KET Milestones: 1990-1993

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1990-1993

1990

The Civil War shatters public TV audience records.
KET Fund for Independent Production established.
5,000 Kentucky students receive GEDs with the help of the GED ON TV project.
KET premieres the John Sherman Cooper documentary Gentleman from Kentucky at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.

1991

KET founding Executive Director O. Leonard Press retires; Virginia Gaines Fox succeeds him.
KET Star Channels system receives national Innovations Award from the Ford Foundation.

Virginia Gaines Fox

1992

Barney & Friends becomes one of the most popular children’s programs ever.
67,000-square-foot addition to KET Telecommunications Center is dedicated.

Barney

1993

Vice President Al Gore visits KET’s Star Channels studios.
KET’s GED—Get It! airs nationwide as the centerpiece of a national outreach project.
Kentucky GeoQuest premieres.

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