Important Update
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Beginning September 1, 2026, PBS KIDS will move from channel 30.5 to channel 30.4 and WTIU Echo will be discontinued. Learn whether you need to rescan your TV.
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IU students had their first chance to select football tickets.
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Join fellow WTIU viewers and station staff for a special advance screening at Assembly Hall of Timeless: Don Fischer’s Half-Century Broadcasting IU Sports.
Timeless tells the story of the legendary broadcaster whose career spans generations of IU fans and athletes. Through archival footage, historic radio calls, interviews, and personal reflections, the documentary explores Fischer’s unlikely rise from a small-town Illinois upbringing to becoming one of the most recognizable voices in college sports.
Following the screening of Timeless, stick around for a screening of A Team That Wouldn't Be Beat, a rarely-seen documentary chronicling the 1975-76 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team and their undefeated national championship season, recently resurfaced from the IU Archives.
Parking is in the south lot of Assembly Hall. Doors open at 6:30pm.
Schoolhouse Rock made its debut on Saturday morning TV in 1973. And this week on Afterglow, we’re exploring the many jazz singers—like Blossom Dearie, Grady Tate, and Jack Sheldon —who helped shape the sound of the popular educational series.
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Browse our playlist from this week's show
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Courtesy of the artists.Since 2018, Early Music America has hosted its Emerging Artists Showcase, a series presenting the rising stars of early music and historical performance. This hour on Harmonia, we’ll hear a fifteenth century French program by ensemble Ars Poetica, one of three laureates to perform on the 2025 showcase.
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In 1957 tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins was at the peak of his first great period, playing with a confident, swinging, and radical abandon both as a leader and with Max Roach and Miles Davis.
Everyone needs at least one place in their lifetime when they can experience that feeling. Where you are greeted by a combination of familiar sights, sounds, or scents and suddenly become relaxed and rooted on this earth.
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Eric Rensberger grew up in Elkhart County, Indiana and has lived in the Bloomington area since 1979. On this edition of the Poets Weave, Eric reads “A Return,” “Clutter,” “3/10/14,” and “A Cursing.”
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Although she never wrote down to her readers, Fort Wayne's classicist wrote for what would today be called a “popular” audience.
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Danny WilliamWe’re saying goodbye to Nice Work this week. For our last show, hosts Tyler Lake and Alex Chambers talk about some of their favorite moments, look back at stories and interviews and reflect on what they hoped the show would accomplish.
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For more than 50 years, Don Fischer's voice has been part of the soundtrack of Indiana University athletics. Timeless: Don Fischer's Half-Century Broadcasting IU Sports premieres August 28 on WTIU and will be celebrated through free community screenings across Indiana, including a special sneak-peek event at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall.
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Fifty years after landmark special education laws transformed America's classrooms, are we truly preparing teachers for what's next?
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Crime victim advocates say a backlog of untested rape kits, shortage of trauma-informed investigators and forensic nurses and forthcoming cuts to federal funding is hampering Indiana’s sexual assault response.
