
Patty Satalia
Senior Producer / HostPatty Satalia was a senior producer/host for WPSU-TV and FM from 1987 to 2017. Prior to joining Penn State Public Broadcasting, she worked in commercial television in Pittsburgh, first as a film editor and fill-in capsule news anchor for WPGH-TV, and later, for WPTT-TV as public affairs director and co-host of the talk-show, People, Places and Things.
In her 30 years at WPSU, Patty conducted around 6,000 interviews and hosted a variety of programs, including Take Note, Pennsylvania Inside Out, and the Lobby Talk series, which was recorded before a live audience in the lobby of the Outreach Building. For eight seasons, Patty produced the Emmy award-winning game show, The Pennsylvania Game, as well as a number of award-winning documentaries, including: Children and Autism: Time is Brain; Creating Health: Childhood Obesity; and Farming from the Heart, to name a few. She was co-producer/host of the half-hour public affairs program, Conversations from Penn State, and a reporter for WPSU-FM.
Patty graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1980. She and her husband, Ed Satalia, a building contractor, have two grown sons.
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Take Note: A Conversation with Joe Galloway, a "Soldier's Reporter and a Soldier's Friend."
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In State College in the late 1950s, she was a rarity: a progressive, a business owner, and a woman. Mimi Barash Coppersmith celebrates her 85th birthday…
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This interview originally aired on May 6, 2016.As the first executive director of Pennsylvania’s Office of Open Records, Terry Mutchler staunchly defended…
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This interview originally aired Sept. 25, 2015.As a young bi-racial violinist, Aaron Dworkin knew first hand how little diversity existed in the concert…
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This interview originally aired May 27, 2016.Sex trafficking; they call it the new American slavery. It’s been reported in all 50 states, and whether we…
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Poet, musician and artist Patti Smith visited Penn State to receive the 2013 Institute of the Arts and Humanities Medal for Distinguished Achievement. She…
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DON'T MISS more of our conversation with potter Roberto Lugo. He talks about his early graffiti career, the popularity of his work today, and about how…
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Hear Rebecca Strzelec's perspective on the future of Arts Funding under this new administration.Rebecca Strzelec finds inspiration in what other people…
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Welcome to Take Note on WPSU, I’m Patty Satalia. Longtime NPR sports commentator Frank Deford died on Sunday. WPSU talked with him in 2007. Among the most…
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In Pennsylvania, and around the country, voters don't choose their elected officials; instead, politicians choose their voters. The process that allows…