Air Check Dear Member, The Guide The Member Magazine for A very important focus across all of our platforms is education. Ensuring that the very youngest WTTW and WFMT members of our community are ready for school; that kids are exposed to the arts, literature, science, Renée Crown Public Media Center history, the great outdoors, and more; that kids across the city and suburbs are encouraged to graduate 5400 North Saint Louis Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60625 from high school and beyond – these values are all core to our mission. This month as students head back to school, WTTW brings you a week-long primetime and digital initiative, Spotlight Education Week, Main Switchboard which features specials from Frontline, NOVA, POV, Independent Lens, (773) 583-5000 TED Talks, PBS NewsHour, and more, culminating in the annual American Member and Viewer Services (773) 509-1111 x 6 Graduate Day celebration recognizing individuals and organizations that WFMT Radio Networks are helping children achieve their goals. These specials will be available (773) 279-2000 on WTTW11 and wttw.com. Visit WTTW’s American Graduate website, Chicago Production Center and watch our 9-part digital series, Central Standard: On Education, for (773) 583-5000 a revealing look at the challenges facing families in Chicago’s education Websites system through the eyes of five 8th grade students. wttw.com wfmt.com September is always a month of blockbuster premieres on WTTW11. President & CEO We’ll bring all-new seasons of the popular Poldark and Indian Summers Daniel J. Schmidt series from Masterpiece. PBS NewsHour provides coverage and analysis COO & CFO of the first Presidential Debate; Frontline’s acclaimed election-year series Reese Marcusson The Choice returns – going behind the headlines to investigate what has shaped the Democrat and EVP Radio & Project Development Republican candidates; and Chicago Tonight will go deep with coverage of local elections. A new special Steve Robinson focuses on an elderly Winston Churchill during his second stint as England’s Prime Minister. We mark Guide Staff the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with a new glimpse inside the Pentagon on that fateful day, Publisher and an episode of NOVA will focus on the evolution of terrorism since then. Anne Gleason Art Director On 98.7WFMT and wfmt.com, we’ll have four concerts from the 2016 BBC Promenade season, the world’s largest classical music festival from London’s Royal Albert Hall, including the famous Last Night Television Contributors Julia Maish of the Proms to conclude this miniseries with a bang. We anticipate the upcoming Lyric Opera season Dan Soles with a live broadcast of Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium Park. And we welcome a number of virtuoso Radio Contributor artists to our studios for live Impromptu performances, starting with guitarist Jason Vieaux and harpist Andrea Lamoreaux Yolanda Kondonassis, plus the Fifth House Ensemble, the Cavatina Duo, and more. Visit wfmt.com Distribution Manager for extra coverage of these events, including interviews, feature stories, and classical news of the day. Pat Sheppard Advertising Sales Join us as we make the transition from summer to fall! WTTW: Douglas Carleton (773) 279-2128 Sincerely, WFMT: Paul Ansell (773) 279-2101 The Guide: The Member Magazine Dan Schmidt for WTTW and WFMT (ISSN 2329-1338) President & CEO September 2016 Volume 31, Number 225 The Guide: The Member Magazine for WTTW and WFMT is published monthly (for contributors of $40 or more annually) by Window To The World Communications, Inc., 5400 Inside the Guide North Saint Louis Ave., Chicago, IL 60625-4698. Periodical postage paid 3 Member Connections 14 Multi-Channel Primetime Grid at Chicago, IL and additional mailing offices. 4 Member Perks 17 Do it Yourself Saturdays 5 TV Listings 19 At-a-Glance POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Guide: The Member 6 WTTW Digital Channel Highlights 20 Radio Listings Magazine for WTTW and WFMT, 5400 8 WTTW Kid Grid 31 Sponsors North Saint Louis Ave., Chicago, IL 60625-4698. Copyright 2014, Window To The World Communications, Inc., ON THE COVER: Aidan Turner as Ross Poldark. Photo: Robert Viglasky/Mammoth Screen for Masterpiece Chicago, IL. 2 SEPTEMBER 2016 MEMBER CONNECTIONS Live Piano Concert: An Evening with Joan Baez Alessandro Marangoni WHAT The PianoForte Salon Series WFMT’s monthly live series, The PianoForte Salon Series, continues its season of broadcasts and you’re invited to be part of WHERE the audience! Join WFMT for a live performance and conversation PianoForte Studios with pianist Alessandro Marangoni performing Rossini and Chopin. 1335 S. Michigan Avenue in Alessandro Marangoni burst onto the international concert stage Chicago in 2007 when he won the prestigious “Amici di Milano” International WHEN Prize for the Music. In the same year, he played at Teatro alla Scala Friday, September 2, 12:00 pm in Milan, as pianist solo- ist during a tribute to the great Italian conductor Victor de Sabata, with Daniel Barenboim. In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of de Sabata’s death, he recorded a CD of his piano works on the La Bottega Discantica label. Soon after, he was signed as an international recording artist with NAXOS. Marangoni’s growing discography has received international critical acclaim for the interpretation and technique that fueled his meteoric rise on the concert stage in Europe and beyond. Joan Baez Admission to this concert is free. For program information, visit Alessandro Marangoni pianofortefoundation.org. WHAT Joan Baez in Concert Yakov Smirnoff LIVE In this new one-man show, Yakov Smirnoff uses humor, intelligence, and empirical research to showcase WHERE how laughter is the gauge of happiness in romantic relationships. You’ll be left in stitches as you enjoy his Orchestra Hall 220 S. Michigan Avenue in Chicago insightful and humorous philosophies on love, romance, and the differences between men and wom- WHEN WHAT en. In the ’80s, his humor helped end Tuesday, October 25, 8:00 pm Yakov Smirnoff Live Performance: the Cold War in the war room, and Happily Ever Laughter now he’s helping to end the cold war WHERE in the bedroom. Don’t miss this musical force as she celebrates North Shore Center for the Happily Ever Laughter is a culmi- her 75th birthday. Joan Baez has been influential Performing Arts nation of a concept Yakov has been since the 1960s, both as a beloved folk singer and 4999 Old Orchard Road in Skokie working on for the last 20 years at his as a political activist who marched on the front WHEN own two-thousand seat theater in lines of the Civil Rights Movement with Martin Friday, November 4, 7:30 pm Branson, Missouri. It’s there that he Luther King, Jr. Fifty years later, Baez remains as created a laboratory of laughter and vital and passionate as ever in concert and on re- Yakov Smirnoff where four and a half million of his cordings. This is an evening you won’t forget, in a guests have learned – through laughter – how to extend the honeymoon stage in their own relationships. beautiful Chicago venue. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit wttw.com/events. For tickets, visit wttw.com/events. Screening & Discussion – Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War WTTW presents a screening and discussion about a new film directed by Ken Burns and Artemis Joukowsky, Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War. This new film is an account of a daring rescue mission that occurred on WHAT Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War the precipice of World War II. It tells the previously untold story of Waitstill Screening & Discussion and Martha Sharp, an American minister and his wife from Wellesley, Massachusetts, who left their children behind in the care of their parish and WHEN boldly committed to a life-threatening mission in Europe. Over two dangerous Thursday, September 7 years, they helped to save scores of imperiled Jews and refugees fleeing Nazi 5:00 pm: Book Signing with Director occupation across Europe. Artemis Joukowsky A book signing with filmmaker Artemis Joukowsky will precede the 6:00 pm: Film Screening & Discussion screening, and a panel discussion with questions and comments from the audience will follow. The discussion will be moderated by WTTW senior WHERE producer Dan Andries with panelists Peter Braunfeld, Holocaust survivor; Jones College Prep Dr. Mark Hicks, Professor of Religious Education at Meadville Lombard 700 S. State Street in Chicago Theological School; Artemis Joukowsky, filmmaker; and Maureen Loughnane, Director, Chicago Office, Facing History and Ourselves. This special event is free, but reservations are required. Visit to wttw.com/events to reserve your spot. 2016 SEPTEMBER 3 MEMBER PERKS 50% off Tickets to Music Institute Faculty Concert The Music Institute of Chicago opens its 2016- 17 season September 24 with “The Elements,” a program featuring more than 30 members of the Music Institute’s celebrated faculty performing works about or inspired by the five elements: earth, water, air, fire, and spirit. Repertoire in- cludes works by Piazzolla, Uebayashi, Villa-Lobos, Scriabin, de Falla, Mendelssohn, Ravel, Barber, and Music Institute Composer-in-Residence Mischa Zupko. The concert takes place Saturday, September 24 at 7:30 pm at Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Avenue in Evanston. WTTW members may purchase two full-price tickets for the price 2-for-1 Tickets to Orion of one, subject to availability, by calling (847) Ensemble “Collage of Colors” 905.1500 ext. 108 and using the code WTTW. For more information, visit musicinst.org. The Orion Ensemble opens its 2016-17 sea- son with “Collage of Colors,” welcoming back highly respected Chicago violist Stephen Boe. The program includes a work written for Orion $10 off Tickets to the World Premiere of “Helldrivers of Daytona” in 1996, James Wintle’s Pontoon-Bridge Miracle WTTW Members have the exclusive opportunity to receive $10 off tickets to the world premiere of the for clarinet, violin, and piano; Alexander von hilarious new rock musical Helldrivers of Daytona running September 8 through October 30 at The Zemlinsky’s Trio in D Minor for clarinet, cello, Royal George Theatre, 1641 North Halsted Street and piano, Op.