Fifty years ago this month, in October 1962, the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war. On October 22, 1962, after reviewing photographic evidence, President John F. Kennedy informed the world that the Soviet Union was building secret missile bases in Cuba, just 90 miles off the shores of Florida. For the next 13 [...]
The PBS NewsHour will provide live coverage of President Obama’s State of the Union Address Tuesday, January 24 at 8:00 p.m. Central on NPT. Gwen Ifill will anchor coverage of both the address and the Republican response, to be given by Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels. With Ifil in the studio to provide commentary and analysis [...]
From the NPT Pressroom: NASHVILLE, Tennessee — February 23, 2011 — The Tennessee Public Television Council (TPTC), made up of Tennessee’s six public television stations including Nashville Public Television (NPT), presented State Senator Jamie Woodson and State Representative Harry Tindell with its Legislator of the Year Award recently in Nashville. The state’s six public television [...]
In a joint opinion piece in today’s Tennessean, Beth Curley, president and CEO of Nashville Public Television (NPT) and Rob Gordon, the president and CEO of WPLN (Nashville Public Radio) make their case for the importance of federal funding for public broadcasting. “Public broadcasting is America’s largest classroom,” they write. “Both public television and public [...]
NewsChannel 5′s Vicki Yates hosts half-hour interviews with both of the major party candidates for Tennessee Governor Public television viewers throughout Tennessee have a chance this month to learn more about the two candidates for Tennessee Governor. Produced by WKNO in Memphis, A Conversation with Bill Haslam: Election Edition and A Conversation with Mike McWherter: [...]
The Tennessee Public Television Council (TPTC) and the League of Women Voters Memphis and Shelby County will tonight, Tuesday, May 25, offer voters a chance to hear from each of the four Republican candidates for Tennessee Governor. TN Gubernatorial Forum: Republican Edition will air live on NPT and across the state on public television stations [...]
Governor Bredesen’s convening of the state legislature for a special session on education will be broadcast live on NPT2 on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 beginning tentatively at 12:00 noon. According to The Tennessean, the session will focus on making Tennessee “an attractive candidate for millions of dollars in federal grant money being awarded by the [...]
To mark the passing of Sen. Edward Kennedy, NPT will be rebroadcasting AMERICAN EXPERIENCE’s “The Kennedys” tonight, August 26, 2009, from 7:00-10:00 p.m. We will pre-empt all of the currently scheduled prime time programming on our main NPT channel for this special program. We will move the regularly scheduled GREAT PERFORMANCES “Harlem in Montmarte,” WE [...]
By Lesley Parks NPT Intern With the digital transition successfully on track, NPT’s second digital channel, NPT2, is available to all viewers. This knowledge-based, community resource of educational, civic, and cultural programs, series, and events, has an emphasis on local programming. This second channel allows for distribution of even more local content than NPT channel [...]
As we told you yesterday, tonight’s the night for PERSPECTIVES: THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE REFERENDUM, a live discussion on the merits of the “English Only/English First” Amendment (opponents refer to it as “only,” proponents, “first”) that Davidson County voters must choose to vote for or against on January 22. Tonight’s live broadcast at 7:00 p.m., where [...]
