PBS Newshour Length: 60 Minutes Airdate: 1/3/2011 6:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: News Segment Length: 00:09:05
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
January 2011 PBS Quarterly Program Topic Report Category: Aging NOLA: MLNH 009933 Series Title: PBS NewsHour Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 1/3/2011 6:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: News Segment Length: 00:09:05 U.S. Faces 'Explosion of Senior Citizens': Will Baby Boomers Strain Economy? In 2011 the first of 79 million Americans born between the end of World War II and the mid-1960s will turn 65, swelling the ranks of Medicare and Social Security recipients. Judy Woodruff looks at the implications with Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute and Ted Fishman, author of "Shock of Gray." Category: Aging NOLA: NBRT 030133 Series Title: Nightly Business Report Length: 30 minutes Airdate: 1/5/2011 5:30:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Magazine Segment Length: 00:00:00 Retirement and the Golden Years; 2011 Earnings Season Preview; 2011 Job Outlook from John Challenger of Challenger , Gray and Christmas; The 112th Congress is in Place; New Dividend Plays for 2011; Market Focus with Tom Hudson; Market Stats for January 5, 2011. Category: Aging NOLA: NBRT 030143 Series Title: Nightly Business Report Length: 30 minutes Airdate: 1/19/2011 5:30:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Magazine Segment Length: 00:00:00 Nightly Business Report's year-long Money Profiles series presents the stories of 12 people who each now struggling to resolve a major financial problem. They tell their tales to us, so we can learn from their troubles and become better managers of our own money. You probably have a college savings plan, a career plan and a retirement plan. But most Americans ignore what could be their most important plan: how to grow old with dignity and grace in their own homes. In tonight`s "Money Profiles" segment, Benno Schmidt shows how some costs of aging can be offset with good planning and fine tuning. Category: Aging NOLA: NETK 000138 Series Title: Need to Know Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 1/28/2011 7:30:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Magazine Segment Length: 00:00:00 This week, Need to Know correspondent Maria Hinojosa reports on the difficulties faced by older Americans living in car-dependent suburbs. Also, on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the Congo‘s first democratically elected leader, our co-host Alison Stewart interviews author Adam Hochschild on the troubled history of the nation. Is another ―New Deal‖ possible in today‘s political environment? Jon Meacham sits down with historian Alan Brinkley to discuss. And: Editorial cartoonist Steve Brodner returns with an illustrated piece on various power players‘ visions for Afghanistan‘s future, and in his ―In Perspective‖ essay, Jon Meacham considers the big ideas from President Obama‘s State of the Union address. Category: Aging NOLA: NOSN 000502 Series Title: NOVA scienceNOW Episode Title: Can We Live Forever? Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 1/26/2011 7:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 00:56:46 This provocative episode of NOVA scienceNOW examines whether we can slow down the aging process, looks at the latest on human hibernation, and checks in with bioengineers and a computer scientist inventing ways to keep us "going forever." Neil deGrasse Tyson also takes a lighthearted look at whether the tricks that have kept a 1966 Volvo running for 2.7 million miles can also help the human body go the extra mile. Category: Agriculture NOLA: WAAS 000000 Series Title: Washing Away: After the Storms Length: 30 minutes Airdate: 1/25/2011 1:30:00 AM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 00:26:46 Five years after the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Louisiana‘s recovery is far from over. Building on the 2006 documentary, WASHING AWAY, this new program follows six survivors to reveal successes and setbacks as their coastline and culture continue to give way to the gulf and face disastrous new threats. Emmy-winning and Academy Award-nominated actress Patricia Clarkson, a native of New Orleans, narrates. Category: American History/Biography NOLA: AMEX 002301 Series Title: Robert E. Lee: American Experience Length: 90 minutes Airdate: 1/3/2011 8:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 01:26:46 He is celebrated by handsome equestrian statues in countless cities and towns across the American South, and by no less than five postage stamps issued by the government he fought against during the four bloodiest years in American history. Nearly a century and a half after his death, Robert E. Lee, the leading Confederate general of the American Civil War, remains a source of fascination and, for some, veneration. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Robert E. Lee examines the life and reputation of the general whose military successes made him the scourge of the Union and the hero of the Confederacy, and who was elevated to almost god-like status by admirers after his death. Category: American History/Biography NOLA: AMMS 002302 Series Title: American Masters Episode Title: The Doors: When You're Strange Length: 90 minutes Airdate: 1/12/2011 8:30:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 00:00:00 The creative chemistry of four brilliant artists--drummer John Densmore, guitarist Robby Krieger, keyboardist Ray Manzarek and singer Jim Morrison-- made The Doors one of America‘s most iconic and influential, theatrical and mysterious, thrilling and sometime frightening rock bands. Narrated by Johnny Depp, American Masters: When You‘re Strange is the first feature documentary about The Doors. The film tells their story using only original footage--much of it previously unseen -- shot between their formation in 1965 and Morrison‘s death in 1971. From the outset I decided to use only original footage of this astonishing band, says Tom DiCillo, director and writer of When You‘re Strange. To me, there is nothing more powerful and riveting that seeing Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, John Densmore and Jim Morrison leap into life on the screen. Category: American History/Biography NOLA: COSE 017009 Series Title: Charlie Rose Episode Title: Charlie Rose - 17009 Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 1/6/2011 11:00:00 PM Service: PBS-PLUS Format: Interview/Discussion/Review Segment Length: 00:15:54 Edmund Morris talked about his book, 'Colonel Roosevelt,' about the later years of Teddy Roosevelt's life. Category: American History/Biography NOLA: NAAT 002603 Series Title: Nature Episode Title: American Eagle Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 1/2/2011 7:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 00:56:46 Unique to North America, the bald eagle is the continent's most recognizable aerial predator, with a shocking white head, electric yellow beak and penetrating eyes. In the 1960s, this symbol of the United States became an emblem of environmental degradation, as the pesticide DDT and other human pressures brought it to the brink of extinction. Following their protection as an endangered species, bald eagles have come roaring back. Photographed by three-time Emmy-winning cinematographer Neil Rettig, this first-ever HD hour on bald eagles focuses on the drama of the nest. Even in the best of times, it's a surprisingly tough struggle to maintain a one-ton home and raise chicks until they can hunt on their own. This is an intimate portrait of these majestic raptors' lives in the wild. Category: American History/Biography NOLA: NOVA 003701 Series Title: NOVA Episode Title: Killer Subs in Pearl Harbor Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 1/4/2011 7:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 00:56:46 NOVA joins an exclusive dive beneath the waters of Pearl Harbor to trace new clues to the historic sinking of the USS Arizona. 1,177 crewmembers perished in the dramatic 1941 sinking of the storied battleship--the greatest loss of life in United States naval history. For decades, it has been thought that the Arizona was brought down by fire from Japanese aircraft. But the discovery of a Japanese "midget sub" far from the scene of the battle raises new questions about the Arizona's final hours. Severed into three pieces and dropped in 1,200-foot-deep water outside of the harbor, the sub matches four other vessels discovered in shallower water closer to the harbor entrance. Each of the four vessels were equipped with a pair of torpedoes--but only the torpedoes of the fifth sub are still missing, apparently fired at an unknown target. What was that submarine's mission? Why was it laid to rest so far from the harbor? What was the fate of its two-man crew? With unprecedented access to the Arizona wreckage, NOVA teams up with the Hawaii Undersea Research Lab to use manned deep submersibles in an attempt to resurrect the fifth midget submarine. Using eyewitness testimony and reports from after the attack, this program examines the possibility that this mysterious midget submarine may have been a key Japanese weapon in what became known as the day of infamy. Category: American History/Biography NOLA: AMEX 002303 Series Title: Dinosaur Wars: American Experience Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 1/17/2011 8:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 00:00:00 In the summer of 1868, paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh boarded a Union Pacific train for a sightseeing excursion through the heart of the newly opened American West. While most passengers simply saw magnificent landscapes, Marsh soon realized he was traveling through the greatest dinosaur burial ground of all time. Ruthless, jealous and insanely competitive, Marsh would wrestle over the discovery with the other leading paleontologist of his generation, Edward Drinker Cope. Over time, the two rivals would uncover the remains of dozens of prehistoric animals, including 130 species of dinosaur; collect thousands of specimens; provide ample evidence to prove Charles Darwin‘s hotly disputed theory of evolution; and put American science on the world stage.