Syracuse, NY, USA
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Request QuoteRandy Wenner is active as a freelance radio journalist, with stories airing regularly on NPR, WAER-FM (the SU campus NPR affiliate) and WRVO-FM (the Oswego NPR affiliate). He is the recipient of a 2013 Edward R. Murrow Regional Award for Best Use of Sound, and several Syracuse Press Club and New York State AP Broadcasters awards. Prior to joining the University, Wenner worked at CBS affiliate WTVH-TV 5 in Syracuse as a news producer, reporter and on-air talent. He also served as program director, during which time WTVH maintained its position as a market leader in an era of declining viewership. He began his career in communications as a news anchor/reporter at WRUN/WKGW radio in the Utica area before joining the staff at WTVH.
In the 1950s there were no MP3 players. In fact, there was no way to slip your favorite music into your pocket. But that all changed, thanks to a scientific breakthrough that revolutionized development at one of central New York's largest manufacturers. And the result of that development will now be forever remembered at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. Won a regional Murrow award.
The hoax put the Onondaga County Hamlet of Cardiff in newspaper headlines across the world. But it's been more than a century since the Cardiff Giant was unearthed and there is an effort underway to make sure that "the hoax that fooled America" is never forgotten.
In 2014, the Tony Awards organization announced it is dropping the Tonys for "best sound design." With one of the country's significant training institutions for theater sound design headquartered in Syracuse, this sound-rich piece explores what theater sound design is, and why anyone should care about it.
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