August Schedule

Tue, July 29, 2008
Posted in Program Highlights, Special Events

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

Key programs for August include local, state and national election coverage. KAKM will broadcast the live candidate forum for Southcentral and statewide primary election races on RUNNING 2008, Monday through Wednesday, Aug. 18-20 beginning at 7:00pm each night. Click here for the most current broadcast schedule. In addition, KAKM will carry the PBS Special NewsHour coverage of the Democratic and Republican national conventions on a three-hour delayed basis to allow prime time broadcast of the entire coverage in our market. The Democratic National Convention coverage is scheduled to air Monday, Aug. 25 through Thursday, Aug. 28 from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. nightly. The Republican National Convention coverage is scheduled on Sept. 1-4. Other programs of note in August include the summer series HISTORY DETECTIVES, the final episodes of CLICK & CLACK’S AS THE WRENCH TURNS, and MASTERPIECE MYSTERY! “Inspector Lynley, Series VII” ‘Limbo’ (8/10) and ‘Know Thine Enemy’ (8/17). More August highlights include:

HISTORY DETECTIVES
Monday nights Aug. 4 and 11 at 8:00 pm
Join America’s top gumshoes as they set out to prove that an object found in an attic or backyard might be anything but ordinary. Wesley Cowan, independent appraiser; Gwendolyn Wright, professor of architecture; Elyse Luray, expert in art history; and Tukufu Zuberi, professor of sociology leave no stone unturned as they travel around the country to explore the stories behind local folklore, prominent figures and family legends.

P.O.V.
Tuesday nights Aug. 5, 12, and 19 at 8:00 pm
The first of three new episodes captures Johnny Cash, the Man in Black, in his peak. “Belarusian Waltz,” premiering August 12, is an offbeat tale of post-modern street theater meeting 1930s-style authoritarianism. The film offers a surprising window into the soul of the Belarusian people. The documentary on August 19, focuses on the Chilean judge Juan Guzmán’s criminal cases against the country’s ex-dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, whose 1973 coup left the democratically elected president, Salvador Allende, and thousands of others dead or “disappeared.”

CLICK & CLACK’S AS THE WRENCH TURNS
Wednesday nights Aug. 6, 13 at 7:00 and 7:30 pm
This animated sitcom takes off from the hit NPR show “Car Talk” and follows the on- and off-air escapades of Click and Clack, the Tappet brothers (alter-egos of “Car Talk’s” Tom and Ray Magliozzi), as they try to fix cars, fend off disgruntled customers and seek out increasingly creative ways to goof off. The episodes take place primarily at Car Talk Plaza, a fictional building that houses their radio studio and their famed garage in Harvard Square in the fair city of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

SOUNDSTAGE: Kenny Chesney
Thursday, Aug. 7 at 9:00 pm
Kenny Chesney presents contemporary country at its finest on this episode of SOUNDSTAGE. Proving deserving of his four consecutive ACM Entertainer of the Year awards, Chesney’s set, ranges from beachy, tropical homages like “Summertime” to reflective, soft crooners like “Better as a Memory.” Bounding back and forth across the stage, his unabashed energy translates into friendly heartland ballads and sincere, feel-good sing-alongs like “No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems,” “When the Sun Goes Down” and “Young.”

MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!: The Inspector Lynley Mysteries VII
Sunday nights Aug. 10 and 17 at 8:00 pm
Novelist Elizabeth George’s seemingly mismatched partners - the dashing blueblood Thomas Lynley (Nathaniel Parker), eighth Earl of Asherton, and his working-class sidekick, Barbara Havers (Sharon Small) - are known as much for fighting crime as for locking horns with one another. The celebrated New Scotland Yard duo collaborates on two final cases.

MUHAMMAD ALI: MADE IN MIAMI
Monday, Aug. 11 at 9:00 pm
Miami played a critical role in the evolution of one of the most significant cultural figures of our time: Muhammad Ali (né Cassius Clay). The film chronicles Cassius Clay’s arrival in Miami in the fall of 1960 (fresh from earning a gold medal in the Rome Olympics), his life in Overtown - a neighborhood that was considered “Harlem South” and a vibrant center of black entertainment and commerce - and his affiliation with the famed Fifth Street Gym in Miami Beach. Over the course of the next few years - coinciding with the height of the national civil rights movement - Clay evolved both professionally and politically, piling up victories in the ring and adopting the black separatist teachings of the Nation of Islam.

WIDE ANGLE
Tuesday, August 12 at 8:00 pm
This acclaimed series delivers up-to-the-minute reports from global hot spots to give American television viewers a unique forum for understanding the complex, often dramatic, sometimes explosive and always relevant stories that are shaping the present and future of the world. “Iraqi Exodus” comes from the front lines of the staggering refugee crisis that is unfolding in the Middle East as Iraqis flee their war-torn country at the rate of up to 50,000 people per month.

OUT OF LEFT FIELD: The Making of the Chinese Olympic Baseball Team
Thursday, Aug. 14 at 9:00 pm
A former major league baseball manager, Jim Lefebvre, and Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame pitcher Bruce Hurst take on the toughest task of their careers - transforming China’s fledgling national baseball team into a contender in the 2008 Olympic Games. This is a story of two divergent nations united by America’s pastime, a seat-of-the-pants chronicle of underdogs, world-class dreams, high-stakes risks and Olympic glory. What started four years ago with a phone call from an office not far from China’s Forbidden City to a retired manager in Scottsdale, Arizona, ends in August 2008, when outmatched Chinese baseball players - bolstered by their American coaches - step onto an Olympic baseball diamond and make history.

RUNNING 2008 Primary Election Coverage
Monday, Aug. 18 from 7:00 - 10:00pm
State House Districts 13 - 24 and State Senate Districts G, I, and K
Tuesday, Aug. 19 from 7:00 - 9:00pm
State House Districts 25 - 32 and State Senate Districts M and O
Wednesday, Aug. 20 from 7:00-9:00pm
State House Districts 33 - 35, State Senate District Q and candidates for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives

PBS Convention Coverage–A Newshour Special Report
Democratic National Convention
Monday-Thursday, Aug. 25-28 from 7:00-10:00pm
The staff of THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER invites you to join them in the convention halls for the most complete presidential convention coverage on television. Nightly gavel to gavel coverage of the Democratic National Convention will air from the convention halls of Denver, Colorado August 25-28. (The Republican National Convention will air from St. Paul, MN September 1-4.)