July/August 2018 Vol 33 #4 For 40 years WCTE-TV/PBS has brought you the best in PBS national and local programming. We have recorded the stories, the culture and the music of our beautiful region like no one else could. But do you know what else we do? We host fun events! We’d be tickled if you joined us. Thursday, July 5, 2pm - 4pm “Kingdoms of the Sky” Screening at Fairfield Glade For more information, see page 7. Friday, July 13, 10am - 2pm Splash and Bubbles Pool Party at the Gilley Pool For more information, see page 9. Saturday, July 21, 9am Charity Golf Tournament “Drive For A Cause” For more information, see the back cover of Closeup. Thursday, August 23, starting at 6pm Julia Child Inspired Dinner For more information, see page 7. Friday & Saturday, September 7 & 8 Stations of Imagination (at Cookeville’s Fall FunFest) Free educational learning and games, face painting, and music, including the ever-popular Silent Disco. Walkaround PBS characters, Grover and Clifford the Big Red Dog may be found in our Seussville, which also features the Great American Read. Saturday, October 20 Haunted Half Run Running a half marathon has never been so spooky. Saturday, October 20 Blues & Brews Craft Beer Festival There were over 60 craft beers to try in 2017. We’re adding even more for 2018. Call 931-528-2222 or Check out wcte.org for ticket & event info. WCTE-HD Ch. 22.1, WCTE-WORLD SD Ch. 22.2, WCTE-Create SD Ch. 22.3 & WCTE-PBS KIDS Ch. 22.4 Staff & Contents Management PUBLIC TELEVISION FROM THE UPPER CUMBERLAND (931) 528-2222 4 WCTE Awarded 5 Telly Awards Becky Magura, President & CEO For our ACEs documentary and our Celeste Flatt Bennett Craig LeFevre Corporate Account Manager series, Discover the Upper Cumberland. Director of Technical Operations Mary Boring Lisa Luck Technical Operations Coordinator Grant Administrator / Trainer WCTE’s 40th Anniversary Mural Alicia Masterson 5 Reggie Brown Broadcast Traffic Coordinator Education & Community The story behind the mural. Taka Nakamura Engagement Associate Master Control Operator Jacob Carr Jodi Pitts Director & Senior Producer 7 Julia Child Inspired Dinner A Special Events & Engagement Samantha Chambers Manager delicious fundraiser in August. Special Events Assistant Cindy Putman Jessika Chubb Ready To Learn Tools Facilitator Education and Engagement Nathaniel Rich Help & Hope with ACEs: The Next Assistant 11 Programming Brent Clark Step Helping adults who suffer Seth Stanger Director of Content On-Air/Digital Promotions & & Digital Media with ACEs QC Coordinator Patti Cloud Shannon Terry Membership Coordinator Executive Assistant to the CEO/ 12 August Membership Drive Craig Gray Office Manager Art Director & Senior Producer Show Highlights August 16 - 26. Paula Walker Dominik Hinkleman Front Desk & Development Production Assistant Assistant WCTE Great TV Auction Results Avery Hutchins Ralph Welch 13 Director of Development & Director of Engineering Services Thank you for a great 35th TV Auction. Marketing Kristy Keeling Education and Community Impact Manager On our cover Upper Cumberland WCTE’s 40th Anniversary Mural WCTE PBS first came on the air on August 21, Broadcast Council 1978, specifically to serve the people of the Becky Magura, WCTE Pres. & CEO Amy Hollars Upper Cumberland. Tom Janney, Chair Morris Irby Mike Galligan, Vice Chair Nina Lunn As part of our celebration of this milestone, we Dr. Scott Little, Secretary Bryce McDonald commissioned a mural that reflects the history Mark Odom, Treasurer Mario Morales and quality of our programming over the years. Andrea Burckhard Can you identify the programs in the mural? For a Diana Baranowski Sally Pardue closer look, check out the mural on the wall of the Dr. Katherine Bertram Jack Stites Biz Foundry at 114 N. Cedar Avenue in Cookeville. Jerry Boyd Kelly Swallows Molly Brown Story on Page 5 Community Program guides Advisory Board Dr. Carl Owens Lissa Parks 13 Daytime Programming Devin Baranowski Dr. Jennifer Shank Ready To Learn and weekend guide Kelly Clarkson Dr. Michael Torrence Ben Newman Hal L. Harder - Managing Editor 14 Primetime Programming [email protected] Quality PBS evening programs For on-air, print and website advertising and promotion information, contact Avery Hutchins p.15 25 PBS KIDS Channel Listings at 931.528.2222, ext 220 or [email protected] WCTE Close-Up is published bi-monthly. It is mailed to individuals, WCTE-HD Ch. 22.1, WCTE-WORLD SD Ch. 22.2, corporations and foundations who contribute $35 or more to WCTE annually. Third class postage at Cookeville, Tennessee. Phone: WCTE-Create SD Ch. 22.3 & WCTE-PBS KIDS Ch. 22.4 931.528.2222. 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 January/Februarywebsite at wcte.org. 2014 | 3 photocredit Bohdan Zachary WCTE Awarded 5 TELL5Y AWARDS stablished in 1979, the Telly Awards annually show- cases the best work created within television and across video, for all screens. Receiving over 12,000 Gratitude Always Eentries from all 50 states and 5 continents, Telly Award Becky Magura, President & CEO of WCTE winners represent work from some of the most respected advertising agencies, television stations, production com- Ahhh, SUMMER! panies and publishers from around the world. It’s here in full force, one of my favorite times of the year! Thanks to the terrific This year, WCTE was honored with 5 Telly Awards for the success of WCTE’s Great TV Auction, you will see a host of exceptional programs following documentary and series: planned, including live coverage from the Smithville Fiddlers Jamboree. This year, I’m excited to make a return appearance with Steve Boots on Friday night of ACEs: A Public Health Issue the Jamboree to celebrate WCTE’s 40th anniversary and our continued cover- Building Strong Brains Tennessee age of the music event that defined our region for bluegrass and old time fiddle Silver Award music. In addition, we are excited to bring Saturday evening’s live coverage to a Craft: Use of Graphics Tennessee audience on the Tennessee Channel, through our sister PBS stations. ACEs: A Public Health Issue As we look to July and August, the official month that WCTE went on the air in Building Strong Brains Tennessee 1978, I am filled with a happy and grateful heart. I grew up in the region and I Bronze Award remember a time when we didn’t have our own station or even access to PBS. I General: Education am one of the fortunate few to have made WCTE my lifelong career, but even if I had never stepped foot in the door, I would have been blessed by WCTE, our PBS Discover the Upper Cumberland station serving this middle Tennessee region we call home. Silver Award Craft: Use of Graphics I know what it is to me, but what is WCTE to you? Is it PBS? Is it our hometown station? Is it the local productions? Is it the people who work there? Is it the Discover the Upper Cumberland people who give generously of their time, treasure and talent in service as Silver Award volunteers, members, and board members? Is it you? Craft: Editing Honestly, WCTE is all of that and more. It has offered four decades of sharing the Discover the Upper Cumberland rural voice, offering educational content to children who didn’t have access to Bronze Award preschool opportunities, and inspiring a region through the incredible content General: Entertainment of PBS. More importantly, it is ours. It is the only television station, public or Congratulations the entire ACEs Team. for your dedication, commercial, the Upper Cumberland will ever own. It is you. It is all of us. and quality work under an aggresive production schedule. There is much in our world to be concerned with, but I have found that life is bet- And congratulations to Art Director and Senior Producer ter when you live it from a perspective of gratitude. I am most grateful for you Craig Gray and show host Celeste Flatt Bennett for the new and the time you are taking to read this message. I am grateful for an incredible look and feel you’ve given to WCTE’s Discover the Upper staff who works tirelessly in service to the region. I think of them often, both Cumberland. Craig designed new graphics for the third present and past. I am grateful to our station leadership and board members. I season and produces the show. Thanks also am grateful for a community, state, and country that value public media and the go out to the WCTE team who almost all difference it makes in our daily lives. have a hand in putting the show together. Recently, we lost some folks that have contributed much, cared deeply, and left “WCTE strives to produce premium local a legacy of service. Many even encouraged others to remember them with a gift content to deliver to audiences who choose made to WCTE. I will always be grateful to these individuals: Alan Tatum, Ted whenever, wherever, and on what platform to consume it,” enthused WCTE’s Brent Clark, Haselton, Louise Culp, Joan Tansil, Larry McCaleb, Julia Woodford, and our dear Director of Content and Digital Media. “ former staff member, Janet Cooper. It’s good to remember these individuals and “We will continue to be a catalytic agent for so many who made our world a better place to live. change as we forge new boundaries to help better support the communities we serve Today and always, thank you for your support of WCTE. through impactful storytelling.” Becky 4 | WCTE Close-Up 40th ANNIVERSARY MURAL The children watching TV with the origi- ERIC SWENSON nal PBS logo on the old TV set symbol- -MURAL ARTIST- izes PBS KIDS and education, which is a large part of our mission.