expressing myself in front of others and began to see a new field to
step towards,” said Hoyt. After graduating from Whittier with honors in
the spring of 2012, he went on to attend Massachusetts College of
Liberal Arts (formerly known as North Adams State College), North
Adams. During the fall semester, Hoyt studied communications, including
Radio Production, Mass Media and Television Production. “The more time
I spent learning to present myself in front of a camera or speak into a
microphone, the more I wanted to learn,” Hoyt said.
Hoyt looks to advance
his knowledge of broadcast delivery and radio through the internship at
WHAV, explaining he is looking forward to learning about newsgathering,
writing and on-air presentation. “I look forward to becoming a part of
the long history of WHAV in Haverhill, while taking another step
towards my career goals.”
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