WASTE MANAGEMENT IS COMING UNDER FIRE BY CENTER TOWNSHIP RESIDENTS AND SUPERVISORS. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO HAS MORE. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…
According to Triple-A Gas, prices sit at the highest level since the summer of 2014 and they’re going to continue to climb for at least another month. Spokesman Jim Garrity said as we approach the Memorial Day Weekend the average gas price in Beaver County was $3.15 per gallon. In Allegheny County, it’s a penny less. In Lawrence County, the average gas price is almost $3.12 per gallon. That’s all significantly higher than the national average of $2.97 and higher than Pennsylvania’s average of $3.07. Beaver County has the sixth-highest average price per gallon for gas in the state.
A Clarion man accused of raping a 13-year-old girl inside an Ambridge home will serve up to six months in jail. 51 year old Mark Suto, pleaded no contest in April to one count of indecent assault. He was sentenced to between 71 days and six months in jail. The teen detailed at least one recent assault and told officers Suto had assaulted her at least 10 times. The girl told police she did not report the earlier assaults because she is extremely afraid of him and scared of what’s going to happen.
THE BEAVER COUNTY TRANSIT AUTHORITY WILL SOON BE ADDING 8 NEW C-N-G (NATURAL GAS) BUSES TO ITS FLEET. BCTA GENERAL MANAGER MARY JO MORANDINI TELLS BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWSMAN PAT SEPTAK THAT THESE ARE BEAUTIFUL BUSES…
MORANDINI WAS ASKED WHEN RIDERS WILL BEGIN SEEING THE BUSES IN SERVICE…
MORANDINI WAS ASKED WHERE RIDERS WILL BE SEEING THE BUSES IN SERVICE…
MORANDINI EXPLAINS WHAT C-N-G STANDS FOR…
MORANDINI SAYS THAT THIS WILL BE THE SECOND OF THREE BATCHES OF CNG BUSES BEING ADDED TO THE FLEET…
WEATHER FORECAST FOR TUESDAY, MAY 22ND, 2018
TODAY – SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGH NEAR 80.
TONIGHT – THUNDERSTORMS THROUGHOUT THE EVENING
WILL GIVE WAY TO PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES
AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOW – 57.
WEDNESDAY – PARTLY SUNNY SKIES. HIGH – 76.
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As we approach our 70th Anniversary at 1230 WBVP and 1460 WMBA, Beaver County Radio presents a series of live interviews with past and present staff to recollect the great history and memorable moments on WBVP and WMBA. On Tuesday May 22, 2018 during Teleforum with Frank Sparks he will have the following guests on air………
Before taking the Pittsburgh morning market by storm for three decades, Jim Merkel had his radio start at WMBA in the mid-1970s. He returns to his roots on May 22 at 9:10 as he sits down with Frank Sparks to discuss the beginnings of his long and distinguished career.
Current owner and station manager Mark Peterson joins program director and Teleforum host Frank Sparks for an on-air business meeting. Just kidding, of course…Mark has seen over 30 years of history on Beaver County Radio through his own eyes, and has studied all 70 years of WBVP and WMBA. He has compiled the histories into his new book “Behind The Microphone: The History of Radio In Beaver County, PA”, which will be the subject of the 10:00 hour of Teleforum on May 22.
and finally Frank will be joined by Chris Shovlin whose voice has been heard on Beaver County Radio for over 40 years. He started as a sports announcer in the mid-1970s at WMBA, before becoming sports director and general manager during his long tenure at WBVP. He can still be heard every Saturday at Noon, as the host of “Frontiers In Learning” presented by Lincoln Learning Solutions.
“Radio Rewind” is brought to you by Ba’Runi Bar & Grille, the John Pournaras Agency, the Ambridge Italian Villa, Bowser Hyundai of Chippewa, McGee Heating & Cooling, and the Pennsylvania Hot Rod Company.
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CONNOR LAMB – THE CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE FOR THE 17TH DISTRICT – CAMPAIGNED IN ALIQUIPPA YESTERDAY. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO WAS THERE. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…
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Tune in from 9 a.m. this morning to 12 noon to Telefourm with Frank Sparks. We will be celebrating all week in conjunction with our 70 th Anniversary when WBVP first went Live on the air on May 25, 1948. Each Day this week and next we will feature voices of the past that made Beaver County Radio what it is today. Today we will kick it all of with former WMBA program director and sports announcer Bill Fontana from 9:10 to 10:00 AM live in the Beaver County Radio studio! Bill worked at WMBA in the 70s, representing the station on some of the nation’s biggest stages, and made a surprise return to Beaver County Radio in 2017 as part of our high school sports coverage team!
Then at 10:10 a.m. current Sports Director Bob Barrickman will be welcomed into the Beaver County Radio studios to look back at some of the greatest sports moments of the last 70 years from 10:10 to 11:00 AM. Bob has been with WBVP since 1980, and his career landed him in the Beaver County Sports Hall of Fame in 2008.
Then in hour number three we will be joined at 11:10 a.m. via phone by 1990s WBVP show host Dmitri Vassilaros joins to discuss the high-paced talk format of the decade on Beaver County Radio.
And to finish up day number on we will have Frank Greenlee, “The Big G”, worked at WMBA in the 1970s and 1980s on the show via telephone and he’ll reminisce with Frank Sparks on Teleforum on May 21 at 11:20.
“Radio Rewind” is brought to you by Ba’Runi Bar & Grille, the John Pournaras Agency, the Ambridge Italian Villa, Bowser Hyundai of Chippewa, McGee Heating & Cooling, and the Pennsylvania Hot Rod Company.
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WEATHER FORECAST FOR MONDAY, MAY 21ST, 2018
TODAY – PARTLY CLOUDY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF A RAIN
SHOWER. HIGH – 81.
TONIGHT – SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY.
LOW – 67.
TUESDAY – SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGH – 78.
LAW ENFORCEMENT CAME OUT IN FULL FORCE FOR A POLICE MEMORIAL OUTSIDE THE BEAVER COUNTY COURTHOUSE TODAY. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO WAS THERE. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…