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3 - CEO Message 6 - TV Listings 18 - Ways to Give 4 - Cover Story 10 - Evening Grid 17 - Daytime Grid PROGRAM GUIDE JANUARY 2020 VOL. 39 NO. 1 Courtesy of © Tim Burgess THE WHALE DETECTIVE Tom Mustill PAGE 4 Wildlife Filmmaker Courtesy of © Michele Hall | JANUARY 2020 Weekday Programming Changes After 40 years, Nightly Business Report, BOARD OF DIRECTORS TV’s longest-running business program, Chair ceased production on December 27, 2019. Joanne Lo Grimes Now, you’ll see NHK Newsline on PBS Hawai‘i Vice Chair at 5:00 pm weekdays, with its team of Bettina Mehnert trusted anchors delivering the latest live Secretary news from Japan, Asia and the rest of the Joy Miura Koerte world, followed at 5:30 pm by additional Courtesy of NHK Treasurer NHK World-Japan programming. See page 17 Kent Tsukamoto for the schedule. Muriel Anderson Susan Bendon Jodi Endo Chai James E. Duffy Jr. Matthew Emerson Jake Fergus Jason Fujimoto AT IMPACT HUB Jason Haruki Ian Kitajima HONOLULU Noelani Kalipi Kamani Kuala‘au Theresia McMurdo Ryan Kaipo Nobriga Aaron Salā Ka‘iulani Sodaro Bruce Voss Kūha‘o Zane MANAGEMENT President and CEO Leslie Wilcox Senior Vice President/CFO Karen Yamamoto Vice President, Content Indie Lens Pop-Up is a neighborhood the work that they are currently Chuck Parker series that brings people together doing in our communities to create Vice President, Advancement for free film screenings and change. Christina Sumida community-driven conversations. The film was the first in a series Vice President, Communications Jody Shiroma We kicked off this season’s of screenings that we will be hosting Indie Lens Pop-Up at Impact Hub through May 2020 in partnership Director, Learning Initiatives Honolulu in the Kaka‘ako neighborhood with Hawai‘i People’s Fund at Impact Robert Pennybacker last month with a screening of Hub Honolulu. Chief Engineer The First Rainbow Coalition (the John Nakahira Independent Lens film premieres on Follow PBS Hawai‘i on social PBS Hawai‘i on Monday, January 27 media to learn more about future PROGRAM GUIDE Indie Lens Pop-up screenings. at 10:00 pm). After the screening, Editor and Chief Programmer about 35 attendees shared their John Kovacich thoughts on the film and spoke of Graphic Artist Randall Choo pbshawaii.org 2 CEO MESSAGE Leslie Wilcox PBS Hawai‘i President and CEO Another “Highest Possible” Four-Star Rating from Charity Navigator! I sometimes feel like Forrest Gump strategic decisions. I share the four-star when I open my office mail. It’s like a news with you, because it is our box of chocolates. You never know wonderful donors and supporters what you’re going to get. who placed PBS Hawai‘i in this solid “Only 32% of the charities position. Thank you! We’re mindful Look inside and there may be notice we evaluate have that you voluntarily give to support of a snag in funding, a delay in expected our programming and services, and tech equipment, or a demand for the received at least 2 it fills the heart. retraction of a statement made on a consecutive 4-star television program not even carried Our Board of Directors and Staff by this station. take nothing for granted. After all, evaluations, indicating each year brings to most nonprofit The other day, opening the mail was organizations headwinds of some that PBS Hawai‘i all joy – like finding a dark chocolate kind – whether they be economic, truffle, my favorite. Among the notes, programmatic, legal or political. outperforms most other viewer P.F. hand-wrote: “You have the best television programming in As PBS Hawai‘i greets the new year, charities in America.” Hawai‘i … Keep up the excellent we savor this moment in time, and feel work!” Viewer G.H. wrote, “You profoundly grateful for our fellow Michael Thatcher rocked my world with that NOVA Islanders and others who uphold President and CEO special!” us, as we uphold our non-profit, non-partisan mission. And the sweetest chocolate of all in the mailbag: a formal letter from And it’s a mission that’s better than the head of the data-driven national the biggest emporium of the finest nonprofit analyst Charity Navigator, chocolates. informing us that we’d once again attained the best overall score It speaks to building community possible – four out of four stars. and a stronger democracy. With your backing, we convene diverse voices, The company’s President and CEO, and share learning and discovery Michael Thatcher, let us know that through storytelling that profoundly the company had assessed our touches lives. financial health as strong. And we scored a perfect 100% rating in May your 2020 be full of health and accountability and transparency. happiness, Great news! It’s truly important to us to steward operations and funding, and to make forward-thinking, 3 COVER STORY How can you get that close to something that big with that much power and not die? Tom Mustill Wildlife Filmmaker Courtesy of © Michael Sack Sanctuary Cruises The moment a humpback whale breached near wildlife filmmaker Tom Mustill and his friend Charlotte Kinloch. Imagine sitting in a kayak at sea, looking up, and seeing approximately 60,000 pounds of whale coming THE at you. Amazingly, the kayakers – wildlife filmmaker Tom Mustill and his friend Charlotte Kinloch – lived to tell the tale. And it became Mustill’s mission to WHALE understand why the traumatic incident took place. It happened in 2015. A 30-ton humpback whale breached in Monterey Bay, California, and just missed DETECTIVE landing on the duo in the kayak. Viral videos recorded by witnesses left Mustill By Jody Shiroma, PBS Hawai‘i questioning whether the whale was deliberately trying to cause harm – or trying not to. THE WHALE DETECTIVE Wednesday, January 8, 8:00 pm pbshawaii.org Courtesy of © Michael Sack Sanctuary Cruises 4 Here in Hawai‘i, we know that whales were considered by Native Hawaiians to be sacred. Called koholā, the whales were believed to be the majestic animal form of the Hawaiian ocean god Kanaloa. Ali‘i wore necklaces adorned with whale teeth and bone. Courtesy of © Michael Sack Sanctuary Cruises There are locations around the Islands associated with whales, including Pu‘ukoholā Heiau located in Filmmaker Tom Mustill (in water) and Charlotte Kinloch (far right) Kawaihae, Hawai‘i Island; northwest Kaho‘olawe; holding onto other whale watchers’ kayak after surviving the whale breaching near them. Palaoa Hill, Lāna‘i; and Olowalu, Maui. Noteworthy Facts: • Humpback whales have no teeth. They can barely Mustill met with scientists, a whale expert, a whale nibble you, let alone swallow you. Their throats tracker, a group dedicated to disentangling whales are only slightly larger than a human throat. from fishing gear debris and individuals who survived similar close encounters with whales. He chronicles • Inside a humpback’s pectoral fins are the biggest his inquiry in NATURE: The Whale Detective, arms on the planet. premiering on PBS Hawai‘i on Wednesday, January 8 • Over the past 40 years, the number of North Pacific at 8:00 pm. humpbacks has increased from 1,000 to nearly Mustill found that though we’ve observed the ways 23,000, with as many as 14,000 migrating to that whales splash – tail throw, tail slap, chin slap, Hawai‘i each winter. pec slap and breach – we don’t know what prompts • Historically, humpbacks travel more than 3,000 these behaviors. While his investigation enabled miles from the Gulf of Alaska to Hawai‘i, and may him to come up with a plausible reason for why the be seen in Hawaiian waters from November whale breached so close to him and Kinloch, it is only through May. Peak sightings are generally from a theory. January to March. But Mustill’s search did uncover interesting observations and discoveries about whales and greater questions about humans’ relationship with whales and their future. Susan Scott Tuesday, January 7, 7:30 pm Interested in learning more about the ocean? Tune in for an encore presentation of Long Story Short with Leslie Wilcox as she visits with author Susan Scott about her discoveries living on and near the ocean and how that led to her penning several books about Hawai‘i’s wildlife and a regular newspaper column, Ocean Watch. 5 | JANUARY 2020 PRIMETIME & WEEKEND LISTING Courtesy Benedikt Dinkhauser of SCHEDULE PBS Hawai‘i is on the air 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Viewers with cable service and high- definition (HD) TVs may watch PBS Hawai‘i in high-definition on Spectrum Channel 1010 or Hawaiian Telcom Channel 1011. Over-the-Air Broadcast Channels (KHET) Channel 11.1 - 11.2 - 11.3 (KMEB) Channel 10.1 - 10.2 - 10.3 Spectrum Basic Cable: Channel 10 HD: Channel 1010 PBS KIDS 24/7: Channel 443 Hawaiian Telcom Basic Cable: Channel 11 HD: Channel 1011 PBS KIDS 24/7: Channel 96 GREAT PERFORMANCES From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2020 Wednesday, January 1, 7:30 pm All programs have closed-captioning. Ring in 2020 with Vienna Philharmonic performing at the Musikverein. When possible, encore broadcasts will be indicated by (e). Programming to be determined will be indicated by TBD. Schedule is subject to change. 1 WEDNESDAY 3:00 ANTIQUES ROADSHOW St. Louis, 7:30 GREAT PERFORMANCES Hour Two (e) Questions about programming changes? From Vienna: The New Year’s Please call PBS Hawai‘i toll free: Celebration 2020 Ring in 2020 2 THURSDAY 800.238.4847 with the Vienna Philharmonic at 7:30 HIKI NŌ (e) For more program information and the the Musikverein. Under the baton 8:00 PACIFIC HEARTBEAT Leitis in latest schedules, visit pbshawaii.org of guest conductor Andris Nelsons Waiting (e) and featuring the Vienna City Ballet, 9:00 AMERICAN MASTERS PBS Hawai‘i magazine (ISSN: 1946-0813) is published monthly the orchestra plays the waltzes of by the Hawai‘i Public Television Foundation, dba PBS Hawai‘i.