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The 2026 Challenger Game at the Little League World Series
LIVE Saturday, August 29TH 10:30amSince 2011, WVIA has been the presenting station of The Challenger Exhibition Game broadcast held annually in August during the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The 2026 teams are Berwyn-Paoli Area Little League (Berwyn, PA) and East County Little League (Oakley, CA).
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Jim Van Laak worked on the front lines of NASA and was a key player in establishing the ISS.
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A discussion on the current state and future of public media.
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Inside Mitsubishi Chemical Group, where advanced plastics made in Scranton are used worldwide.
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See strange concrete bunkers hidden in wooded central PA and the forgotten town that came before.
- WVIA Earns W. Howard Hartman Little League Friendship Award, Continues 25-Year Tradition of Challenger Division Exhibition Game Broadcast
- The Tassadduk and Anneliese Moghul Charitable Fund Will Help Support Public Radio Programming at WVIA
- WVIA Expands Community Connection Program to Spotlight Berwick-Area Nonprofits Through New Grant Support
- Pennsylvania PBS honors seven Champions of Lifelong Learning
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The Secrets Beneath Hazleton
Coming September 21st, 2026Beneath the streets of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, lies a world forgotten by time—a network of hidden tunnels, abandoned mine shafts, and underground structures that hold the secrets of the past. The Secrets Beneath Hazleton builds off the viral short documentary "The Secret Beneath Hazleton" with the goal to uncover forgotten mining history and preserve it before it's lost forever.
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Ratko Mladic was one of the most notorious figures of a war that killed over 100,000 people in the 1990s. He commanded his troops to "scorch the brains" of the Bosnian Muslims and boasted of being a "Serbian God."
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