The DTV Transition in Four Videos

Still unclear about DTV Transition? We’ve created four new videos — specifically for our web viewing — to help you out. Kevin Crane, our VP of Technology and Programming leads the way. Watch them at http://wnpt.net/dtv.
Got questions? drop us a line newmedia[at]wnpt.net.

NPT Does the Country Music Marathon

Sometimes, we must honor our own. Congratulations to, left, NPT Vice President of Development and Marketing Daniel Tidwell and NPT Volunteer Coordinator (and Nashville Scene Lust Lister) Miguel Otero for finishing the Country Music 1/2 Marathon. Otero finished at 2:14:43, with Tidwell just behind him at 2:14.46. Meanwhile part-timer Jay Rockholt went the full 26.2 [...]

Sons of Lwala Wins Big at Nashville Film Festival

The Nashville Film Festival wrapped last Thursday, with over 22,000 attendees — a 10% increase from 2007 — and 31 sold-out screenings. Though not necessarily a total surprise, one of the big hits of the festival was Barry Simmons’s documentary Sons of Lwala, which not only took home the NPT Human Spirit Award, but also [...]

Art: 21 wins a Peabody

Season 4 of Art in the Twenty-First Century, a contemporary art series on PBS that we also screened at the Frist Center several months ago, has won a George Foster Peabody Award — the premiere international prize in electronic media — in the 67th Annual Peabody Awards Competition.
The Art:21 series was recognized for providing “a [...]

The NPT 8 K

Mandy’s getting ready. Are you?

Wayne Jackson and the Raconteurs

We got news this morning that trumpet legend and good friend of NPT Wayne Jackson is on the new album by Nashville’s own Raconteurs, Consolers of the Lonely, which debuted last week at number 7 on Billboard. You can hear Wayne’s signature sound on tracks “The Switch & the Spur” and “Many Shades of [...]

Sex, PBS-Style

“Spicy…titillating…”
The Denver Post has a review of NATURE’s “What Females Want and Males Will Do.”
The two-parter starts this Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. CENTRAL on NPT and PBS Stations nationwide.
Here’s a behind the scenes look:

Sons of Lwala Named NPT Human Spirit Award Winner

Nashville Public Television has chosen SONS OF LWALA, a documentary film by Nashville director and producer Barry Simmons, as the 2008 recipient of its NPT Human Spirit Award.
The NPT Human Spirit Award, presented each year by Nashville Public Television to a Nashville Film Festival selection, acknowledges a filmmaker’s work that best explores and captures the [...]

Janet’s Planet on iTunes

Now you can travel at the “speed of thought” — everywhere you go.
Janet’s Planet, seen locally on NPT, is finally available on iTunes. To download the album ($9.90) just visit iTunes and search for “Janet’s Planet.” You’ll see this icon:

The popular Janet’s Planet, created and hosted by Janet Ivey, is a series of one-to-two minute [...]