Making a Public Radio Show with Live Wire

On April 25, 2023, the team from Live Wire talked to the Oregon State University community about the process and sometimes chaos of running a live, public radio program.
Students broadcast the talk live on KVBR FM in Corvallis.
Live Wire is a weekly radio variety program that features interviews with writers, musicians, activists, and other interesting folks, plus musical guests and comedy. The show is taped live in Portland once a month in front of a devoted audience, then broadcast around the country, where it airs on 200 public radio stations, reaching 300,000 unique listeners per episode.

Live Wire’s host, Luke Burbank, and Executive Producer Laura Hadden, share over thirty years of Public Radio experience between them. In their careers, they’ve worked with CBS Sunday Morning, The Moth, Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me!, and This American Life. OSU Associate Professor Elena Passarello has served as Live Wire’s Announcer since 2018, when she appeared as a guest on the program and had so much fun that she refused to leave.
Presented by College of Liberal Arts, The Center for the Humanities and KBVR-FM.
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