About 3,000 people took a tour of WXXI on Saturday for our Open House event.
The State Street facilities, which include WXXI Radio and TV studios, the WXXI Newsroom, Classical 91.5 and various digital and interactive operations, open the doors every two years to give people in the community an idea of what goes into making the programming you see and hear every day.
As usual, some of the kids’ activities drew some of the biggest crowds (and loudest approval), including meeting and taking photos with very popular PBS KIDS’ characters, including:
Jet Propulsion from Ready Jet Go!, Cat from The Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That!, Buddy the Dinosaur and Clifford the Big Red Dog.
Visitors also got to be ‘interviewed’ by WXXI Connections’ producer Megan Mack and WXXI reporter Veronica Volk, as well as meet the news team, and checked out WRUR-FM’s Open Tunings host Scott Regan while he was on the air.
They also visited the TV set of Need to Know and got a sneak peak at an all-new season of Second Opinion.
