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General Information:
Penn State President Graham Spanier’s monthly call-in began as a radio broadcast in 1996. In its fifth year of production, "To the Best of My Knowledge" now reaches viewers and Web users as well as listeners. Each show is available on WPSU-FM (91.5, 106.7, 95.1, 90.1, 100.9 and 104.7), WPSX-TV and on the Internet (www.psu.edu).
 The show’s early focus on higher education issues has broadened to include a variety of topics of local and national interest. Dr. Spanier and his guests have looked at hate crime, the influence of the media, medical malpractice, and genetic engineering as well as lighter topics such as the cultural impact of "Star Wars," talk TV, manners and etiquette, and extreme sports. Guests have included senators, an admiral, the head of a movie studio, editors and reporters for The New York Times and CNN, and dozens of Penn State faculty and staff.
But the real "stars" of the show are the ones who call or write during the hour-long broadcast each month. "To the Best of My Knowledge" belongs to its listeners, viewers and Net users. Your calls to 800.543.8242 and email to response@psu.edu are more than welcome.
Webcast Information:
Streaming Audio and Video
Instead of having to download an entire audio or video file before you can use it, streaming files allow you to watch or listen as the downloading progresses.
To be able to play Quicktime or RealVideo streaming video and audio, you may need to download one of their plug-ins.
 
Required Hardware:
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Windows 95, 98, NT, 3.1
Pentium or greater
16MB RAM or greater
2MB Hard Disk Space
16-bit Sound Card
28.8 modem or greater
256 colors or greater |
MAC
PowerPC processor
16MB Ram or greater
2MB Hard Disk Space
28.8 modem or greater
256 colors or greater |
Browser Configuration Help
In order to enable your browser to play streaming media your browser's preferences must be configured correctly. Usually the plug-in installers will do this for you.
Netscape Navigator for Win95 or Macintosh
or
Internet Explorer for the Macintosh
Open your browser and choose the EDIT menu.
Select Preferences and choose Applications or Receiving Files. Add a New helper with the following information in the appropriate fields.
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Description: RealMedia File
Extension: .ra, .ram, .rm
MIME Type: audio/x-pn-realaudio
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Make sure the files are Handled By: the RealPlayer application.
You must set another New file for the RealPlug-in.
Change the Description to RealPlayer Plug-in. Extension to .rpm and Mime type to audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin. |
Internet Explorer 4.0 on Windows:
Right click on My Computer.
In the Windows explolrer, click View then Options.
Click the File Types tab. Add a New helper with the following information in the appropriate fields.
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Description: RealMedia File
Extension: .ra, .ram, .rm
MIME Type: audio/x-pn-realaudio
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Click the Edit button, enter the following information in the Action dialog box.
Action open.
Application used to perform action browse to the location of the application RealPlayer.
Click OK then click Close. |
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