Magazine June 2009 visit keefe falls with Chuck DOvish On ExplOring Arkansas June 1st, 6:30 p.m. Arkansas Educational Television Network Contents AETN MAGAZINE Staff DOn’t Miss the great music prOgramming On AETN this mOnth On The Cover.... Editor in Chief On the Cover........2 Allen Weatherly Music on Be sure to tune in and watch Exploring Arkansas, Editors AETN in June........3 June 1st at 6:30 p.m.! Mona Dixon From the Kathy Atkinson Director...............4 This month on Exploring Arkansas Chuck Editorial & Creative Directors Answers From Dovish takes us to Richland Creek Wilderness Sara Willis Viewer Services.....5 in the Ozark National Forest near Ben Hur. Elizabeth duBignon Arkansas State Richland Creek Wilderness is an 11,800 Editorial Panel JOSH GROBAN, AN EVENING IN NEW YORK CITY and National Parks acre site which contains many picturesque Rowena Parr, Pam Wilson, Dan Koops airs Sunday, June 21, 2009, 2:00 p.m. Initiative..............6 waterfalls, bluffs, clear flowing streams and Tiffany Verkler JOSH GROBAN, AN EVENING IN NEW YORK CITY Josh Groban performs favorites from his best-selling albums in an AETN Local rugged terrain which makes it perfect for a Copy Editors Productions...........7 variety of outdoor activities. Darbi Blencowe, Catherine Mays, intimate theatre setting in this SOUNDSTAGE special event. Taped at the Rose Theatre at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Shirley Bowen, Pat Pearce home of “Jazz at Lincoln Center” in New York City, this exhilarating program includes favorites from his best-selling June Highlights.....8 Exploring Arkansas also visits Arkansas Post albums, including “Alla Luce del Sole,” “You Are Loved (Don’t Give Up)” and “February Song.” The concert features PBS Ongoing National Memorial near Gillette which is AETN Offices not only the location of the first European 350 S. Donaghey Ave. - Conway, guest appearances by trumpeter Chris Botti who joins Groban in performing “Broken Vow” and master musician Series.................10 AR - 72034 Herbie Hancock who plays the keyboard on “Machine.” Airs Sunday, June 21, 2:00 p.m. and again Thursday, June settlement in the lower Mississippi Valley, but 800/662-2386 Teach Literacy Like 25, 8:30 p.m. A Dream..............12 also a Civil War battleground and Arkansas’ [email protected] - www.aetn.org Daytime only Revolutionary War battle site. A float trip down Wattensaw Bayou near Schedules............13 AETN Mission Hazen completes this episode of Exploring AETN Statement Arkansas. If you would like more information The mission of the Arkansas Primetime.......14-23 on these three unique and interesting areas of Educational Television Network AETN Arkansas please visit these websites: (AETN) is to offer lifelong learning opportunities to all Weekends.......24-25 Richland Creek Wilderness - www.arkansas. New AETN Arkansans; to supply instructional My Music: The 70s Experience com/outdoors programs to Arkansas' schools; Commission Arkansas Post National Memorial - www.nps. to provide programming and MY MUSIC brings back “The 70s” mixing 1970s soft rock, pop, soul and disco for the “ultimate 70’s party.” Hosted Chair...................26 gov/ARPO services to improve and enhance by Barry Williams, Greg Brady on “The Brady Bunch,” the special includes new and archival performances, featuring the lives of Arkansas' citizens; Education............27 Wattensaw Bayou – www.agfc.com/misc/ some of the best-loved tunes from the 1970s. Airs Saturday June 20, 10:30 p.m. AETN Intern and to illuminate the culture and awt/awt-trails/awt-wattensaw.aspx heritage of Arkansas and the Program.............28 world. To accomplish this mission, 2009 Little Rock AETN, through the creative use of Film Festival.......29 telecommunications, will present Text to Give.......30 a high-quality public television service designed to inform, Underwriters......31 educate, motivate, entertain, enlighten and inspire. THE BIG BAND YEARS 1-800-662-2386 Your support This “Big Band” retrospective features the songs that brought the country through WWII and kick-started the baby makes a difference! boom. The program mixes vintage live, rare and unreleased footage of bands and vocalists from the 1930s and www.aetn.org 40s. Peter Marshall (“Hollywood Squares”) hosts. Sunday June 21, 12:00 p.m. 2 Arkansas Educational Television Network Arkansas Educational Television Network 3 Answers from Viewer Services... Dear Members, Contact AETN June 12, 2009, will be a monumental day in television history. For years, television Reconnect with AETN this summer as we AETN EXECUTIVE AETN COMMISSION stations and viewers have been preparing for the end of analog and the beginning kick off our June membership campaign DIRECTOR Allen Weatherly CHAIR of digital only broadcast. On the morning of June 12, AETN will discontinue analog and rejuvenate your vacation schedule Don Hale of El Dorado broadcasting on its three remaining analog transmitters- KAFT/Fayetteville, KEMV/Mt. with AETN activities in Arkansas’s state and Programming originates Vice Chair View and KETG/Arkadelphia. Viewers who do not have a digital-to-analog converter box at the Sammie Benjamin of Glenwood national parks. R. Lee Reaves Center hooked up to their analog television set will no longer be able to receive a signal over for Educational Secretary/Treasurer the air after June 12. AETN has been a source of unique program- Telecommunications at Mary Beth Green of Van Buren ming and opportunities for viewers like Donaghey Avenue & Dr. William Downs, Jr. of For viewers in Central and South Arkansas, this is the date for which you have been patiently waiting! KETS/Channel you for 43 years. Remember “Good Times Picture Show,” “The Joy of Sesame Street, Conway, AR 72034 Arkadelphia 2 and KETZ/Channel 10 will resume broadcasting in digital on June 13. Over-the-air viewers will need to rescan their Jane Krutz of Little Rock Painting,” “Arkansas Serenade” and “The Electric Company”? Remember Questions and comments converter boxes or digital television sets. DirecTV and cable subscribers who have been without AETN for the last several are encouraged. Sandy Landers of Little Rock why you love AETN? Billie Sue Hoggard of Jonesboro Viewers may reach months will once again be able to view our programming once their provider resumes carrying the AETN digital feeds. If you do, then we need you to respond with a gift of support during our Ronnie Williams of Menifee AETN at: Over-the-air viewers who currently or in the past received a clear analog picture, should also receive a clear digital June Membership campaign June 20-25. AETN fell significantly short in 1-800-662-AETN AETN Foundation Board Chair signal. However, those who have had a slightly- to very snowy picture may not be able to receive any digital signal. In our annual March drive despite much enthusiasm, due in part to problems 501-682-AETN Dan Farley of Little Rock either case, over-the-air viewers who rely on an indoor antenna (rabbit ears) may need to install a roof-top outdoor associated with the digital delay and the struggling economy. We have 501-450-1-PBS 1-800-662-2386 Vice Chair antenna, while those already using an outdoor antenna may need to raise it up higher. The digital signal is much more plans in place to try to make up the difference this month, but we need Sandra Richardson of Fax: 501-852-2280 you to react to the AETN Foundation’s great need. Mountain Home sensitive than analog and susceptible to more interference. Metal siding, roofing, and even mini-blinds as well as moun- E-mail: [email protected] tains, large hills, buildings, and electrical interference can disrupt or prevent digital reception. Viewers are encouraged to Public Affairs e-mail: Secretary/Treasurer Renew your membership today, or gift a membership to your dad for Philip Hathcock of Maumelle visit the FCC’s Web site, www.fcc.gov/mb/engineering/maps, to check reception coverage for your location. Anytime you Father’s Day. Reduce your carbon footprint, and opt for a green member- [email protected] Outdoor Programs e-mail: Dr. Linda Beene Ballard of experience a breakup in your signal, try adjusting your antenna or doing a rescan on your converter box. An interactive ship. Reinvest in your AETN with a monthly sustainer contribution or a [email protected] Bismarck troubleshooting guide is also available on the FCC’s Web site at www.dtv.gov/iguide.htm. corporate match. Know people who aren’t members? Restore their faith in Membership hotline: Kay Bland of Paragould quality programming, and challenge them to give. 501-682-4120 Irma Hunter Brown of Even if you’ve had a converter box hooked up to your analog television set for a while, you should still rescan for chan- Viewer response line: Little Rock Lavenia Craig of El Dorado nels on June 13. Many stations will be increasing their signal strength or switching channel frequencies, and you may be And what a summer to be an AETN member. Beginning June 1, we have a 501-682-4198 Education: Dr. Andrew Fulkerson of Paragould able to receive stations that were previously unavailable. full schedule of activities related to Ken Burns’ latest documentary, “The 1-800-488-6689 Don Hale of El Dorado National Parks: America’s Best Idea.” Refresh your take on the natural e-mail address: Steven Jones of Little Rock Remember; if you subscribe to [email protected] Philip Kaplan of Little Rock Support for programming on AETN is made possible in part by state with our AETN Parks Passport, screening, family events, contests, AETN online: Bill Valentine of Little Rock cable or satellite you do not need to exhibits and more. (Learn more on page 6 of this issue.) www.aetn.org Allen Weatherly of Conway make any additional preparations Staying out of the heat this summer? Then check out the new PBS video for those television sets connected to that service.