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WOUB-TV’s 2018 Membership Drive Programming: Pledge Your Support Today!
By: Emily Votaw
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WOUB-TV’s annual Thanksgiving time pledge will kick off on Turkey Day itself, Thursday, November 22. This year, WOUB has a number of fascinating documentaries on beloved pop culture figures, breathtaking recordings of iconic live musical performances, oodles of health and wellness programming and lots more, making for a truly appeasing Thanksgiving time programming spread. Check… Read More
A Guide to WOUB-TV’s August 2018 Pledge
By: Emily Votaw
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Beginning Friday, August 17, WOUB will hold our August pledge drive, featuring programming highlighting everything from The Grateful Dead to Dionne Warwick, advice on how to improve your body and mind, and more. Take a look at this guide to some of our pledge programs below. Keep tabs on this link for the most updated… Read More
WOUB-HD to Spotlight Flight of Groundbreaking Chefs
By: Emily Votaw
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Over the course of a summer abroad in Paris in the mid- ‘60s, social activist and chef Alice Waters was forever changed by the delicate simplicity of good bread, jam, and wine. Some 20 years previous, iconic celebrity chef Julia Child experienced a sensual awakening after a meal of oysters, Sole meunière, and, of course,… Read More
‘Plants Behaving Badly’ Back on WOUB-HD May 10
By: Emily Votaw
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Ohio University greenhouse manager Harold Blazier handles the green and crimson speckled, fleshy body of a pitcher plant’s signature pitfall trap on a humid afternoon in early May with a precise gentleness. He points to a bobbing pool of liquid visible through the thin plant membrane walls. “That’s where they catch their prey,” he says,… Read More
WOUB-TV Premiering 20.2 CLASSIC and 20.3 LIFE April 1
By: Emily Votaw
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Starting April 1 at midnight – no foolin’ – WOUB-TV will be offering its 35-county viewership a line-up of classic public television picks on their revamped 20.2 and 20.3 channels. Click here for the new programming line-up. WOUB 20.2 CLASSIC will now feature the likes of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, Clifford the Big Red Dog, The Joy… Read More
‘To Walk Invisible: the Brontë Sisters’ To Broadcast On WOUB-TV Sunday
By: Emily Votaw
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Emily, Charlotte, and Anne Brontë grew up the daughters of a priest in a parsonage nestled on the windy moors near the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire over 150 years ago. Emily’s Wuthering Heights, Charlotte’s Jane Eyre and Anne’s The Tenant of WildfellHall (among some of their other works) would eventually be… Read More
‘John Denver: Country Boy’ to Air on WOUB-TV Tonight, Monday
By: Emily Votaw
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Over the course of his career, John Denver (birth name Henry John Deutschendorf Jr.) released a slew of hit songs that bridged the oft-wide gap between popular and entirely acoustic music. Denver was also one of the first musicians to put together benefit concerts to raise funds for political and humanitarian causes, such as worldwide… Read More
‘Ken Burns: America’s Storyteller’ to Air Saturday On WOUB-TV
By: Emily Votaw
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Carolyn Lewis, the former director and general manager of WOUB Center for Public Media, was in Dallas, TX for a Public Broadcasting meeting in 1990 when she first heard of Ken Burns. “The Civil War was just premiering on PBS and this little, tiny fellow comes walking out on stage to talk about this new… Read More
Mardi Gras Indians Tradition Examined In OSU Newark Documentaries
By: Emily Votaw
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Late February marks the annual celebration of Carnival, or Mardi Gras, a festive season that takes place before the Christian liturgical season of Lent. One of the most time-honored, and, at one time, most secretive, portions of the Carnival celebration in New Orleans is the parade of the Mardi Gras Indians. The tradition has ties… Read More