- [Announcer] Live from your Public Broadcasting Studios, it's the State of Pennsylvania, the region's premier news and information program with WVIA President, Bill Kelly and correspondent, Suzanne Kelly.

This is State of Pennsylvania.

And now WVIA President, Bill Kelly.

(audience applauds) - Well, good evening everyone.

Welcome again to WVIA's HD Theater.

Our phone number is 1-800-326-9842.

Tonight we have an announcement, a concert, and guests from here and Hollywood, California.

The "Music of Your Life" is Northeast Pennsylvania's newest radio station.

Now you'll need an HD Radio to get it.

We'll be giving away four of them tonight and we'll show you why we think it's a good idea for you to buy one.

In a few minutes, Peter Marshall, here's a name you'll remember, from Hollywood Squares will be with us by telephone from California.

He's a "Music of Your Life" host everyday.

But now let's meet our guests here in the WVIA HD Theater.

Marko Marcinko, born in Archibald, toured with Maynard Ferguson, worked and performed with the Sammy Kaye and Nelson Riddle orchestras.

Paul Langosch, performed with Tony Bennett around the world, no less than 200 times.

Cathy Chemi, toured with the Harry James Orchestra, worked the famed Playboy Club Jazz Circuit in Las Vegas.

Steve Rudolph, toured with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, the Mills Brothers, and many others.

With us in the theater to tell you what else is on HD Radio here in Northeast Pennsylvania is Mike O'Donnell, program director for Intercom Communications, WKRZ and the Mountain Radio Stations.

And to take your questions on what it costs and the installation involved is David Salak, owner of Sound Solutions in Kingston.

There you have it.

Those are the guests.

Our phone number 1-800-326-9842.

Guess what?

Let me tell you a little bit about "Music of Your Life".

That's our format for WVIA-HD2.

It's been in continuous operation since 1978, delivered by satellite.

Satellite Radio Network features the Adult Standards Radio format.

There are about 50 affiliates of "Music of Your Life" around the United States, and we're about to become 51st.

We're all very excited about this.

You're gonna learn all about HD Radio tonight, but the music we have here in the theater.

Marko Marcinko, my friend, you've been here many times.

Welcome.

- Thank you very much, Bill.

Thanks for having us.

- Great to have you.

When we first mentioned HD Radio to you and "Music of Your Life", you identified right away with the era of music this represents.

- [Marko] Absolutely.

- What does it mean to you?

- Well, it's our American heritage.

So, it represents that to me.

And it's the classic songs of my parents' generation and their parents' generation, and now with the continuation of people like Rod Stewart and Smokey Robinson and Gladys Knight and these contemporaries continuing the tradition of Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett and those that came before them.

It just keeps going on and on and on.

So it's very important.

And I think it's very important for WVIA to do this and have this HD Radio thing.

- I had the opportunity Marko last weekend to go out and test in my car the HD Radio and hear "Music of Your Life".

I simply could not believe how wonderful this music from the '40s, the '50s, late '30s in some cases, sounds in high definition digital radio.

It's unbelievable.

So, it's worth it.

That's what we think.

Let me just mention in my crude notes here a little bit more.

In addition to you performing with Sammy Kaye and Nelson Riddle, you have performed with Joan Rivers, Connie Francis, Bob Newhart, Don Rickles.

- Oh, boy.

Oh, boy.

- Okay, we have to ask you about Don Rickles.

- Don Rickles is a fantastic gentleman.

His persona offstage is very different than his persona on stage.

And I have to say that he was very kind to us musicians.

He'd invite us to his dressing room.

He'd ask us to come in and sit down with them.

You know, have something to eat and he'd tells stories and he was a wonderful man, you know?

And I look forward to seeing him sometime again soon.

He's great.

- We challenged you when we first talked about this to put together an ensemble of musicians and a vocalist that would represent the era we are now officially inaugurating on HD2, the "Music of Your Life".

Would you please tell us how you came up with this cast of wonderful characters?

- Well, when you asked me about this, it was pretty instantaneous for me because I know, of course, my cohort over here from the Harrisburg area, Mr. Steve Rudolph.

We've played many gigs together and he introduced me, of course, to both Cathy Chemi and Paul Langosch.

So when you mentioned the style that you were looking for and what the radio station was about, instantaneously I called Steve immediately and I think I said to him, "How about we get Cathy to do this gig?"

And he was like, "Okay, what is it?"

I said, "Don't worry about it."

(everybody laughs) - [Bill] It doesn't matter.

- It doesn't matter.

- You'll be able to do it.

So you started with Steve Rudolph.

Steve, you must be what?

47.

It says you've been playing piano 45 years.

- Well, I started when I was 22, so.

- [Bill] We can do that math, you know?

- I'll be having my 68th birthday in April.

- [Bill] Congratulations.

(audience applauds) - No, don't get up.

- It says here you were the founder of the Central Pennsylvania Friends of Jazz which is now in its 28th season.

Is that music well received?

You're in Harrisburg as I understand.

- Yes.

Yeah, we have a membership of about 700 paying members.

- Wonderful.

- And we do monthly concerts seven months out of the year and an annual festival.

We have a youth band and a summer jazz camp and a scholarship program.

We have a whole lot of things going on.

- Does this "Music of Your Life"...

Meaning the big band era, the Tony Bennett's, the Frank Sinatra's, is it meaningful to you?

- Oh, absolutely.

I grew up in southern Indiana and radio wasn't all that modern when I was a kid.

So in the '50s, they were still playing big band music a lot.

And I grew up as a trumpet player and of course my heroes were people like Harry James and Louis Armstrong and all those people, and so this is really more the music of my life than it should be for someone- - That's quite all right.

Since you brought up the old radios, I'm gonna ask this camera to follow me for just a moment.

We have an example of an old radio right here.

This indeed is what they were.

This is a one-owner vehicle.

In fact, this was my wife's family's radio.

They listened to FDR's Fireside Chats on this radio.

Isn't that wonderful?

I mean, it's a piece of treasure to me.

But there's that Victrola, there's that record player down in there.

And here on top of it is an HD Radio.

We'll be demonstrating this for you tonight and showing you that not just "Music of Your Life" but some other wonderful radio formats are now available to anybody who has one of these.

Cathy, hang on.

You're gonna be last and best here.

Let's go to Paul Langosch.

Paul, you play bass and you've worked with Phil Woods, Zoot Sims, George Shearing, one of my favorites.

- [Paul] Yeah, mine too.

- [Bill] Any comments on Shearing?

- Oh, that was just one of the most special times of my life.

He is just such a great artist and such a jazz piano innovator, and it was just such an honor to get to play with him.

- Best memory of those years with George Shearing?

Best venue?

- Yeah, playing for a couple nights.

I think we played for three nights at the Regatta Bar in Cambridge, Massachusetts and it was just the perfect setting and the perfect crowd and it was just three very, very magical nights, so.

- One voice we'll hear a lot of in "Music of Your Life" is Rosemary Clooney.

- [Paul] Oh, yes.

- And you have played with her.

- Yes, I've played with her quite often for a while.

She was just one of the nicest people that you could ever meet and artist with great integrity and just very committed to music and just the good things in life.

And she was fantastic, a very, very good friend.

- [Bill] Mel Torme.

- Mel was... - [Bill] Another one.

Probably the greatest jazz singer, male jazz singer of our time.

He's just...

He was such a powerhouse of music and to perform with him was...

It was not difficult, but it was challenging because he really wanted everything that you had every night.

And he was giving, more than anybody, so you could never let up for a minute with him.

- [Bill] When was your last time playing with Mel Torme?

- It was about a month before I got the opportunity to start with Tony Bennett and we did a jazz cruise on the Norway out of Miami to the Caribbean.

- Wonderful.

I can tell you right now the audience both at home and in this theater wanna hear you play.

So I'm not gonna spend too much time in the talking.

But Cathy, you're a native New Yorker.

- [Cathy] Yes.

- You're in Harrisburg now?

- In Lancaster County area.

But Harrisburg, I work more than anything.

Uh-huh.

- Tell us about yourself.

I'm not gonna give you leading questions.

We've all heard you- - I prefer lead-in, so.

- We heard you warm up earlier and I got to tell you, everybody in this building was saying, "That woman can sing her heart out."

- Well, I have been singing a very long time.

Unlike Steve Rudolph, I do not intend to tell any of you how old I was last week at this time.

Just imagine.

Although I was in Gettysburg one evening and there was a gentleman came up and said to me, "You look as good as you look when you sang with Harry in 1937."

And I said to him, "I wasn't born in 1937."

And his comment was, "Don't be ashamed You look terrific."

(audience laughs) - You know, we do have to clarify for people when we give your bios.

Which of you played with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra?

- [Cathy] Steve.

- I presume it wasn't Tommy himself.

- No, Tommy, I think, passed in '57 or so.

I was out on the road with Buddy Morrow.

When Buddy took over the band, it was 1977 and I was the first piano player he used, so.

- Wonderful.

You sound so good in here.

What's your next number, Marko?

- We're gonna do a classic standard, American classic standard from the American song book called "East of the Sun".

- [Bill] Please do.

Thank you.

(instrumental music starts) ♪ East of the sun and west of the moon ♪ ♪ We'll build a dream house of love dear ♪ ♪ Close to the sun in the day ♪ ♪ Near to the moon at night ♪ ♪ Oh, we'll live in our lovely way, dear ♪ ♪ Sharing our love in pale moon light ♪ ♪ Just you and I ♪ ♪ Forever and a day ♪ ♪ Love will not die ♪ ♪ We'll keep it that way ♪ ♪ High above the sun we'll find ♪ ♪ A harmony of life to a lovely tune ♪ ♪ East of the sun and west ♪ ♪ West of the moon ♪ (instrumental music continues) ♪ Just you and I ♪ ♪ Forever and a day ♪ ♪ Love will not die ♪ ♪ 'Cause you and I will keep it that way ♪ ♪ High above the sun we'll find ♪ ♪ A harmony of life to a lovely tune ♪ ♪ East of the sun and west of the moon, dear ♪ ♪ East of the sun and west ♪ ♪ West of the moon ♪ (audience applauds) - Thank you.

- Wow.

You know, when we built the high definition theater, we hoped it would be this good.

That you would hear music like this in this room.

By the way, I wanna thank all of you for coming out tonight.

We so wanted a live audience here in addition to all the people who watch at home.

There may be tens of thousands of those.

But you, we can touch and see.

And that's very nice.

By the way, because you're here, you can request songs.

So my colleague, Tom Cure, is the back of the room.

He'll be walking around and you can certainly request songs.

We have a special guest on the phone.

It is my privilege to meet for the first time, Peter Marshall.

Peter, are you there?

- [Peter] I am here.

- [Bill] Wonderful.

Where are you tonight?

- [Peter] I'm in Palm Desert, California.

I'm leaving for Pittsburgh in the morning.

- [Bill] Oh, that's right.

You're doing a PBS Special if I remember.

- [Peter] I am.

I shot a lot of it at the wonderful ballroom on Catalina Island called the Avalon... Actually, it's called Casino Ballroom on Avalon Bay.

And I did all the intros to all the old film.

We're doing a lot of big band film from the '40s and '30s.

I like Bea Wain singing with Larry Clinton.

I got an early thing on Sinatra and it's a really interesting stuff they found.

So, we're gonna do the pitch in Pittsburgh- - Do the pitch in- - With Ben Clooney and Mary Lou Metzger and it will be on June.

- Yeah, we know the pitch in Pittsburgh.

We do know what they do.

I don't think a lot of people, Peter Marshall, know you beyond those 5,000 episodes of "Hollywood Squares".

- [Peter] About 6,000, I believe.

- [Bill] Actually, we underestimated.

- [Peter] Yeah.

- [Bill] You kept it alive and healthy all those years.

- [Peter] Well, I gave it my best shot every day.

(Bill laughs) - [Bill] But there's more to Peter Marshall.

You performed numerous times on the Ed Sullivan Show.

- [Peter] Yes, I did.

- [Bill] And that was as a comedy routine?

- [Peter] Right.

I was working in those days with Tommy Noonan, Noonan and Marshall.

We were a big West coast act, but we'd go to New York and play the last quarter or play, you know, Chicago a lot.

But it was basically a West Coast act and we were very popular in Vegas, Reno, Tahoe, and LA.

But we'd go east a couple of months a year.

- You performed on- - We're very popular.

Yeah.

- You performed in "In Anything Goes", "The Music Man"... - [Peter] Oh, I've done a lot of Broadway and I've done... Actually, that's what I am.

I'm a singer.

And the "Hollywood Square" thing just was a silly accident and- - [Bill] Turned out pretty well.

- [Peter] Well, it worked out wonderfully, yes.

But that was not my aim.

I thought it was gonna be a 13-week job really.

And I had been showing a Broadway with Julie Harris, the only musical she ever did written by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen.

And I was gonna go back and do "Breakfast at Tiffany's".

They asked me to do this game show thing.

And I said, "well, okay, I'll do it for 13 weeks."

And well, it turned into a career.

But there's some good about that and some bad about that because I was kind of hot on Broadway.

I had just before that been in London with Chita Rivera.

I'll do "Bye bye Birdie" for a year and a half.

I've done a lot of Broadway and all of a sudden I'm a game show host.

- I'm gonna ask you to stay with... Peter, do you mind hanging on just a little while?

- [Peter] Of course.

- Because I think some people in our audience may wanna ask you a question, and perhaps somebody calling on the phones.

But I do wanna ask you one more question while we are talking.

What are you most proud of?

It says here that you are very proud of the London Symphony Orchestra, your performance in "H.M.S.

Pinafore".

- [Peter] I did that.

Gosh, it's a long time ago but I just got a residual check from that.

It's on DVD, I think.

- Let's talk about why you're with us very quickly.

We ask you to be with us because I think you're the best known of the hosts of "Music of Your Life" and I think you know that we have tonight inaugurated, launched WVIA-HD2 "Music of Your Life".

What is "Music of Your Life" and why are you associated with it?

- Well, I love the music of the '30s, '40s, and '50s.

It's been on the wane and all of a sudden we have some young performers like Renee Olstead and Michael Buble and Diana Crawl and et cetera, et cetera.

And I'm very excited about these young people doing our...

When I say our music, the music that we play on "Music of Your Life".

I've been a part of it for many, many years I love the music.

I love to go on the air and talk about the music.

If I know anything in show business, I do know a lot about big bands and singers and things like that.

That's why I'm hosting this big band thing for PBS.

They came to me because I'm kind of well versed in that whole era.

So I enjoy doing the show and it's... You know?

I think the audience likes it, too.

At one time we had like 280 stations and then they changed hands and then this other guy had it.

We were down to nothing and now we're growing like crazy again.

So I'm very excited to do the show.

- It's wonderful to hear you on that station.

- [Peter] Oh, thank you so much.

- Please stay on the line.

I'm gonna go to Al in Scranton who's on the line.

Al, are you there?

Al in Scranton, are you there?

- [Al] Hey.

- Go right ahead, please.

- [Al] Hey.

First, Bill, I wanna wish you a happy birthday.

- [Peter] Well, thank you.

I do have a birthday.

I'll be 103.

- [Al] I'm just calling to say I love HD Radio 'cause it's like going to a concert, except people wanna make fun of my leather pants.

But seriously though, I just want to call and request the band to play "Free Bird" if they could.

- [Peter] I'm sorry, I didn't hear the question.

- [Al] Can the band play "Free Bird".

- [Bill] Can you play... What is it?

- [Tom] He's asking if we would play "Free Bird".

- [Bill] It's not on your itinerary.

- [Marko] Thank you, Al.

- Thank you, Al.

Nice to hear from you.

Here is John Nappe.

Is that John Nappe?

- That's correct.

- John, you're from Taylor.

- Correct.

- And what's your comment or question?

- My question is, I enjoy this kind of music.

How soon will we also be able to hear classical music?

- [Peter] Can you say that again?

The connection's really horrible.

- I'm sorry to hear that.

- Speak out, Louise.

- Let's see what we can do about it, Peter, in the meantime.

Your question.

- Okay, I can hear you fine.

- Okay, go ahead.

- My question is, how soon will we be able to hear classical music as well as this good kind of music that we have here?

- Okay, I guess that's... Peter, hang in there just a minute.

I guess that's one I have to answer because there's nobody I can assign this to.

You're already hearing classical music in digital high quality sound on WVIA-HD1.

This new format, what we're talking about tonight is on WVIA-HD2.

So if you have an HD Radio receiver, you will hear the wonderful classics we play seven days a week in high definition.

- Are they being broadcast simultaneously?

- Yes.

Right now we have two high definition radio stations.

But you have to have a receiver to get it?

All right, I'm gonna go talk about...

Thank you very much.

Dave, I'm gonna go down and talk about the receiver and we'll get back to the band in just a minute.

This is my friend David Salak.

Sound solutions.

- Yes sir.

- In Kingston.

You're the guy who put the HD Radio in my car.

- Yes.

- And I have really enjoyed it.

Let's talk about what it cost, why it cost that much, and if it was the best deal I could have gotten.

- It was definitely the best deal.

No doubt about it.

But the sets like you got started about $149 and there's some installation involved.

They could run anywhere between 50 and perhaps up to $99 for labor, depending on the vehicle and the type of system.

And they're adaptable to just about any vehicle with an FM radio already.

You could start enjoying your new channels and a lot of the others that are in the market already.

- Yeah, I was a cynic.

I really didn't believe it was gonna sound better- - It sounds great.

- Than regular FM.

It really does.

- A surprise, isn't it?

- It's more brilliant.

There's more presence.

I mean, it really is.

- Well, sure, for people that enjoy sound quality where that's really important, the HD delivers.

It sounds fantastic.

It could trick you to thinking that you're playing a CD right there in your dash and it's some of the best in broadcast I've ever heard.

- Well, if we accomplish anything tonight, Dave, you and other businesses that install them will see more.

There's not a lot of interest at all yet, is there?

- Not right at the moment in waves in a market like ours, but it's being generated with folks like you bringing the channels online and through advertising that they're doing, and people are already getting the buzz with the HDTV conversion.

So, it's a very similar thing.

But you're hearing the brilliance of the audio, like you see the improved picture, so.

- I hope we get some questions for you tonight.

Our lines are open.

1-800-326-9842.

Any questions you have about how they're installed, what they cost, what's involved, we have David here to answer them.

We have a lot of experts in the room and we have some fabulous musicians.

Marko, are you ready with another number?

- Yeah, we're gonna play another classic tune and it won't be "Free Bird".

I should have gave Al that when he asked for it.

- [Bill] What are you gonna play?

- We're gonna play a really nice swing in tune called "Route 66" for you.

I think I heard a few people smiling.

- [Bill] Go right ahead.

Thank you.

- One, two.

A one, two, three, four.

(instrumental music starts) ♪ If you ever plan to motor the west ♪ ♪ Travel my way ♪ ♪ Take the highway that is best ♪ ♪ Get your kicks on Route 66 ♪ ♪ It winds from Chicago to LA ♪ ♪ More than 2000 miles along the way ♪ ♪ Get your kicks on Route 66.

♪ ♪ Now go through St. Louis and Joplin, Missouri ♪ ♪ Oklahoma City looks madly pretty ♪ ♪ You'll see Amarillo ♪ ♪ Gallup, New Mexico ♪ ♪ Flagstaff, Arizona ♪ ♪ Don't forget one Wynonna ♪ ♪ Kingman, Barstow, San Bernardino ♪ ♪ You get hip to this kindly tip ♪ ♪ When you make that California trip ♪ ♪ Get your kicks on Route 66 ♪ (instrumental music continues) ♪ Now you go through St. Louis and Joplin, Missouri ♪ ♪ Oklahoma City looks madly pretty ♪ ♪ You'll see Amarillo ♪ ♪ Gallup, New Mexico ♪ ♪ Flagstaff, Arizona ♪ ♪ Don't forget Wynonna ♪ ♪ Kingman, Barstow, San Bernardino ♪ ♪ You get hip to this kindly tip ♪ ♪ When you make that California trip ♪ ♪ Get your kicks on Route 66 ♪ ♪ That's it, get your kicks on Route 66 ♪ ♪ Get your kicks on Route 66 ♪ (instrumental music) (audience applauds) - Wonderful.

Cathy, that was just great.

Thank you.

Wonderful, wonderful music.

Peter, are you still there?

- [Peter] Here.

- Yeah, please do stay with us, Peter.

I'm sure we're gonna have some comments for you.

By the way, I wanna mention to the audience here in our theater that the band, this wonderful band, will play for an hour after the show is over.

So, don't leave.

Marko made sure.

He said I'm only gonna play if they stay.

(audience laughs) So we have locked the doors.

There are no exits.

This is Angel Jaro.

Angel, you're in Wilkes-Barre now, but you're from New York.

- Yes, I am.

And I enjoy come to this area now and one of the biggest draw has been Marko.

I am a Marko groupie.

(audience laughs) Marko plays one of the music.

I go to a lot of places in New York City, but when I came down here and heard his music, I said, "This is a place that's gonna grow."

And I'm here because people like him bring the music that a lot of people wanna hear and I want to thank him what he's been doing.

- [Marko] Thank you, Angel.

(audience applauds) - All right, Marko.

Speech.

- Let me get my wallet out.

- Thank you, Angel.

- Thank you very much.

- Thank you, Angel.

- Peter, tell me.

Did you like the sound of that band?

- [Peter] Sounded great.

Yeah, that's Bobby Troup's song.

He wrote that.

He got out the Marine Corps.

He was a captain of the Marines.

Then he has newly married and he is heading for California, took Route 66, wrote that song on the way.

- [Bill] Beautiful.

Marko, you're shaking your head like you know that story.

- [Marko] Oh yeah, it's funny.

- Let's take some phone calls.

Here is Bob in Sweet Valley.

Bob, go ahead.

Bob, I'll give you one more chance.

Bob in Sweet Valley.

- [Bob] Yes, hello?

Yup.

Please go right ahead, sir.

- [Bob] I'm confused.

There's no... As far as I know, there's no connection between HD Radio and high definition.

So can you clarify that?

I thought that HD Radio was just regular radio presented digitally, but the quality, if you have a small receiver and small speakers, are not any different than if you're receiving the FM station.

Thank you.

- Bob, that's an excellent question and I'm gonna tell you that I'm gonna recruit somebody to answer it for you.

And this is gonna be a big surprise to George Graham.

George is right through the wall running the audio for the band.

And George, I'm gonna ask you to come into the theater.

Talk about a surprise to George.

I'm gonna ask George to come in and join me right here and answer that gentleman's question.

Here he comes.

Ladies and gentlemen, George Graham.

(audience applauds) Come right here.

And George, this is television and that's the camera.

- Yeah, that is the camera.

- All right, what is your answer to the question?

- Well, digital radio does involve a higher degree of quality.

The capability is there for much higher quality.

The fading factor that also often afflicts FM radio is non-existent.

Now, we'll be offering two channels.

There is HD1 and HD2.

The way it's set up is that if you're listening to HD1 and you reach the point where your digital signal fades out, your radio will automatically switch to analog radio which will be the main WVIA FM channel.

Now as far as the capability is concerned, it can be substantially better than analog AM radio.

Now if you have a little receiver such as we have here demonstrating, you probably won't notice that much of a difference.

And even on the road in a car, it might not be...

The little subtleties of the high quality may not be quite as apparent.

- George, you are on audio file.

- Yeah, I know.

- You really are.

You couldn't sleep in the room where his speakers are.

Honestly, but I will tell you this much, it is marvelous in my car.

- Oh yes, right.

- There's a difference in my car.

- Yes.

- Between the HD and the analog.

- Right, it has to do with the fading and the other analog factors that deteriorate the signal.

- Anything you ever wanted to know technically, engineering-wise, just raise your hand and you will get an answer.

George, one more thing.

- Yes.

- We have heard of course that the coverage area of any HD Radio station is more compressed.

It's not as big as the main channel.

- Not quite as big.

But I know you went driving around to report- - I had to prove it to myself.

- Yes, right.

- That's true.

But our big band, our "Music of Your Life" radio signal went clearly almost all the way to Danville on the day that I went for a ride, and up into the mountains.

So, it's there.

- Yes.

- It's there.

Thanks for coming out of your accustomed role back there, making the band... Well, the band doesn't need help sounding good, but thanks for what you did.

Okay, let's go to Donna.

Thank you, George.

(audience applauds) Hey Peter, do any of your other "Music of Your Life" stations broadcast in high definition to the best of your knowledge?

- [Peter] You know, I'm not really sure.

You would have to really ask Mark Angel who's our president.

I just go on the air and hopefully it sounds okay, you know?

I don't know if it's in high definition or not.

- All right, it is wonderful.

It's absolutely wonderful in high def.

By the way, do you do your show from a main studio or are the various hosts of "Music of Your Life" able to originate their commentary from various places?

- [Peter] Yeah, they do that.

Some of our people are in Atlanta, some in Florida.

And on the west coast, we have Johnny Magnus who uses the same studio I do.

But various people brought... You know, they do the show out of different studios.

I do it at a studio in Toluca Lake, California with John Fells who's my engineer and also Johnny Magnus does use the same studio.

- I'd like you to meet Marie.

Is it Duclaus?

- Duclaus.

- Duclaus.

- Duclaus.

- Duclaus, I'm sorry.

- Yes.

- As in the French, silent S. - As in the French, silent S, yes.

- Okay, you're from Mountain Top.

- Yes.

- What is your question or comment here?

- I was wondering, are there many HD stations now in Pennsylvania?

- You have just given us the cue for Mike O'Donnell.

Pardon me, we're gonna go get a demonstration.

All right?

- Okay, thank you.

- I didn't set that one up, Mike.

It just happened.

Come on up over here.

Mike O'Donnell, by the way, ladies and gentlemen, is the program director of WKRZ in The Mountain, right?

- Yes.

- The Intercom stations.

- Yup, intercom Communications.

- Why did you turn to the camera?

Did you know what was on?

- I was getting a point over here, so.

- You don't want them to see the back of your head, is it?

- That's right.

But anyway, at Intercom Communications, we have four additional formats that compliment our standard formats on the FM.

And actually all of our FM formats do broadcast also on HD1.

So if you have an HD Radio in your car, you will receive whatever station you're listening to, whether it's KRZ which is the top 40 or Froggy 101, country, you'll get that on HDú1.

- We're walking into the least rehearsed part of our hour together.

Over here, we're gonna put...

I hope the camera's just gonna have to follow us.

We're not gonna do the big beautiful wood radio.

We're gonna do this little one up here which is an HD Radio.

Did our colleagues run you through how to put them on?

- Well, it depends on the radio you're using.

- The answer's no.

- There's one dial there for the whole radio, so we're gonna be playing around.

- All right.

I think if I hit this once, we go to WVIA-HD2.

Let's put this up.

If my timing is roughly right, we're gonna hear a little bit of "Music of Your Life".

♪ She loves me ♪ ♪ And to my amazement ♪ Can we turn that up a bit?

♪ I love it that knowing that she loves me ♪ ♪ Oh, she loves me too ♪ ♪ She doesn't show it ♪ - Well, it sounds a little bit like it could be "Music of Your Life".

Our purpose here is to show you what's on the HD Radio band.

If you could turn it up a little louder in the theater, folks, so our audience can hear what these are.

Let's go.

I don't have my notes with me.

Let's go to the next one.

That's not it.

Keep it down for a moment, folks.

We might hit a commercial and we're not allowed to do that.

All right.

What are we looking for first on the page?

- Try 98.5.

- Would you hold that mic for me?

- Sure, absolutely.

- All right.

Go ahead and talk amongst yourselves, folks.

(audience laughs) The suspense is growing here.

- [Mike] Well, anyway, I can tell you this much- - Yeah, go right ahead.

- On HD2 channels.

We offer four additional formats.

On our country station which is Froggy 101, we offer blues on the HD channel.

HD2, that is.

On News radio, WILK, we offer smooth jazz on the HD2 channel.

If you're into smooth jazz.

On 98.5 KRZ, our HD2 channel is comedy.

And on 102.3, The Mountain, which is kind of like an adult rock station, we have a live rock on our HD2.

So those are our four additional formats that we offer.

- I'm ready to show KRZ-HD but I need to pull- - You're at 96.

- Oh yeah, we're working our way up to 98.5.

But I should point out, you're gonna hear a lot of beeps in this because this is humor and it's edited humor.

So hopefully, we can catch a few words in addition to the beeps by the time I get there.

This is taking far longer than I thought it was.

And Marko, I appreciate the fact that all of us would much rather hear the music you play.

Here we go.

All right, Mike.

We are at 98.5.

- There you go.

There is main channel.

Hang on, folks.

That's main channel.

Here comes the HD2 right here.

Should I leave it right there?

- Yeah.

- All right, folks.

Can we hear a little bit of WKRZ-HD2?

- [Announcer] Prices assume 5% Down payments... - [Mike] Well, that's...

Guess what?

- No.

We can't do the commercial.

- We have commercials on there right now.

- All right, I'm gonna give this a...

I thought you didn't have commercials on.

- No, we do.

We do.

We have our own commercials we run on.

- They're letting me down.

I thought I was gonna have a non-commercial presentation here tonight.

I wanna go to your WILK-HD which is 103.

- 103.1 - [Bill] All right.

This can't be the whole show here, Mike.

We got to get this over with.

- [Mike] We could have set those up ahead of time for you.

- [Bill] We could have faked it, too.

But no, we've got to do it the real way here.

Truth in, not advertising, presentation.

Where are we?

102.2.

- There's 102.3.

- We're not gonna have time for all of these.

- Okay.

- Okay, here's HD.

- There you go.

- Here we are.

This is smooth jazz on WILK-HD2.

(smooth jazz playing) - [Mike] There you go.

- [Bill] Hey, how about this?

(audience applauds) - Don't you love technology?

- I do.

Mike, thank you so much for being here with us tonight.

Okay, we're good.

Peter, are you still here?

- [Peter] I'm still here.

- This is obviously local TV.

Thank you for your patience with us.

Donna in Dunmore.

Donna, go ahead.

Second try.

Donna in Dunmore, are you there?

- [Donna] Yup.

- Please go right ahead.

- [Donna] Okay.

You seem to be talking a lot about having the HD system in the car.

I'm more interested in having the HD system at home.

And you're talking about installation costs and whatnot.

What would it entail at home to get the converter box that you're showing on TV now and to plug it into like, say, a bow system if you have one?

- Excellent question, Donna.

Go right ahead, David.

- Well, with something like you're describing there, I'm not quite sure if they would have one that would interface with what you have.

Typically, what you'd do is just get a table radio, just like the one that Bill is an expert at operating here.

And it would be- - [Bill] Why did I ask you to come?

- And it would be something... You would have to be purchasing a new tuner.

And for example, I'm not sure if maybe the company of the product that you have now might offer one that directly plugs into it, but you're buying a new tuner essentially.

- Let me tell you, I go back to running wires on the back of speakers, so you don't need to be quite so difficult.

You have audio out jacks on the back of this radio.

- Yes.

- Couldn't you just take the red and white audio out jacks and plug them into a fine sound system?

- You could, sure.

- [Bill] And would you then get high definition?

- Yeah, it would be the same quality that would come out of this set, just transferred to your larger- - Beautiful.

- Absolutely.

- Beautiful, thank you for your answer.

- Yeah.

- Okay, I think it's time for some music.

Tommy, you have any thoughts?

- [Tom] Yes, sir.

Does Donna wanna take another?

- Oh, I'm sorry.

Thank you for reminding me.

Donna, are you still there?

Okay, we lost Donna.

I'm gonna go to Gene in Ashley.

Gene, are you there?

Gene in Ashley?

- [Gene] Yes, Bill.

- Yes, sir.

Go ahead.

And stay on the line please for a moment after you ask your question.

- [Gene] Could I ask now?

- Yeah, go right ahead.

- Okay.

First of all, happy birthday.

I heard Al said it was your birthday before.

And is there government coupons available for this?

Like the television converter box?

- Wow, great, great question.

No, that's for HDTV.

Are you still on the line with me?

- [Gene] Yes, Bill.

Will there be any or no?

- I'm sorry, one to what?

- [Tom] Between 1 and 62.

- All right.

Your name again?

- [Gene] Eugene.

- All right, Eugene.

We want you to pick a number between 1 and 62.

All right, we're giving away an HD Radio.

And guess what, Gene?

- [Gene] What?

- [Bill] You get one.

- [Gene] All right, I'm going to guess number 13.

- [Bill] 13?

Come on down, introduce yourself.

Come on down.

(audience applauds) Come on right down here, sir.

My goodness, you picked the 13 and it's the lucky number.

- Oh, boy.

- Who are you?

- John Haycock.

- And John, where are you from?

- Yatesville.

- Yatesville?

Well, we have an HD Radio for you.

And we have one... Gene, we need you to stay on the line and give us your information, okay?

- [Gene] Yes, sir.

I hope it's easier to in install than we were watching there.

(audience laughs) - It's probably a whole lot easier to operate than I made it.

Thank you so much, good luck.

Stay with us, okay?

Thank you.

All right, Marko.

I'm sorry to hold you up.

I'm sorry.

- Stay here or go back?

- Stay right with us.

We won't let you get out of here without your radio.

Marko, are you ready?

- Yes.

- [Bill] What are you gonna perform?

- We're gonna play another song from the "Music of Your Life", songbook which fits the format of our show today.

- [Bill] Yes, it does.

- And the HD Radio and the HD format that is the "Music of Your Life".

Am I right, Bill?

- [Bill] You're helping me a lot here, Marko.

- I'm trying trying, Bill.

I saw you had some technical difficult over there before, so, And we're gonna play- - What might this number be?

- This number is called "It had to be You."

- [Bill] Perfect, thank you.

- One, two.

Uh, a two, three.

(instrumental music starts) ♪ It had to be you ♪ ♪ It had to be you ♪ ♪ I wandered around and finally found that somebody who ♪ ♪ Could make me be true ♪ ♪ Could make me be true ♪ ♪ And even be glad just to be sad ♪ ♪ Thinking of you ♪ ♪ Some others I've seen ♪ ♪ Might never be mean ♪ ♪ Might never be cross or try to be boss ♪ ♪ Still they wouldn't do ♪ ♪ For nobody else gives me a thrill ♪ ♪ With all your faults ♪ ♪ I love you still ♪ ♪ It had to be you ♪ ♪ Wonderful you ♪ ♪ It had to be you ♪ (instrumental music continues) ♪ Some others I've seen ♪ ♪ Might never be mean ♪ ♪ Might never be crossed or try to be boss ♪ ♪ Still they wouldn't do ♪ ♪ For nobody else gives me a thrill ♪ ♪ With all my faults ♪ ♪ You love me still ♪ ♪ It had to be you ♪ ♪ Oh, wonderful you ♪ ♪ It had to be you ♪ ♪ Just you ♪ ♪ It had to be you ♪ ♪ Wonderful you ♪ ♪ It had to be you ♪ ♪ Just you ♪ - Thank you.

(audience applauds) - All right, Peter Marshall.

Peter, what can you tell us about that song?

Does that resonate with you?

- [Peter] That song?

I can tell you all about that song.

It was written by one of the first big bandleaders.

His name was Isham Jones and he started his band in 1916.

And when he gave it up around 1937, he gave it to the saxophone player of the band.

His name was Woody Herman, and that was the beginning of the Woody Herman Band.

- Wow.

Do you do a lot of this on your daily program?

Give background on songs?

- [Peter] Yeah, that's what I do.

I know all of this stuff.

Don't ask me why.

But I just know all about songs and singers and bands and things, and that's what the PBS special is about, too.

- Yeah, you also did some big band programs for Disney, I believe.

Didn't you?

- [Peter] Well, I started out singing with a big band.

- But I mean- - As a matter of fact, I used to play at your area.

I traveled all through Scranton and Trenton, New Jersey, and I even played at Rider College and all when I was a kid, 15.

I was singing with a band out of Detroit by the name of Bob Chester.

- [Bill] Wow.

- [Peter] So that's how I started my career as a band singer.

- Didn't you do a few Disney big band shows on the Disney channels?

- I did.

I did the 12 one-hour specials.

- I thought so.

Let me introduce everybody in our audience at home and here in the theater too.

- Char Lion.

- Char Lion, where are you from?

- I am from Clifford.

- I must tell everybody at home that I made Char a victim tonight.

She did not raise her hand to ask a question.

I'm down there and I'm watching her.

You're singing with every song.

You know every lyric.

You're having a great time.

- Oh, it's wonderful.

- I had to drag you out of your seat to do this.

- I know, I know.

Oh, you're marvelous.

All of you are.

Oh, the lyrics.

They're just great.

Well, I grew up with them.

You know, I'm old.

- No, you're not.

(audience laughs) - I just love them.

I really do.

So, this is marvelous and thank you.

- You having a good time?

- Yes.

Oh, fabulous.

- We're thrill to have you with us.

- Oh, I'm thrilled to be here.

- Come back again and again and again.

- You you all, too.

- Yes, you all too.

Thank you so much, Char.

- Okay, thank you.

- Thank you.

Let's go to Mark.

All right.

Here is Mark in Kingston.

Mark, are you there?

Mark?

- [Mark] Yes.

- Please, go right ahead.

- [Mark] Good evening, Bill.

I'm really enjoying the show at home and I was wondering if I would be able to hear them play "Satin Doll".

- Is that something on your repertoire?

- [Marko] Sure.

- All right, we'll go there next.

Thank you very much.

I think Donna is on the phone.

Donna, are you there?

Donna, you were with us before and I think we cut you off.

Donna, I'm gonna give you one more shot.

Are you there?

Donna?

- Yes.

- Wonderful, okay.

Donna, we told you we give you the chance to help us give away another one of those- - [Donna] Yes, so I'm here.

- HD Radios.

Tell us where you're from again?

- [Donna] Dunmore.

- From Dunmore.

What do you know about HD Radio?

Probably everything you learned on our show tonight.

- [Donna] Right.

All right, Donna.

You are to pick a number between one... Tom, we're at 1 and 61?

- [Tom] 1 and 62.

- 1 and 62.

What's your number?

- [Donna] 17.

- 17.

Where is it?

Come on down, sir.

As they say on radio... (audience applauds) Come on down.

- [Tom] Donna wins one also.

- [Bill] Donna wins one also.

Donna, you still there?

- [Donna] Yes, I'm here.

- Like you probably learned earlier, you win an HD Radio.

You have to give us your information.

And sir, number 17.

You are... - Ron Duclaus.

- We talked to your wife.

- You talked to my wife, yes.

From Mountain Top.

- We've got the whole family on TV.

- The Whole family here tonight.

- From Mountain Top.

Well, you shall receive an HD Radio.

You'll leave with it tonight.

- Thank you very much.

- And I hope you tune it to 89.9 digital channel 2 89.2 - 89.2, very good.

- Digital HD2.

- Thank you.

- What do you think of the show tonight?

- It's a great show.

- Aren't they wonderful?

- Wonderful, yes.

Really enjoying the singing.

- Wow, indeed.

Thank you so much.

Congratulations to you and the missus for being with us tonight.

(audience applauds) All right, I'm gonna go quickly to Donna in Dun... No, we went to Donna.

One more call, Jimmy in Milford.

Jimmy, go ahead.

Jimmy, are you there?

- [Jimmy] Yeah, how you doing?

- I'm doing fine.

Go quickly, please.

- The quick question I had is, I had an interest in purchasing a receiver but the question I had is, do you need a special antenna?

- Good question.

David, can you scoot over here right away?

David is our resident expert from Sound Solutions.

Do you need an antenna?

- No, it's the same antenna that you would already have and it would come with the new tuner set anyway, but it's just a standard antenna.

- Beautiful.

All right, Satin Doll, Marko.

Have fun, here's your request.

- By Duke Ellington, of course.

One, a two, uh, two, three, four.

(instrumental music) (instrumental music) (audience applauds) - All right.

This is John Haycock, again.

Cathy, John has a question for you.

- Cathy, do you remember the night that Harry James was celebrating his 35th anniversary in the band business and you were playing a gig in Clearwater, Florida?

- I certainly do.

- [Bill] Good for you.

- And what was that Hotel?

Fort or Harrison or...

I just forget the name of- - I think it was Harrison.

A CD came out of that, you know?

- [John] Yes, and I have that.

- Yes, and that was re-issued again.

- [John] Fort Harrison.

- Are you aware that that was re-issued again a few years ago?

- [Bill] So you have to buy a new version.

- They found all the CDs from it.

- Okay, I have to buy the new version.

- All the tapes from it.

- Yes, I was.

- Thank you, Cathy.

- Thank you.

- We are running out of time.

I wanna give, Jose.

- De los Rios.

- Okay, Jose, what's your question?

- My question is, how many people do you hope to reach through HD Radio?

- Well, we know we used to say about HDTV the first few months we did it, the whole audience could meet in a phone booth because it's new technology as is this.

We hope tonight that this music that everybody's hearing, and obviously loving, will motivate some people to buy HD Radios.

That's what it's gonna take.

Okay, thank you.

We are running out of time.

Peter Marshall, I wanna thank you for being with us tonight.

It was extraordinarily generous of you to give us all your time to be here to launch WVIA-HD2.

- [Peter] Well, thank you very much.

I enjoyed the music very much.

- And we'll be enjoying your music.

You're on, I have it here in my notes, sometime Eastern Time.

Here you are.

You're on noon to 2:00 Eastern Time.

What is that in your coast?

- [Peter] That's 10:00 to 12:00.

- Okay, we'll be listening to you noon to 2:00 here in the Eastern Time zone.

Thank you again.

Have a great night, Peter.

- [Peter] Well, thank you so very much.

All my best.

- All right, good night.

And again, our purpose in being here tonight is to encourage all of you to consider buying an HD Radio.

The music you heard tonight will be available to you all the time seven days a week.

We're gonna wrap up the program with our friend Marko Marcinko and his marvelous band, and the song is "They can't take that away from Me."

- Oh, okay.

- Did you change the number?

- Well, we discussed this amongst ourselves.

- [Bill] You have 30 seconds.

All right, I'm usurped.

- You know?

And we thought that's a wonderful classic American song and I know you love that.

It's dear to your heart because you and your wife had your first dance to that- - [Bill] Would you please play some music?

- Okay.

"I've Heard That Song Before".

- There you go.

- [Marko] And thank you for having us.

- Absolutely, thank you.

- One, a two, a one.

(instrument music starts) ♪ It seems to me I've heard that song before ♪ ♪ It's from an old familiar score ♪ ♪ I know it well ♪ ♪ That melody ♪ ♪ It's funny how a thing ♪