Local Content Report 2017
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FY2017 Local Content Report The mission of KLRN is to open a world of lifelong learning through trustworthy and enriching programs on-air, online and in our community. Local Programming Every week, ARTS showcases the latest of the dynamic arts and culture scene right here in San Antonio and across the country. Hosted by San Antonio businesswoman April Ancira, ARTS takes viewers into the alluring world of ballet, dance, theater, opera, galleries, and unique creations. ARTS is a collaboration of over 30 PBS stations, giving viewers the opportunity to experience art from around the country and KLRN the ability to share local segments on a national platform. KLRN produced 34 ARTS episodes featuring: Top: ARTS Program Host, April Ancira Middle: KLRN introduces Rick McNay Art Museum Centro de Artes Este, the new Executive Director of the McNay Art Museum Opera San Antonio Capoeira de Lunanda North East School of the Arts Clamplight Studios Bottom: Swing Dance Culture at Youth Orchestra of San Antonio Dance Group Urban 15 Trinity University Gilbert Velasquez Witte Museum The Children's Ballet of San Antonio Briscoe Museum Luminaria Contemporary Arts Festival Trinity University’s Skyline Lounge Dance Culture The 323rd Army Band "Fort Sam's Own" San Antonio Riverwalk Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center The Surround Project ARTS San Antonio Institute of Texan Cultures San Antonio Symphony The Cave Without a Name San Antonio Sound Garden San Antonio Lighthouse for the Blind Tobin Center for the Performing Arts Artist Scott Wade Gemini Ink and Second Verse Carver Community Cultural Center Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center The San Antonio Museum of Art Ballads of the Borderland Dallas Black Dance Theatre SAY Sí Local Programming SciTech Now offers KLRN the opportunity to showcase innovation, science and technology from San Antonio. Host and reporter Chris Duel reports each week on new initiatives and products that are putting our city on the map as a technology and medical research hub. KLRN produced 43 episodes featuring: University of the Incarnate Word/ climate Arriv.io/ Learn about new parking app change Light-activated nanomaterial that can purify water Sea World San Antonio/ Education & Ranch/ Entrepreneur creates app to auction cattle Conservation Merge VR/ Creation of the MergeCube UTSA/ Freezing aneurysms “Chat-bots” to promote smoking cessation AWG Technology/ Innovative water generator UTSA/ Creation of Persim OsteoCrops San Antonio’s School of Science and Technology/ Southwest ISD/ Cyber Threat Card Game Robotic Arm Top: Host of SciTech Now, Texas A&M University/ Zika Virus research San Antonio's EPIcenter event “Internet of Things” Chris Duel Scobee Education Center at San Antonio Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio/ new College technology for biomechanics Middle: UTSA Performance Lab UTSA Institute of Texan Cultures The University of The Incarnate Word/ The Solar Virtual Technology Human performance Lab at UTSA House Bottom: Scobee Planetarium UTSA | Cancer treatments NovoThelium nipple reconstruction Southwest Research Institute/ Computer EO2 Concepts/ treatment for chronic wounds technology to reduce pipeline incidents Southwest Research Institute NASA flyby video Women learning to Code San Antonio KSAT-12/ weather technology Atmospheric Water Generations Technology/ Brain Cells and Alzheimers Making Water From Air San Antonio College/ Planetarium Solar Eclipse San Antonio School for Inquiry and Creativity Reckon Point/ A robot for GPS tracking District Forecasting Hurricanes from space with satellites CAST Tech High School Technology to make buildings safer Future site of EPI Center building San Antonio Zoo UTSA/ SynDaver Labs Solar Eclipse Coverage Local Programming Texas Week with Rick Casey has highlighted local issues on KLRN for seven years, providing quality news and public affairs programming to South Texans. Host and Managing Editor Rick Casey has provided viewers with in-depth discussions on issues that include politics, the environment, education and more. Rick Casey has worked as a reporter, editor and columnist at news outlets across the country. The “Last Word” was the only long form television commentary available on a San Antonio television station. After 300+ episodes, this series ended on 9/30/17. PROGRAM TOPICS Black Woman, Beyonce and Culture Course Anne Dunkelbune on replacing Obama Care Top: Program Host, Rick Casey Pete Gallego and Congressman Will Hurd District Attorney Nico LaHood and Lawyer Race for Bexar County Sheriff Gerry Goldstein discuss marijuana bills Middle: County Commissioner, Jacquelyn Callanen, Bexar County Election Pros and Cons of $850 million bond package Tommy Calvert, discusses city issues Administrator Reporter Asher Price discusses border wall San Antonio Cancer Therapy & Research Center Congressman Joaquin Castro Bottom: Evan Smith, editor of affiliation with MD Anderson Cancer Center New “master plan” for Alamo Plaza The Texas Tribute and weekly November’s General Election Ana Sandoval, District 7 contributor to the program Mayor Ivy Taylor runs for re-election Brian Chasnoff, SA Express News San Antonio subject to massive flooding Manny Pelaez discusses his role as FBI RAICES efforts to assist refugees informant Councilman Ron Nirenberg: Mayoral Race Mayor Ron Nirenberg and Paula Gold-Williams, Manuel Medina: Mayoral Race CEO of CPS Energy NAFTA renegotiation affects South Texas Peter Elkind, author of The Death Shift Discussion of Senate Bill 3 Dynamics of the Legislature’s special session Texas Senate Bill re: sanctuary cities in Texas What lures immigrants to the United States? SAISD helps children cope with raids by ICE Maternal Morbidity Climate change portends an increase in severe weather Controversy over removal of confederate Jonah Wendt and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza monuments San Antonio helping military mass against Russian Border City Council Districts 9 & 10 discuss city budget Anne Dunkelbune on replacing Obama Care Discussion with UTSA students regarding DACA Carey Latimore, Trinity University Professor KLRN Local Programming Production Services The KLRN Production team provides uplink services, satellite Shari St. Clair Anchor of KLRN News Updates media tours, and KLRN highlights local issues on KLRN News Updates hosted by award- winning journalist, Shari St Clair. The one-minute News Updates provide live interviews for KLRN viewers with information on the issues that are important to our community. The Friday edition features an additional one-minute update on both local and local business news, hosted by Tony Quesada, Editor-In-Chief of the San Antonio Business Journal. The reports air in prime time Monday through national media Friday and are broadcast on KLRN’s two channels: KLRN HD/PBS and KLRN outlets such as World. Newscasts are also produced by students at the KLRN Studio on the ESPN,CNN, and campus of Texas A&M International University in Laredo, TX and posted online at www.klrn.org/news. MSNBC. KLRN Channels KLRN broadcasts 24 hours a day on 4 channels in South Central Texas. On April 1, 2017 the contract for Vme Spanish Language Public Television expired and was no longer being offered to PBS stations. KLRN now broadcasts a 24-hour PBS KIDS Channel. Local Programming Rhapsody on the Rio Grande The Rio Grande River divides two countries for 1,885 miles. Yet across the borders of the US and Mexico, the music flows as does the river. The documentary Rhapsody on the Rio Grande: A Confluence of Culture discusses the development of the Rio Grande Rhapsody, a newly composed work by Colin Campbell, and features the Sharkey Corrigan Organ. Viewers experience the marrying of music of two diverse cultures through the collaboration of the classical sound of the Laredo Philharmonic Orchestra with the richness of traditional mariachi music from Mariachi Nuevo Tecalitlán de Guadalajara. KLRN was nominated for a Lone Star Regional Chapter Emmy Award in the Topical Documentary category for their work on this project. Top: The Rhapsody on the Rio Grande performance was recorded on the campus of Texas A&M International University in The One That Got Away Laredo, TX. The One That Got Away was part of WNET’s Chasing the Dream: Middle: The streets of Laredo are alive with culture and were Poverty and Opportunity in America, a multi-platform public media captured in the Rhapsody on the initiative providing critical programming on poverty, income Rio Grande. equality, and opportunity. Bottom: Gordon Benjamin, Chairman of the Wheatley Community School Leadership KLRN held a screening of The One That Got Away at the Little Carver Council Civic Center and produced a 5-minute special that explains the work and goals of the Wheatley Community School in San Antonio. Eighty people attended the event. After the screening, a discussion was held focusing on how the community is coming together to increase educational outcomes for neighborhood students. Education Early Childhood Ready, Set, Grow! Since 2009, KLRN has presented Play & Learn, a free city-wide, mobile child/caregiver school readiness program, reaching families with children birth to age five. Families receive free books and take-home activities each week. This year, KLRN presented over 70 early childhood activities; over 1,750 adults and children in their care attended the Play & Learn program. KLRN hosted three series of activities for active duty military, transitioning military and veteran families. Funding is provided by the Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation, The Boeing Company, United Way of San Antonio & Bexar County, and the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. Bright By Text - On May 1st, KLRN was one of seven PBS pilot stations to launch Bright By Text. It is a parent and caregiver messaging program; subscribers receive text messages with tips Top: Over 1,750 adults and and resources promoting child development activities targeted to a children attended Play & Learn sessions. child’s age from birth to five years old. Messages are delivered in Middle: Families receive free English or in Spanish. Since the launch, 447 people have books and take-home activities subscribed. Funding is provided by the Corporation for Public each week.