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This Conversation

This Conversation

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 SEE EPISODES BELOW! Dr. Teresa Keller began hosting This Conversation each week in 2009 on WEHC-FM, Emory. Keller's broadcast career began many years ago at WCYB-TV, an NBC affiliate in Bristol, VA where she worked for seven years as a talk show host, reporter, and anchor of the noon news. She also spent time working in television newsrooms in Denver and San Diego, and worked as a contributing reporter for WVTF public radio in Roanoke, VA. As a professor of Mass Communications at Emory & Henry College, she garnered two statewide teaching awards: the 2003 Virginia Professor of the Year award, presented by the Carnegie Foundation, and the Virginia Council on Higher Education’s Outstanding Faculty Award in 2010. She is author of Television News: The Art and How-to of Video Storytelling -- now in its 4th edition. While at Emory & Henry, she wrote the FCC application for WEHC-FM, now a 9,000 watt College and Community station that went on the air in 1992. She served as a board member of Holston Valley Broadcasting Corporation for more than a decade and spent two terms on the Board of Directors of the Virginia Association of Broadcasters. Many earlier episodes of the broadcast are available at https://archive.org/details/ThisConversation.Copyright 2026 WEHC Political Science Politics & Government Social Sciences
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  • Blowing the whistle on corporate health insurance. Wendell Potter

    Blowing the whistle on corporate health insurance. Wendell Potter
    Apr 22 2026

    Wendell Potter worked for large health care corporations CIGNA and HUMANA for 20 years. In a crisis of conscience, he quit. Two events prompted his decision: (1) observing the RAM health care clinic in Wise, VA where uninsured people were literally getting health care in a barn, and (2) the death of a 17-year-old girl who was denied coverage for a liver transplant. Since his resignation, he has been a strong and constant voice for finding a better way to provide health care in our country.

    What is the scam?

    What about Tennessee's RX Bill?

    What are the chances for improvement?

    What does Potter advise us all to do?
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    28 mins
  • THE DOCTOR'S DIAGNOSIS: OUR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IS FAILING

    THE DOCTOR'S DIAGNOSIS: OUR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IS FAILING
    Apr 14 2026

    Dr. Robin Feierabend has diagnosed our health system in the U.S. as "failing." His conclusion is based on more than 30 years as a teaching physician and Professor Emeritus in Medicine at East Tennessee State University.

    He and some high profile fellow professionals are trying to address the issue in an event to which the public is invited.

    The prestigious panel includes a keynote address by Wendell Berry, author of four books on healthcare and a former insurance executive turned whistleblower. He is now president of the Center for Health and Democracy.

    The event is set for Saturday, April 25, 2026 from 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. at the Kingsport Center for Higher Education, 300 West Market Street, Kingsport, TN. It is free and open to the public.

    With early registration, attendees get a free lunch.

    More information at www.tccihc.org.

    What are the major problems in healthcare and how can we fix them? Details in this episode of This Conversation with host Teresa Keller.
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    27 mins
  • ARRESTED, DEPORTED, UNDETERRED: JOURNALIST CODY WEDDLE.

    ARRESTED, DEPORTED, UNDETERRED: JOURNALIST CODY WEDDLE.
    Apr 7 2026

    Latin America journalist Cody Weddle was arrested, detained and deported from Venezuela in 2019. Now, he's living in Bogata,​ ​ Columbia and, again, covering news events in Venezuela. Furthermore, this international journalist is home grown -- in Meadowview, Virginia.

    We trace his pathway from Patrick Henry High School to his current work feeding information about Venezuela and Columbia to news sources around the world.

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    WEHC 90.7 FM is the Voice of Southwest Virginia. Stay tuned, connected, informed and entertained. This is listener supported radio. www.wehcfm.com
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    28 mins
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