Wednesday 1/23/2013

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KET: GED Connection; #132 "Ratio, Proportion, and Percent" [TV-G]; Explores how and why people use ratios, proportions, and percentages to compare numbers and solve problems.

KETKY: In Performance at the Governor's Mansion; #402 "The Poetry of Jazz/The Jazz of Poetry"; Features music by the Mike Tracy Quartet, readings by Frank X Walker and two former Governor's School for the Arts students, and a performance by jazz singer Gayle King of Louisville. A 2000 KET production.

KET: GED Connection; #132 "Ratio, Proportion, and Percent" [TV-G]; Explores how and why people use ratios, proportions, and percentages to compare numbers and solve problems.

KET: Bluegrass and Backroads; #905 "Dummy Museum, Sheep Farm, and Hillbilly"; Vent Haven Museum is home to ventriloquist's dummies, raising sheep at Lan Mark Farms, the Hillbilly Festival in Pikeville, and Lovell's Orchard is one of Kentucky Farm Bureau's Certified Farm Markets. [High-Definition]

KET2: Pioneers of Television; #302 "Primetime Soaps" [TV-PG]; Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Evans, Joan Collins, Joan Van Ark, and more stars discuss primetime soaps Dallas, Dynasty, and Knots Landing. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Kentucky Life on the Road; #709 "Along Highway 60" [TV-G]; In a special expanded edition, host Dave Shuffett takes a nostalgic tour of Kentucky by driving from Ashland to Paducah on U.S. 60. Stops include a drive-in restaurant, Grayson Lake, Calumet Farm, the state capitol, a Frankfort memorial to African-American Civil War veterans, a Louisville blues bar, Brandenburg, an Owensboro pastry shop, Camp Breckinridge, Smithland, and the Swan Lake Wildlife Management Area. A 2001 KET production. Watch Online

KET: The Price of Poverty In Kentucky; Experts and advocates from across the state gather on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day to address a few of the many questions and challenges regarding poverty in Kentucky. Bill Goodman and Renee Shaw host. Panelists include Terry Brooks, executive director, Kentucky Youth Advocates; Councilwoman Attica Woodson Scott, Louisville Metro Govenment; Eric Schansberg, an economics professor at Indiana University-Southeast and member of the Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Board of Scholars; Reid Livingston, Kentucky director, Save the Children USA; Courtney Trent, Early Steps to School Success coordinator, Save the Children; Gerry Roll, executive director, Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky; James P. Ziliak, founding director, University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research and a UK Gatton Endowed Chair of Economics; and Michelle Tooley, the Eli Lilly Professor of Religion, Berea College. A 2013 KET production. [High-Definition] Watch Online

KET2: The Abolitionists: American Experience; #103 "The Abolitionists, Part Three" [TV-PG]; During his raid on Harpers Ferry, John Brown is captured, then executed, becoming a martyr for the cause. Abraham Lincoln is elected president in 1860. Southern states secede, war breaks out, and the conflict unexpectedly drags on. In December 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment is ratified, banning slavery in all states - forever. [High-Definition]

KET: Slavery By Another Name; [TV-PG]; A harrowing story of how in the South, even as chattel slavery came to an end, new forms of involuntary servitude, including convict leasing, debt slavery and peonage, took its place with shocking force. [High-Definition]

KET2: Frontline; #3104 "The Untouchables" [TV-PG]; Are the CEOs of mega-banks too big to jail? This program investigates why Wall Street's leaders have escaped prosecution. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Pleasant Hill; Provides insight into one of America's most successful religious societies—the Shakers. The 5,000-acre Shaker farm at Pleasant Hill in Mercer County was the experimental agricultural station of its time.

KET2: Independent Lens; #1406 "Beauty Is Embarrassing" [TV-PG]; Wayne White got his big break when he helped create the unhinged children's show Pee-Wee's Playhouse. This film chronicles the vaulted highs and the crushing lows of this Tennessean commercial artist as he struggles to find peace and balance between his work and his art. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Distinguished Kentuckian; #128 "Adron Doran" [TV-G]; An interview with Adron Doran, former president of Morehead State University and Kentucky House speaker. Between March 1954 and January 1977, Doran grew Morehead's enrollment from 700 to 7,500 and brought integration to the campus. A 1991 KET production. Watch Online

KET: The Spirituals; [TV-PG]; Slaves created the spiritual, a musical form built on African roots and biblical texts, for deliverance and for communication. The American Spiritual Ensemble, founded by University of Kentucky professor Everett McCorvey, honors the painful history of this American art form while introducing its message of hope to contemporary audiences around the world. Produced by Eren McGinnis and Ari Palos with support from the KET Fund for Independent Production.

KET: Woodsmith Shop; #604 "Modular Wine Server" [TV-G]; The modular design of this wine server makes it easy to build. Plus, the Woodsmith editors show you how easy it is to customize your own unique setup. [High-Definition]

KETKY: The Price of Poverty In Kentucky; Experts and advocates from across the state gather on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day to address a few of the many questions and challenges regarding poverty in Kentucky. Bill Goodman and Renee Shaw host. Panelists include Terry Brooks, executive director, Kentucky Youth Advocates; Councilwoman Attica Woodson Scott, Louisville Metro Govenment; Eric Schansberg, an economics professor at Indiana University-Southeast and member of the Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Board of Scholars; Reid Livingston, Kentucky director, Save the Children USA; Courtney Trent, Early Steps to School Success coordinator, Save the Children; Gerry Roll, executive director, Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky; James P. Ziliak, founding director, University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research and a UK Gatton Endowed Chair of Economics; and Michelle Tooley, the Eli Lilly Professor of Religion, Berea College. A 2013 KET production. [High-Definition] Watch Online

KET: Kentucky Health; #802 "Modern Cancer Care"; Dr. Alfonso Cervera discusses modern cancer care. Watch Online

KET2: Fort Niagara: The Struggle for a Continent; [TV-PG]; For more than 150 years, Fort Niagara protected a strategic point at the mouth of the Niagara River in Youngstown, NY. Four nations struggled to conquer it and thus control that critical water artery. Rare archival materials, expert commentary, and reenactments recount the history of the fort from its beginnings through modern times. [High-Definition]

KET2: Clifford the Big Red Dog; #134 "Jetta's Tall Tale/The Big Fetch" [TV-Y]; Jealous of the fuss everyone makes over Clifford, Jetta claims to have an extra-large pet of her own: a huge parrot named Lulu. But she realizes the perils of lying as her story gets her into a bigger and bigger mess. Vaz has a new job as a paperboy, and Cleo volunteers to help him get the papers onto people's porches. Vaz gives her treats in gratitude, and soon the treats become more important to Cleo than the helping. [High-Definition]