It seemed like this is the end, like this is the end of the world. SHUBINETS: (Through interpreter) When the war started, the first day when I came to work, we had this discussion. Being able to curate and take in the latest updates helps her deal with the anxiety. They need to be ready at any time, if it's a war or whatever.ĭETROW: Iryna tells us through our interpreter that doing the newscasts is calming in a way. SHUBINETS: (Through interpreter) Journalists are like firemen. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #3: (Non-English language spoken).ĭETROW: The top stories this hour - shelling in the south, alleged Russian war crimes and aid for internally displaced people. SHUBINETS: (Non-English language spoken).ĭETROW: She walks over to the studio and takes her seat less than a minute to air. IRYNA SHUBINETS: (Non-English language spoken).ĭETROW: Iryna Shubinets, one of the lead newscasters, does a final check of the copy. They're writing the upcoming newscast, which tops the hour. HAVRYK: Yeah, but do Americans know what does means?Īs Taras does his show, a small staff of reporters clacks away on keyboards in a room just across the hall. ĭETROW: We might have to bleep that (laughter). HAVRYK: Now we have wartime, so we can air whatever we want. UNIDENTIFIED MUSICAL ARTIST: (Singing in non-English language). HAVRYK: So he has done this song named "Die Die Die, Putin" (ph) with a funny chorus. But we want to calm people.ĭETROW: One way to do that is playing all the new songs that seem to pop up about the war every single day online. It's not possible to be relaxed, like, for 100%. HAVRYK: Maybe distraction is one of the roles of this music, too - to feel relaxed in this situation. But Taras makes a point to save time from music and laughs. We have war here, so.ĭETROW: His show is more serious than before - more segments on how listeners can help raise funds and morale for the army, things like that. HAVRYK: I want to have, like, funny airs. He's got on two earrings, a leopard print shirt and has bangs under his Hilfiger hat. Listeners know him for his jokes and his rapping. We tried to mix things up just to keep our listeners more happier.ĭETROW: Taras Havryk has been on the air for eight years. Especially at the beginning of the war, people telephoned us, said that we were too sarcastic, too ironic about our hosts. And they made another important decision, too - to keep their irreverent style. Everybody took pay cuts to keep the station afloat. And we thought about, should we stay on broadcasting?ĭETROW: They decided to stay on the air. All the businesses closed down in Ukraine, in Lviv. Our radio station works on the - from the advertisements. KHOMYAK: When the war started, we had a tough decision. He took over the job from his dad just a few months ago. YURIY KHOMYAK: We also broadcast the siren saying people to go to the shelter.ĭETROW: Yuriy Khomyak is the station's director. And that's especially important since the radio station is right near the kind of big communications towers that have been targets in other cities. TARAS HAVRYK: Do you see this wall? It's a big one.ĭETROW: It doubles as a bomb shelter when Lviv's air raid sirens go off. We just friends.ĭETROW: The studio itself has thick, brick walls. HAYDEN JAMES: (Singing) We don't say much as we lay here. SCOTT DETROW, BYLINE: To get to the Wave of Lviv's broadcast studio, you walk through a courtyard, down several stone steps and through a long, arched underground hallway past an old, gray boombox. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: (Non-English language spoken).ĬHANG: But what do you do with a station like that when war comes to your country? The answer involves a lot of careful balance. And if you tune your radio to 100.8, you can find a station known as Wave of Lviv, broadcasting pop music and witty banter. Meanwhile, in the northwestern part of the country, life looks a little more normal, if still tense. They hope it will be safe enough to try again tomorrow. Today in Ukraine, it was too dangerous for a team from the International Committee of the Red Cross to execute a large-scale evacuation in the besieged city of Mariupol.
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