PROGRAM GUIDE | SEPTEMBER 2021 | VOL. 40 NO. 9 Kuana Torres Kahele The multi Nā Hōkū Hanohano-award winner brings his band to the PBS Hawai‘i studio STATEWIDE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Chair Jason Haruki Vice Chair Ryan Kaipo Nobriga Secretary Have you ever been so late to a the introduction of portable digital Joy Miura Koerte party it feels like the carriages have audio playback devices in 2004 that Treasurer turned back into pumpkins, the podcasting really caught on. Kent Tsukamoto horses back to mice and the dresses back to rags? I’m not comparing On Friday, May 14, 2021, I asked our Muriel Anderson Jodi Endo Chai myself to Cinderella, especially since team, “How do we start a podcast?” James E. Duffy Jr. my size 11-wide feet would never Fast forward to August 11, 2021, when Matthew Emerson fit in any glass slipper, but that’s less than three months later PBS AJ Halagao how I felt when I first asked the Hawai‘i entered the podcast world Wilbert Holck PBS Hawai‘i Communications team with the first episode ofWhat Siana Hunt about podcasts. School You Went? This new weekly Noelani Kalipi Cheryl Ka‘uhane Lupenui podcast explores the traditions and Ian Kitajima Thankfully, no one laughed, stories that make up the modern-day Ashley Takitani Leahey although I did hear someone snort. culture of Hawai‘i. A special guest Kevin Matsunaga Instead, they welcomed me to the joins us each week to lend insight Theresia McMurdo podcast party and encouraged me and share personal stories about Bettina Mehnert Jeff Mikulina to stay awhile. a topic. Rick Nakashima Ku‘uhaku Park I decided to do my own research “What school you went?” is one of Aaron Salā and the numbers blew me away. those questions that shouts Hawai‘i. L. Candy Suiso As of August 2021, there were more You will laugh, learn and reminisce Kūha‘o Zane than 2,000,000 podcasts in the with us and you may even shed a MANAGEMENT world and more than 48 million tear. It’s storytelling with a local twist episodes. In the United States, 75% and a ton of aloha. As the podcast President and CEO of the country is familiar with the trend continues to grow, PBS Hawai‘i Ron Mizutani term “podcasting” and 55% of the will grow with it. One thing is clear: Senior Vice President/CFO population or 155 million people people love to listen to each other Karen Yamamoto have listened to a podcast, including talk, and according to my wife, I love Vice President, Content 104 million who listen to podcasts to talk. Now if I can just find those Chuck Parker every month. glass slippahs! Vice President, Learning Initiatives Robert Pennybacker Where have I been? Clearly, I wasn’t What School You Went? can be one of them and I’m guessing, found on pbshawaii.org, as well as Vice President, Advancement Christina Kanemoto Sumida or at least hoping, neither were Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, some of you. I knew the world was Amazon Music and most major Vice President, Communications spinning faster than ever before and podcast distributors. Jody Shiroma COVID-19 added to the madness, Chief Engineer but when did the podcast format With Respect and Aloha, John Nakahira become so popular? PROGRAM GUIDE Turns out, podcasting, previously Editor and Chief Programmer known as “audio-blogging” dates Ron Mizutani John Kovacich back to the 1980s. It wasn’t until and the PBS Hawai‘i family 2 On the cover, left to right: Casey Olsen, Tiana Nonosina Liufau, TeHani Gonzado, Glenn Mayeda, Kuana Torres Kahele and Kaulike Pescaia Kuana Torres Kahele Monday, September 27 at 7:30 pm Kuana Torres Kahele Music can transcend boundaries. Kuana Torres Kahele hopes Hawaiian songs, or mele, can spark something inside of listeners, no matter their culture. “I would hope that Hawaiian music would reach far enough to put a seed into the listener. And what that seed grows into can be a million things ... and you don’t have to be Hawaiian to receive that,” says Kahele. The Hilo native is no stranger to our PBS Hawai‘i ‘ohana. He’s performed in a previous Nā Mele episode with the trio Nā Palapalai and in a holiday Casey Olsen Tiana Nonosina Liufau special. He continues to weave the past with the present, singing both traditional and original compositions. Kahele says one of his biggest inspirations is nature. “We have to have this level of know-how to be able to see nature in a different way so that we can understand it and so that we can also listen to it, in a form or way. Because it’s through that connection that we’re able to write the Hawaiian text or Hawaiian poetry.” The multi Nā Hōkū Hanohano-award winner embraces his Native Hawaiian Māhealani Mika Hirao-Solem TeHani Gonzado culture in every role he takes on. He’s not only a singer, musician and songwriter, but also a kumu hula, lei maker and instructor and an artisan of Ni‘ihau shell jewelry. When asked what else he wants to accomplish, Kahele says, “I haven’t really thought about it much lately because all I set out to do when I was younger, I’ve done, and actually, I’m still doing it.” 3 Glenn Mayeda, Kuana Torres Kahele and Kaulike Pescaia SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY Home is here. 5 6 7 7:00 LUCY WORSLEY’S ROYAL 7:30 NĀ MELE At Halekulani’s House 7:30 HIKI NŌ MYTHS & SECRETS Kings George Without a Key 8:00 NATIVE AMERICA Cities of the Sky III and IV and the Napoleonic War 8:00 ANTIQUES ROADSHOW 9:00 FRONTLINE America After 9/11 8:00 GUILT ON MASTERPIECE Churchill Downs Racetrack, Hour 3 11:00 AMANPOUR AND COMPANY Parts 1 and 2 9:00 POV SHORTS Where I’m From 10:00 ART IN THE TWENTY-FIRST 10:00 ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK PBS Hawai‘i is on the air CENTURY Johannesburg AWARDS 2020 24 hours a day, 11:00 TO THE CONTRARY WITH 11:00 AMANPOUR AND COMPANY BONNIE ERBE seven days a week. 11:30 THE OPEN MIND 12 13 14 7:00 LUCY WORSLEY’S ROYAL 7:30 NĀ MELE Mailani 7:30 HIKI NŌ OVER-THE-AIR MYTHS & SECRETS 8:00 ANTIQUES ROADSHOW 8:00 NATIVE AMERICA Broadcast Channels The Romanovs and the Russian Winterthur Museum Garden and New World Rising Revolution Library, Hour 2 9:00 OPEN A BOOK, OPEN THE (KHET) Channel 11.1 - 11.2 - 11.3 8:00 GUILT ON MASTERPIECE 9:00 AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Sandra WORLD: THE 2021 LIBRARY OF (KMEB) Channel 10.1 - 10.2 - 10.3 Parts 3 and 4 Day O’Connor: The First CONGRESS NATIONAL BOOK 10:00 ART IN THE TWENTY-FIRST 11:00 AMANPOUR AND COMPANY FESTIVAL CENTURY Berlin 10:00 FRONTLINE Boeing’s Fatal Flaw SPECTRUM 11:00 TO THE CONTRARY WITH 11:00 AMANPOUR AND COMPANY Basic Cable: Channel 10 BONNIE ERBE High-definition:Channel 1010 11:30 THE OPEN MIND PBS KIDS 24/7: Channel 443 19 20 21 7:00 MUHAMMAD ALI Round One: 7:30 NĀ MELE Ahumanu 7:30 HIKI NŌ HAWAIIAN TELCOM The Greatest (1942-1964) 8:00 MUHAMMAD ALI Round Two: 8:00 MUHAMMAD ALI Round Three: Basic Cable: Channel 11 9:15 MUHAMMAD ALI Round One: What’s My Name (1964-1970) The Rivalry (1970-1974) The Greatest (1942-1964) (encore) 10:00 MUHAMMAD ALI Round Two: 10:00 MUHAMMAD ALI Round Three: High-definition:Channel 1011 11:30 TO THE CONTRARY WITH What’s My Name (1964-1970) The Rivalry (1970-1974) (encore) PBS KIDS 24/7: Channel 96 BONNIE ERBE (encore) 12:00 AMANPOUR AND COMPANY 12:00 THE OPEN MIND 12:00 AMANPOUR AND COMPANY DirecTV PBS Hawai‘i: Channel 11 PBS Kids 24/7: Channel 11-3 26 27 28 Dish Network 7:00 THE QUEEN’S GARDEN 7:30 NĀ MELE Kuana Torres Kahale 7:30 HIKI NŌ 8:00 ELIZABETH IS MISSING 8:00 ANTIQUES ROADSHOW 8:00 IN THEIR OWN WORDS PBS Hawai‘i: Channel 11 ON MASTERPIECE Winterthur Museum Garden and Jimmy Carter PBS Kids 24/7: Channel 10 10:00 ART IN THE TWENTY-FIRST Library, Hour 3 9:00 AMERICAN EXPERIENCE CENTURY San Francisco Bay Area 9:00 AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Citizen Hearst, Part 2 of 2 11:00 TO THE CONTRARY WITH Citizen Hearst, Part 1 of 2 11:00 AMANPOUR AND COMPANY BONNIE ERBE 11:00 AMANPOUR AND COMPANY All programs offer closed-captioning. 11:30 THE OPEN MIND 4 Schedule is subject to change. EVENING: SEPTEMBER 2021 WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 2 3 4 7:30 FAMILY INGREDIENTS 7:30 INSIGHTS ON PBS HAWAIʻI 7:30 WASHINGTON WEEK 7:00 HOW SHE ROLLS Biscuits Rising Lānaʻi: Venison 8:30 PBS HAWAIʻI PRESENTS 8:00 GREAT PERFORMANCES 7:30 RICK STEVES’ EUROPE Swiss Alps 8:00 NATURE Under a Jarvis Moon Yannick: An Artist’s Journey 8:00 KĀKOU – HAWAIʻI’S TOWN HALL Natural Born Rebels: Survival 9:30 SKINDIGENOUS New Zealand 10:00 GREAT PERFORMANCES How Much Tourism Is Too Much, and 9:00 NOVA Nature’s Fear Factor 10:00 SURRENDER ON THE USS The Magic of Horowitz Who Decides? 10:00 FUTURE OF WORK MISSOURI 11:00 AMANPOUR AND COMPANY 9:30 DAVID HOLT’S STATE OF MUSIC The New Industrial Revolution 11:00 AMANPOUR AND COMPANY Taj Mahal 11:00 AMANPOUR AND COMPANY 10:00 TRIBUTE TO TOUSSAINT 11:00 AUSTIN CITY LIMITS Ray Wylie Hubbard 8 9 10 11 7:30 ANTIQUES ROADSHOW RECUT 7:30 INSIGHTS ON PBS HAWAIʻI 7:30 WASHINGTON WEEK 7:00 HOW SHE ROLLS American Stories, Part 1 8:30 PBS HAWAIʻI PRESENTS Strange 8:00 9/11 KIDS This Was Not Part of the Plan 8:00 NATURE Natural Born Rebels: The Land: My Mother’s War Bride Story 9:30 FRONTLINE America After 9/11 7:30 RICK STEVES’ EUROPE Mating Game 9:00 SKINDIGENOUS Iqaluit 11:30 AMANPOUR AND COMPANY French Alps and Lyon 9:00 NOVA Extreme Animal Weapons 10:00 SEARCHING FOR THE 8:00 GREAT PERFORMANCES 10:00 FUTURE OF WORK Futureproof STANDING BOY OF NAGASAKI Verdi’s Requiem: The Met Remembers 9/11 11:00 AMANPOUR AND COMPANY 11:00 AMANPOUR AND COMPANY 9:35 STORIES IN THREAD 10:00 TOUCHING THE SOUND 11:00 AUSTIN CITY LIMITS The Very Best of John Prine 15 16 17 18 7:30 ANTIQUES ROADSHOW RECUT 7:30 INSIGHTS ON PBS HAWAIʻI 7:30 WASHINGTON WEEK 7:00 HOW SHE ROLLS Farm to Table American Stories, Part 2 8:30 PBS HAWAIʻI PRESENTS