program guide www.kwbu.org SeptemberJuly 2009 2005 KWBU-TV Celebrating 20 years Understand your world Brazos Valley Public Broadcasting Foundation • One Bear Place #97296 • Waco, Texas 76798-7296 VOLUME 13, ISSUE 3 KWBU’S MISSION KWBU STAFF Joe Riley, President & CEO KWBU shall serve as an essential lifelong resource providing quality public television Clare Paul, KWBU-TV Station Manager and radio programs and services for the enrichment of the lives of Central Texans. Brodie Bashaw, KWBU-FM Station Manager Carla Hervey, Business Affairs Manager WHAT’S INSIDE Glenda Moss, Business Manager KWBU-TV Highlights .............................................................................. 2 Joani Livingston, Production Supervisor KWBU-TV Prime Time Schedule ................................................................ 5 Jessica Denk, Senior Producer KWBU-TV Daytime Schedule .................................................................... 9 Zack Morris, Chief Photographer KWBU-TV Overnight Schedule .................................................................10 Robert Shiekh, Senior Producer – Inside Baylor Sports KWBU Digital Program Service Schedule .....................................................11 Lawrence Gilligan, Producer - Inside Baylor Sports KWBU Create Schedule .........................................................................12 Tony Poole, Chief Engineer KWBU Underwriters .............................................................................13 Jaclyn Willbanks, KWBU-TV Operations Manager KWBU-FM Highlights .............................................................................14 Roxie Collier, Coordinator of Education and Outreach KWBU-FM Program Schedule ...................................................................16 Derek Smith, KWBU-FM News & Public Affairs KWBU-FM HD Radio Schedule ..................................................................17 Director KWBU Cornerstone Society ....................................................................18 Ashley Kortis, Director of Development Hal Pledger, Receptionist WHERE TO WATCH KWBU-TV Loretta Howard, Membership Manager Jacqueline Deavenport, Interactive Media/News/ Gatesville ............................................................................ Suddenlink 4 Communications Coordinator Kosse ............................................................................... Rapid Cable 95 Little River Academy ..................................................................Centrovision 8 ADVISORY COUNCIL MEMBERS: Lorena ............................................................................. Time Warner 4 Phil Adkins David Hyers Marlin .........................................................................Northland Cable 13 Ann Claire Anderson Kathy Krakowian Meridian ........................................................................... Rapid Cable 95 Jennifer Borderud Kurt Krakowian Moody............................................................................... Centrovision 8 David Brennan Ben Lacy Morgan’s Point ..................................................................... Centrovision 8 Sam Brown Chad Latino Riesel ....................................................................Cabletex Systems, Inc 9 Will Crockett Sam Smith Rogers .............................................................................. Centrovision 8 Carol Dugat Susan Taylor Rosebud ............................................................................. DMS Cable 39 Felicia Goodman John Ucci Salado .............................................................................. Centrovision 8 Temple ............................................................................. Centrovision 8 BRAZOS VALLEY PUBLIC BROADCASTING Temple/Killeen ..................................................................Time Warner 18 FOUNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Troy ................................................................................. Centrovision 8 Phil Adkins, Chairman Valley Mills ........................................................................ Rapid Cable 95 Patricia A. Wilson, Vice-Chairman Waco .............................................................................Grande Comm. 4 Kris Kaiser Olson, Secretary Waco ............................................................................... Time Warner 4 Raymond Bailey Dr. Karla Leeper KWBU is also available on UHF 34, Dish Network 34, and DirecTV 34. John Barry Dr. Charles S. Madden Larry Bates Maxey Parrish For a complete description of KWBU’s digital channels, please see Dr. David Garland Bernard Rapoport page 11. Sue Getterman Carlos Sanchez Nell Hawkins Loren Schwartz Cynthia Jackson Jim Vaughan QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? (254) 710-3472 BRAZOS VALLEY PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION OFFICERS: KWBU-TV or KWBU-FM Joe Riley, President & CEO One Bear Place #97296 Billie A. Gilbert, Corporate Secretary Waco, Texas 76798-7296 [email protected] The KWBU Program Guide is a monthly publication. www.kwbu.org KWBU is a service of our members, the Brazos Valley Public Broadcasting Foundation and Baylor University. Member Services Hotline • (254) 710-7882 or 1-800-898-3710 KWBU-TV Programming Information • (254) 710-7884 Closed Captioning KWBU-TV Membership Information • (254) 710-7887 If you have questions about closed captioning on any KWBU-TV's programs, please contact: PBS Video • 1-800-PLAYPBS Clare Paul KWBU-TV Station Manager Phone: (254) 710-7884 Fax: (254) 710-3874 Email: [email protected] Mail: One Bear Place #97296 Waco, TX 76798 Brazos Valley Public Broadcasting Foundation • One Bear Place #97296 • Waco, Texas 76798-7296 KWBU-TV Highlights National Parks: America’s Best Idea Ken Burns’ new six-part series about the history of the national parks premieres September 27th WBU-TV will air the new Arctic in Alaska — the documentary Ken Burns documentary is nonetheless a story of people from series, THE NATIONAL every conceivable background: rich and PARKS: AMERICA’S poor; famous and unknown; soldiers KBEST IDEA, Monday - Friday, and scientists; natives and newcomers; September 27 - October 2 at 7:00 p.m., idealists, artists and entrepreneurs; people with episodes repeating on the same who were willing to devote themselves to night they premiere. The entire series saving some precious portion of the land will also repeat over the weekend they loved, and in doing so, reminded of October 3 - 4. The 12-hour, six- their fellow citizens of the full meaning of part documentary series, directed democracy. by Burns and co-produced with his The narrative traces the birth of the longtime colleague, Dayton Duncan, national park idea in the mid-1800s and THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA’S who also wrote the script, is the follows its evolution for nearly 150 years. BEST IDEA is a six-part, 12-hour fi lm by story of an idea as uniquely American Ken Burns on the history of America’s Using archival photographs, fi rst-person national parks and the people who were as the Declaration of Independence accounts of historical characters, personal willing to devote themselves to saving and just as radical: that the most some precious portion of the land they memories and analysis from more than loved. Pictured: Old Faithful erupting, special places in the nation should be 40 interviews, and what Burns believes Yellowstone National Park. preserved, not for royalty or the rich, is the most stunning cinematography in CREDIT: PHOTO BY CRAIG MELLISH but for everyone. As such, it follows Florentine Films’ history and the most in the tradition of Burns’s exploration contemporary footage of any Ken Burns of other American inventions, such as fi lm since LEWIS AND CLARK, the series baseball and jazz. chronicles the steady addition of new Filmed over the course of more than six parks through the stories of the people years in some of nature’s most spectacular who helped create them and save them locales — from Acadia to Yosemite, from destruction. It is simultaneously a Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon, the biography of compelling characters and of Everglades of Florida to the Gates of the the American landscape. Also this month: Masterpiece Mystery: Inspector Families Stand Together: Feeling Note By Note (The Making of Lewis Secure in Tough Times Steinway L1037) Airs Sundays at 8:00 p.m. with a repeat on Airs Wednesday, September 9 at 7:00 p.m. Thursdays at 8:00 p.m. Airs Monday, September 14 at 9:00 p.m. This primetime television special features Kevin Whately (right) returns as Inspector Lewis This program follows the creation of a brief documentaries about real-life families for a second season. The much-loved Oxford Steinway concert grand, #L1037, from forest and the story of a Muppet family coping policeman is joined once again by Laurence Fox fl oor to concert hall, in a process spanning with the ups and downs of these uncertain (left) as his young partner DS Hathaway. As the 12 months, 12,000 parts, 450 craftsmen and economic times. Pictured: Al Roker, Deborah relationship between inspector and sergeant countless hours of fi ne-tuned labor. Roberts and Elmo grows and develops, the viewer sees new sides CREDIT: BEN NILES, COURTESY OF PLOW PRODUCTIONS CREDIT: GIL VAKNIN to the inimitable duo. CREDIT: PAUL CHILD KWBU PROGRAM GUIDE 2 KWBU-TV’s New Daytime Line-Up Begins September 7th Dinosaur Train premieres Monday, September 7th all is a time for new beginnings whether it is a new school, new job, or new outlook on life. It is also a time for a new daytime programming line-up on