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This is your WFHR Daily News Roundup for locally grown radio 97.5 FM and 13.20 AM and WISC country 105.5 FM WIRI in Wisconsin Rapids.
WFHR and WIRI News. I'm Melissa K.
While the Wisconsin DNR has allowed the week-long air quality advisory to expire for now, it doesn't quite mean we're all in the clear.
The Canadian wildfires remain ongoing and Craig Karnacky with Wisconsin DNR air management said there are a lot of factors that keep the flames burning.
That includes unseasonably warm temperatures, a lack of snow over the winter and extended drug conditions.
Meanwhile, a Wisconsin lawmaker has filed an official complaint over wildfire smoke from Canada. Joanne Kruloff reports.
A Wisconsin lawmaker has filed an official complaint over wildfire smoke from Canada.
Tomahawk Republican Representative Calvin Callahan along with Republican lawmakers from Iowa, Minnesota and North Dakota submitted the letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
In a statement, Callahan says Canada needs to face real consequences if it fails to get wildfires under control.
The letter calls for an investigation into the country's wildfire management practices and for potential remedies under the international law.
The lawmakers argue Canada's failure to contain the fires has harmed the quality of life of more than 20 million Americans in the Midwest, their requesting response within 30 days from the EPA.
The first week of August is World Breastfeeding Week, where well aware of the benefits for babies but proponents at UW Health Kids say they're still in need for more awareness and support for breastfeeding mothers.
Many postpartum moms face mental health challenges such as stress, anxiety and depression that can impact lactation ability.
There's limited access to experts and education. Some cities are working to improve access and awareness.
In Wisconsin, Rapids Mayor Matt Zacker has proclaimed the entire month of August National Breastfeeding Month.
Radio stations across Wisconsin could be in jeopardy of going off the air, now that the corporation for public broadcasting is shutting down.
Savannah, Tomay Olsen reports.
In June, President Donald Trump signed a bill to cut more than a billion dollars to the CPB, which helps fund PBS and PR and hundreds of other stations across the country.
W-O-J-B in Hayward is one of them. It's owned by the La Cuda Ray Band of Lake Superior, a jibway tribe. Carl Hayback is the general manager.
We're a public nonprofit radio station 501-C-3. We are a hundred thousand watt stations that we broadcast, practically a hundred mile radius of Hayward Wisconsin.
W-O-J-B will lose more than $200,000 in funding from the CPB, that's 41% of their operating budget.
Hayback says so far he hasn't had to consider pay cuts or layoffs. At first he was worried, but now they're figuring out how to keep going, largely by increasing their underwriting and relying on their listeners.
We've received so many unsolicited donations in the last couple of weeks that is unbelievable.
You know, opening up their checkbox and showing that they're care and they want to keep W-O-J-B on the air.
Especially up north, Hayback says the station is vital.
We're in a very rural area. I mean, there's a lot of areas where you forget about cable TV or anything like that.
You've had a hard enough time getting cell phone services and a lot of areas up here.
So therefore, the radio is basically the only news and entertainment source for people, whether emergency school collisions.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting will lose most of its staff at the end of September. The nearly 60-year-old agency provides funding to more than 40 stations across Wisconsin, including the WPR network.
For civic media news, I'm Savannah Tomay Olsen.
And I'm Melissa K for WFHR and WIRI News.
Up next, the Mets.
Hi, I'm Mike Clemens with Sports, Baseball.
The Brewers at Ampham Field tonight, opening a series against the New York Mets, Milwaukee still with the best record in Baseball.
NFL, the Packers host the Jets to Mownite in their first pre-season game.
Kickoff at 7 p.m.
College football, the Wisconsin Badgers will have their final training camp practice at UW-Platville before moving back to Madison.
It's open to the public 7 o'clock tomorrow night at the Davis Pioneer Stadium in Platteville, Wisconsin, Luke Fickle.
I do know that there's a lot of things that are going in the right direction.
I worry about about guys coming back out here with the right focus and stuff, and it was very competitive.
It was back and forth. We're gaining this competitive maturity that we have to do if we're going to play like this, compete like this on a daily basis.
I'm really excited about some of the things that went on to.
There's some sloppiness, obviously, we got to correct up there at the end, but really like where we're headed.
That's Badgers head coach Luke Fickle, with sports, I'm Mike Clemmons.
On your entertainment beat, I'm Pete Schwabba.
I'm going to take a hard pass on taking comedic advice from Jay Leno.
Those are the words of last week tonight host John Oliver.
Oliver is absolutely brilliant on his weekly show, where he sometimes will dedicate the whole show to one topic and provide insightful information as well as great laughs.
Not caring who he offends, and he offends many.
Jay Leno, on the other hand, was an outstanding standup comedian, and when he took over the tonight show, had his funny bone removed, transferring himself into an incredibly mediocre and at times awkward talk show host.
According to critics, Leno went painstakingly middle of the road and tried not to offend anyone, thereby turning himself into just an okay host.
In his defense, Leno admits he likes political humor, but likes to keep people guessing as to who he was offending or not offending.
Oliver, on the other hand, doesn't think his comedy is partisan, but deals more with systemic problems that affect people.
If you haven't checked it out, tune in and watch John Oliver, not follow Jay Leno's advice.
Wednesday has been a big hit for Netflix, winning four Emmys last year.
The show, a loose spin-off of the Adams family, follows Wednesday Adams as she comes to terms with her powers during her years at the Nevermore Academy.
Wednesday stars Jenna Ortega, Catherine Zeta Jones, Fred Armason, and Nightlight Regular, Jamie McShane.
The first part of season two is currently available on Netflix, and the final four episodes will drop September 3rd.
There's news about the summer I turn pretty.
Not the summer I...peach-wobbit turn pretty. Still waiting for that.
But actual news about the Amazon Prime show.
The show is based on a book trilogy of the same title, and for the most part has gone step by step with the storylines.
Producers of the show have decided to go off-book, so to speak, and add a sex scene.
No word yet on as to what the sex scene entails or to what base the characters go to.
My guess is they go all the way, but it could just be third base.
The story follows a love triangle between Isabel and Brothers, Jeremiah, and Conrad.
Sound saucy.
Jurassic World Rebirth is the latest installment in the Jurassic Park franchise, and brought in several hundred million dollars globally.
But if you like being a couch potato, you can catch it at home now after just five weeks.
Jurassic World Rebirth is the seventh installment in the franchise, and stars Scarlett Johansson and Maharshala Ali.
It is now available to stream on Amazon Prime.
The naked gun reboot pulled in 17 million in its opening weekend.
The production has yielded several subplots, including a Liam Neeson with Pamela Anderson Romance, and now it's been revealed the director,
Akiva Schaefer, almost threatened to quit the project when the studio threatened to cut a certain laugh-getting scene.
In the film, a snowman comes to life and is part of a goofy threesome with the two lead actors.
Schaefer says it was a tribute to the first naked gun, and he had to stand his ground to keep it in.
The movie is already the shortest feature film I've seen in years, so if the scene had been cut, that pretty much would have made it a short film.
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It is going to be mostly sunny, hot, and humid today.
We'll get to right around 90 for a high, but that heating deck's going to be in the upper 90s and some places into the triple digits.
Tonight, if you scattered thunderstorms lows in the low to mid-70s tomorrow, scattered thunderstorms with a high in the upper 80s to low 90s.
I mean to your oligishon cable. Right now, it's 70!
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