April 2011 Quarterly Program Topic Report Category: Abortion NOLA: MLNH 010002 Series Title: PBS NewsHour Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 4/8/2011 6:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: News Segment Length: 00:10:09 Budget Battle Lines Drawn Over Spending, Planned Parenthood as Shutdown Nears: Federal agencies prepared for a shutdown as negotiators struggled to reach a budget compromise. Jeffrey Brown discusses the latest on the budget talks with Todd Zwillich, Washington correspondent for WNYC radio. Category: Abortion NOLA: MLNH 010015 Series Title: PBS NewsHour Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 4/27/2011 6:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: News Segment Length: 00:07:47 Budget Battles Reignite Animosity Between Congress, D.C. Government: Kwame Holman reports on the historically tense relations between Congress and the District of Columbia's residents and local politicians. The two worlds collided recently when Congress and President Obama reached a budget agreement in part through provisions affecting abortion services and private- school voucher programs in D.C. Category: Aging NOLA: MLNH 010000 Series Title: PBS NewsHour Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 4/6/2011 6:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: News Segment Length: 00:06:55 Estrogen Study Lead Researcher on Risks, Benefits of Hormone-Replacement Therapy: Once a popular treatment for menopause symptoms, hormone- replacement therapy had come under scrutiny for raising the risk of certain diseases, but a new study found a reduced risk of breast cancer and other benefits for some women. Jeffrey Brown discusses the latest findings with Dr. Andrea LaCroix, the study's lead author. Category: Aging NOLA: NBRT 030214 Series Title: Nightly Business Report Length: 30 minutes Airdate: 4/28/2011 5:30:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Magazine Segment Length: 00:00:00 Baby Boomers are Working Longer; Baby Boomers, Retirement, and Inheritance; NYSE Says No to Merger Bids; Demand for Nuclear Energy Rises; Preview of Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Meeting; US Economy Slows in First Quarter; Market Focus with Tom Hudson; Market Stats for April 28, 2011. Category: Alcohol, Drug Abuse/Addiction NOLA: COSE 017088 Series Title: Charlie Rose Episode Title: Charlie Rose - 17088 Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 4/27/2011 11:00:00 PM Service: PBS-PLUS Format: Interview/Discussion/Review Segment Length: 00:18:24 A look at the film Everything Must Go, an adaptation of a Raymond Carver story, with director Dan Rush and actor Will Ferrell. Category: American History/Biography NOLA: AMEX 002301 Series Title: Robert E. Lee: American Experience Length: 90 minutes Airdate: 4/4/2011 1:30:00 AM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 01:26:46 He is celebrated by handsome equestrian statues in countless cities and towns across the American South, and by no less than five postage stamps issued by the government he fought against during the four bloodiest years in American history. Nearly a century and a half after his death, Robert E. Lee, the leading Confederate general of the American Civil War, remains a source of fascination and, for some, veneration. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Robert E. Lee examines the life and reputation of the general whose military successes made him the scourge of the Union and the hero of the Confederacy, and who was elevated to almost god-like status by admirers after his death. Category: American History/Biography NOLA: CIVW 000102 Stacked Series Title: Civil War; The Episode Title: A Very Bloody Affair - 1862/Forever Free - 1862 Length: 150 minutes Airdate: 4/4/2011 8:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 02:30:00 “A Very Bloody Affair — 1862” — 1862 sees the birth of modern warfare and the transformation of Abraham Lincoln’s war to preserve the Union into a war to emancipate the slaves. Political infighting threatens to swamp Lincoln’s administration, and Union General George McClellan wages an ill-fated campaign on the Virginia peninsula. The episode follows the battle of ironclad ships, camp life and the beginning of the end of slavery. Ulysses S. Grant’s exploits come to a bloody resolution at the Battle of Shiloh, and rumors swarm about Europe’s readiness to recognize the Confederacy. Episode two of nine. “Forever Free — 1862” — Convinced by July 1862 that emancipation is now morally and militarily crucial to the future of the Union, Abraham Lincoln must wait for a victory to issue his proclamation. But there are no Union victories to be had, thanks to the brilliance of Confederate generals Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee. With Lee’s September 1862 invasion of Maryland, the bloodiest day of the war takes place on the banks of Antietam Creek, followed shortly by the brightest — the emancipation of the slaves. Episode three of nine. Category: American History/Biography NOLA: MLNH 010004 Series Title: PBS NewsHour Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 4/12/2011 6:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: News Segment Length: 00:14:33 Civil War's Causes: Historians Largely United on Slavery, But Public Divided: On the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War at South Carolina's Fort Sumter, Judy Woodruff has an excerpt from Ken Burns' "The Civil War" and discusses the conflict's causes and legacy with Harvard University's Drew Gilpin Faust, Howard University's Edna Medford and the University of South Carolina's Walter Edgar. Category: American History/Biography NOLA: NETK 000147 Series Title: Need to Know Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 4/1/2011 7:30:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Magazine Segment Length: 00:07:23 Jon Meacham speaks with Jeff Greenfield, journalist and author of Then Everything Changed: Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics to speculate about how the trajectory of American politics could have changed drastically with just a few alterations in historical events. Category: American History/Biography NOLA: PPHO 000000 Series Title: President's Photographer: Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office; The Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 4/12/2011 7:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 00:00:00 Pete Souza is never far behind President Obama. In fact, sometimes he’s ahead of him. As the president’s chief White House photographer, Souza is the president’s shadow. Now, National Geographic and PBS follow Souza inside the Obama White House — aboard Air Force One, backstage at the State of the Union and into the heart of the West Wing. It’s a behind-the-scenes look at the everyday grit of the American presidency and a chance to see what it’s like to cover the most powerful man in the world, for history. Category: American History/Biography NOLA: AMMS 002402 Series Title: American Masters Episode Title: John Muir in the New World Length: 90 minutes Airdate: 4/18/2011 8:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 00:00:00 Nearly a century after his death, John Muir is remembered and revered as the father of the environmental movement and the founder of the Sierra Club. It was this Scottish American who believed that it was our responsibility as citizens to protect our natural surroundings. And, by example and by passion, he taught us how to care for our wilderness treasures. Through his tireless advocacy and his writings, he almost single-handedly preserved the Yosemite Valley of California and was the force behind the creation of the National Park Service. Filmed throughout the majestic landscapes in which Muir traveled, this documentary places our nation’s most important wilderness assets in a cultural and social context. Muir’s story could not be a timelier reminder of America’s unique and, ultimately, threatened eco-systems. Category: American History/Biography NOLA: COSE 017081 Series Title: Charlie Rose Episode Title: Charlie Rose - 17081 Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 4/18/2011 11:00:00 PM Service: PBS-PLUS Format: Interview/Discussion/Review Segment Length: 00:35:12 A conversation with Paul Allen, philanthropist and co-founder of Microsoft on his book 'Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft' Category: American History/Biography NOLA: HIDE 000709 Series Title: History Detectives Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 4/24/2011 5:00:00 AM Service: PBS Format: Other Segment Length: 00:56:46 Mural studies that may have been commissioned by the WPA in the 1930s or 40s; a miniature painting that may depict George Washington; and a balloon scrap that may be a missing piece of a secret weapon. Category: American History/Biography NOLA: MLNH 010013 Series Title: PBS NewsHour Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 4/25/2011 6:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: News Segment Length: 00:08:39 At Stanford, Debate Brews Over Reviving ROTC Program on Campus: Decades after protests surrounding the Vietnam War, some private universities are taking another look at bringing back Reserve Officers' Training Corps programs, but the idea is rekindling some decades-old disputes over military presence on campuses. Spencer Michels reports on how the debate is playing out at Stanford. Category: American History/Biography NOLA: NETK 000149 Series Title: Need to Know Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 4/15/2011 7:30:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Magazine Segment Length: 00:00:00 Nearly one year ago this week, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, causing one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history. How are residents of Grand Isle, La., faring one year after the incident? We revisit some of the families and business owners we met last year during the oil spill to find out. We also sit down with ecologist Carl Safina and ProPublica’s Abrahm Lustgarten to discuss BP’s regulatory failures and the accident’s impact on the environment, and speak with energy expert Lisa Margonelli about the U.S.’s post-oil spill energy policy.