ATHENS, Ohio -- In less than a month, Ohioans will go to the polls to cast their vote for the state's next chief executive. WOUBTV will air a special program, "Debating Ohio-The Race for Governor," between Governor Bob Taft and Democratic challenger Tim Hagan on Tuesday, Oct. 15 at 10 p.m.
Ohio's public television and radio stations, and the state's leading newspapers, the Plain Dealer, Dayton Daily News and Columbus Dispatch, organized the debate.
Candidates will answer questions from a panel of journalists representing newspapers and the Ohio Public Radio Television Statehouse News Bureau. This will be the first of three gubernatorial debates and the only debate, at this time, having provisions for statewide broadcast on radio and television.
The debate will air live on the WOUB-FM Radio Network on Tuesday, October 15 at 7 p.m., and will also be available at www.woub.org
The Ohio University Telecommunications Center, a unit of the College of Communication, operates two television stations -- WOUB-TV/Channel 20 in Athens and WOUC-TV/Channel 44 in Cambridge; one cable channel -- WOUB II; and six radio stations -- WOUB-1340 AM, WOUB-91.3 FM, WOUC-89.1 FM, WOUH-91.9 FM, WOUL-89.1 FM and WOUZ-90.1 FM.
