A program guide for members of Prairie Public Broadcasting January 2014
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January Prime Time Television Programs Visit www.prairiepublic.org for the most up-to-date schedules, including Prairie Public’s multicast schedules. Programming may change with little or no notice. Programs are listed in Central Time. Prairie Public local television productions are highlighted in blue.
1 Wednesday 7:00 Great Performances From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2014 fi 8:30 That’s All: Johnny and His Musical Mates fi 9:30 Growing Bolder Unforgettable and Inspirational fi 10:00 Keeping Up Appearances › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Charlie Rose Midnight Tavis Smiley 12:30 Growing Bolder fi
2 Thursday 7:00 This Old House Hour fi 8:00 Doc Martin ⁄ 9:00 Dirk Gently ⁄ 10:00 Keeping Up Appearances › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Charlie Rose Midnight Tavis Smiley 12:30 Scully/The World Show
3 Friday 7:00 Washington Week with Gwen Ifill 7:30 Prairie Pulse Northern Lights Council Boy Scouts President Travis Christopher fi 8:00 Charlie Rose: The Week 8:30 Carol Burnett: The Mark Twain Prize ⁄ 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Charlie Rose Midnight Tavis Smiley 12:30 Great Decisions in Foreign Policy
4 Saturday 7:00 Globe Trekker Mozambique ⁄ 8:00 My Family › 8:30 Waiting for God › 9:00 Keeping Up Appearances › 9:30 After You’ve Gone › 10:00 EastEnders › 11:00 Austin City Limits Queens of the Stone Age ⁄ Midnight To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 12:30 Well Read fi
5 Sunday 7:00 Lawrence Welk Show Winter fi 8:00 Masterpiece Classic Downton Abbey, Season 4 (part 1 of 8) ⁄ 10:00 Secrets of Highclere Castle ⁄
11:00 EastEnders › Midnight Washington Week with Gwen Ifill 12:30 Prairie Pulse Northern Lights Council Boy Scouts President Travis Christopher fi
6 Monday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow fi 8:00 Antiques Roadshow fi 9:00 Prairie Mosaic Artist Jean Ransom, the Hjemkomst Center, and storyteller Keith Bear fi 9:30 Bluegrass Underground Leon Russell ⁄ 10:00 Keeping Up Appearances › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Charlie Rose Midnight Tavis Smiley 12:30 Religion & Ethics Newsweekly
7 Tuesday 7:00 We Served Too: The Story of the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots fi 8:00 The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club ⁄ 9:00 Frontline To Catch a Trader 10:00 Keeping Up Appearances › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Charlie Rose Midnight Tavis Smiley 12:30 Asia Biz Forecast
8 Wednesday 7:00 Nature Legendary White Stallions · 8:00 NOVA Alien Planets Revealed fi 9:00 Chasing Shackleton (part 1 of 3) ⁄ 10:00 Keeping Up Appearances › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Charlie Rose Midnight Tavis Smiley 12:30 Growing Bolder fi
9 Thursday 7:00 This Old House Hour fi 8:00 Doc Martin ⁄ 9:00 Dirk Gently ⁄ 10:00 Keeping Up Appearances › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Charlie Rose Midnight Tavis Smiley 12:30 Scully/The World Show
10 Friday 7:00 Washington Week with Gwen Ifill 7:30 Prairie Pulse The Forum Photographer & Author Bruce Crummy fi 8:00 Charlie Rose: The Week 8:30 Live From Lincoln Center Richard Tucker at 100: An Opera Celebration fi 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Charlie Rose Midnight Tavis Smiley
12:30 Great Decisions in Foreign Policy
11 Saturday 7:00 Globe Trekker Alps & Lapland ⁄ 8:00 My Family › 8:30 Waiting for God › 9:00 Keeping Up Appearances › 9:30 After You’ve Gone › 10:00 EastEnders › 11:00 Austin City Limits Jason Isbell/Neko Case ⁄ Midnight To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 12:30 Well Read fi
12 Sunday 7:00 Lawrence Welk Show A Pretty Girl fi 8:00 Masterpiece Classic Downton Abbey, Season 4 (part 2 of 8) ⁄ 9:00 Unlocking Sherlock fi 10:00 Mel Leipzig: Everything is Paintable ⁄ 10:30 Resolana: Voice of The People fi 11:00 EastEnders › Midnight Washington Week with Gwen Ifill 12:30 Prairie Pulse The Forum Photographer & Author Bruce Crummy fi
13 Monday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow fi 8:00 Antiques Roadshowfi 9:00 Prairie Mosaic Artists Laura Youngbird, Baron Frederich von Imhoff, and SD Nelson; and Singer/Songwriter Elisa Korenne fi 9:30 Bluegrass Underground North Mississippi Allstars ⁄ 10:00 Keeping Up Appearances › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Charlie Rose Midnight Tavis Smiley 12:30 Religion & Ethics Newsweekly
14 Tuesday 7:00 1964: American Experience fl 9:00 Frontline Secret State of North Korea 10:00 Keeping Up Appearances › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Charlie Rose Midnight Tavis Smiley 12:30 Asia Biz Forecast
15 Wednesday 7:00 Nature The Private Life of Deer fi 8:00 NOVA Zeppelin Terror Attack ⁄ 9:00 Chasing Shackleton (part 2 of 3) ⁄ 10:00 Keeping Up Appearances › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Charlie Rose Midnight Tavis Smiley 12:30 Growing Bolder fi
7:00 This Old House Hour fi 8:00 Doc Martin ⁄ 9:00 Dirk Gently ⁄ 10:00 Keeping Up Appearances › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Charlie Rose Midnight Tavis Smiley 12:30 Scully/The World Show
17 Friday 7:00 Washington Week with Gwen Ifill 7:30 Prairie Pulse Shaylynn Wilbon, Author of “This I Promise” fi 8:00 Charlie Rose: The Week 8:30 A Ripple of Hope ⁄ 9:30 In Her Power fi 10:00 Keeping Up Appearances › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Charlie Rose Midnight Tavis Smiley 12:30 Great Decisions in Foreign Policy
18 Saturday 7:00 Globe Trekker Around the World: Across America: Route 66 & Beyond ⁄ 8:00 My Family › 8:30 Waiting for God › 9:00 To the Manor Born › 9:30 After You’ve Gone › 10:00 EastEnders › 11:00 Austin City Limits fun./Dawes ⁄ Midnight To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 12:30 Well Read fi
19 Sunday 7:00 Lawrence Welk Show Salute to the Working People fi 8:00 Masterpiece Classic Downton Abbey, Season 4 (part 3 of 8) ⁄ 9:00 Masterpiece Mystery! Sherlock, Series III: The Empty Hearse ⁄ 11:00 EastEnders › Midnight Washington Week with Gwen Ifill 12:30 Prairie Pulse Shaylynn Wilbon, Author of “This I Promise” fi
20 Monday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow fi 8:00 Antiques Roadshow fi 9:00 Prairie Mosaic fi 9:30 Bluegrass Underground The Wood Brothers ⁄ 10:00 Keeping Up Appearances › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Charlie Rose Midnight Tavis Smiley 12:30 Religion & Ethics Newsweekly
21 Tuesday 16 Thursday
7:00 War Letters: American Experience fl
8:00 Salinger: American Masters ⁄ 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Charlie Rose Midnight Tavis Smiley 12:30 Asia Biz Forecast
11:00 EastEnders › Midnight Washington Week with Gwen Ifill 12:30 Prairie Pulse Prairie Public Director of Television Programming and Production, Bob Dambach fi
22 Wednesday
27 Monday
7:00 Nature Meet the Coywolf ⁄ 8:00 NOVA Monster Typhoon ⁄ 9:00 Chasing Shackleton (part 3 of 3) ⁄ 10:00 Keeping Up Appearances › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Charlie Rose Midnight Tavis Smiley 12:30 Growing Bolder fi
7:00 Antiques Roadshow fi 8:00 Antiques Roadshow fi 9:00 Prairie Mosaic fi 9:30 Bluegrass Underground Alison Brown Quartet ⁄ 10:00 Keeping Up Appearances › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Charlie Rose Midnight Tavis Smiley 12:30 Religion & Ethics Newsweekly
23 Thursday 7:00 This Old House Hour fi 8:00 Doc Martin ⁄ 9:00 Father Brown The Hammer of God ⁄ 10:00 Keeping Up Appearances › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Charlie Rose Midnight Tavis Smiley 12:30 Scully/The World Show
24 Friday 7:00 Washington Week with Gwen Ifill 7:30 Prairie Pulse Prairie Public Director of Television Programming and Production, Bob Dambach fi 8:00 Charlie Rose: The Week 8:30 The Real Mary Poppins ⁄ 9:30 Music Makes a City fi 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Charlie Rose Midnight Tavis Smiley 12:30 Great Decisions in Foreign Policy
28 Tuesday 7:00 The Amish: American Experience ⁄ 9:00 Russia’s Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin fi 10:00 Keeping Up Appearances › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Charlie Rose Midnight Tavis Smiley 12:30 Asia Biz Forecast
29 Wednesday 7:00 Nature The Funkiest Monkeys ⁄ 8:00 NOVA Ghosts of Murdered Kings ⁄ 9:00 Hawking ⁄ 10:00 Keeping Up Appearances › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Charlie Rose Midnight Tavis Smiley 12:30 Growing Bolder fi
30 Thursday 25 Saturday 7:00 Globe Trekker Around the World— Panamericana: Conquistadors, Aztecs and Revolutions ⁄ 8:00 My Family › 8:30 Waiting for God › 9:00 To the Manor Born › 9:30 After You’ve Gone › 10:00 EastEnders › 11:00 Austin City Limits Portugal, the Man/ Local Native ⁄ Midnight To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 12:30 Well Read fi
26 Sunday 7:00 Lawrence Welk Show Tour of Southern California fi 8:00 Masterpiece Classic Downton Abbey, Season 4 (part 4 of 8) ⁄ 9:00 Masterpiece Mystery! Sherlock, Series III: The Sign of Three ⁄
7:00 This Old House Hour fi 8:00 Doc Martin ⁄ 9:00 Father Brown The Flying Stars ⁄ 10:00 Keeping Up Appearances › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Charlie Rose Midnight Tavis Smiley 12:30 Scully/The World Show
31 Friday 7:00 Washington Week with Gwen Ifill 7:30 Prairie Pulse Prairie Public Director of Radio, Bill Thomas fi 8:00 Charlie Rose: The Week 8:30 Great Performances Barrymore 10:00 Keeping Up Appearances › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Charlie Rose Midnight Tavis Smiley 12:30 Great Decisions in Foreign Policy
LOOKING FORWARD TO FEBRUARY
1 Saturday 7:00 Globe Trekker 8:00 My Family 8:30 Waiting For God 9:00 To The Manor Born 9:30 After You’ve Gone
2 Sunday 7:00 The Lawrence Welk Show 8:00 Masterpiece Classic 9:00 Masterpiece Mystery!
3 Monday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow 8:00 Antiques Roadshow 9:00 Prairie Mosaic 9:30 Bluegrass Underground
Overnight Schedule Programs are listed in Central Time. 1964: American Experience 1/16, 1 a.m. America’s Heartland Sundays, 5:30 a.m. The Amish: American Experience 1/30, 1 a.m. Antiques Roadshow Wednesdays, 1 a.m. Austin City Limits Sundays, 4 a.m. Bluegrass Underground Wednesdays, 3:30 a.m. Charlie Rose: The Week Mondays, 1 a.m. Chasing Shackleton Fridays, 3 a.m., except 1/3, 1/31 Dirk Gently Saturdays, Mondays, 3 a.m., except 1/25, 1/27 Doc Martin Saturdays, Mondays, 2 a.m. European Journal Sundays, 1 a.m. Father Brown 1/25, 1/27, 3 a.m. Frontline 1/2, 1/9, 1/16, 3 a.m. Globe Trekker Sundays, 3 a.m. Great Decisions in Foreign Policy Sundays, 2 a.m. Great Performances From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2014 1/3, 1 a.m. Growing Bolder 1/3, 3:30 a.m. Hawking 1/31, 3 a.m. Innerviews with Ernie Manouse Sundays, 1:30 a.m. Jonathan Bird’s Blue World 1/23, 4:30 a.m. Lawrence Welk Show Tuesdays, 1 a.m. The Leading Gen Sundays, 5 a.m. The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club 1/9, 2 a.m. Live from Lincoln Center 1/2, 1 a.m. Masterpiece Classic Tuesdays, 2 a.m. Masterpiece Mystery! 1/21, 1/28, 3 a.m. McLaughlin Group Sundays, 2:30 a.m. Nature Fridays, 1 a.m., except 1/3 Nightly Business Report Saturdays, 5 a.m.
NOVA Fridays, 2 a.m., except 1/3 Painting with Paulson Sundays, 6 a.m. The PBS NewsHour Tuesday-Saturday, 4 a.m., except 1/2, 1/21, 1/23, 1/28 Prairie Mosaic Wednesdays, 3 a.m. Return to Downton Abbey 1/2, 2:30 a.m. Rough Cut—Woodworking with Tommy Mac Sundays, 6:30 a.m. Russia’s Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin 1/30, 3 a.m. Salinger: American Masters 1/23, 2 a.m. Tavis Smiley Saturdays, 5:30 a.m. That’s All: Johnny and His Musical Mates 1/3, 2:30 a.m. This Old House Hour Saturdays, 1 a.m.; Mondays, 4 a.m. The Truth About Money with Ric Edelman Mondays, 1:30 a.m. Unlocking Sherlock 1/14, 3 a.m. War Letters: American Experience 1/23, 1 a.m. We Served Too: The Story of the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots 1/9, 1 a.m.
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January Daytime Television Programs Saturdays 6:00 a.m. Great Conversations 7:00 Overheard with Evan Smith 7:30 McLaughlin Group 8:00 Consuelo Mack Wealthtrack 8:30 Growing Bolder fi 9:00 Cook’s Country from America’s Test Kitchen fi 9:30 Martha Bakes fi 10:00 Eat! Drink! Italy! with Vic Rallo fi 10:30 Kevin Dundon’s Modern Irish Food fi 11:00 Lidia’s Kitchen fi 11:30 Mexico—One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless fi Simply Ming begins 1/11 noon Market to Market 12:30 Almanac 1:30 It’s Sew Easy fi 2:00 Sewing with Nancy fi 2:30 Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting fi 3:00 Rough Cut—Woodworking with Tommy Mac fi 3:30 Painting with Paulson fi 4:00 America’s Heartland fi 4:30 The Leading Gen fi 5:00 Prairie Pulse fi 5:30 Charlie Rose: The Week 6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend 6:30 Ask This Old House fi (1/4) 6:30 Moyers & Company begins 1/11 Sundays 7:00 a.m. Sesame Street æ 8:00 Bob the Builder æ 8:30 Raggs æ 9:00 Bali fi 9:30 Thomas & Friends æ 10:00 Martha Speaks æ 10:30 SciGirls fi 11:00 Enertips fi 11:30 The Electric Company æ noon DragonflyTV æ 12:30 The Leading Gen fi 1:00 Healthy Body Healthy Mind fi except 1/19 1:00 Great Performances at the Met “Eugene Onegin” ⁄ (1/19) (3 hrs) 1:30 For Your Home fi except 1/19 2:00 Food Trip with Todd English: Malaysia fi (1/5) 2:00 Moving with Grace fi (1/12) 2:00 Set for Life fi (1/26) 3:00 Globe Trekker ⁄ except 1/19 4:00 Doc Martin ⁄ except 1/12 4:00 Masterpiece Classic “Downton Abbey, Season 4” ⁄ (1/12) (2 hrs) 5:00 Moyers & Company (1/5) 5:00 Masterpiece Classic “Downton Abbey, Season 4” ⁄ except 1/5 (1 hr) 6:00 Antiques Roadshow fi Weekdays 5:00 a.m. Prairie Public Instructional Resources (1½ hrs) 6:30 Wild Kratts æ
7:00 Curious George æ 7:30 The Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! æ 8:00 Peg + Cat æ except 1/20 8:00 Dinosaur Train: Nature Trackers Adventure Camp fi (1/20) (1 hr) 8:30 Dinosaur Train æ except 1/20 9:00 Sesame Street æ 10:00 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood æ 10:30 Super Why! æ 11:00 Sid the Science Kid æ 11:30 Martha Speaks æ noon Peep and the Big Wide World/Pocoyo æ 12:30 Clifford the Big Red Dog æ 1:00 Caillou æ 1:30 WordWorld æ 2:00 Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman æ 2:30 Cyberchase æ 3:00 Maya & Miguel æ 3:30 Arthur æ 4:00 WordGirl æ 4:30 Wild Kratts æ 5:00 BBC World News America 5:30 PBS NewsHour 6:30 Keeping Up Appearances › Symbol Key fi General audience æ Suitable for all children æ Directed to children age 7 and older ⁄ Parental guidance suggested
Moving with Grace Like many baby boomers, former NBC anchor Stone Phillips and his siblings found themselves caring for their aging parents. Moving with Grace, an intimate documentary Phillips produced and shot, follows this charming couple as they move out of the family home in Missouri and adapt to life first in a retirement community and later in an assisted-living facility. The honest and, at times, poignant story highlights the common struggles associated with elder care and its consequences. Tune in Sunday, January 12, at 2:00 p.m. (CT).
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Prairie Public is pleased to partner with Jade Presents to bring awardwinning comedian, author, filmmaker and This American Life contributor Mike Birbiglia to the Fargo Theatre on February 21. Tickets are available at jadepresents.com.
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You may have noticed someone new voicing NPR’s funding credits and reminding us that “this ... is NPR.” That’s Sabrina Farhi, NPR’s new on-staff announcer.
Collaboration will expand energy coverage As the newsrooms at local newspapers continue to be downsized, public media organizations are looking at innovative ways to expand local news coverage. Station collaborations are a promising opportunity. Stations can pool resources, share broadcast spectrum, and reconfigure management and programming responsibilities. Prairie Public is currently planning just such a collaboration with Rocky Mountain Public Media, Colorado Public Media, Colorado Public Television, Wyoming Public Media, Wyoming
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The Stand Up ND: How to Stop Bullying multimedia anti-bullying project has been awarded a Bush Foundation Community Innovation Grant— part of the Bush Foundation’s effort to enable, inspire, and reward community innovation. NPR is sending a trio of reporters to North Dakota for special coverage of the energy boom. Stay tuned for the reports, scheduled to air in January. Public Television, and KUNC FM in Colorado. The stations will share three reporters, an editorial leader, a curation and conversations editor, and a data journalist to create content for Inside Energy, a radio project that will explore the points of tension, the tradeoffs and opportunities, and the very human consequences of energy policy, production, use, and innovation. While originating with a focus on the energy boom states of Colorado, North Dakota, and Wyoming, the reporting will explore issues of national interest and importance. The project is launching with a $1.4 million startup grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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January Television Highlights
Based on the short stories by G. K. Chesterton, Father Brown follows the kindly cleric as he solves crimes in his community. It is a quintessentially English world: drawing rooms in large country houses, miles of countryside, village halls and secret gardens, as well as country fairs, railway stations and rural parish churches. New! Thursdays at 9:00 p.m. (CT) beginning January 23
Chasing Shackleton, a new three-part series, follows a modern expedition that re-creates Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Trans-Antarctic Expedition, which launched in 1914. The series joins a crew of five intrepid explorers, led by renowned adventurer, scientist and author Tim Jarvis, as they duplicate Shackleton’s epic sea-and-land voyage in a replica of the original explorers’ lifeboat, James Caird, using only the tools and supplies his team used. New! Wednesday, January 8, 15, and 22, 9:00 p.m. (CT) Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman are back as Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson in three new episodes of the contemporary reinvention of the Arthur Conan Doyle classic. Masterpiece Mystery! will thrill us with The Empty Hearse on January 19, The Sign of Three on January 26, and His Last Vow on February 2. New! Sundays at 9:00 p.m. (CT)
1964 was the year that Prairie Public sent out its first television signal, and it was also the year of the Beatles and the Civil Rights Act; of the Gulf of Tonkin and Barry Goldwater’s presidential campaign; the year that Americans tried to make sense of the Kennedy assassination. American Experience surveys 1964 based on The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964 by award-winning journalist Jon Margolis. New! Tuesday, January 14, 7:00 p.m. (CT)
American Masters celebrates its 200th episode by profiling J.D. Salinger. It’s the first work to get beyond the “Catcher in the Rye” author’s meticulously built-up wall: his childhood, painstaking work methods, marriages, private world and the secrets he left behind after his death in 2010. New! Tuesday, January 21, 8:00 p.m. (CT)
The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club chronicles the thrilling life and extraordinary times of aviation pioneer Florence Lowe “Pancho” Barnes, one of the most colorful and accomplished female pilots of the early 20th century. The program is narrated by Tom Skerritt, with Kathy Bates as the voice of Barnes. Tuesday, January 7, 8:00 p.m. (CT)
January Television Highlights Downton Abbey returns for season four “We’d follow the Crawleys off a cliff,” said The Philadelphia Inquirer. “Please have Carson pack us a lunch.” The mostwatched drama in PBS history enters its fourth gripping season with the whole world waiting to learn how the beloved characters deal with last season’s shocking tragedy. The acclaimed ensemble is back and the legend continues as Downton Abbey returns—on eight Sundays beginning with a two-hour premiere on January 5 at 8:00 p.m. (CT). Replete with weddings, births, abandonment, financial reversal, sudden riches, and equally sudden deaths, Season 3 left critics spellbound. “USA Today” ranked it as a perfect four stars, and “The New York Times” praised it as “delightful escapism.” Ahead of the celebrated final episode—the #1 show of the night, beating all broadcast and cable competition in prime time—“Newsday” had this summation: “The finale of a superb season does not disappoint. Grade A(+).” All who tuned in last season know that Matthew Crawley—heir to Downton Abbey,
husband to Lady Mary, and new father to a baby boy and successor—lies dead on a country road next to his overturned roadster. The family is also still grieving over the death in childbirth of Sybil, Mary’s youngest sister, who also left a baby behind. Season 4 opens six months later, and the Crawleys are beginning to snap out of it: Lord Grantham must manage the estate without his canny son-inlaw; Cora suddenly faces a staffing crisis; Violet, who has seen enough tragedy, knows how to recoup quickly; Matthew’s mother may never recover; Edith, who was jilted at the altar, tempts scandal with a new beau; and Mary now finds herself the most desirable widow in Yorkshire. The servants also pick up, buck up, and get on with it—with new arrivals, departures, rivalries, and betrayals among the downstairs staff. Life goes on, to our great delight, at Downton Abbey.
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Prairie Public’s Radio Council will meet Thursday, January 23, and Prairie Public’s Board of Directors will meet Friday, January 24, both at Prairie Public’s Fargo studio. All meetings are open to Prairie Public members and to the public. For further information, please contact Kirstin Lindbery at 800-359-6900.
The Board of Directors is the governing body of Prairie Public, and the Radio Council and the Television Community Advisory Board review programming and its goals and advise the board. If you are interested in serving, please send a letter of interest to Kirstin Lindbery at Prairie Public or email info@prairiepublic.org.
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50 Years A Million Thanks It was the ’50s, and the percentage of homes with a television set had skyrocketed in 12 years from 9 to 90 percent. Educational television’s time had come. Schools were racing to get televisions into classrooms, not unlike the push to get computers into classrooms in recent years. In 1959, Dr. Ted Donat and a group of like-minded partners formed the North Central Educational Television Association—the organization that would work over the next few years to bring educational television to our region. Their vision became a reality on Sunday, January 19, 1964,
In 1965, Prairie Public began production of its first instructional programs–a 60-hour English literature course for Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota; Teachers Orientation, which introduced teachers to the uses of public television programs in the classroom; and Art About Us, an instructional series hosted by Fargo art teacher Bruce McGhie. The series was carried by public television stations across the country.
at 2:00 p.m. (CT), when KFME Channel 13 sent the first public television signal across these prairies. It was an abbreviated threehour schedule that day that included previews of programs the station would offer and a drama dealing with mental illness titled “The 91st Day.” KFME received calls from as far away as Wahpeton, Valley City, and Hillsboro in North Dakota; Fergus Falls and Detroit Lakes in Minnesota; and Sisseton, South Dakota, saying “a good picture is being received.” Stay tuned for more bits of historic Prairie Public trivia throughout this year as we celebrate that “good picture” and so much more!