The Award-Winning Close-UpJuly/August 2012 • Vol. 27 #4 • wcte.org Public Television from the Upper Cumberland New from the producers of ANTIQUES ROADSHOW HOT MUSIC THIS SUMMER Highlights from the August Membership Drive August 11 – 26 WELcome BACK DESIRÉE DUNCAN WCTE’s New Manager of Production and Content Premiering July 16 Become a member of WCTE and help us make a difference. WCTE wishes to thank everyone who helped Make our 2012 “bid Is Right” Great TV Auction possible. Thanks to YOU, WCTE was able to raise almost $104,000! We want to send out an extra special thank you to our Auction sponsors/underwriters. The VIP Club Great TV Auction (donating items over $1,000) UnderwRiters The Baranowski Family $15,500.00 CBT Men’s Shop $1,610.00 American Bank & Trust IWC Cash & Carry Upper Cumberland Herald-Citizen $1,344.00 Aphena/Mustard Seed Ranch Luna & Birdwell Business Journal $3,240.00 Legacy Learning Systems $1,341.00 Art Prowl/Marilee Hall Investment Group Bank of Putnam County Elk Mountain Construction Dr. Walter Derryberry $1,200.00 Middle Tennessee Co Inc. $2,000.00 BB&T Legge Insurance TTU Athletics $1,192.00 Services, Inc. Surgical Specialist Letter Perfect $5,000.00 Bowman’s Carpet Outlet $1,119.00 Beltone Hearing Aid Center MMA Creative, Inc Echo Valley Pool $1,950.00 Budweiser Cumberland Co. Playhouse $1,112.00 MP Components Beltone Hearing Aid Center $1,875.00 One on One Fitness $1,080.00 Charter Business OB-GYN Associates r-cubed $1,832.00 Deuel’s Creative Photography $1,075.00 Citizen’s Bank City of Crossville Payless Family Pharmacy Cookeville High School $1,822.00 Catoosa Ridge Stables Cookeville Arts Council Petrie’s One Hour Heating Sunset Marina & Resort $1,600.00 & Campground $1,035.00 Common Sense Media & Cooling CookevilleTimes.com $1,580.00 Clean World & One Hour Crossville Ford Lincoln Personal Growth & Learning St. Gregory Luxury Martinizing $1,000.00 Cookeville Funeral Home Center/Path of Hope Hotel & Suites $1,528.00 Dr. Laura Connelly $1,000.00 CRMC Beacon Hotel & Corporate Cookeville Arts Council $1,000.00 Cumberland Automotive Progressive Savings Bank Quarters $1,505.00 Guesthouse International Inn $1,000.00 Ciphertek Systems SEC Enterprises D.T. McCall & Sons Budweiser Of Cookeville $1,500.00 Henry Fincher Attorney At Law $1,000.00 Sign Shop David Ledbetter Attorney Upper Cumberland Mixed Hotel Niriedes in Sifnos, Greece Duncan & Sons State Farm Elwood Ervin Martial Arts $1,500.00 & The GNTO $1,000.00 Moving & Storage Stage One Dance Studio House Of Thai, Taiko & I-Noodle $1,400.00 The Sign Shop $1,000.00 Dunn Tire Swallows-Newman Agency Edgar Evans Marina Sylvan Learning Center Eye Centers of Tennessee Tennessee Tech University A Message from WCTE Sales Manager Avery Owens Fairfield Inn & Suites Falcon Realty The Market on Square Thanks to everyone who participated in, First Realty Twin Lakes Telephone underwrote or sponsored our Great TV Auction. First Tennessee Cooperative While the Auction is over for 2012, there are Frontier Communications plenty of other opportunities to sponsor highly Grade-A Catering UBS Financial/CRMC visible WCTE events, from Tennessee Tech Sports Health Benefit Solutions Foundation to Stations of Imagination at Cookeville’s Fall Fun Highways Inc. US Bank Fest in September to Blues and Brews in October. To see what sponsorship opportunities can do for Highlands Medical Center Victory Sports Hooper Huddleston Horner your business, give me a call at 528-2222, x 220, or Whitson Funeral Home email me at [email protected]. Funeral Home HOT/Taiko/iNoodle Winell Lee Staff & Contents Management PUBLIC TELEVISION FROM THE UPPER CUMBERLAND (931) 528-2222 or (800) 282-9283 Becky Magura Craig Gray 5 Hot Music This Summer President & CEO Business Development Producer Highlights from the August Abbey Allen Sonja Higgenbotham Sales & Development Assistant Membership Drive: August 11 – 26 Membership Manager Mary Boring Joyce Hunter-Green Assistant Auction Coordinator Auction & Event Coordinator 6 Racing After Dark Reggie Brown Randall Jackson 5 The Fifth Annual Benefit for Educational Outreach Associate Broadcast Engineer Amanda Collier Craig LeFevre Dogwood Park features After Dark Cultural Arts & Membership Master Control Operator Races for kids and adults. Producer Avery Owens Janet Cooper 7 Spotlight On Traffic/Broadcast Engineer Sales Manager Cindy Putman Kelly and Matt Swallows Erica Duarte Live Green Project Manager Educational Outreach Associate Mark Dudney Darla Runge 8 From Tourism to Retirement Government Relations Assistant to the CEO 7 WCTE promotes tourism in the Desirée Duncan Ralph Welch Upper Cumberland by partnering with Manager of Production and Content Chief Broadcast Engineer Tennessee Tech University’s TECH- Sue Gibbons Rick Wells Programming & Traffic Senior Producer/Director REDI program. Upper Cumberland 9 Faces of WCTE Broadcast Council WCTE welcomes Desirée Duncan as the new Manager of Production and Dr. Max Atnip, Chair Joe Albrecht 9 Content. Lillian Hartgrove, Vice Chair Marc L. Burnett Dr. Scott Little, Secretary John Cain Alan Tatum, Treasurer Mona Copeland Becky Magura, WCTE Pres. & CEO Jere Hargrove On our cover Mickie Akenson Morris Irby Jack Matson Dr. Wali R. Kharif MARKET WARRIORS Treasure hunters embark on an antiques adventure Community in MARKET WARRIORS, a new series from the Advisory Board producers of ANTIQUES ROADSHOW. Story on p.22 Dr. Steve Copeland, DVM Dr. Carl Owens Diana Baranowski Jack Barton Kelly Swallows Nina Lunn Close-Up Public Television from the Upper Cumberland Hal L. Harder - Managing Editor Program guides [email protected] WCTE Close-Up is designed and produced by 9 Daytime Programming CommonSense Media Group for WCTE-TV. For on-air, print and website advertising and promotion Ready to Learn and weekend guide information, contact Avery Owens, Sales Manager at 931.528.2222, ext. 220 or [email protected]. 10 Primetime Programming WCTE Close-Up is published bi-monthly. It is mailed to individuals, Quality PBS evening programs corporations and foundations who contribute $35 or more to WCTE annually. Third class postage at Cookeville, Tennessee. Phone: 19 931.528.2222. Schedule is subject to change without notice. Send address changes to WCTE, P.O. Box 2040, Cookeville, Tennessee 38502. Check out the schedule on the website at www.wcte.org. 2 | WCTE Close-Up July/August 2012 | 3 A Message from Becky HOT MUSIC THIS SUMMER Becky Magura, President & CEO of WCTE programming, the station began to work with independent hink back almost ten years...in January of 2003, producers Todd Jarrell WCTE provided only one analog channel of and Jack Stoddart service to antenna and cable viewers in the Upper for numerous T nationally distributed Cumberland. If you were on Dish and DirecTV, you couldn’t receive the station because that required WCTE getting the award-winning signal to Nashville for it to be redistributed back to the Upper documentaries and Cumberland. The on-air service featured a 16-hour broadcast series. day…remember when television stations actually signed off In this past decade, the air at midnight? Much of the equipment, as well as the transition has been the station logo, were over 25 years old. key word. With the At that very same time, Mickie Akenson joined the Upper station’s growth, there Cumberland Broadcast Council as a trustee. She continued to have been changes serve over the next decade during a time of extreme transition in the station’s Mickie Akenson for WCTE, bringing tremendous leadership to the UCBC and transmitter site, along the station. Mickie has served as UCBC Trustee, Chair Elect, with broadcast and Chair (the first female Chair in the history of the UCBC) and production equipment Past Chair. upgrades. WCTE has seen changes in leadership, departments, A dance instructor, entrepreneur, community leader and and staffing, also. President of the Tennessee Association of Dance for two years, The past few years have seen increased sales and grant Mickie was a logical source for the WCTE Board of Trustees. revenue (over 4.5 million dollars in competitive grants), As an advocate of arts and education, Mickie and her husband, WCTE’s branding with a new logo, and the Close-Up member Dr. Jim Akenson, have always supported WCTE and the magazine. Within the Upper Cumberland Broadcast Council, mission of PBS. revised bylaws, establishment of policies and procedures, and a When she said yes to the board position (she was assured strong committee structure have also evolved. that it would be a minimal time commitment), no one Mickie is the last to take credit and the first to give it. anticipated the changes over the next decade that would be She is always recognizing all of the past and current UCBC demanded of the station, the staff, and the trustees for one of trustees and leaders as well as WCTE staff and strategic the nation’s smallest but mightiest public television stations. consultants. However, all who have witnessed it are quick to During Mickie’s UCBC tenure, WCTE began the acknowledge the outstanding leadership of Mickie Akenson. mandated digital transition, which eventually took the station All of us at WCTE send our sincere best wishes to Mickie for to broadcast 24/7 and offer three digital channels, with one her service, leadership, devotion and continued commitment high definition channel, WCTE-DTV, and two standard to our PBS station. We love you and hope to see your smiling definition channels, WCTE World and WCTE Create. This face at all WCTE events! multi-channel broadcast service would be provided to antenna, cable, and also Dish and DirecTV viewers throughout Middle Tennessee. The last several years have brought more than technological growth. In addition to WCTE’s locally produced 4 | WCTE Close-Up great programs HOTHighlights fromMUSIC the August MembershipTHIS DriveSUMMER • August 11 – 26 Some of the music premiering this August during WCTE’s Becky Magura, President & CEO of WCTE Membership Drive… Ed Sullivan’s Top Performers 1966-1969 (My Music) From the U.S.