WGTE Public Media

StationAccount image

For over 40 years, WGTE has been a trusted source of information, music, and entertainment - a valued and vital service that provides award-winning programming to Northwest Ohio, Southeast Michigan and beyond.

Series

Caption: Dr. Louise Toppin
1 Piece

Dr. Louise Toppin, noted soprano and professor of voice at the University of Michigan, is our guide for a celebration of some of our most historically significant African American composers.

Series image
105 Pieces

"Living American Composers: New Music from Bowling Green" is a radio series devoted to living American composers and their works. Update: all of Season Ten is now available for auditioning/download!

Series image
307 Pieces

"Celebrating the connections we make through the people we meet."


Latest Pieces

Caption: Composer Jennifer Higdon, Credit: J.D. Scott
Series curator and BGSU alumna Jennifer Higdon joins us to introduce her latest recordings.

Bought by WCQS, WRTI, KDX Worldround Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), KWAX and more


  • Added: Dec 21, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Piece image
As we continue our holiday series, we're checking in with another local church about how planning holiday services through a pandemic is going. We'...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2020
  • Length: 06:11
Caption: Sarah Kirkland Snider, Credit: Anja Schutz
Composer Sarah Kirkland Snider introduces us to her "Mass for the Endangered" - a modern re-imagining of the traditional Catholic Mass as a prayer ...

Bought by WCQS, WRTI, KDX Worldround Radio, KWAX, Interlochen Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 14, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Piece image
This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we're meeting with Stephen Rothschild, the executive director of The Jewish Federation of Greater Toledo, to c...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2020
  • Length: 06:18
Piece image
The Rouse Simmons was a three-masted schooner famous for having sunk in a violent storm on Lake Michigan in 1912. The ship was bound for Chicago wi...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2020
  • Length: 06:05
Piece image
In this year's Thanksgiving special, we're doing something a little different. In a normal year, we would head back into the kitchen of a local res...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2020
  • Length: 05:55
Piece image
Today we're talking to the Victory Center, an organization with a mission to provide hope and support to cancer patients, survivors, and their fami...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 06:15
Piece image
Today's Rough Draft Diaries celebrates Veterans Day, a holiday honoring military veterans while marking the anniversary of the end of World War I. ...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2020
  • Length: 06:12
Piece image
Today we're talking to Harley King, who began creating Zentangles in 2012 and since then he has created over 600 abstract works. The Zentangle Meth...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2020
  • Length: 06:01
Piece image
Halloween is just around the corner so for this year's Halloween special, The RDD is talking to Haunted Toledo! A website and YouTube channel locat...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2020
  • Length: 06:09