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Discover Vivaldi’s Four Season – Part 2
The entertaining, educational and enlightening Discover Vivaldi’s Four Seasons immerses viewers in the delightful details of composer Antonio Vivaldi’s masterpiece The Four Seasons. Before a live audience, conductor-host George Marriner Maull, violin soloist Peter Winograd and the members of The Discovery Orchestra reveal the descriptive sonnets embedded within the score.
TV: Saturday, 6/22 at 9:00pm
Electric Cars Slow To Catch On In Sitka
It was just a few years ago that Sitka’s electric utility predicted a significant increase in the number of electric vehicles on the road, especially in communities with relatively inexpensive electric power. Despite steady high fuel prices, the community’s interest in electric cars — after an initial spike — has been flat.
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Alaska News Nightly: June 20, 2013
Parnell Signs Bills, Resolutions Supporting Gun Rights; Anchorage Pediatricians Quietly Protest High Hospital Charge; Traditional Foods Program Hosts Gathering In Wrangell; Artist Making Masks Representing Top-10 Diseases In Alaska; Hilcorp Handed $115,000 Penalty; Electric Cars Slow To Catch On In Sitka; Alaskans Dealing With Apparently Large Mosquito Crop
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Silver King: The Birth of Big Game Fishing
SILVER KING: THE BIRTH OF BIG GAME FISHING offers a compelling look at the fish that fascinated and frustrated anglers for more than century — the massive, yet elusive, silver-scaled tarpon. On April 18, 1885, fisherman William H. Wood reeled in a 93-pound tarpon off Florida's Sanibel Island with only a bamboo rod and mullet for bait. That single, sensational catch made international news, revolutionized sport fishing and transformed Southwest Florida forever.
TV: Thursday, 6/20 at 7:00pm
Alaska News Nightly: June 19, 2013
Murkowski Endorses Gay Marriage; Alaska Couples Await Supreme Court Decision On DOMA, Prop 8; Sullivan Says He Will Run For Lieutenant Governor; State To Receive Brief Relief From Heat Wave; Steller Sea Lion To Give Birth To New Pup; Glacier Bay Lodge May Shut Down; New Deal Proposed For Possible Chena Hot Springs Expansion
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NOVA: Extreme Cave Diving
This program follows the charismatic Dr. Kenny Broad as he dives into blue holes — underwater caves that formed during the last ice age when sea level was nearly 400 feet below what it is today. The holes are Earth’s least explored and perhaps most dangerous frontiers.
TV: Wednesday, 6/19 at 8:00pm
Youth Camp Teaches Rural Teens Public Safety Skills
More than 20 kids graduated from Bethel’s Alaska Youth Academy’s summer camp last Friday. The idea is to encourage kids in the area to consider law enforcement careers.
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Alaska News Nightly: June 18, 2013
Treadwell To Run For Senate; Sealaska Lands Bill Passes Senate Committee; Legislation Would Keep Petition Signatures Off Public Record; Wildfire Near Chena Hot Springs Road Prompts Massive Response; Fairbanks Natural Gas Releases Trucking Project Details; Federal Regulators Crack Down On Fish Fraud; McKinley To Denali Name Change Legislation Passes Out Of Senate Committee; Chignik Lagoon Hopes To Break Ground On Hydro Project; Youth Camp Teaches Rural Teens Public Safety Skills
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American Experience: John D. Rockefeller
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For decades, the Rockefeller name was despised in America — associated with John D. Rockefeller Sr.’s feared monopoly, Standard Oil. The world’s first billionaire, Rockefeller held 90 percent of the world’s oil refineries, 90 percent of the marketing of oil and a third of all the oil wells. Working methodically and secretly, he transformed an industry — and changed forever the way America did business. TV: Tuesday, 6/18 at 7:00pmAlaska News Nightly: June 17, 2013
Reid Promises Senate Will Pass Background Check Bill; Historic Cutter Storis On The Auction Block; State Emergency Management Team To Leave Galena This Week; Heat Wave Sets Records Across State; Hot, Dry Weather Amping Up Wildfire Conditions; Adak Fish Processing Equipment Up For Auction; Arctic Officials Receive Comments On Policy From Alaskans; State, Federal Governments Investigate Deepwater Port Possibilities
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Independent Lens: The Revolutionary Optimists
Amlan Ganguly is a lawyer-turned-social entrepreneur who has transformed some of the poorest slums of Kolkata by empowering children to become leaders in improving health and sanitation.
TV: Monday, 6/17 at 9:00pm
Masterpiece Mystery! Inspector Lewis VI – Down Among the Fearful
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When a psychic is found murdered, Inspector Lewis and DS Hathaway discover that the victim is really an Oxford psychology research fellow. As they probe further, the truth behind the psychic’s double life unravels, revealing numerous suspects. TV: Sunday, 6/16 at 8:00pmAlaska News Nightly: June 12, 2013
Sealaska Bill Advances To House; Congressional Delegation Split On Taking Meetings With Fuglvog; Greely Missile Defense Unit Commander Suspended Over Sex-Misconduct Allegations; ‘Idle No More’ Group Rallies In Downtown Juneau; Kuskokwim Subsistence Salmon Fishery Starts With No Restrictions On Main River; Low Fish Returns, Late Breakup Proving Problematic In Susitna Valley; Fairbanks Voices Concern About LNG Trucking Project; Juneau Sends Dancers Around The Country And Beyond
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Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes
America’s foremost humorist and social pundit, Garrison Keillor takes his skits and monologues across the country in his popular radio show, A Prairie Home Companion. American Masters trails this yarn-smith and his crew of actors and musicians as they spin stories and song into American gold in Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes.
TV: Friday, 6/14 at 9:30pm
Alaska News Nightly: June 11, 2013
Senate Begins Immigration Debate, Alaska’s Senators In The Middle; APD Bans Officers From Shooting At Moving Vehicles, Most Of The Time; Fisheries Regulators Take Steps Toward Conservation Of Bering Sea Canyons; Gyre Project To Study Marine Debris Through Science And Art; UAF Professors Collaborate To Develop Engineering School In Mongolia; Sitka Barge Line Plans Southeast Expansion; Brown Bear Cub Found Near Platinum; Sitka-Area Landslide May Have Helped Sockeye Populations
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Scientists Seek More Protection For Tongass National Forest’s Streams
A group of scientists is calling on Congress to provide greater protection from development for scores of streams on Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest.
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Moose Shot In Denali National Park
A visitor shot a moose in the entrance area of Denali National Park. The animal was wounded and put down by park rangers.
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Alaska News Nightly: June 10, 2013
Air Force Allowing Another Month Of Public Comment On Draft EIS; Scientists Seek More Protection For Tongass National Forest’s Streams; Sealaska Land Bill Scheduled For Congressional Markup; FEMA Assesses Galena Damages; State Reports Progress In Galena Cleanup; Interior-Based Militia Unit Regroups, Invites Others To Training Rendezvous; Moose Shot In Denali National Park; Unangan Elder Mary Nicolai Bourdukofsky Passes Away; Alaska’s Cultural Connections: Plant Medicine
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Alaska News Nightly: June 7, 2013
Man Fatally Mauled By Bear; Redistricting Board Begins Redrawing Boundaries; AVCP Looks To Leverage Izembek Road; APICDA Takes Stance On Izembek Road; Surge Of Water Pushing Down Yukon River; Rotten Food Poses Problem For Galena Residents; Group Commemorating 100 Year Anniversary Of First Denali Summit; Special Olympics Alaska Breaks Ground On New Expansion; Ground Breaks For Port MacKenzie Rail Extension; AK: The Big Day; 300 Villages: Hyder
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Alaska News Nightly: June 6, 2013
Holder: Appeal Expected On Attorney Discipline; Jewell Opposes ANWR Drilling; Oil Leasing Official Hearing Input on Arctic Exploration; Oil Leasing Official Hearing Input on Arctic Exploration; An Anchorage Women Steps Up To Help Seng Family; Coalition Forms In Support Of Immigration Reform; NYT Puzzle Master Will Shortz Adds Alaska To His Table Tennis Quest; 'In Pursuit of Alaska' Highlights State’s Earliest Visitors
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