January 2010 AETN Magazine
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Magazine January 2010 SUNDAYS AT 9 PM JAN. 24, JAN. 31, FEB. 7 This Emotional Life Premieres January 4-6 at 8 pm Arkansas Educational Television Network AETN Mission Contents AETN MAGAZINE Staff The AETN Foundation is proud Statement On The Cover . 2 Editor in Chief The mission of the Arkansas Special Events . 3 Allen Weatherly Educational Television Network to bring you two exclusive Letter from AETN Director . 4 Editors (AETN) is to offer lifelong Profile: Dr. William Downs, Jr. 5 Mona Dixon learning opportunities to all ticketed special events in 2010! Arkansans; to supply instructional Community Cinema Calendar . 6 Editorial & Creative Directors Sara Willis programs to Arkansas' schools; Finding AETN’s Create & Scholar Elizabeth duBignon to provide programming and Channels . 7 services to improve and enhance Editorial Panel January’s Highlights . 8-11 Shirley Bowen, the lives of Arkansas' citizens; Daytime Listings . 12-13 Rowena Parr, Darbi Blencowe and to illuminate the culture and Pam Wilson, Tiffany Verkler heritage of Arkansas and the Primetime Listings . 14-23 Copy Editors world. To accomplish this mission, Weekends . 24-25 Darbi Blencowe, Catherine Mays, AETN, through the creative use of Education . 26-27 Karen Cooper, Pat Pearce telecommunications, will present Production . 28 AETN Offices a high-quality public television Celtic Thunder . 29 350 S. Donaghey Ave. - Conway, AR - service designed to inform, 72034 educate, motivate, entertain, Thank You Volunteers . 29 800/662-2386 enlighten and inspire. Sharon Heflin . 30 [email protected] - www.aetn.org Celtic Woman: Songs From The Heart Tour live Wednesday, April 28, 2010 at the Underwriters . 31 Robinson Center Music Hall in Little Rock, Arkansas. The AETN Foundation Coming in February . 32 welcomes Celtic Woman back to Arkansas for an exclusive event for Friends of AETN. Violinist Mairead will return along with vocalists Chloe, Lisa, Alex and Your support makes a difference! 1-800-662-2386 Lynn for an exciting concert featuring your Celtic Woman favorites and many brand new tunes. Available seats include $150 VIP (First 10 rows next to the stage), $100 Orchestra, $60 Mezzanine, $40 Balcony. Tickets are available by calling 1-800-662- On The Cover... 2386 or online at www.aetn.org. MASTERPIECE™ “EMMA” Dr. Daniel Amen, live at AETN’s Studios Sundays, beginning Jan. 24, 9 pm Dr. Daniel Amen will join us, Saturday, June 5, 2010 A fiercely funny four-hour adaptation of at the the AETN Studios in Conway, Arkansas to speak Jane Austen’s delightful love story stars Romola Garai (Atonement) as a young woman whose attempts to play about his latest book, Change Your Brain, Change Cupid go disastrously awry. Rich, beautiful and hopelessly self-deluded, Emma Woodhouse can’t help meddling in Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get and Keep the Body the romantic life of others while neglecting her own. Jonny Lee Miller (“Endgame,” “Eli Stone”) stars as Emma’s You Have Always Wanted, in which ways to boost your stalwart friend, Mr. Knightley, with Michael Gambon (“Cranford,” Harry Potter) as her doom-obsessed father. brain to improve your weight, skin, heart, energy, and focus are discussed. Dr. Amen is a physician, child and THIS EMOTIONAL LIFE adult psychiatrist, brain imaging specialist, bestselling Monday-Wednesday, Jan. 4-6, 8 pm author, Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric This three-part series explores ways to improve social relationships, Association and the CEO and medical director of Amen learn to cope with depression and anxiety and become more Clinics, Inc. in Newport Beach and Fairfield, California, positive, resilient individuals. The series host, Harvard psychologist Tacoma, Washington and Reston, Virginia. Dr. Amen is and best-selling author of Stumbling on Happiness, Professor an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Daniel Gilbert, talks with experts about the latest science on what Behavior at the University of California, Irvine School makes us “tick” and how we can find support for the emotional issues we all face. Each episode weaves the compel- of Medicine, where he teaches medical students and ling personal stories of ordinary people and the latest scientific research, along with revealing comments from psychiatric residents about using brain imaging in clinical celebrities such as Chevy Chase, Larry David, Alanis Morissette, Robert Kennedy Jr. and Richard Gere. practice. Tickets are $40 and are available by calling 1-800-662-2386 or online at www.aetn.org. 2 Arkansas Educational Television Network Arkansas Educational Television Network 3 Dear Viewers, Contact AETN AETN EXECUTIVE AETN COMMISSION AETN recognized its outstanding employees and productions for 2009 at its Annual Awards Banquet. Some Answers DIRECTOR Chair What are AETN and PBS doing to compete in the new Allen Weatherly Sammie Benjamin of Glenwood Each year, the entire staff of Employee of the Year: Sandra Production of the Year Managers’ Award: AETN State AETN and the AETN Foundation Sherman, Finance Division – General Audience and National Parks Initiative, media marketplace where viewers want to see content Programming Vice Chair vote for the outstanding Programming: Exploring AETN Production, Marketing & when, where and how they want? originates at the Ronnie Williams of Menifee AETN and PBS are doing a lot. Check out the new online R. Lee Reaves Center employees for the year as well Rookie of the Year: Karen Arkansas: Arkansas’s National Outreach, Programming and video player featured on AETN’s Web site to stream f o r E d u c a t i o n a l Secretary/Treasurer as Productions of significance. Chrisco, Education Division Parks Education Divisions. Telecommunications at Sandy Landers of Little Rock episodes of most PBS shows. Early this year you will also be able to stream more Donaghey Avenue & Congratulations to the and more locally produced AETN programs on the same video player. AETN also Sesame Street, Dr. William Downs, Jr. of following: Gene Goss Life Service Award: Production of the Year – has hundreds of clips available on the aetntv and PBS YouTube channel. Conway, AR 72034. Arkadelphia Kathy Atkinson, Programming Educational Programming: Questions and Don Hale of El Dorado Division Dream comments are Jane Krutz of Little Rock What determines success for individual programs? encouraged. Billie Sue Hoggard of Jonesboro Ratings are one consideration, but so are a number of other factors, including Viewers may reach Mary Beth Green of Van Buren the artistic merit of the programming we broadcast. For AETN, one of the most AETN at: Dr. William Downs, Jr. AETN Commissioner 1-800-662-AETN AETN Foundation Board important metrics is the impact our content has on our viewers. The impact of 1-800-662-2386 AETN’s outreach around the Ken Burns’ series ”The War” and “The National 501-682-AETN Chair For 11 years, Dr. Bill Downs has Arkansas Press Association; and received several awards from Dan Farley of Little Rock Parks: America’s Best Idea” are just two examples. We are preserving nearly 600 501-450-1-PBS proudly served on the Arkansas Columbia Scholastic Press Association in New York City, includ- Fax: 501-852-2280 oral histories of Arkansas World War II veterans, and AETN’s free parks Passport Vice Chair Educational Television Network ing the Gold Key award and Gold and Silver Crown awards General E-mail: Commission. as the former adviser of the Ouachitonian yearbook and the Program has been a popular way to encourage Arkansans to visit national and [email protected] Sandra Garland of state parks around our state. Public Affairs e-mail: Harrison James Frederick Paschal Award. [email protected] Since 1966, Downs has worked We continue to help promote lifelong learning for Arkansans of all ages and to Secretary/Treasurer Outdoor Programs: at Ouachita Baptist University Downs is a 1949 graduate of Batesville High School, holds assist teachers and students throughout the state. Beyond formal instruction, [email protected] Steven Jones of Marion professional development opportunities and programs like NOVA that strengthen where he has guided the Mass a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Journalism from the Philip Hathcock of Maumelle teaching in many classrooms, we note one truism: every program on television, Membership hotline: Communications Department University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and Master of Arts and 501-682-4120 Dr. Linda Beene Ballard of Bismarck from courses focused on print Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the University of Missouri whether public, not-for-profit or commercial teaches something. The question is Viewer response line: Kay Bland of Paragould what does it teach? 501-682-4198 Lavenia Craig of El Dorado media to a diversified program at Columbia. He is also the author of “The Fighting Tigers: Education: Dr. Andrew Fulkerson of Paragould that now includes journalism, advertising, public relations, the Untold Stories Behind the Names on the Ouachita Baptist 1-800-488-6689 Don Hale of El Dorado When AETN goes into a fundraising period, why do you often present differ- telecommunications and new media, with a heavy emphasis University WWII Memorial” (University of Arkansas Press/ [email protected] Philip Kaplan of Little Rock on writing skills. Downs now serves as Chairman of OBU’s Phoenix International, 2004). ent material from the regular fare? AETN online: Bill Valentine of Little Rock It's true that some of the programming we air during pledge drives is different www.aetn.org Allen Weatherly of Conway Mass Communication Department. Downs was first appointed to the commission in 1998 and has from our core schedule because it's meant to serve a different purpose. Pledge Kirby Williams of Hot Springs served as both chair and vice-chair. programs exist to encourage people to act to make that call to their station and Downs’ commitment to education is one reason why being “I hope people gain from AETN a deeper sense of pride in support local public television.