KET Milestones: 1994-1996

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1994-1996

1994

KET premieres Kentucky Tonight and Signature.
The Three Tenors in Concert draws a worldwide audience of one billion people.

KET launches Kentucky Life with host Byron Crawford.
Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels grant creates a closed-captioning center at KET.
KET establishes a World Wide Web site and the ViewerLink Line.
Commonwealth Endowment for KET established; board member Lucille C. Little pledges $1 million to fund an arts education endowment.
KET produces the first in a series of Electronic Field Trips, visiting the Dotiki coal mine in Western Kentucky.
KET and the Kentucky Telecommunications Consortium pilot the Going the Distance associate degree program.

KET assumes full control of the Kentucky TeleLinking Network (KTLN) linking state universities, state agencies, schools, and other sites via two-way video.
The KET productions Mountain Born: The Jean Ritchie Story and Signature “George C. Wolfe” are chosen for national broadcast by PBS.
KET Distance Learning turns to a new technology—the Internet—to connect classrooms.
KET, PBS, and the National Center on Adult Literacy receive a $15 million federal grant to develop LiteracyLink, a video and online project featuring GED and workforce basic skills content.

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