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NOVA: A Walk to Beautiful
This program tells the story of three women in Ethiopia suffering from devastating childbirth injuries. Rejected by their husbands and ostracized by their communities, the women are left to spend the rest of their lives in loneliness and shame. NOVA follows each of them on their journey to a special hospital in Addis Ababa, where they find solace for the first time in years, and stays with them as their lives begin to change. The trials they endure and their attempts to rebuild their lives tell a universal story of hope, courage and transformation.
NOVA: A Walk to Beautiful airs Tuesday, May 13 @ 8:00pm
Frontline: Storm Over Everest
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 high camp at 26,000 feet. World-renowned climber and filmmaker David Breashears returns to Everest to tell the story of the climbers who perished in that storm, marking the worst climbing tragedy in Mount Everest's history.
Frontline: Storm Over Everest airs Tuesday, May 13 @ 9:00pm
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Student films to be showcased on AETN
posted 08 May 2008
The work of Arkansas's next generation of filmmakers will be showcased in "2008 AETN Student Selects: A Young Filmmakers Showcase" airing on the Arkansas Educational Television Network.
AETN partners help restore local service
posted 06 May 2008
In recent weeks, the Arkansas Educational Television Network has been able to restore consistent program service to cable subscribers in Vilonia, Beebe, Cabot and Jacksonville Air Force Base as the result of a partnership between KTWN-18, Charter Cable and Suddenlink Communications.
AETN’s Weatherly named Scottish Rite Citizen of the Year
posted 06 May 2008
Allen Weatherly, Executive Director of the Arkansas Educational Television Network and the AETN Foundation, has been named the Scottish Rite Citizen of the Year in Arkansas by the Arkansas Scottish Rite Freemasons.
SUBIACO ACADEMY PLACES SECOND IN 4A QUIZ BOWL FINALS
posted 29 Apr 2008
Subiaco Academy finished as runners up in the 4A conference finals of the Arkansas Governor’s Academic Competition Quiz Bowl Saturday, April 19, against Huntsville. The final score was 260 to 195. The team includes: Joshua Gage, James Kyle, Nehemiah Stephens; Tyler Carr, Josh Stewart, Matthew Sharum, Coach Alane Freerksen, Chance Kidd and Will Kluempers. The Arkansas Educational Television Network has hosted and aired the live competition since 1985. Students were challenged with difficult questions in literature, math, science, history, art, music and economics. This year, the top two teams from each of the seven conferences advanced to the State Conference Finals, resulting in seven champions. AETN provides lifelong learning opportunities, improves and enhances Arkansans’ lives and celebrates the unique culture of Arkansas through its programming and services. AETN’s digital and analog transmitters and numerous cable system connections give it statewide reach.
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KETS - Channel 2 FAQs:
Q. Why is KETS - channel 2 off the air ?
A. The KETS antenna was on the KATV/channel 7 tower in Redfield that fell on January 11, 2008.
Q. Why has the tower not been repaired ?
A. The tower was 2000 feet tall, taller than the Empire State Building, and it was totally destroyed. It will take approximately a year to be rebuilt by the tower owners, KATV -- if they decide to rebuild the tower.
Q. What is AETN doing until then ?
A. AETN purchased an emergency analog channel 2 antenna and transmitter to be installed on the KASN tower near Redfield-- about 4 miles from the former KATV tower site. The KASN tower is also the home of our KETS-DT digital channel 5 antenna.
Q. So why is KETS-channel 2 still not on the air?
A. Towers are designed to hold only a certain weight (including heavy ice in the winter time) and withstand a maximum amount of high winds, a complete structural analysis must be done by a licensed tower engineering firm to be sure the tower can safely hold the additional load of the emergency analog channel 2 antenna -- before we can install any new antenna on the KASN tower.
Q. How long will that take to get back on the air?
A. The engineers hired by AETN are performing the detailed structural analysis taking into account the several other antennas currently on the KASN tower. This rigorous analysis takes time to complete.
Based on the engineer's report, the tower will either support the KETS emergency analog channel 2 antenna as it stands now, or it will require additional steel support pieces to support the additional loads. We are hoping that the KASN tower will support the KETS emergency antenna without any major changes being required. Then, we have to obtain work approval from the tower owner and from state regulators.
Finally, an expert installation crew will begin work at the site to hang the antenna at approximately 1,000 feet above the ground. That work will require about a week of clear, calm weather. Once the antenna is on the tower, KETS can resume broadcasting on analog channel 2 until February 17, 2009 when all analog broadcasting is totally replaced by digital broadcasting.
Q. If all of this happens, will I be able to receive KETS channel 2 with my outside antenna or TV's rabbit ears again?
A. That depends upon where you live. Because AETN is only able to put up an smaller emergency analog channel 2 antenna with lower power transmitter on the KASN tower, the new coverage area will probably be smaller than the original channel 2 area. Exactly how much smaller is yet to be determined.
AETN is broadcasting the same program schedule on KETS-DT digital channel 5. But its coverage area is smaller than analog channel 2 because AETN is required to protect existing channel 5 stations in Memphis and Fort Smith. Dish Network and DirecTV are carrying AETN in the Little Rock DMA (which covers most all of central Arkansas). Most cable companies in central Arkansas are using the KETS-DT signal on their systems. There are a few cable systems that are not able to receive a reliable KETS-DT signal at this time.
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