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Become a member today and experience the SSSCU difference. 800.357.9654 silverstatecu.com NV Energy Vegas PBS A Message from the Management Team General Manager General Manager Tom Axtell, Vegas PBS Educational Media Services Director Niki Bates Production Services Director Kareem Hatcher Communications and Brand Management Director Shauna Lemieux Business Manager Brandon Merrill Content Director 50 Years of Access Cyndy Robbins Workforce Training & Economic Development Director or 50 years, Vegas PBS has sought to provide universal access to educa- Debra Solt tional, cultural, performance, and public affairs media content. This has Corporate Partnerships Director included construction of rural TV repeaters as well as ways to help the deaf Bruce Spotleson and blind experience TV. While the technology used to deliver content Director of Engineering, IT and Emergency Response has dramatically evolved over the past five decades, our commitment to John Turner Feliminate barriers to access and deliver robust educational content to everyone in Southern Nevada Public Television Board of Directors Southern Nevada has remained steadfast. Executive Director Tom Axtell, Vegas PBS In the 1970s, during its earliest years as a television network, PBS stations began President using a portion of their television signal to add program subtitles that were displayed Nancy Brune, Guinn Center for Policy Priorities when a special decoder was attached.The new technique was called Closed Captioning. Vice President In 1972, Julia Child’s The French Chef was the first television program accessible to Thomas Warden, The Howard Hughes Corporation viewers who were deaf or hard of hearing. It wasn’t until 1993 that Congress required Secretary all televisions to include caption decoders. Today, the ubiquitous closed captioning Clark Dumont, M.S., APR, Dumont Communications, LLC technology is in movies, helps children learning to read and adults learning English, and Treasurer provides language translations. Geraldine Tomich, Marquis Aurbach Coffing In the late 1980s, PBS stations began using a second audio program (SAP) chan- Chair, Community Council Charlotte Hill, Community Volunteer nel made possible by the addition of stereo audio to TV signals. Music lovers were Chair, Desert Meadows Area Health Education Council thrilled, and SAP channels were used to carry verbal descriptions of on-air action Jerry Reeves, HealthInsight during pauses in dialogue for people who were visually impaired. In 1986, Arthur Chair, Planned Giving Council became the first television broadcast accessible to viewers with vision impairment. Geraldine Tomich, Marquis Aurbach Coffing Today, many PBS KIDS shows and primetime programs like Masterpiece, NOVA and CCSD Liaison to SNPT Board Nature carry audio descriptions on the SAP channel to increase the universality of Carolyn Edwards, Clark County School District Trustee program access to all viewers. Board Members In 2004, Vegas PBS was approved by the US Department of Education as the first Vince Alberta, University Nevada Las Vegas Nevada-based distributor of their open-captioned and audio described video library Linda Ammons, Community Volunteer materials for school children. Grant funding allowed us to create a library of newly Tracy Bower, NNSS,Managed and operated by Mission Support and Test Services developed open-captioned video tapes. In response to community requests, the library Cheryl (Cheri) Colbus, US Bank quickly added sign language training and Braille resources for children and adults. Rachelle Crupi, Bank of Nevada We soon observed that many of these materials were being requested by parents and Bill Curran, Ballard Spahr, LLP teachers working with children with Down syndrome, certain Autism Spectrum Mo Denis, Nevada State Senator Disorders, and delayed motor or verbal skills. We also experienced loan requests from Thomas Gallagher, TreVista Group, LLC adults who were losing hearing or vision late in life. Because our captioned and Jason Gastwirth, Caesars Entertainment described TV programming sought to serve these viewers, we successfully obtained Stephen Greathouse, Las Vegas Hotel & Gaming Industry, retired Dema Guinn, Community Volunteer grant-funds to expand the media library resources for multiple related disabilities and Lori Lea, AECIndustryPro.com learners of all ages. Today, the Vegas PBS Special Needs Resource Library provides Nora Luna, Nathan Adelson Hospice FREE educational resources for children with special needs and their parents, care- Marydean Martin, Marydean & Associates givers, teachers and providers, as well as adults and their families who need adaptive Steve Seroka, Las Vegas City Councilman resources to continue to thrive. Contact Vegas PBS with comments and suggestions: This Autism Awareness Month, in addition to TV programs on the topic, we especially Vegas PBS & Southern Nevada Public Television want to highlight the books, DVDs and educational resources in our library that address 3050 E. Flamingo Road, Las Vegas, Nevada 89121 feelings and emotions, language development, listening and social skills. See page 23 702.799.1010 • Fax 702.799.2806 VegasPBS.org • email: [email protected] for more information. Vegas PBS Source, Volume No. 4, 2018 For 50 years, Vegas PBS has delivered programs to our community. In the 1960s we were limited to TV shows and companion books or classroom workbooks. In the 2010s Anton Tielemans, Vegas PBS Source Art Director we still use television and books for education, but have added the internet, mobile apps and even a grant-funded library to extend the impact of what your donations make possible on TV. We thank you for your support of universally accessible mission-based, public service media for everyone in our community. This magazine Tom Axtell is printed on recycled paper APRIL 2018 5 April 2018 Contents Cover Story 8 Civilizations This bold new series tells the story of art from the dawn of human history to the present day, for the first time on a global scale. Departments 5 Message to Our Members Letter from General Manager Tom Axtell 14 Upcoming Member Events 22 A Message from a Planned Giving Council Member Features 10 History Stories from Our Past 11 Spotlight Holocaust Day of Remembrance 12 Drama All New Drama for Spring! 8 19 Spotlight Rough Cut Season 8 20 Science Think Wednesday 21 Spotlight NOVA Wonders 32 Celebrating Easter 33 Burt Wolf:Travels & Traditions 34 Remembering Earth Day 35 Ballykissangel Marathon 37 Vegas PBS Rewind/Worldview/Jackpot! 10 19 Program Menu 23 Weekdays/Children’s Lineup 24 Primetime Programming 32 Weekend Daytime Programming 36 Vegas PBS Create Programming 37 Vegas PBS Channels 38 Vegas PBS Sponsors 20 34 APRIL 2018 7 COVER STORY George Martin Soundbreaking Civilizations Friday, April 6 from 9 p.m. to Midnight and Friday, April 13 from Tuesdays, April 17- May 15 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. at 8 p.m. This series combines unprecedented access to some of the most celebrated music artists, producers and innovators with rare archival studio footage and an extensive musical This bold new series tells the story of art from soundtrack, to deliver a wide-ranging series on the dawn of human history to the present day, for the art of music recording. Charting a centu- the first time on a global scale.Acclaimed film, the- ry's worth of innovation and experimentation ater and television actor Liev Schreiber (Ray in the creation of music, the program offers a behind-the-scenes look at the birth of brand Donovan, Spotlight) will narrate its series, which new sounds. From the invention of the micro- broadens the canvas to reveal the role art and the phone to the Moog synthesizer, from the creative imagination have played across multiple phonograph to digital streaming, it moves between past and present to tell the stories cultures and civilizations. behind the sounds and reveals how innovation Works of beauty, ingenuity and illumination created across continents are intro- redefined not only what we listen to and how duced. From the landscape scrolls of classical China and the sculpture of the Olmecs we listen to it, but our very sense of what music is and can be. to African bronzes, Japanese prints and French Impressionist paintings, discover the BRINGING THE ROMANCE OF ITALY wealth of treasures created through the entirety of the human experience. Rick Steves: The Heart In nine episodes, the series travels across the globe, visiting such cultural land- of Italy marks as the great mosques of Istanbul, the ancient cities of Mesoamerica, the Sunday, April 8 at 11 a.m. Buddhist caves of Ajanta in India, the Aztecs’Templo Mayor in modern Mexico City and Rick delves deep into the Italian heartland the funeral site of China’s first emperor. It explores a sweeping range of topics, includ- – the place where la dolce vita is a way of life. Fishing for anchovies, sipping wine out of rus- ing the earliest human cultural artifacts and the representation of the body in art, what tic barrels, bringing flowers to hilltop cemeter- happens when different civilizations encounter