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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Don Ford founded Penn State’s College of Health and Human Development in 1967. He died on May 8, 2023, at the age of 96. WPSU interviewed him in 2010 while he was caring for his wife Carol, who had Alzheimer's. -
Take Note: A Conversation with Joe Galloway, a "Soldier's Reporter and a Soldier's Friend." -
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… -
This interview originally aired on May 6, 2016.As the first executive director of Pennsylvania’s Office of Open Records, Terry Mutchler staunchly defended… -
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… -
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… -
Poet, musician and artist Patti Smith visited Penn State to receive the 2013 Institute of the Arts and Humanities Medal for Distinguished Achievement. She… -
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… -
Hear Rebecca Strzelec's perspective on the future of Arts Funding under this new administration.Rebecca Strzelec finds inspiration in what other people… -
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…
