Here are the schedule updates and “NPT Favorites” for the final week of our March Membership Drive, March 18-23, 2013 March 18, 2012 7:00 p.m. ANTIQUES ROADSHOW 8:00 p.m. RICK STEVES’ EUROPE TRAVEL SKILLS 11:00 p.m. DROP 7 FOODS, FEEL BETTER FASTER WITH JJ VIRGIN March 19, 2013 7:00 p.m. ALBERT KING WITH STEVIE RAY [...]
In what organizers are fairly certain is unprecedented, puppets are going to take over the Nashville Public Television pledge set on Sunday, March 3 from 7-10 p.m., during the broadcasts of “An Evening with Jerry Lewis: Live from Las Vegas” and “Brit Floyd.” The puppets, from Nashville Public Library’s Wishing Chair Productions and stars of [...]
NPT will broadcast premiere ROUNDER RECORDS 40TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT on January 14 at 8:00 p.m. on NPT-Channel 8, months before the PBS broadcast in March 2010 as part of March fund drive programming. Filmed in October 2009 at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry House, the concert was a celebration of Rounder’s 40 years in the music [...]
Viewers tuning in on Sunday, December 13 at 8:30 p.m. CT for our just-announced, special membership drive broadcast of THE MOODY BLUES AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL have the opportunity to receive meet and greet passes for the Moody Blues March 18, 2010 show at TPAC. The ticket and meet & greet package is exclusive [...]
Here at NPT, we like to say that we give you a front row seat to some of the greatest shows. Here’s your proof. Coming to NPT on Thursday July 30 at 8:00 p.m., and Sunday, August 9 at 7:00 p.m., it’s Tennessee’s own Dolly Parton in Dolly: Live in London. Recorded before a sell-out [...]
RCA Studio B has certainly seen its fair share of country and rock ‘n’ roll greats, but occasionally, NPT’s Studio B gets a visit from one of the greats, too. We were honored to have the inimitable “Cowboy” Jack Clement join us in the studio last night during the March Membership Campaign broadcast of the [...]
I remember vividly, about a year ago, going into the kitchen during a pledge night, and Miguel Otero was in a frenzy (a calm frenzy, if there’s such a thing), getting ready for the phone bank volunteers, setting food out on the table and baking cookies. The smell of fresh-baked cookies is irresistible, of course, [...]
This past August, NPT broadcast Johnny Cash: A Man and His Vision, which compiled some of the best performances from the late 60s/early 70s The Johnny Cash Show. It was a fantastic program, split into an hour of stellar pop and rock performances and an hour of equally stellar country performances. I was working the [...]
Ever wonder about some of the programming you see only during Pledge drives on PBS member stations, like The British Beat, Springsteen Live in Dublin and Elvis Lives? Lynn Neary at NPR unravels some of the mystery in an All Things Considered segment.
