Friday 2/15/2013

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KET: GED Connection; #139 "Special Topics in Algebra and Geometry" [TV-G]; Explores patterns in math and in the real world and shows how mathematical relationships can be plotted on the coordinate plane.

KETKY: Jubilee; #1608 "Nedski and Mojo with Jana"; Nedski and Mojo with Jana, known for their banjo-guitar and mandolin-guitar duets, perform at the 3rd annual International Newgrass Festival. A 2012 KET production. [High-Definition] Watch Online

KET: GED Connection; #139 "Special Topics in Algebra and Geometry" [TV-G]; Explores patterns in math and in the real world and shows how mathematical relationships can be plotted on the coordinate plane.

KET: Louisville Life; #708 "Aebersold Jazz/Waterfront Development Corp./Donald Lassere/Leonard and Adele Leight"; For 45 years, saxophonist and educator Jamey Aebersold has traveled the globe teaching people how to play jazz; a look at the efforts of Louisville's Waterfront Development Corporation; an interview with Donald Lassere, executive director of the Muhammad Ali Center; and take a tour of Leonard and Adele Leights' Louisville home and learn more about their lives. A 2013 KET production hosted by Candyce Clifft. [High-Definition] Watch Online

KET: Frontline; #3105 "Cliffhanger" [TV-PG]; The inside history of how Washington has failed to solve the country's problems of debt and deficit. The film explores the ideological divide inside the Republican Party and the struggle between House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and House Speaker John Boehner as they take on President Obama and the Democrats. [High-Definition]

KET2: The This Old House Hour; #1120 [TV-G]; Geothermal bore holes are filled and grouted, weaving shingles around a corner for a cottage look, and installing custom PVC window trim. Plus, insulating ductwork and maintaining clothes washers and dryers. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Farming in the Black Patch; The story of a family farm in Murray, Kentucky that for generations has grown dark-fired tobacco, only common to Western Kentucky and Tennessee. The process of producing dark-fired tobacco from start to finish is explored. A Micheal Breeding MEDIA production.

KET: Doc Martin; #106 "Haemophobia" [TV-PG]; The tourist season has arrived in Portwenn. Disgruntled by the invasion of holidaymakers, Martin grimaces as he makes his way through the crowds. Then he notices an attractive woman, and stops to stare at her chest! Martin actually tries to warn the woman about the dangers of sunbathing for fear of skin cancer. [High-Definition]

KET2: Nature; #3008 "Cold Warriors: Wolves and Buffalo" [TV-PG]; Buffalo and wolves still engage in epic life and death dramas across Wood Buffalo National Park. By getting to know a specific pack of wolves and the individuals that make up the pack, we get a sense of how these two animal species live together in what seems like a forgotten corner of the world. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Tobacco Blues; Can a good person grow tobacco? As the cigarette war rages, small-scale American tobacco farmers have been the overlooked casualties. Dynamic filmmaking duo Eren McGinnis and Christine Fugate travel across Kentucky to meet families who have been growing this crop for generations and examine how they are facing the consequences of this fuming controversy. Produced with support from the KET Fund for Independent Production.

KET: Masterpiece Classic; #4306 "Downton Abbey, Season 3 - Part 6" [TV-PG]; Change arrives in a big way for several key characters at Downton Abbey. A yearly cricket match with the village sees old scores settled and new plots hatched. [High-Definition]

KET2: Nova; #4006 "Earth from Space" [TV-G]; Data is taken from earth-observing satellites and transformed into dazzling visual sequences, each one exposing the intricate web of forces that sustains life on earth. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Kentucky Life; #1427 "Lincoln: "I, Too, Am A Kentuckian"" [TV-G]; In a special expanded edition of Kentucky Life, host Dave Shuffett travels from Hodgenville to Springfield, IL to Washington, DC to explore the life and career of Kentucky's most famous native son. The program examines the many Kentucky people and places that profoundly influenced Abraham Lincoln with stops at his birthplace and boyhood home near Hodgenville, the Mary Todd Lincoln House in Lexington, the Louisville home of close friend Joshua Speed, and many other Lincoln-related sites. A 2008 KET production.

KET2: Antiques Roadshow; #1706 "Boston, Hour Three" [TV-G]; Discoveries include Civil War photographs, World War II German POW signs, and a circa 1810 South Carolina musket. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Distinguished Kentuckian; #103 "O.L. Press" [TV-G]; A profile of KET's founding executive director, O. Leonard Press. His reminiscences about the early days of public broadcasting in Kentucky provide a fascinating glimpse of people, places, and events spanning a 40-year period from 1952 to 1992. A 1992 production of Video Editing Services, Lexington. Watch Online

KET: Telling Tales; #110 "Anansi's Rescue from the River"; A story about Anansi, the trickster hero of Ashanti Land on the west coast of Africa, told by Mama Yaa (Louisville storyteller Gloria Bivens).

KET: Roundabout U; #525; Carter and Clark highlight the Youth and Nonprofit Leadership (YNL) Department at Murray State University. They find out how you can travel across the world and help people along the way, as the YNL teams up with Murray State's study abroad office. [High-Definition] Watch Online

KET2: Clifford the Big Red Dog; #209 "Princess Cleo/Basketball Stories" [TV-Y]; Cleo learns that she is a princess and starts enjoying all her new privileges, but soon learns that her friends are more important to her than her crown. Charley misses the big exhibition basketball game with Skyscraper Jackson, so Emily, Vaz, and Jetta each write a story about the game so he can relive it through their eyes. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Kentucky Muse; #301 "88 Keys, 300 Years"; This celebration of the 300th anniversary of the piano features Dr. Diane Earle of Kentucky Wesleyan and the Owensboro Symphony Orchestra. Earle tells about the history of the instrument and performs piano works by a variety of composers. A 2009 KET production. [High-Definition] Watch Online