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wttw wttw Prime wttw Create wttw World wttw PBS Kids wttw.com THE GUIDE 98.7wfmt The Member Magazine wfmt.com for WTTW and WFMT Brandis Friedman, Black Voices host and Hugo Balta, Latino Voices host SAT/SUN | 6 PM BEGINNING SEPT 12 September 2020 ALSO INSIDE On WFMT, we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month featuring works by Spanish and Latin-American composers and musicians, and on wfmt.com, we explore Chicago’s rich cultural landscape as we talk to some of the city’s best Latin music and performing arts groups. From the President & CEO The Guide Dear Member, The Member Magazine for WTTW and WFMT As all of us face this uniquely challenging year, WTTW News has been out report- Renée Crown Public Media Center ing from the neighborhoods, talking with residents who are sharing their stories. 5400 North Saint Louis Avenue This coverage has illuminated how the COVID-19 crisis Chicago, Illinois 60625 disproportionately affects Black and Latino communi- ties in Chicago, and it is moments like these that compel Main Switchboard us to sharpen our focus on how we use our public media (773) 583-5000 Member and Viewer Services platform to serve our diverse community. (773) 509-1111 x 6 This month, we will launch Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices and Chicago Tonight: Black Voices, two additions Websites to our news and public affairs lineup and an extension wttw.com of WTTW’s flagship news show. The VOICES series will wfmt.com provide thoughtful and accurate coverage of current events to inform and engage the public, and create op- Publisher portunities for real conversation. Each week, Latino Anne Gleason Art Director Voices and Black Voices will offer a mix of analysis and features on a wide range of Tom Peth topics, including arts and life, entrepreneurship and innovation, and equity and WTTW Contributors justice across the sectors of our society and in the Black and Latino communities Julia Maish Lisa Tipton in Chicago. WFMT Contributors And, as the upcoming election will have a profound impact on Chicago area Andrea Lamoreaux residents, don’t miss Frontline: The Choice – Trump vs. Biden. Meet the renowned producer-director-writer of this definitive biographical documentary, Michael Kirk, Advertising and Underwriting on page 4. WTTW WFMT will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by featuring works by Spanish Nathan Armstrong (773) 509-5415 and Latin-American composers and musicians throughout September and October, WFMT including Heitor Villa-Lobos, Alfredo Rolando Ortiz, and Guadalupe Trigo. And Alexander Stonor Saunders don’t miss the legendary soprano Leontyne Price’s performance of Manuel de Falla’s (773) 509-5357 El Amor Brujo with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Impromptu’s visit with the award-winning Catalyst Quartet, a group that advocates for diversity and inclu- The Guide: The Member Magazine sion in classical music. On wfmt.com, explore Chicago’s rich cultural landscape as for WTTW and WFMT we talk to some of the city’s best Latin music and performing arts groups including (ISSN 2329-1338) September 2020 Mariachi Herencia de México and Sones de México. Volume 35, Number 267 As always, thank you for your continuing support of WTTW and WFMT. 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Inside the Guide POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Guide: The Member 3 WTTW Listings 18 Do it Yourself Saturdays Magazine for WTTW and WFMT, 5400 North Saint Louis Ave., 4 Making The Choice 2020 19 At-a-Glance Chicago, IL 60625-4698. 6 WTTW Digital Channel Highlights 20 WFMT Listings Copyright 2020, Window To The World Communications, Inc., Chicago, IL. 8 WTTW Kid Grid 31 Sponsors 14 Multi-Channel Primetime Grid ON THE COVER: Brandis Friedman, Chicago Tonight: Black Voices host and Hugo Balta, Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices host. 2 SEPTEMBER 2020 Programming Subject to Change Without Notice Daily Television Programming • Programmer’s Picks on WTTW11 Harbor from the Holocaust Frontline: The Choice NOVA: How Writing In a Holocaust story of hope, 20,000 Jews find 2020 - Trump vs. Biden Changed the World refuge in Shanghai during World War II. The film Every four years Frontline presents a dual Follow the evolution of the written word, from explores the relationship of the refugees and their biography of the two presidential candidates ancient carvings to modern-day alphabets. Then, host city, and the survivors who carried on the that takes measure of the two individuals, and explore how technologies from pen to printing traditions that would have been the events that have shaped press impacted the spread of information. consigned to oblivion. their lives and values. Wednesdays, September 23 Tuesday, September 8, 10:00 pm Tuesday, September 22, 9:00 pm and 30, 9:00 pm See page 6 for information about WTTW Prime listings. 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] voices this side of the Rio side. What makes us so In the Spotlight Grande, the three legends give perfect for each other? MORNING-AFTERNOON rousing performances on a 9:30 Ken Burns: America’s 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids treasure trove of honky-tonk Storyteller Join Tom Hanks, and Texas swing tunes. Meryl Streep, George Lucas, EVENING 4:00 Easy Yoga for Arthritis Wynton Marsalis, Yo-Yo Ma, 6:00 PBS NewsHour with Peggy Cappy [R] Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Sam 7:00 Chicago Tonight 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] Waterston, Doris Kearns 8:00 ABBA Forever: A Celebration Goodwin, and more for a 9:30 Prince: Rave Un2 MORNING-AFTERNOON tribute to the acclaimed The Year 2000 [R] 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids filmmaker, and a look at 11:00 BBC World News Ken’s film The Vietnam War. Credit: Courtesy of Stanza Media Ltd. 11:30 Suze Orman’s Ultimate EVENING 11:00 BBC World News Retirement Guide [R] 6:00 PBS NewsHour 11:30 Frontline: From Jesus 7:00 Chicago Tonight to Christ - The First 7:30 Chicago by ‘L’ with Geoffrey Christians (Part 1 of 4) [R] Wednesday 2 Baer Geoffrey Baer hops on EARLY MORNING the CTA’s famous elevated 1:30 Suze Orman’s Ultimate train lines to bring you a Retirement Guide [R] fascinating exploration of the 3:30 Change Your Brain, colorful and diverse neighbor- Björn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Heal Your Mind with hoods that Chicagoans access In the Spotlight Fältskog of ABBA Daniel Amen, MD [R] via the city’s storied elevated 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] train system. Climb aboard Sam Smith with Geoffrey as he shares ABBA Forever: MORNING-AFTERNOON untold stories about the his- A Celebration 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids tory of the ‘L’ and introduces you to many of the attractions Celebrate the supergroup with Neil EVENING you can reach by riding it, Sedaka, Donny Osmond, Tim Rice, 6:00 PBS NewsHour the businesses that grew up Credit: Courtesy of BBC and the band members themselves. 7:00 Chicago Tonight around it, and the people who Featuring a greatest hits soundtrack 8:00 NOVA: Cat Tales [R] live and work in its shadow. including “Dancing Queen” and 9:30 NOVA: Dog Tales Dogs 10:30 Sam Smith: Live at the “Mamma Mia!,” the program includes have long been dependable BBC’s Biggest Weekend original interviews and rare archival companions by our sides. But footage. it wasn’t always that way, and a look at their closest living Friday 4 Tuesday, September 1 relative, the wolf, makes it EARLY MORNING 8:00 pm clear why. Researchers reveal 12:00 BBC World News how humans tamed fearsome 12:30 Chicago by ‘L’ with canines over tens of thou- Geoffrey Baer See Thurs. sands of years, and how Sept. 3 at 7:30 pm. [R] modern dog intelligence and 3:30 Suze Orman’s Ultimate behaviors have made them Retirement Guide [R] Tuesday 1 indispensable companions. 5:30 Chicago Tonight [R] 11:00 BBC World News Sam Smith: Live at the EARLY MORNING 11:30 ABBA Forever: A MORNING-AFTERNOON 12:00 BBC World News Celebration See Tues. 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids BBC’s Biggest Weekend 12:30 Fleetwood Mac: Sept. 1 at 8:00 pm. [R] Thrill to the Grammy Award winner’s The Dance [R] EVENING electrifying performance before 2:30 Red, White, and Rock Join Thursday 3 6:00 PBS NewsHour a sold-out crowd at the massive Frankie Valli, The Righteous 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The summer music festival in May 2018. Brothers, Connie Francis, EARLY MORNING Week in Review Songs include the smash hits “Stay and more for a 2002 patriotic 1:00 Prince: Rave Un2 7:30 Washington Week With Me,” “Too Good at Goodbyes,” celebration of America and The Year 2000 [R] 8:00 Nature: Equus - Story of the “Money On My Mind,” and more. pop oldies music. Featuring 2:30 Last of the Breed Celebrate Horse: Origins (Part 1 of 2) a dream lineup of artists the greatest hits of Willie Ever since the mysterious Thursday, September 3 from the rock, pop, and Nelson, Merle Haggard, beginning of our extraordinary doo-wop days of the late and Ray Price in this 2007 partnership, humans and 10:30 pm ’50s and early to mid-’60s. concert. With the richest horses flourished side by 2020 SEPTEMBER 3 Photo: Rick Bern / All Rights Reserved © 2020 An Interview with FRONTLINE Producer Michael Kirk about Making THE CHOICE 2020 by DANIEL HAUTZINGER MICHAEL KIRK Michael Kirk is a veteran Frontline producer who has made scores of political docu- mentaries, including four installments of Frontline’s election-year fixture The Choice.