100 WVIA Way
Pittston, PA 18640

Phone: 570-826-6144
Fax: 570-655-1180

Copyright © 2025 WVIA, all rights reserved. WVIA is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Icons That Changed the Game explores the prolific careers of Simone Biles, Serena Williams, Florence Griffith Joyner, Chris Evert, and Martina Navratilova. In each episode, fellow female sports icons Billie Jean King, Suni Lee, Diana Flores, and Jackie Joyner-Kersee discuss how the athletes inspired them, broke records, and redefined their sports.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee on her sister-in-law and teammate Florence Griffith Joyner.
Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert – “The Greatest Rivalry in Sports History.”
Flag football world champion Diana Flores honors tennis great Serena Williams.
CORRECTION (Dec. 8, 2023): This program mistakenly refers to two events of the women’s heptathlon as the 60-meter and 1,000-meter run. The program should have referred instead to the 200-meter dash and 800-meter run in which Jackie Joyner-Kersee participated as part of the women’s heptathlon.
Episodes
Billie Jean King and 7 icons on the past, present and future of women’s sports.
Extras
Who is the mysterious woman at the funeral for Alison Wilson's husband?
Understanding eating disorders and anxiety through the eyes of teens and their families.
Barbara Jordan’s voice shook the nation. Discover her story in The Inquisitor.
Librarians across the U.S. examine how the review of library materials is impacting communities.
A professor seeks to prove Arthurian legends have roots in actual British history.
Experts search for evidence that female gladiators once existed in Ancient Rome.
Learn about Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize-winning author of Night.
Before meeting his wife Marion, Elie Wiesel "shunned love" and didn't see himself having children.
Elie Wiesel reunited with his sister in France.
In "Night," Elie Wiesel recounts a memory of witnessing three victims being hung.