JUNE 2011

The new PBS39 Public Media & Education Center is nearing the finalstages of construction. The 29,228 square foot facility will boast newtechnologies and provide even greater educational services to thepublic.

The new Center will include two television studios outfitted withstate-of-the-art HD production and broadcast equipment, full HDMaster Control, and public access to satellite uplink communications.

The Center’s new 100-seat Studio A will allow PBS39 to host live com-munity discussions and forums, both on-air and off. It will serve as aTown Hall to host engagement on the diverse issues impacting ourregion.

The new Center is a LEED certified “green” structure that is friendlyto the environment and will help PBS39 save on operating costs.

PBS39 is not a commercial station. This is truly YOUR station.PBS39 is home to award-winning programming and educational pro-grams for people of all ages and interests.

Join us September 10th, 2011 for the Grand Opening Celebration! Stay connected… visit PBS39atSteelStacks.org

Patricia C. Simon

President & CEO, PBS39

PBS39 Public Media & Education Center

Studio A

Interactive Programming

JUNE19th-century bronze sculpture by British artist Edward Onslow Ford; and an 18th-century surveyor’s com-pass, made by one of the finest clockmakers in the Virginia colonies,valued at $20,000 to $25,000.

10:00 AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Abra-ham and Mary Lincoln, A House Divided: Ambition (Episode One)The story of the Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln’s childhoods and their courtship.

21 Tuesday8:00 History Detectives: Episode 901

Mysterious airplane engine parts lead Eduardo Pagán to a forbidden Hawaiian island where he finds aheroic story often overshadowed bythe raid on Pearl Harbor. Then ElyseLuray tries to match metal shavingsto the right cannon. What role did these shavings play in the early hours of the civil war? An early 20th century saddle puts Wes Cowan on the trail of Yakima Cunutt.

9:00 Pioneers of Television: Science FictionPIONEERS OF TELEVISION returns to PBS for a second season featur-ing all new stories of the visionaries who shaped a fledgling medium with their creativity, foresight and wisdom.

10:00 FRONTLINE: TBA

22 Wednesday8:00 Secrets of the Dead: Blackbeard’s

Lost ShipOff the coast of North Carolina, a group of marine archaeologists have discovered the remains of the Queen Anne's Revenge, the pirate Blackbeard's flagship.

9:00 NOVA: Space Shuttle DisasterOn February 1, 2003, the space shut-tle Columbia disintegrated over Texas 16 minutes before it was due to land. All seven astronauts aboard perished; the worldwide repercussions on the future of the space shuttle program wereenormous.

Weeknights on PBS39 6:00pm PBS Newshour 7:00pm Nightly Business Report 7:30pm/11:00pm Tempo InDepth

1 WEDNESDAY8:00 AMERICAN MASTERS: James

Levine: America's MaestroTo celebrate his 40th anniversary atthe Metropolitan Opera, Maestro James Levine’s life and current work is the subject of a documen-tary film.

9:00 Great Performances at the Met: Nixon in ChinaComposer John Adams conducts the Met premiere of his most fa-

mous opera. Baritone James Mad-dalena stars in the title role. Peter Sellars directs.

2 Thursday8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Washington,

DC (hour 2)A 1813 Congressional sword; a Tiffany & Co. Sinclair mantel clock; and a Charles Schreyvogel sculpture.

9:00 Battle of Hood and BismarckA recount of two spectacular discov-eries made by David Mearns and his international team. On an extraordi-nary recent expedition, Mearns lo-cated two of World War II's mightiestwarships--Great Britain's HMS Hood and Germany's Bismarck.

3 Friday8:00 Washington Week8:30 Baseball: Home (Conclusion)

Tune in for Member FavoritesJune 4th through June 19th

19 Sunday9:00 Masterpiece Mystery! Poirot XI:

Three Act TragedyPoirot (David Suchet) visits his friend Sir Charles Cartwright (Martin Shaw, “Cranford”), who hosts a cocktail party at his home where a local reverend chokes to death.

Murder seems impossible, but when a second guest dies under similar circumstances, the Belgian sleuth in-vestigates further. Art Malik (“Upstairs Downstairs”) and Kate Ashfield (“Collision”) co-star.

10:30 Rick Steves’ Europe Classics11:00 EASTENDERS

20 Monday8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Wichita, KS

Highlights include a circa 1875 Ital-ian micromosaic pendant; a circa

1955 miniature Smith-Miller Coca-Cola truck; and a set of 1914 and1915 Cracker Jack baseball cards, valued at $30,000 to $40,000.

9:00 Antiques Roadshow: Wichita, KSDiscoveries include a 1920s Buddy “L” toy sand and gravel truck; a

9:00 NOVA: What Are Dreams?NOVA joins the leading dream researchers and witness extraor-dinary experiments they use to in-vestigate the world of sleep.

10:00 NOVA scienceNOW: How Does the Brain Work?Hosted by renowned astrophysicist, author and director of the Hayden Planetarium, Neil deGrasse Tyson, NOVA scienceNOW covers four timely science and technology sto-ries per one-hour episode.Can new science help us understand how the brain allows us to think, act, feel, behave and process the world around us?

11:00 In the Life

30 Thursday8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Washington, DC

(hour 3)9:00 The Civil War: The Cause – 1861

What caused the war? Beginning with an examination of slavery, this episode looks at the causes of the war and the burning questions of union and states’ rights. John Brown leads a rebellion at Harper’s Ferry, Abraham Lincoln is elected president, Fort Sumter is fired upon and both sides rush to arms.

9:00 Antiques Roadshow: PoliticallyCollectHighlights include an extensive col-lection of campaign buttons; a court affidavit submitted by Jimmy Carter to the state of Maine on the eve of the 1976 election, and signed pho-tos of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, valued at $75,0000.

10:00 American Experience: Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided,

We are Elected(Episode 2)The Lincoln marriageis both tempestuousand passionate: shehas a temper; he suf-fers bouts of depres-sion. But they share apowerful political am-bition that sendsAbraham to theHouse of Representa-tives and later, withthe country splittingapart over slavery, to the White House.

28 Tuesday8:00 History Detectives: Episode 902

Wes Cowan decodes a message and the strategy behind a U.S. World War II propaganda leaflet. Gwen Wright traces a cherished family heirloom, a watercolor, to the world of Tiffany stained glass. A touching eulogy stitches together the lives of two Americans whofought in the Spanish Civil War. Tukufu Zuberi unites a nephew and ason of those soldiers almost a cen-tury later.

9:00 Pioneers of Television: WESTERNSDuring the Golden Age of Television — the early 1940s through 1961 — andinto the 1970s, Westerns were pro-duced for the small screen with suc-cess. In 1959 alone, more than 30 different Westerns were on the tele-vision schedule.

10:00 FRONTLINE: TBA

29 Wednesday8:00 Secrets of the Dead: Executed

in ErrorIn 1910, Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen was hanged for poisoning and dis-membering his wife, after he att-empted to flee the country with his

young lover. How-ever, investigatorshave now foundthat the humanremains discov-ered in Crippen's cellar were notthose of his wife.

10:00 Boxing GymBOXING GYM uses the boxing gym as an example of the American “melting pot,” where whites, blacks, hispanics and people of many races and ethnic backgrounds meet, talk and train — and in some cases dream together of success, riches and prominence.

23 Thursday8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Wichita, KS9:00 Stonewall Uprising: American

ExperienceWhen gay bar Stonewall Inn was raided in 1969, gay men and women did something they had not done before: they fought back.

10:30 Anyone and EveryoneTelling the stories of families from Utah to North Carolina and Wyoming to New York, all connected by a common thread — a gay child.

24 Friday8:00 Washington Week8:30 Baseball: The Tenth Inning:

Top of the Tenth10:30 Need to Know

25 Saturday8:00 Keeping Up Appearance9:00 As Time Goes By10:00 Old Guys10:30 Are You Being Served?11:00 Waiting For God12:00 Austin City Limits: Manu Chao

26 Sunday8:00 Nature: The Beauty of Ugly

From hagfish to naked mole rats, warthogs to proboscis monkeys to the ugliest bug in Oklahoma, Nature explores how and why ugly can be beautiful - even when it isn't pretty.

9:00 Masterpiece Mystery! Poirot XI: The ClocksPoirot (Hercule Poirot) is asked to assist in a murder investigation to determine if a young woman is re-sponsible for the crime. But mount-ing complications in the case, including multiple frozen clocks, leadthe detective to suspect an interna-tional political cover-up.

10:30 Rick Steves’ Europe Classics11:00 EASTENDERS

27 Monday8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Washington, DC

(hour 3)Highlights include a 1964 Chrysler Turbine model and manual; a circa 1840 temperance banner; a circa 1925 oil painting by Jessie Willcox Smith, the Philadelphia artist famous for her depictions of chil-dren, valued at $75,000.

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