>> Hi, I'm
Jon Miskowski,
director of PBS Wisconsin.
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celebration of our
episode of
Lawrence Welk.
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talking to you
about that, celebrating
wonderful
legacy and the
many people
contributed to make this
possible. I
have two strong
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night, and the
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>> Hi, I'm
Linda Berman, a
volunteer here with
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Wisconsin's been here
over 70
years, and what's
important is that we've
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see on
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Have you seen
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from Appleton?
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these bands from all
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fest. Did you know music
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of you're a fan
PBS Wisconsin, right?
anyway, let's
things get this
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of members
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want you to come join
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and support
station that
you know and
love. Stu, what
do you got?
>> Well, so to recap,
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Let's do
this. Let's get it
done. And we've got
challenge
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are all theseans that there
members of Wisconsin,
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>> Thank you. Chris.
know, you're
because you like Joe
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music programing. Because ink about it.
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longer. No more
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but we need
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>> To
many ways thatre's so
media is
funded in America. There are
two big ways.
individuals
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personal orfor their own
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reasons. What that
outlet
does. And then
there's the
public media
model like
Wisconsin has
since
1954. Now
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of Wisconsin
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tonight. Joe
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fantastic.
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>> So to recap,
y ou are
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in public television.
Can you hear
that dull roar
behind us as
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our volunteers, I see
pretty much
everyone is
their headset
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Wisconsinites, taking
pledge, taking a
takingion,
an investment
Wisconsin on PBS Wisconsin.
We are
here for you.
have been here
for us since
1954. We
need you to be
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