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This Conversation

This Conversation

By: WEHC
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 SEE EPISODES BELOW! Dr. Teresa Keller began hosting This Conversation each week in 2009 on WEHC-FM, Emory. Keller's broadcast career began many years ago at WCYB-TV, an NBC affiliate in Bristol, VA where she worked for seven years as a talk show host, reporter, and anchor of the noon news. She also spent time working in television newsrooms in Denver and San Diego, and worked as a contributing reporter for WVTF public radio in Roanoke, VA. As a professor of Mass Communications at Emory & Henry College, she garnered two statewide teaching awards: the 2003 Virginia Professor of the Year award, presented by the Carnegie Foundation, and the Virginia Council on Higher Education’s Outstanding Faculty Award in 2010. She is author of Television News: The Art and How-to of Video Storytelling -- now in its 4th edition. While at Emory & Henry, she wrote the FCC application for WEHC-FM, now a 9,000 watt College and Community station that went on the air in 1992. She served as a board member of Holston Valley Broadcasting Corporation for more than a decade and spent two terms on the Board of Directors of the Virginia Association of Broadcasters. Many earlier episodes of the broadcast are available at https://archive.org/details/ThisConversation.Copyright 2025 WEHC Political Science Politics & Government Social Sciences
Episodes
  • DALTON'S STORY -- RERUN & ENDINGS

    DALTON'S STORY -- RERUN & ENDINGS
    Aug 19 2025

    I interviewed "Dalton" many years ago. "Dalton" was a name we used to disguise his real identity. He had been one of my students as a female and was undergoing a gender reassignment to be a male when we talked.

    "Dalton" recently died, which caused me to find the old interview and listen to it once again.

    Being transgender has become a topic that is currently a political lightning bolt with fierce, conflicting opinions.

    This episode of This Conversation is a chance to turn down the heat and hear the personal story of why one person would undergo the expense, inconvenience, surgery, and frequent rejection that comes with such a move.

    Dalton's story is worth hearing again.
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    28 mins
  • No joke. My guest is Thomas Jefferson

    No joke. My guest is Thomas Jefferson
    Aug 12 2025

    We talk with Thomas Jefferson. What are his thoughts about writing the Declaration of Independence?

    How can he justify the contradiction in his commitment to individual rights while simultaneously owning slaves?

    You'll be amazed at how the issues in Jefferson's time mirror current philosophical perspectives on the role of government.

    And in the latter part of the interview, we meet Kurt Smith who portrays Jefferson in his role with Colonial Williamsburg.

    www.thejeffersonexperience@gmail.com
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    28 mins
  • AWARD WINNING, MISSION DRIVEN, and FACING DEFUNDING! PBS Appalachia

    AWARD WINNING, MISSION DRIVEN, and FACING DEFUNDING! PBS Appalachia
    Aug 5 2025

    Former WCYB news anchor Julie Newman now runs PBS Appalachia, an all digital television station, operating from inside Hard Rock Bristol. After winning the highest honors for the station and leadership, she now faces the challenge of lost funding for PBS from the government. What is the mission of the station and why is it important? What is the path forward?
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    27 mins
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