3 - CEO Message 6 - TV Listings 18 - Ways To Give 4 - Cover Story 10 - Evening Grid 17 - Daytime Grid PROGRAM GUIDE JULY 2019 VOL. 38 NO. 7 THE PAGE 4 TH 50 ANNIVERSARY Courtesy of NASA, 1969 | JULY 2019 Still Connected – and We’re So Grateful! We feel fortunate that ties to this TV station run strong, and that former staffers and the families of employees who’ve passed away come by and visit. It was a delight to get together with relatives of two men who helped build the quality of public television in Hawai‘i. The visit was organized by Dr. Mary Bitterman, Akio Sakata Joe Konno who headed the TV station when the late engineer Akio Sakata and the late photographer Joe Konno were in their heyday. Mary went on to become a national PBS What a blast we had with our leader. These former staffers’ friends from Hawai‘i Island who talent, character and spirit remain came out to GET CAUGHT a powerful inspiration here. READING with us. In Waimea, Akio, a thoughtful and clever we spent time together on a native of Hakalau, Hawai‘i Island, scavenger hunt at Thelma Parker pulled off engineering firsts in Memorial Public Library, scouring establishing our extensive Pictured from left: Leslie Wilcox, PBS Hawai‘i through books for clues. GET broadcast system. He died too President; Joe Konno’s daughter, Jo Anne CAUGHT READING is our statewide young, at age 53. Joe was not Soong; Akio Sakata’s granddaughter, Ariel multimedia initiative to share the only a superb still photographer, Ushijima; Dr. Bitterman; Akio’s daughters love of reading with our community. he was one of Hawai‘i’s first Renee Sakata and Cynthia Ogasawara; and television cameramen. Donna Tanoue, former national PBS Board member. Mahalo to our retiring Board Members: Mary Ann Manahan, Julie Shimonishi and L. Candy Suiso BOARD OF DIRECTORS MANAGEMENT Chair Vice Chair President and CEO Senior Vice President/CFO Joanne Lo Grimes Bettina Mehnert Leslie Wilcox Karen Yamamoto Secretary Treasurer Vice President, Content Vice President, Advancement Joy Miura Koerte Kent Tsukamoto Chuck Parker Christina Sumida Muriel Anderson Jason Haruki Vice President, Communications Director, Learning Initiatives Susan Bendon Ian Kitajima Jody Shiroma Robert Pennybacker Jodi Endo Chai Noelani Kalipi James E. Duffy Jr. Kamani Kuala‘au Chief Engineer Matthew Emerson Aaron Salā John Nakahira Jake Fergus Ka‘iulani Sodaro Jason Fujimoto Bruce Voss PROGRAM GUIDE Editor and Chief Programmer Graphic Artist John Kovacich Randall Choo pbshawaii.org ON THE COVER: Apollo 11 astronauts. See story on pages 4-5. 2 CEO MESSAGE The Mission of Reaching Leslie Wilcox PBS Hawai‘i Far and Deep President and CEO The theme of human connection ran alongside the of social change. And we talked about using local subject of digital media strategies at the PBS Annual knowledge to determine the best ways to convene and Meeting last month in Nashville, Tennessee. Which felt authentically engage communities of diverse voices. Joe Konno just right. What we strive to do in public media is combine Just as there’s no quick fix for the broken heart in a the power of touch and the reach of tech to serve our country song, there’s no manual for success in the home states. rapidly changing media industry. The spinning evolution Why meet in Nashville? Because PBS representatives of tech choices, viewer options and fragmented from around the audiences requires country need to media makers meet somewhere – to be agile and and Music City was relentlessly a great setting for purposeful – and renowned filmmaker that still doesn’t Ken Burns to share assure success. his newest epic, Here’s an industry Country Music. expectation that’s He spoke in a hotel a safe bet: In three ballroom two blocks years or less there from a boulevard of will be as many windows-thrown- digital screens as open, live-music live TV screens honky tonks. The Leslie at Nashville conference with national PBS figures (right to left) being used to view eight-part, 16-hour news anchor Judy Woodruff, commentator David Brooks and programming. film premieres on (far left) arts adviser Jane Chu PBS KIDS PBS stations viewing is already nationally on Sunday, there. Digital September 15. screens dominate in front of young children, who also At the conference, Burns said the film isn’t only for use them to play PBS educational video games. country music fans. At the heart of this American art Back from Nashville, our local team knows that form are honesty, vulnerability and real life. It’s about we need more than quality programming going for the joy of love and family, the hurt of betrayal, loneliness, PBS Hawai‘i; we need to offer easy availability. You as regret, resilience, toil, faith, independence and the lure a viewer want to be able to watch what you want – of the open road. when and where you want it. Our Passport streaming I had the privilege of taking part in a discussion on service and our website on-demand programs are stage with heavy hitters: (right to left) PBS NewsHour a start. anchor and managing editor Judy Woodruff; NY Times If PBS Hawai‘i’s digital strategy goals were a country Op-Ed columnist/PBS NewsHour commentator/author music song, the title would be “I’ll Go Anywhere With David Brooks and (far left) PBS Arts Adviser Jane Chu. You.” We looked at how the arts reach deep within people Aloha nui, and we considered Brooks’ proposition that the neighborhood, not the individual, is the essential unit 3 COVER STORY THE Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the moon landing Courtesy of NASA Courtesy of Apollo 11 astronauts (from left): Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. share a laugh By Jody Shiroma, PBS Hawai‘i July 20, 1969 was a momentous day, a day whose events some would refer to later as the “greatest experience of their lifetime.” Parents around the world invited their children to join them around the television, “Come and watch this,” they said. pbshawaii.org NASA Courtesy of 4 Apollo 11 Saturn V launch vehicle lifts off from Kennedy Space Center. Courtesy of United States Air Force Courtesy of ZUMA Press, Inc. / Alamy Stock Photo Courtesy of NASA Courtesy of The Apollo 11 crewmen, still under a 21-day Poppy Northcutt became the first woman in an operational Ed Dwight, the first quarantine, are greeted by their wives. support role to work in NASA’s Mission Control Center in African American to be Houston with the flight of Apollo 8. trained as an astronaut Families gathered around their television sets in a diverse cast of characters who played key roles in awe, listening intently as messages came crackling these historic events. over the airwaves. From Apollo 11, two American Among those are astronauts Aldrin, Frank Borman astronauts, Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, and Bill Anders; Sergei Khrushchev, son of the accomplished what no other humans had done – former Soviet premier and a leading Soviet rocket they stepped foot on the moon. Armstrong’s words, engineer; Poppy Northcutt, a 25-year old “That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for “mathematics whiz” who gained worldwide attention mankind,” echoed around the world. as the first woman to serve in the all-male bastion of As Americans and the world shared their experiences, NASA’s Mission Control; and Ed Dwight, the Air Force for those living in Hawai‘i the event continued as pilot selected by the Kennedy administration to train astronauts Armstrong, Aldrin and Michael Collins as America’s first black astronaut. made their first landfall on O‘ahu after their capsule “When we think of that breathtaking moment of the splashed down in the Pacific Ocean. Their quarantine 1969 moon landing, we forget what a turbulent time unit arrived at Pearl Harbor aboard the recovery that was,” said Mark Samels, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE vessel, the aircraft carrier USS Hornet, on their way executive producer. “The country was dealing with back to Houston. huge problems – Vietnam, poverty, race riots – and In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the there was a lot of skepticism about the space Apollo 11 moon landing, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE program. Chasing the Moon explores the unbelievably and PBS Hawai‘i are premiering Chasing the Moon, complex challenges that NASA was able to overcome. a three-part, six-hour documentary series that brings It was a century-defining achievement, and our film the awe, excitement and unforgettable experience tells a familiar story in an entirely new way.” to life for both those who lived through it and for the generations who have come after. From the space race’s earliest beginnings to the monumental achievement of the first lunar landing AMERICAN EXPERIENCE in 1969 and beyond, this series recasts this period as a fascinating time of scientific innovation, political CHASING THE MOON calculation, media spectacle, visionary impulses and Monday - Wednesday at 9:00 pm personal drama. Utilizing previously overlooked and July 8 - 10 lost archival material – much of which has never on PBS Hawai‘i before been seen by the public – the film features 5 | JULY 2019 PRIMETIME & WEEKEND LISTING SCHEDULE Courtesy of Mark Reinstein/Alamy Stock Photo PBS Hawai‘i is on the air seven days a week from 5:00 am to midnight. Viewers with cable service also have access to overnight programming which is indicated by Cable Only After Midnight. Viewers with cable service and high-definition (HD) TVs may watch PBS Hawai‘i in high-definition on Spectrum Channel 1010 or Hawaiian Telcom Channel 1011.