The Award-Winning Close-UpJuly/August 2011 • Vol. 26 #4 • www.wcte.org Public Television from the Upper Cumberland Staff & Contents Management PUBLIC TELEVISION FROM THE UPPER CUMBERLAND (931) 528-2222 or (800) 282-9283 Becky Magura Craig LeFevre 4 Thank You for 29 Great TV Auctions President & CEO Master Control Operator Volunteers, donors, sponsors and our Reggie Brown Avery Owens Educational Outreach Associate Sales Manager dedicated staff pull together to give us Amanda Collier Cindy Putman Producer/Director another successful TV Auction. Educational Outreach Associate Janet Cooper 5 Traffi c/Broadcast Engineer Darla Runge Assistant to the CEO 5 The Art of the Greatest Erica Duarte Show on Earth Live Green Project Manager Jamie Trevathan Producer/Director Local artists share their talents with Mark Dudney Government Relations Cathy Walden WCTE in support of its annual auction. Sue Gibbons Account Executive Programming & Traffi c Ralph Welch Craig Gray WCTE’s Website Facelift Chief Broadcast Engineer 6 Producer/Director Rick Wells Learn more about www.wcte.org’s new look Sonja Higgenbotham Production Manager and what it means for our viewers. Membership Manager 6 Joyce Hunter-Green Suzanne Whitehead Auction & Event Coordinator Major Gifts Offi cer Getting to Know You 7 Randall Jackson Jim Winters Meet WCTE’s new Membership Manager Broadcast Engineer Broadcast Engineer Sonja Higgenbotham and new Sales Manager Avery Owens. Upper Cumberland Broadcast Council 8 Spotlight On Dr. Max Atnip, Chair Joe Albrecht 8 Ramola Drost Mickie Akenson, Marc L. Burnett Immediate Past Chair John Cain Lillian Hartgrove, Vice Chair Mona Copeland Jere Hargrove Dr. Scott Little, Secretary Morris Irby Dr. Jack Matson, Treasurer Dr. Wali R. Kharif Becky Magura, WCTE Pres. & CEO Pat Quillen On our cover Dr. Kathleen Airhart Alan Tatum The Faces of MASTERPIECE Community As the longest-running primetime drama on American television, MASTERPIECE celebrates its 40th- Advisory Board anniversary season, bringing viewers the best in literature-based drama, mysteries, and groundbreaking Dr. Steve Copeland, DVM Dr. Carl Owens contemporary works. You can watch this multi-award Diana Baranowski Jack Barton Kelly Swallows Nina Lunn winning series Sundays at 8pm on WCTE. See story on page 22. Close-Up Public Television from the Upper Cumberland HalHlLH L. Harder d - ManagingM i Editor Edit [email protected] Program guides WCTE Close-Up is designed and produced by CommonSense Media Group for WCTE-TV. 9 Daytime Programming Contact Dean Hutson at 931-528-5200 Ready to Learn and weekend guide or email [email protected] for advertising rates and information. WCTE Close-Up is published bi-monthly. It is mailed to individuals, 10 Primetime Programming corporations and foundations who contribute $35 or more to WCTE. Quality PBS evening programs Third class postage at Cookeville, Tennessee. Phone: 931-528-2222. 1133 Schedule is subject to change without notice. Send address changes to WCTE, P.O. Box 2040, Cookeville, Tennessee 38502. Check out the schedule on the website at www.wcte.org. 2 | WCTE Close-Up July/August 2011 | 3 Thank You for 29 Great TV Auctions Becky Magura, President & CEO of WCTE wenty-nine years ago the Great TV Auction and our donors. It is a tremendous amount of work, but it came into being and I am happy to see raises important funds that go back into our region through that it is still alive and well even in today’s local productions, events and educational outreach. economically strained and technically I want to say a special thank you to the WCTE staff for sophisticated climate. The WCTE staff with their hard work during these two weeks. Joyce Hunter-Green Tthe help of generous donors, bidders, buyers and volunteers keeps everything under control as Auction Manager, and Jamie raised over $93,000 for public broadcasting here in the Upper Trevathan took us to the “Greatest Show on Earth” as Auction Cumberland. That is money that will assist us in creating Producer. There were many others including the hundreds of local programming that you have come to love and expect. volunteers who gave of their time before, during and after the That fi rst auction was only 3 days and raised a fraction of the auction. We couldn’t do it without them or you, as a buyer money it does today, but it was an important beginning. or donor. Thank you for 29 Great TV Auctions and for your At that time, I called on friends, neighbors and businesses continuous support of WCTE, the Upper Cumberland’s that I grew up with to help us achieve what seemed like an Public Television Station. impossible quest. We are still doing the same, but now I have a lot of help and a lot of new faces and places to call on. As I was walking into the Cookeville Performing Arts Center after the auction was over to see how things were progressing in the tear down, a buyer came in to pick up an item and said how addictive the auction was and how much he hated it was over. What an incredible compliment to our staff, our volunteers, 4 | WCTE Close-Up behind the scenes The Panels on the Great TV Auction Set Local artist Arlene Dubo designed spectacular pieces of art that were perfect for “The Greatest Show on Earth.” The T-Shirt rtist Arlene Dubo does volunteers are running around the set. not like heights. Not one The top third is the most visible - and the bit. So when she had to hardest for me to reach.” climb a ladder to paint “I also need to enhance the imagery 10 colorful, circus- so it can be seen from a great distance. Athemed 92” x 20” panels that fl anked For this, I consulted my artist friend the auction boards at this year’s “Greatest Lynne Looney, who has 30 years of Show On Earth TV Auction,” she was a experience painting large signs and theater little nervous. backdrops.” “It was scary,” said Arlene. “Especially Arlene runs Art a la Carte, a gallery in when I was wrapped up in the painting the heart of Cookeville’s West Side that process and automatically tried to step provides a showcase for over 40 renowned back to have a look. I had to catch myself and emerging local artists. If you want the Local illustrator and cartoonist, Matt a few times.” opportunity to appreciate or purchase local Kneiling, designed this year’s Greatest The challenge of painting panels for the Show On Earth TV Auction t-shirt. TV Auction is not a new experience for art, you can fi nd the gallery at 121 W. You can fi nd more of Matt’s art at www. Arlene, who also created the panels for last Broad Street, right across from the Depot. inanimateshorts.com , or go ahead and “like” him on his Art Facebook page at year’s Live Green themed TV Auction. You can fi nd out more about the www.tinyurl.com/mattartfb . “I have to keep in mind what part of talented and versatile Arlene Dubo at: the panels will be seen when the auction arlenedubostudio.com. July/August 2011 | 5 behind the scenes WCTE’s Website Facelift www.wcte.org Over the last few months, WCTE has partnered with PBS using the WCTE site as a gateway, TTU’s Business Media Center to give our website a the station receives a small portion of the facelift. So what’s in it for you? proceeds. 1. Do you want to know Check out the rotating stories on the home There’s so much more. Find out about WCTE’s initiatives like the Live Green & what’s on? page – check back, it is always changing. Prosper Initiative and get live green tips. You can fi nd a TV schedule for the programs Check out the Komen Reach Project, enter on all 3 of our channels. If you want details 4. Do you want to watch contests, read Becky’s Blog. Download this on the show, click on the show title. local programs you’ve magazine. You can even make a donation missed? and become a member. 2. Do you have a community The site contains an archive of programs, Or join our Facebook page from the event you want to promote from Jammin’ at Hippie Jack’s to the website. As the site’s original creator, Mark or do you want to see what’s Tennessee Sportsman and more. going on in the community? Shuart (infi nityforward.com), said, “Social The WCTE website contains a community 5. Do you want to networks like Facebook have enabled a new events calendar where you can make go shopping for PBS level of engagement with the community submissions or just see what’s happening. products? that goes beyond the TV screen.” Do you know a PBS fan that would Which means that you can receive the 3. Do you want local appreciate a DVD series or program? For latest news from WCTE AND let the station program and entertainment every gift or DVD you purchase from know your thoughts about the programs we news? present. 6 | WCTE Close-Up new faces Sonja Higgenbotham MembershipM Manager Growing up in the area and being the child of educators, I remember watching WCTE as a child. Sesame Street and Electric Company were my favorites. Since then, I have passed the torch as a mother and turned on The TTU Business Media Center team that are working on the WCTE website. L-R Manager Michael Aikens, WCTE for my own child. intern Mack Lunn, intern Kallie Haley and Director Kevin Liska I earned my Bachelors Degree in English and Communications in 2010 from TTU and began working with WCTE in November as a Sales Assistant.