June Schedule

Mon, June 2, 2008
Posted in Schedule Updates

Here are the down-loadable (PDF) schedule grids for daytime and prime time programming in June 2008.

Key programs for June include specials in the June Pledge Drive Saturday, May 31 through Monday, June 9 including HEARTBEATS OF DENALI, CROWN OF THE CONTINENT, AMERICAN MASTERS: CAROL BURNETT, A WOMAN OF CHARACTER, NOVA: SAVED BY THE SUN, AMERICAN SOUNDTRACK: DOO WOP’S GREATEST HITS, GLACIER PILOT DON SHELDON: DENALI’S HIGH ALTITUDE HERO, CHRIS BOTTI LIVE, JOHNNY CASH: A MAN OF VISION, THE BRAIN FITNESS PROGRAM, GOOD EVENING EV’RYBODY: LOUIS ARMSTRONG, VISIONS OF ISRAEL, SUZE ORMAN: WOMEN & MONEY, THE STEVE MILLER BAND LIVE IN CHICAGO, UNDER THE SEA WITH AL GIDDINGS, RITA RUDNER LIVE IN LAS VEGAS, NATURE: THE GORILLA KING, MY MUSIC: 50′S POP PARADE, ROY ORBISON AND FRIENDS, THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS, DR. WAYNE DYER: THE POWER OF INTENTION, HE TOUCHED ME: THE GOSPEL MUSIC OF ELVIS PRESLEY, and more. Regularly scheduled programs resume on June 10. Other programs of note in June include:

Independent Lens: Deep Water
Sun., June 15, 8:00 - 9:30pm
This film presents the true story of the fateful voyage of Donald Crowhurst, an amateur yachtsman who enters the most daring nautical challenge - the very first solo, non-stop, round-the-world boat race. Credit: Courtesy of IFC/ITVS.

Frontline: Young and Restless in China
Tues., June 17, 8:00-10:00pm
FRONTLINE explores the generation coming of age in China today. Shot over four years, the film follows a group of nine young Chinese men and women from across the country as they scramble to keep pace with a society changing as fast as any in history. Their stories of ambition and desire, exuberance, crime and corruption are interwoven with moments of heartache and despair. Together they paint an intimate portrait of the generation that is remaking China.

Another Day in Paradise
Wed., June 18, 7:30-9:00pm
Five thousand people live onboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Nimitz ; they all share the same mission: maintain, arm and fly jets to deliver bombs to the “big game” - the war in Iraq. ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE follows a fighter pilot described by his fellow Black Aces as “more of a lover than a warrior”; an ordnance seaman who discovered right before he departed that his new girlfriend was pregnant; and a tough-talking Marine who loves to salsa dance. The film offers a rare glimpse into the thoughts and lives of the people who are fighting America’s wars.

Masterpiece Mystery! Inspector Lewis, Series 1
Sun., June 22, 8:00-9:30pm
Kevin Whately returns as Detective Inspector Robbie Lewis in the spin-off to the popular “Inspector Morse” series. For more than 35 years, MASTERPIECE has enthralled audiences with the works of the finest classic and contemporary writers interpreted by the world’s foremost actors. The new MASTERPIECE schedule breaks the year into three “seasons,” each with its own host, graphics. In summer, MASTERPIECE MYSTERY! will present the best British mysteries.

P.O.V.: Traces of the Trade
Tues., June 24, 9:00 - 10:30pm
First-time filmmaker Katrina Browne makes a troubling discovery - her New England ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. She and nine fellow descendants set off to retrace the Triangle Trade: from their old hometown in Rhode Island to slave forts in Ghana to sugar plantation ruins in Cuba. Step by step, they uncover the vast extent of Northern complicity in slavery while stumbling through the minefield of contemporary race relations. In this bicentennial year of the abolition of the U.S. slave trade, “Traces of the Trade” offers powerful new perspectives on the black/white divide. An Official Selection of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

NOVA ScienceNow
Wed., June 25, 8:00-9:00pm
In its third season premiere, NOVA scienceNOW features dark matter; experiments with memory loss in mice; “digital detective” Hany Farid, professor of computer science at Dartmouth; and the “wisdom of the crowd.” Renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson hosts this fast-paced and provocative science magazine.

History Detectives
Mon., June 30, 8:00-9:00pm
America’s top gumshoes are back for a sixth season to prove once again that an object found in an attic or backyard might be anything but ordinary. Wesley Cowan, independent appraiser and auctioneer; Gwendolyn Wright, professor of architecture, Columbia University; Elyse Luray, independent appraiser and expert in art history; and Tukufu Zuberi, professor of sociology and the director of the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania leave no stone unturned as they travel around the country to explore the stories behind local folklore, prominent figures and family legends. In their sixth season premiere, the history detectives investigate the diary of a WWII pilot; an 1856 book purported to be the memoirs of a New York woman married to a Mormon elder; and an 1853 Napoleon coin said to be shot by Annie Oakley.

Comments

5 Responses to “June Schedule”

Barrett Fletcher on June 3, 2008 at 5:48 pm

You guys are alienating your audience. I would have contributed to a plea during the break before or after the CURRENT Nova, but I’m not even going to turn on the TV to watch an October rerun interupted by interminable pitching…
Ronnie Dent on June 5, 2008 at 11:37 am

During pledge windows, with the exception of news and public affairs programming, KAKM does not receive new programs from PBS. In fact, if we want to make a regular program into a pledge program, we must wait until after its premiere. Sometimes PBS makes repeat shows available as pledge programs, as in the case of NOVA: SAVED BY THE SUN. We try to pledge regular programs because we’ve heard from viewers upset about pledge drives disrupting the regular schedule. What we continually find, for various reasons, is that the regular programs do not generate as much funding as another program might. The NOVA you mention is a case in point, and we’ve taken its repeat off the schedule for Sunday, June 8 and have replaced it with another program that we hope will perform better. Fortunately, or unfortunately, on-air pledge drives are an important component in the mix of fund raising for KAKM. Only about 1 in 10 viewers contributes to KAKM, but about 70-75% of our funding comes from these individual viewers who do donate and from local program sponsors. We receive less than 4% from state and about 22% from federal government sources. As you can see, local fund raising pays the bulk of the programming acquisition costs to allow us to offer the great programs we do. It’s an issue that PBS stations wrestle with nationwide. So far in our case, we’ll continue to do our best not to alienate you while taking the steps necessary to raise the funds to purchase the programming that we provide you with year round.
Barrett Fletcher on June 8, 2008 at 8:12 pm

In point of fact you have never made an honest effort to solicit pledges around regular programing. There is plenty of local time during the regular schedule to throw in a pledge request. Like maybe in place of that horrible woman whose marriage was saved by watching PBS. Or that poor song writer ‘inspired’ by birds on a wire (that one actually was fairly clever the 1st 100 times)

Your current fund raising regimen will never be successful as no one who is not alredy an extremely loyal, and somewhat pathetic, hardcore supporter is watching it.
B on June 25, 2008 at 2:40 am

What was the name of the classical music piece played over the sign off slide show in the 70’s?
here at KAKM?

Thanks, Bill.
John Proffitt on June 25, 2008 at 2:57 am

@B The sign-off music was “Canon in D” by the classical composer Pachelbel. It’s widely recorded and available in lots of formats.

You can read more about the composer as well as the famous work here:

http://tinyurl.com/5uosy4