April 2008 Quarterly Program Topic Report
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April 2008 Quarterly Program Topic Report Category: Aging NOLA: CFYP 000000 Series Title: Caring for Your Parents Version: SD-Base Length: 120 Airdate: 4/2/2008 8:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 00:00:00 As the population ages, many adult children are grappling with an unprecedented social, cultural, economic, and personal revolution as they transition into the primary caregiver role for their aging parents. Caring for Your Parents is a moving film that draws much-needed attention to this universal reality, underscoring today's struggle to keep parents at home, tensions between siblings, and the complexity of shifting caregiver roles through an intimate look at five American families. In the end, the documentary contends successful caregiving requires one primary ingredient-- love. Category: Aging NOLA: RREV 000102 Series Title: Retirement Revolution Episode Title: On Our Own Version: SD-Base Length: 60 Airdate: 4/7/2008 9:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Other Segment Length: 00:00:00 This episode continues exploring the challenges baby boomers face today and teaches viewers to assume personal responsibility - so they'll be able to plan for retirement on their own terms. Category: Agriculture NOLA: BMJL 001201 Series Title: Bill Moyers Journal Version: SD-Base Length: 60 Airdate: 4/11/2008 8:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Interview/Discussion/Review Segment Length: 00:00:00 David Beckmann - Bread for the World: Bill Moyers talks with the president of Bread for the World about the challenges of combatting hunger; EXPOSÉ - Cash Cows and Starter Cowboy Kits: BILL MOYERS JOURNAL teams up with the PBS series EXPOSÉ: AMERICA'S INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS to follow the trail of Washington Post reporters who uncovered more than $15 billion in "wasteful, unnecessary, or redundant expenditures" that have flowed from Washington to America's farmers; Hunger in America: Why are America's food banks suffering shortages? Find out what you can do to help. Category: Agriculture Series Title: West Tennessee Journal Length: 30 Airdate: 4/18/2008 9:30:00 PM Service: local Format: magazine Segment Length: 00:00:00 It’s a day to park the tractors and work the farm the old-fashioned way with a horse and plow. The Horse & Plow Field Day gives folks of all ages a glimpse at how farming used to be before tractors and modern equipment. Category: Agriculture NOLA: COSE 014078 Series Title: Charlie Rose Version: SD-Base Length: 60 Airdate: 4/16/2008 11:00:00 PM Service: PBS-PLUS Format: Interview/Discussion/Review Segment Length: 00:00:00 First, a conversation with Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, about his book "Common Wealth." Then, a conversation with author Richard Price about his book "Lush Life." Category: Agriculture NOLA: MLNH 009113 Series Title: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer; The Version: SD-Base Length: 60 Airdate: 4/23/2008 6:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Interview/Discussion/Review Segment Length: 00:09:10 As Food Prices Soar, U.N. Calls for International Help: The head of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization urged help Wednesday for countries affected by a global food crisis caused by sharp increases in the prices of rice and wheat. Experts discuss the causes and consequences of high food prices. Category: Agriculture NOLA: NBRT 028027 Series Title: Nightly Business Report Version: SD-Base Length: 30 Airdate: 4/22/2008 5:30:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Segment Length: 00:00:00 Market Stats; Paul Kangas' Stocks in the News; Oil Prices Flow Closer To A New Record High; Commodities Chaos Has Farmers Crying Foul; Stock Dividends Are Diminishing; Interbrand CEO Andy Bateman Shares The Findings of His Company's Green Survey; "Of Mutual Interest"-Jason Zweig, Investing Columnist for "Money" Magazine and Author of "Your Money and Your Brain;" "Last Word"- Sunchips Go Green. Category: American History/Biography Series Title: West Tennessee Journal Length: 30 Airdate: 4/13/2008 2:00:00 PM Service: local Format: magazine Segment Length: 00:10:00 Doe Creek School is virtually the only one-room, log school house that remains in Tennessee. The residents of Scott's Hill are restoring this unique structure and preserving their memories as well. Category: American History/Biography NOLA: AMEX 000601 Series Title: American Experience Episode Title: Amelia Earhart Version: SD-Embedded Promo Length: 60 Airdate: 4/7/2008 8:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 00:00:00 Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, and the first to cross the North American continent alone. Her exploits as an aviator, her beauty and intelligence, her independence and charm made her a national heroine. Seemingly invincible, Earhart tirelessly traveled and lectured, a champion of aviation and equal opportunity for women. But her cheering public didn't know the cost of her courage. The record-breaking flights, the aerial exhibitions and races, the interviews to support her favorite causes, the endless speeches and promotional commitments, together with household responsibilities, health problems, and financial worries, combined to push Earhart to the point of exhaustion. In 1937, she set out to accomplish yet another first: to circle the earth along the equator on an east-west flight. Friends warned that her preparations were hurried, even careless. When her plane disappeared without a trace, the "First Lady of the Air" was instantly transformed into an American legend. Category: American History/Biography NOLA: AMEX 002008 Series Title: American Experience Episode Title: Walt Whitman Version: SD-Embedded Promo Length: 120 Airdate: 4/14/2008 8:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 00:00:00 To family and friends, Walter Whitman Jr. may have been just an old bachelor but with his book, Leaves of Grass, he offered up his poetry and his persona as a reflection of the America he saw; daring, noble, naive, brutish, sexual, frightening and flawed. This film tells Whitman's life story, from his working-class childhood, to his years as a newspaper reporter in Brooklyn, to his reckless pursuit of the attention he craved for his work. Category: American History/Biography NOLA: AMMS 002009 Series Title: American Masters Episode Title: Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun Version: SD-Embedded Promo Length: 90 Airdate: 4/9/2008 8:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 00:00:00 A profile of Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), author of such acclaimed works as "Their Eyes Were Watching God" and "Dust Tracks on a Road." Category: American History/Biography NOLA: COSE 014077 Series Title: Charlie Rose Version: SD-Base Length: 60 Airdate: 4/15/2008 11:00:00 PM Service: PBS-PLUS Format: Interview/Discussion/Review Segment Length: 00:00:00 First, a conversation with Cokie Roberts, Contributing Senior News Analyst for National Public Radio about her book "Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation." Then, a conversation with dancer and photographer Mikhail Baryshnikov. Category: American History/Biography NOLA: MLNH 009099 Series Title: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer; The Version: SD-Base Length: 60 Airdate: 4/3/2008 6:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Interview/Discussion/Review Segment Length: 00:09:22 Dems Drawn-out Primary Creates Concerns for General Election: With Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama locked in a hard-fought -- and lengthy -- battle for delegates, the race for the Democratic nomination is pushing forward. Presidential historians discuss what past elections show about the impact of protracted primary races. Category: American History/Biography NOLA: MLNH 009100 Series Title: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer; The Version: SD-Base Length: 60 Airdate: 4/4/2008 6:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Interview/Discussion/Review Segment Length: 00:08:16 40 Years After MLK's Assassination, A Look Back: Forty years ago, civil rights pioneer Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on his hotel balcony in Memphis. Judy Woodruff looks back on that fateful day in American history. Category: American History/Biography NOLA: USSW 000000 Series Title: USS Wisconsin: The Last Battleship Version: SD-Base Length: 30 Airdate: 4/13/2008 2:30:00 AM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 00:00:00 This documentary tells the story of the USS Wisconsin, defining its unique place in history and profiling the courageous men who went to war on its decks. This history of the vessel includes archival footage of the USS Wisconsin in action, and features interviews in which sailors from three wars reminisce about their combat experiences. Category: American History/Biography NOLA: AMEX 002007 Series Title: American Experience Episode Title: Roberto Clemente Version: SD-Base Length: 60 Airdate: 4/21/2008 8:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 00:00:00 Baseball great Roberto Clemente's talent and inimitable style drew legions of fans, but as this AMERICAN EXPERIENCE production reveals, he was more than an exceptional baseball player. He was also a committed humanitarian who challenged racial discrimination and worked for social justice. Category: American History/Biography NOLA: COSE 014084 Series Title: Charlie Rose Version: SD-Base Length: 60 Airdate: 4/24/2008 11:00:00 PM Service: PBS-PLUS Format: Interview/Discussion/Review Segment Length: 00:00:00 First, a conversation with George Shultz. Schultz served as the United States Secretary of Labor from 1969 to 1970, as the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1972 to 1974, and as the U.S. Secretary of State from 1982 to 1989. Then, a conversation with Former Congressman Charlie Wilson (D-TX), best known for leading Congress into supporting the largest-ever CIA covert operation, which supplied the Afghan mujahideen during the Soviet war in Afghanistan and subject of the recent film starring Tom Hanks, "Charlie Wilson's War." Category: American History/Biography NOLA: MLNH 009108 Series Title: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer; The Version: SD-Base Length: 60 Airdate: 4/16/2008 6:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Interview/Discussion/Review Segment Length: 00:09:54 Retracing Roots with 'The African-American National Biography:' Renowned African-American writers Henry Louis Gates Jr.