‘Homework Express’ begins new season

By Denise Dick

Staff report

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“Homework Express,” the television program aimed at helping children with school work, resumed airing new live shows this week from the television studio in Bliss Hall on the Youngstown State University campus.

The program will be live from 4:30 to 5 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays.

The crew for the show, including the writers, line producers and directors, are students in the YSU Telecommunications Studies program in the College of Fine and Performing Arts.

“We’re lucky to have all of our teachers returning this year, and we’re thrilled to have our host, Kelly Stevens from HOT 101 Radio, returning as well,” said Bill Brophy, newly named executive producer.

Math teachers Tom and Amy Burd from Warren schools, Judy Moschella from Youngstown schools and Kristy Fill, a teacher in Girard, field calls from mostly middle-school students from across Northeast Ohio.

Additional science and math segments, taped and edited by the student crew, also are featured. These include everything from flying the Goodyear Blimp to coverage of robotics competitions.

The program reaches more than a million households in the Time Warner Cleveland, Akron/Canton, Youngstown and Ashtabula service areas. The Tuesday and Thursday shows are rebroadcast on MyYTV at 10 a.m. Saturdays and repeated Monday, Wednesday and Friday on NEON.

The program is partially funded by YSU with the remainder of funding coming from underwriting sponsorships.

Fred Owens, project director, said that several sponsorship slots are available for the 2010-11 season, including participating sponsorship billboards throughout the program as well as in-kind gifts awarded to student callers. Potential sponsors can contact Owens at fowens@ysu.edu.