WHYY

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WHYY, Inc. is a nonprofit corporation chartered by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to operate TV12 and 91FM, the public broadcasting stations serving southeastern Pennsylvania, Delaware and South Jersey. Offices and studios are located in Philadelphia and Wilmington.

Series

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4 Pieces

Five-plus minute features on Olympians.

  • From: WHYY
  • Updated: Aug 11, 2004
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376 Pieces

Weekly subscribable series. Host Maiken Scott leads this one-hour, weekly tour of the people and places at the heart of health and science.

  • From: WHYY
  • Updated: Jul 25, 2022
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103 Pieces

Host Maiken Scott leads this one-hour, weekly tour of the people and places at the heart of health and science.

  • From: WHYY
  • Updated: Feb 14, 2017
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9 Pieces

Women100 is a year long series of one minute spots celebrating a century of progress since women won the right to vote and set the agenda to achieve economic, political and social equality.

  • From: WHYY
  • Updated: Feb 20, 2020

Latest Pieces

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Anxiety can feel like a buzzing electric current that fuels our thoughts and behaviors. There are the well-known symptoms — chest pains, rapid hear...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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Our sense of smell can bring us quick bursts of joy, like a whiff of bread baking, that freshly brewed cup of coffee, or your favorite perfume. But...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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On this rebroadcast of The Pulse- Plastic gets a bad rap — over the years, it’s become synonymous with environmental destruction, cheap fakery, nee...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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The United States spends more on health care than any other country in the world — and that spending is going up every year. In some respects, that...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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In a lot of ways, artificial intelligence acts as our personal butlers — it filters our email, manages the temperature in our homes, finds the best...

  • Added: May 27, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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There’s long been an idea that sharing our DNA for research benefits the greater good — that it leads to new insights, new medications, and new dis...

  • Added: May 20, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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The patch, the gum, lozenges, medication — it seems like there are lots of ways to quit smoking. But for some people, none of them work, and they h...

  • Added: May 13, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
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Energy fuels our lives in ways that seem almost magical. It can transform darkness into light, cold into warmth, water into ice. Of course, it’s sc...

  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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Over the past year, public health officials went from being the people who nudge us not to smoke, not to drink and drive, and to eat our veggies, t...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
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“Trust the science!” It’s a phrase we've heard a lot during the pandemic. It’s come to mean things like “wear masks” or “get vaccinated,” but the p...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:00