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program guide www.kwbu.org OctoberJuly 2008 2005 Understand your world Brazos Valley Public Broadcasting Foundation • One Bear Place #97296 • Waco, Texas 76798-7296 VOlume 12, Issue 4 KWBU’S MISSION KWBU STAFF Clare Paul, Interim General Manager KWBu shall serve as an essential lifelong resource providing quality public television Brodie Bashaw, KWBU-FM Station Manager and radio programs and services for the enrichment of the lives of Central Texans. Carla Hervey, Business Affairs Manager Glenda Moss, Business Manager WHAt’S INSIDE Joani Livingston, Production Supervisor KWBu-TV Highlights .............................................................................. 2 Jessica Denk, Senior Producer KWBu-TV Prime Time schedule ................................................................ 5 Zack Morris, Chief Photographer KWBu-TV Daytime schedule .................................................................... 9 Robert Shiekh, Senior Producer – Inside Baylor Sports KWBu-TV Overnight schedule .................................................................10 Kyle Lewis, Producer - Inside Baylor Sports KWBu-DT schedule .............................................................................. 11 Tony Poole, Chief Engineer KWBu Create schedule .........................................................................12 Lee Govatos, KWBU-TV Operations Manager KWBu underwriters .............................................................................13 Roxie Collier, Coordinator of Education and Outreach KWBu-Fm Highlights .............................................................................14 Derek Smith, KWBU-FM News & Public Affairs KWBu-Fm Program schedule ...................................................................16 Director KWBu-Fm HD Radio schedule ..................................................................17 Ashley Kortis, Director of Corporate Support KWBu Cornerstone society ....................................................................18 Jaclyn Willbanks, Engineering Assistant Hal Pledger, Receptionist WHERE TO WATCH KWBU-TV Loretta Howard, Membership Manager Gatesville ............................................................................. Cox Cable 4 Kosse ........................................................................... Charter Comm. 95 ADVIsoRY CouNCIL MEmbERS: little River Academy ..................................................................Centrovision 8 Phil Adkins David Hyers lorena ............................................................................. Time Warner 4 Ann Claire Anderson Kathy Krakowian marlin ......................................................................... Northland Cable 13 David Brennan Kurt Krakowian meridian ....................................................................... Charter Comm. 95 Sam Brown Ben Lacy moody............................................................................... Centrovision 8 Carol Dugat Chad Latino morgan’s Point ..................................................................... Centrovision 8 Felicia Goodman Susan Taylor Riesel ....................................................................Cabletex systems, Inc 9 Taylor Hobbs John Ucci Rogers .............................................................................. Centrovision 8 Rosebud ............................................................................. DMS Cable 39 salado .............................................................................. Centrovision 8 Temple ............................................................................. Centrovision 8 Temple/Killeen .................................................................. Time Warner 18 Troy ................................................................................. Centrovision 8 Valley mills ........................................................................ Rapid Cable 95 BRAZos VALLEY PubLIC BROADCASTING Waco ............................................................................. Grande Comm. 4 FouNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Waco ............................................................................... Time Warner 4 Dr. Charles S. Madden, Chairman KWBu is also available on uHF 34, Dish Network 34, and DirecTV 34. Dr. Corey Carbonara, Vice-Chairman Patricia A. Wilson, Secretary Phil Adkins Martha Lacy Howe For a complete listing of KWBu’s digital channels and numbers, John Barry Cynthia Jackson please see page 3. David Garland Dr. Michael F. Korpi Sue Getterman Kathryn Logue QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? Nell Hawkins Kris Kaiser Olson Mike Hernandez Bernard Rapoport (254) 710-3472 KWBu-TV or KWBu-Fm One Bear Place #97296 BRAZos VALLEY PubLIC BROADCASTING Waco, Texas 76798-7296 FouNDATION OFFICERS: [email protected] Billie A. Gilbert, Corporate Secretary www.kwbu.org The KWBu Program Guide is a monthly publication. member services Hotline • (254) 710-7882 or 1-800-898-3710 Kwbu is a service of our members, the Brazos Valley KWBu-TV Programming Information • (254) 710-7884 Public Broadcasting Foundation and Baylor University. KWBu-TV membership Information • (254) 710-7887 PBs Video • 1-800-PlAYPBs Brazos Valley Public Broadcasting Foundation • One Bear Place #97296 • Waco, Texas 76798-7296 KWBU-TV Highlights Frontline: The Choice 2008 Premieres Tuesday, October 14 at 8:00 p.m. t has been called one of the made and why their nominations may most historic presidential elec- indicate a historic change in American tions in our nation’s history politics. — Barack Obama versus John The story begins at the Democratic IMcCain. It is a race that pits the Convention in 2004 when Barack iconoclast against the newcomer, the Obama, a little-known candidate for heroic prisoner of war against the the U.S. Senate from Illinois, stepped John mcCain first African American nominated by forward to tell his personal story and a major party. FRONTLINE’s criti- CRedit: JAson ReeD/Corbis to call for a move beyond partisan cally acclaimed series “The Choice” politics. returns this election season to ex- amine the rich personal and politi- Also that summer, the future cal biographies of these two men in Republican nominee John McCain, a “The Choice 2008,” airing Tuesday, self-described maverick and sometime October 14, 2008, 8:00-10:00 p.m. on adversary of the Bush administration, K W BU-T V. took the stage at his party’s convention to defend the president’s national “The Choice 2008,” part of “PBS Vote security policy. In an effort to win 2008” election coverage, draws on in- the support of his party, the longtime depth interviews with the advisers, senator from Arizona had decided to family and friends closest to these try to walk a fine line — a line he’d had Barack Obama unlikely candidates, as well as with trouble walking all his life — between CRedit: ScouT Tufankjian / POlaris seasoned observers of American being an unconventional outsider and p o l i t i c s , w h o t o g e t h e r t e l l t h e d e f i n i t i v e a team player. story of these men and their ascent to FRONTLINE follows the two their party’s nominations. candidates from deep inside their When FRONTLINE first aired a profile campaigns as they run the gauntlet of presidential candidates during the of the 2008 primary. With the race 1988 election, “The Choice” redefined narrowed to two men America is political journalism on television. truly at a crossroads: historic lows Now, in an unprecedented election in the public’s confidence in our year, veteran FRONTLINE producer country’s future; a battered incumbent Michael Kirk goes behind the headlines overseeing an unpopular war in Iraq; to tell a deeper political story about a faltering economy as gasoline prices the candidates, the decisions they soar. Also this month: LOMAX: THE HOUND OF MUSIC LATINOS ‘08 GREAT PERFORMANCES: Carnegie saturdays at 9:00 a.m. starting October 11 Wednesday, October 8 at 8:00 p.m. Hall Opening Night 2008 using a research-based music curriculum, lATINOs ‘08 examines the 2008 election Wednesday, October 29 at 8:00 p.m. lOmAX: THe HOuND OF MUSIC is a new through the prism of ethnic politics. Pictured: children’s series featuring lomax, a melody- leslie sanchez – 2008 election coverage. michael Tilson Thomas leads the san Francisco symphony in an all-Bernstein program marking obsessed puppet pooch (pictured, left); his CRedit: ClAudio Rocha the composer’s 90th birthday. blues-singing feline sidekick Delta (right); and their human companion Amy (Amy miles, CRedit: Terrence McCarthy center) traveling by train to discover our nation’s diverse musical heritage. CRedit: TOm Beck KWBU PROGRAM GuIDE 2 Masterpiece Theatre: The Last Enemy Sundays, October 5 - 26 and November 2 at 8:00 p.m. A mathematical genius takes a wild ride through the boundless Dynamic British actor paranoia of a surveillance society on “The Last Enemy,” a five- Matthew Goode part thriller set in England in the not-too-distant future. Scripted (pictured) has been by award-winning writer Peter Berry (“Prime Suspect 6: The picked to host the Last Witness”), “The Last Enemy” launches the first season of premiere season of MASTERPIECE CONTEMPORARY. The series airs Sundays, M A S T E R P I E C E October 5, 2008, 8:00-9:30 p.m. and October 12-November 2, 2008, CONTEMPORARY on 8:00-9:00 p.m. on KWBU-TV. PBS. Biometric ID cards, ubiquitous security cameras and “Total Goode, who recently Information Awareness,” a program to give authorities unlimited starred in the feature access to personal data, have turned Britain into a virtual