Sheryl Crow Soundstage Performance Comes to DVD

Soundstage, which airs on NPT and PBS stations nationwide, is one of the best sounding and looking music performance shows on television. But unless you’re Tivo’ing or DVR’ing, these shows have never been available outside of the broadcast.
Now, Starpulse reports on the release of Soundstage on high definition DVD for the very first time, with [...]

Ask This Old House In Person!

Ask This Old House is making a House Call to the Nashville area, and NPT would like our members to meet Kevin O’Connor and producer Chris Wolfe. Hear all about the home repair problem they are tackling in Nashville, learn what’s coming up in the new season and ask your own questions.
You can also win [...]

Seigenthaler to Keynote Clarksville Writers Conference

John Seigenthaler Sr., veteran journalist and host of NPT’s A Word on Words, will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Clarksville Writers’ Conference. Guests at this year’s conference, which takes place July 10 – 12, 2008 in Clarksville, include Tracy Barrett, Sonny Brewer, Leigh Anne Couch, Blas Falconer, Joe Formichella, Suzanne Hudson, Barry Kitterman, [...]

Cousteau Says Tennessee Rivers Matter to the Ocean

Jean-Michel Cousteau, the eldest son of the late ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau, President of Ocean Futures Society and host of Ocean Adventures on NPT and PBS stations nationwide, was in Chattanooga yesterday to speak at the Tennessee Aquarium. He told attendees that although the state is not near the ocean, its rivers matter.
“The river goes [...]

Van on the Run / PBS Prez Paula Kerger Gets a Quick Tour of Nashville

PBS president Paula Kerger was in town for the last couple of days to meet with the staff and board of NPT. It was a true honor to have her visit with us and to share with her some of the great things going on at NPT. Meetings after meetings, however, left little time for [...]

NPT Visits Our Next Door Neighbors in Little Kurdistan, USA

(NPT Press Release)
New original documentary explores Nashville’s Kurdish Population

NASHVILLE, Tennessee — May 19, 2008 — For the past thirty years, Kurdish immigrants in Nashville have started the first Kurdish Mosque in the United States and opened businesses, restaurants, markets and bakeries, building what is now the largest Kurdish population in North America. On Wednesday, May [...]

A Free Teleseminar for Journalists on the DTV Transition

To help journalists report on the upcoming DTV transition, the Foundation for American Journalists (FACS) will present a free tele-seminar with industry experts who can answer questions on how the transition will affect consumers. This seminar is aimed at journalists who cover technology, business, consumer affairs and the broadcast-cable-satellite industries.
On the call will be Marcellus [...]

NPT and Gildas Club Award Essay Contest Winners

NPT and Gilda’s Club of Nashville yesterday awarded the winners of the first NPT/Gilda’s Club of Nashville “It’s Always Something” Essay Contest.” The contest asked high school students to submit personal essays about their experience with cancer for a chance to win up to $2,000. The top three finishers were honored at a reception at [...]

The Electric Company to Return

Cue the funk. It may have been the coolest show about reading ever, and it’s coming back.
The Electric Company, “Refitted for the age of hip-hop and informed by decades of further educational research on reading,” according to the New York Times, will return to public television in 2009.
“It’s the old one mixed with [...]

Frontline Looks at the Storm Over Everest

It was the worst climbing tragedy in Mount Everest’s History. As darkness fell on May 10, 1996, a fast-moving storm of unimaginable ferocity trapped three climbing teams high on the slopes of Mount Everest. The climbers, exhausted from their summit climb, were soon lost in darkness, in a fierce blizzard, far from the safety of [...]