The ever-changing community of Tyrone will be in thousands of living rooms across central Pennsylvania this evening with the broadcasting of “Our Town Tyrone.”
For residents who purchase Adelphia cable, Tyrone’s part of the long-running public broadcast series will begin on cable channel 3 at 7 p.m.
According to WPSX director of programming services Greg Petersen, both he and his staff are “happy” about the project.
“But more importantly, I think the volunteers are happy too,” he said. “Their comments after the screening (held last week in the YMCA Theater) were quite glowing in their praise. To me, that’s the most gratifying aspect of the ‘Our Town’ project.”
On Oct. 25, residents of Tyrone volunteered a few hours out of their morning to disperse amongst the community and videotape the different aspects of the time.
“After all the footage was gathered, the volunteers moved to the Tyrone High School library to offer commentary on what was on the videotapes.
“I think that viewers will be very pleasantly surprised at the range of stories and experiences that the volunteers brought to the project,” said Petersen, noting how easy it was working with Tyrone people on the project. “The volunteers took a lot of care in making their videos and their thoughtful comments tied it all together. The groups were very willing to spend the time necessary to make a great product.”
According to Petersen, the show is almost 70 minutes in length and said those tuning in will have a chance to become members of WPSX and receive a copy of the program for themselves.
“You could call it ‘Tyrone Night’ on WPSX-TV,” he said.
Some volunteers will volunteer more time tonight to man the phone lines at the offices in State College in hopes of drumming up some financial support for both WPSX and local public broadcasting.
Those volunteering include Richard and Ann Searer, Lori Eckert, Amy Hampton, Rose Black, Rachel Guiher, Kim Stiffler, Brian Kelly and Andrew Wilson.
