Today should have been the first day for ballots to be sent out to voters who are voting absentee or mail in ballot in Pennsylvania. None of Pennsylvania’s counties will be able to send out ballots to voters today, the first day counties are able too.
Due to lawsuits and other issues, The state’s Democratic Party remains in court battling to keep the Green Party off the ballot. The pending legal dispute has led to a delay in certification of the November ballot, and as a result, all Pennsylvania county election officials who this year could have started offering absentee or mail-in ballots, as well as in-person early absentee voting, starting September 14 are in a holding pattern.
Pennsylvania has not finalized its ballot less than eight weeks before Election Day.
2 California deputies shot in apparent ambush in patrol car
COMPTON, Calif. (AP) — The shooting of two sheriff’s deputies in California in an apparent ambush has prompted a search for the shooter, reaction from President Donald Trump, and a protest. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department released video Saturday showing a gunman open fire on the deputies’ patrol car. President Trump responded on Twitter, “Animals that must be hit hard!” The deputies were taken to a hospital where both underwent surgery. The sheriff’s department says protesters showed up outside and were yelling, “We hope they die.” Officers were searching the area for the gunman. An official says the description of the suspect is “very generic.”
(Chippewa Township, PA) 72 years ago, WBVP started broadcasting local high school football and basketball games on the radio. Over the years, there have been several changes, improvements and innovations to the traditional A.M. radio broadcasts, including utilizing cell phone technology instead of old copper phone lines to send a feed back to the studio, broadcasting the games on F.M., and distributing the programs via an online audio stream. Friday night, yet another milestone was achieved as the station created a live video feed from Blackhawk Stadium to cover the Cougars season opener against the visiting Beaver Bobcats. Viewers to Friday night’s radio and video simulcast of the Blackhawk vs. Beaver high school football game were treated to live video synced with the play by play of Beaver County Radio broadcasters, Bob Barrickman and Jason Colangelo.
The stations had been dabbling in video streaming parts of their programming off and on for about 2 years. Recently, with the announcement that high school football games in Pennsylvania would in fact be played, but with limited fan attendance allowed due to COVID 19 restrictions, Program Director Frank Sparks convinced station ownership to invest in cameras and other equipment, and start video streaming high school football broadcasts. Sparks added “It was a perfect opportunity to fill a void and serve area residents who would have wanted to watch the games in person, but could not under the circumstances.” The new high tech audio and video simulcasts will also surely increase station usage and popularity throughout the fall on high school football game days, too. And so far, the gamble seems to be paying off. Friday night’s video program post reached over 5,200 people so far, and it also had many viewers posting positive accolades on social media about the station’s efforts to make the game available in a video format.
Here is the inaugural touchdown broadcast from an on site live stream video format created by Beaver County Radio:
Chuck Wilson broadcasting on WBVP in the early days at a Geneva College basketball game. Photo Courtesy of Bobbie Wilson-Tkacik.
The tradition of describing high school sporting events over the airwaves of WBVP began in 1948 with veteran, beloved broadcaster, Chuck Wilson, calling the action from behind a giant Western Electric bird cage ribbon microphone. Over the years, radio station listeners got to hear the dazzling plays made by about a dozen local future NFL Superbowl Champions, as they got their first publicity over the airwaves on WBVP, in Beaver Falls and WMBA in Ambridge. When history was being made in sports, WBVP and WMBA were there, and Friday was no exception. Although, it was the stations making a historic “play”, along with the athletes, on this balmy early fall night under the lights in Chippewa. Out on the field, it was a game that Blackhawk won 22-7.
Bob Barrickman, and Jason Colangelo call the play by Play while Malik Garrett directs the cameras and scene shots for the broadcast with a computer out at Blackhawk Stadium Friday Night.Antonia Rotuna operates a camera for Beaver County Radio atop the press box at Blackhawk Stadium Friday Night.
In addition to Barrickman and Colangelo, Additional radio station staffers including Malik Garrett, Antonia Rotuna, Sly Washington and Rick Plassmeyer were onsite at Blackhawk Stadium to help produce the multi media feed.
Beaver County Radio has plans to do an audio/video simulcast from a featured game of the week throughout the season. Broadcast schedules can be found here.
Beaver traveled to Blackhawk for tonights’ game for the opening night of high school football here in Beaver County. As the game got started Blackhawk took off quick with a 7-0 lead early on. The rest of the the first half resulted in 4 turnovers including a fumble from the Bobcats and interceptions by the Cougars. The half ended with a score of 16 to nothing in favor of the Cougars. To start the second half, Beaver came out strong and managed to get the ball in the end zone during the third. Unfortunately, for the Bobcats, Blackhawk continued to use their power to move the ball down the field to secure the win. The game ended with a final score of 22 – 7.
Stocks seek comeback…Consumer prices up…U.K. trade deal
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are trying for another comeback on Wall Street, as a tumultuous week of big swings comes to a close. The S&P 500 was up 0.2% in morning trading, but only after an earlier gain of 0.8% vanished completely. Momentum has been lightning-quick to shift on Wall Street recently, and a similar morning gain for the S&P 500 on Thursday gave way to a 1.8% loss for its fourth drop in five days. The Nasdaq composite, which includes many of the superstar tech stocks that have been the focus of the market’s recent selling, was down 0.1%.
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer prices rose 0.4% in August as used car prices surged by the largest amount in 51 years. The Labor Department reports that the August increase in the consumer price index reflected some moderation following big gains of 0.6% in both June and July as the pace of energy price gains slowed. However, there were still areas which showed bigger price increases, led by a 5.4% jump in used car prices, the biggest monthly gain since March 1969. New car prices were unchanged in August but analysts predicted prices there likely to rise in coming months, reflecting supply shortages.
LONDON (A) — The U.K. has secured its first major post-Brexit trade deal after signing an agreement with Japan just as discussions with the European Union appeared to be on the verge of collapse. The agreement was reached only in principle and details are thin. The government said the pact will increase commerce with Japan by around $19 billion. Skeptics say no amount of trade deals can mitigate for the losses that may accrue if Britain does not reach a trade agreement with the EU when the current pacts expire at the end of the year.
BERLIN (AP) — Europe’s flight safety authority says the first flight tests for the Boeing 737 Max, which has been grounded worldwide after two deadly crashes, have now been completed. The test flights conducted over the past week by the European Aviation Safety Agency took place in Vancouver, Canada, because of travel restrictions due to the coronavirus and are now complete. The agency says it will now be analyzing the data from the tests.
DETROIT (AP) — For the second time this month, Hyundai is telling some SUV owners to park outdoors because an electrical short in a computer can cause vehicles to catch fire. The Korean automaker is recalling about 180,000 Tucson SUVs in the U.S. from 2019 through 2021 to fix the problem. The company says corrosion can cause a short circuit in defective anti-lock brake circuit boards that can start a fire. Hyundai says it knows of a dozen engine fires from the problem but no injuries.
