Pl a nnerMichiana’s bi-monthly Guide to WNIT Public Television Issue No. 6 November — December 2019 Sunday, November 17 at 7pm A Message from Greg Giczi President and GM, WNIT Public Television Board of Directors Chairman Susan Ohmer, Ph.D. Vice Chairs Happy Holidays Viewer-Members! Robert G. Douglass James Hillman We have a lot of celebrating to do all the way from Halloween through New Years! From family President and holidays to faith-based holidays, WNIT will be your source of new knowledge, information, General Manager and quality entertainment. Greg Giczi Treasurer We recently ended our fiscal year. It’s always a challenge to “make budget.” Thanks to all of you William J. Schmuhl, Jr. who gave us an extra push with your recent added donations. Secretary Hayley G. Boling WNIT has accomplished a lot this year because of your ongoing and extra support. Thanks Directors to a group of donors, we were able to launch our 24/7 PBS Kids Channel on broadcast (34.3) Jim Arnold and streamed on the internet. This educational channel has quickly become very popular! Tania Bengtsson The improvements needed to add the kids channel also benefitted our other two channels by Thomas G. Coley, Ph.D. Marvin Curtis improving our overall picture quality. There’s also a new transmitter to broadcast our WNIT Katy Demarais signals. We’ve also produced a slew of local programs these past 12 months. On top of our 6 Joel D. Duthie regular weekly shows, we also produced a number of special documentaries. Two of the most Rebecca Espinoza-Kubacki popular were Legends of Michiana: Joe Kernan, and Studebaker Fountain: A Gift of Water and Mary Horan Katherine Humphreys Light. Paul Jordan Christine M. Maziar On Sunday, November 17th, at 7pm, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Sesame Street. We hope Mary Louise Miller all of you “grads” of Sesame Street will be watching. It will be a good time to reflect how Cookie Pat Moody th Steven J. Perlewitz Monster influenced your life! FollowingSesame Street’s 50 Anniversary Celebration at 9pm, Mike Pound we will have the final episode (yes, final) ofPoldark. I know that will be tough for some of you Rebecca Stoltzfus, Ph.D. viewers to accept! James M. Summers Kimberley Bow Sundy If you want to see a great example of the transformational power of education, watch College Michael Wargo th Linda Yoder Behind Bars at 9pm on November 25 and 26. Then on the 27 , we have a regional special at 8pm, Linking Land and Lakes – Protecting the Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands. Charter Directors Arthur J. Decio Starting December 16th, WNIT on both our 34.1 and 34.2 channels will feature our own Jerry Hammes “festival” of national and local holiday concerts. There really are too many to list, so I encourage Ernestine M. Raclin Jane Warner* you to turn a few pages of your WNIT Planner Magazine and highlight the ones you want to Dar Wiekamp* enjoy. Honorary Life Director Carmi Murphy For those of you who now subscribe to YouTube TV, our PBS programming is now offered on that service. *Deceased Charter Director On behalf of our volunteer board of directiors and all my fellow colleagues at WNIT, I want to wish you a very happy holiday season and joyful New Year (can you believe it is 2020?). Thank you for everything you do to support public television! Best wishes, Greg Giczi President & General Manager 2 What’s Worth Watching November 6 Overnight Programming 24 Worth Watching December 10 Membership Corner 28 Inside? Primetime November 14 WNIT Kids Club 29 PBS KIDS 24/7 16 Production News 30 Primetime December 18 Honor Roll Members 32 Daytime Programming 22 Directors’ Circle 33 WNIT Supporters 34 UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT AND CIRCULATION 1. 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I understand that anyone who furnishes false or misleading information on this form or who omits material or information requested on the form may be subject to criminal sanctions (including fines and imprisonment) and/or civil sanctions (including multiple damages and civil penalties) WNIT Channel Guide DISH/DIRECTV COMCAST OR AT&T MEDIACOM U-VERSE * SD SD SD HD SD HD SD HD 34.2 34.2 INDIANA 4 704 120 Argos - - 371 34 - 4 704 120 Bourbon - - 371 34 - 4 704 120 Bremen - - 371 34 - 4 704 120 Bristol 10 191 371 34 - - - - Culver - - 371 34 - 4 704 120 Elkhart 10 191 371 34 - - - - Goshen 10 191 371 34 - - - - Jefferson Township 10 191 371 34 1034 - - - Knox - - 371 34 1034 4 704 120 LaGrange County - - 371 34 1034 3 704 - Lakeville - - 371 34 1034 4 704 120 LaPaz - - 371 34 1034 4 704 120 LaPorte (city) – 26 371 34 1034 - - - LaPorte County (Eastern) 10 191 371 34 1034 - - - LaPorte County (Western) – 26 371 34 1034 - - - Leesburg - - - - - 4 704 120 Michigan City - 26 371 34 1034 - - - Mishawaka 10 191 371 34 1034 - - 371 Middlebury 10 191 371 34 1034 - - - Milford - - - - - 4 704 120 Nappanee 10 191 371 34 1034 4 704 120 North Judson 10 191 371 34 1034 4 704 120 North Liberty 10 191 371 34 1034 4 704 120 North Webster - - - - - 4 704 120 Pierceton - - - - - 4 704 120 Plymouth 10 191 371 34 1034 - - - Porter County – 26 371 34 1034 - - - Rochester 10 191 371 34 1034 - - - South Bend 10 191 371 34 1034 - - 371 Syracuse - - 371 34 1034 4 704 120 Tippecanoe - - - - - 4 704 120 Valparaiso – 26 371 34 1034 - - - Walkerton - - 371 34 1034 4 704 - Wakarusa 10 191 371 34 1034 - - - Warsaw 10 191 371 34 1034 - - - Winamac 10 191 - - - - - - MICHIGAN Benton Harbor 10 191 371 34 1034 - - - Berrien Springs 10 191 371 34 1034 - - - Buchanan 10 191 371 34 1034 - - - Cassopolis 10 191 371 34 1034 - - - Constantine 10 191 371 34 1034 - - - Dowagiac 10 191 371 34 1034 - - - Edwardsburg 10 191 371 34 1034 - - - New Buffalo 10 191 371 34 1034 - - - Niles 10 191 371 34 1034 - - - Sister Lakes 10 191 371 - - - - - Stevensville 10 191 371 34 1034 - - - St. Joseph (city) 10 191 371 34 1034 - - - Three Rivers 11 - - - - - - - MAILING ADDRESS WNIT Center for Public Media White Pigeon 10 191 371 34 1034 - - - PO Box 7034 South Bend, IN 46634-7034 Charter Cable in Sturgis, MI STREET ADDRESS has reassigned its channels 300 West Jefferson Boulevard South Bend, IN 46601 Original positions are: Base Tier WNIT 34.1, #2. New assignment: #12. Phone: (574) 675-9648 WNIT 34.1, #781. New assignment: #785. Email: [email protected] WNIT 34.1, #135. New assignment: #195. After Charter’s conversion to all-digital, station will continue to be available to ALL Charter © 2019 Michiana Public Broadcasting Corporation customers served by the above lineups in a digital format on the basic tier of service. Statement of Frequency: WNIT PUBLIC TELEVISION ROKU PLANNER (USPS 103-650 ISSN 1523-9373) is published WNIT is excited to announce the much-anticipated PBS and PBS KIDS channels are now available bi-monthly by The Michiana Public Broadcasting on Roku! The PBS channel features videos from popular PBS programs. Once you activate the Corporation, a non-profit corporation in the State of PBS channel and choose WNIT as your local station, you can stream content from WNIT’s local Indiana at 300 West Jefferson Boulevard, South Bend, productions, as well as short, web-original videos from Webby Award-winning PBS Digital Studios.