40 YEARS OF BRINGING PEOPLE AND ISSUES TOGETHER - WQED

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40 YEARS OF BRINGING 

PEOPLE AND ISSUES TOGETHER 

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“The Black Horizons 40th Anniversary Special” 

The nation’s longest-running minority affairs program 

turns 40 this year. 

That program is WQED’s Black Horizons. 

Since its premiere immediately following the assassination 

of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968, Black Horizons 

has served as a voice for Pittsburgh’s African American 

community. In its early days, there were no black producers 

at the station to make Black Horizons, so WQED instituted 

a training program that ultimately resulted in turning out a 

number of successful African American journalists, producers, 

executives and academics. Many of them have gone on to 

local, regional and national success as journalists and 

community leaders. 

Host Chris Moore—who’s helmed the program for the past 28 

years—and series producer Minette Seate—spent weeks reminiscing 

through the Black Horizons archives at WQED to put 

together a special retrospective that is poignant as well as 

historic. Airing at various times throughout the month (check 

the inside OnAir Guide listings for WQED 13.1 digital for 

dates and times) the special features clips from the first 

show in 1968 to the present. Other highlights focus on 

music, the arts, social causes, and politics. Don Marbury and 

Ralph Proctor were the early hosts of the show and the special 

features segments with them. 

During its 40-year history, Black Horizons has played host to 

national civil rights leaders, local politicians, African dancers, the 

NAACP National Convention, cooking demonstrations, athletes, 

activists, pageant contestants, jazz pianists, tap dancers, gospel 

groups, performance poets and former sitcom stars. 

“Overall, this special shows a broad range of the show’s 

production over the years...various things we have done, the 

people and issues we have featured, and the breadth and 

depth of the impact of the electronic media on the minority 

community,” said Moore,” and for that, I am most proud.” 

Also included in the special are portions of some of the many 

documentaries produced under the Black Horizons umbrella. 

Reaching into the community—that’s the hallmark of public 

broadcasting. That’s the reputation of WQED. That’s the impact 

of Black Horizons. 

Here’s to 40 more years. 

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Midnight Globe Trekker 

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American Experience” 

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Business of America 

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American Experience 

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11:00 Charlie Rose 

TUESDAY 3 

Midnight OnQ 

12:30 Smart Travels—Europe with 

Rudy Maxa 




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5:00 Nature “Prince of the Alps” 

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8:00 NOVA “Inside the Spy Factory” 

9:00 Frontline “My Father, My Brother 

and Me” 

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“Adjust 

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Color: The Truth About 

Petey Greene” 


WEDNESDAY 4 

Midnight OnQ 


Rudy Maxa 


and Me” 




4:00 Forgotten Ellis Island 


6 am-5 pm CHILDRENS PROGRAMMING 


PROGRAMMING 

8:00 Black 

Horizons 

40th 

Anniversary 

9:00 George 

Carlin: 

The Mark 

Twain Prize 




THURSDAY 5 

Midnight OnQ 


Rudy Maxa 

February listings WQED-TV13.1 

1:00 George Carlin: The Mark Twain Prize 



3:00 Independent Lens “Adjust Your 

Color: The Truth About Petey Greene” 


and Me” 




PROGRAMMING 

8:00 Fly Boys: Western 

Pennsylvania’s 

Tuskegee 

Airmen 

9:00 Mystery! “Foyle’s War, Series 

IV: Invasion” 

10:30 Getting Ready for the Digital 

Television Conversion: An OnQ 

Special Report 


FRIDAY 6 

Midnight OnQ 


Rudy Maxa 

1:00 This Old House Hour 

2:00 Soundstage 




5:00 Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work 



PROGRAMMING 

8:00 Washington Week 

8:30 Now on PBS 

9:00 Bill Moyers’ Journal 

10:00 In the Life 

10:30 Return to the Roots of Civil Rights: 

An OnQ Special Edition 


MONDAY 9 




2:30 Get Ready for Digital TV 







PROGRAMMING 


9:00 The Assassination 

of Abraham 

Lincoln: American 

Experience 




TUESDAY 10 

Midnight OnQ 


Rudy Maxa 

1:00 The Assassination of Abraham 

Lincoln: American Experience 






5:00 Nature “Drakensberg: Barrier 

of Spears” 



PROGRAMMING 

8:00 NOVA “Judgment Day: Intelligent 

Design on Trial” 

10:00 Independent Lens “Tulia, TX” 


WEDNESDAY 11 

Midnight OnQ 


Rudy Maxa 



3:00 The Assassination of Abraham 

Lincoln: American Experience” 






PROGRAMMING 

8:00 Lincoln: Prelude to the Presidency 

9:00 

Looking 

for Lincoln 


THURSDAY 12 

Midnight OnQ 


Rudy Maxa 

1:00 Looking for Lincoln 

3:00 Independent Lens “Tulia, TX” 





PROGRAMMING 

8:00 Barbershops: PA Stylin’ 

9:00 Mystery! “Foyle’s War, Series IV: 

Bad Blood” 

10:30 Young Lincoln 


FRIDAY 13 

Midnight OnQ 


Rudy Maxa 

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10:00 An Evening with Eartha Kitt 


MONDAY 16 


1:00 Masterpiece Classic: Oliver Twist 

2:30 American Stamps 





PROGRAMMING 

8:00 Antiques Roadshow “Wichita, KS” 

9:00 The Lobotomist: American 

Experience 

10:00 Simon Schama’s Rough Crossings 


TUESDAY 17 

12:30 OnQ 


Experience 


3:00 Masterpiece Classic: Oliver Twist 

4:30 American Stamps 

5:00 Nature “Why We Love Dogs and Cats” 



PROGRAMMING 

8:00 NOVA ”The Four-Winged Dinosaur” 

9:00 Frontline 

10:00 Independent Lens “Billy 

Strayhorn: Lush Life” 


WEDNESDAY 18 

12:30 OnQ 


2:00 NOVA “The Four-Winged Dinosaur” 


Experience” 

4:00 Simon Schama’s Rough Crossings 




PROGRAMMING 

8:00 FAUBOURG TREME: The Untold Story 

of Black New Orleans 

9:00 American Masters 

“Jerome 

Robbins: 

Something to 

Dance About” 


THURSDAY 19 

Midnight OnQ 


Rudy Maxa 

1:00 American Masters “Jerome Robbins: 

Something to Dance About” 

3:00 Independent Lens “Billy Strayhourn: 

Lush Life” 



5:00 NOVA “The Four-Winged Dinosaur” 



PROGRAMMING 

8:00 Jim Crow Pennsylvania 


Bleak Winter” 

10:30 Miss Lil’s Camp 


FRIDAY 20 

Midnight OnQ 


Rudy Maxa 



3:00 American Masters “Jerome Robbins: 

Something to Dance About” 

5:00 Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work” 



PROGRAMMING 




10:00 An Evening with Quincy Jones 


MONDAY 23 



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1:00 Masterpiece Classic “Oliver Twist” 

2:30 Signpost to Freedom: The 1953 

Baton Rouge Bus Boycott 

3:00 American Masters “Jerome 

Robbins: Something to Dance About” 




PROGRAMMING 


9:00 A Class Apart: American Experience 

10:00 History Detectives 


TUESDAY 24 

Midnight OnQ 


Rudy Maxa 

1:00 Class Apart: American Experience 


3:00 Masterpiece Classic “Oliver Twist” 


Baton Rouge Bus Boycott” 

5:00 Nature “In the Valley of the Wolves” 



PROGRAMMING 

8:00 NOVA “Rats” 


10:00 Independent Lens “The Order 

of Myths” 


WEDNESDAY 25 

12:30 OnQ 



3:00 Class Apart: American Experience 

4:00 History Detectives 




PROGRAMMING 

8:00 Sisters of Selma: Bearing Witness 

to Change 

9:00 

America’s 

Ballroom 

Challenge 


THURSDAY 26 

Midnight OnQ 


Rudy Maxa 

1:00 America’s Ballroom Challenge 

3:00 Independent Lens “The Order 

of Myths” 


Baton Rouge Bus Boycott 




PROGRAMMING 

8:00 Torchbearers 


Casualties of War” 

10:30 Fannie Lou Hamer: Courage 

and Faith 


FRIDAY 27 

Midnight OnQ 


Rudy Maxa 


2:00 The Linguists 

3:00 America’s Ballroom Challenge 




PROGRAMMING 




10:00 An Evening with Colin Powell 

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PITTSBURGH FEBRUARY 2009 


weekends 

SATURDAYS 

Midnight Off Q 

12:30 am Smart Travels—Europe with 

Rudy Maxa 




3:00 Soundstage; The Linguists 2/27 


2/6, 2/13; Antiques Roadshow 

“Wichita, KS” 2/20, 2/27 


6:00 Off Q; Member Favorites 2/14, 2/28 

6:30 Now on PBS; Member Favorites 

2/14, 2/28 

7:00 Consuelo Mack Wealthtrack; 

Member Favorites 2/14, 2/28 

7:30 Washington Week; Member 

Favorites 2/14, 2/28 

8:00 MoneyTrack; Member Favorites 

2/14, 2/28 

8:30 To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe; 


9:00 The McLaughlin Group; Member 


9:30 Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly; 


10:00 QED Cooks; Member Favorites 

2/14; Easy Cooking for Hard Times 2/28 

10:30 Steel City Chefs; Member 

Favorites 2/14, Easy Cooking for Hard 

Times 2/28 

11:00 Martin Yan’s China; Member 


Times 2/28 

11:30 Lidia’s Italy; Member Favorites 

2/14, Easy Cooking for Hard Times 2/28 

Noon Ciao Italia; Member Favorites 


12:30 pm Joanne Wier’s Cooking Class; 

Member Favorites 2/14, Easy Cooking for 

Hard Times 2/28 

1:00 Jacques Pepin: More Fast Food My 

Way; Member Favorites 2/14; Easy 

Cooking for Hard Times 2/28 

1:30 Everyday Food; Member Favorites 


2:00 Victory Garden; Member Favorites 


2:30 Woodwright’s Shop; Member 


Times 2/28 

3:00 New Yankee Workshop; Member 


Times 2/28 

3:30 Ask This Old House; Member 


Times 2/28 

4:00 This Old House; Member Favorites 

2/14, 2/28 

4:30 Gourmet’s Diary of a Foodie; 


5:00 Smart Travels—Europe with Rudy 

Maxa; Member Favorites 2/14, 2/28 

5:30 Rick Steves’ Europe; Member 


6:00 Antiques Roadshow; Member 


7:00 Lawrence Welk Show; Member 


8:00 Keeping Up Appearances; Member 


8:30 Are Your Being Served; Member 


9:00 As Time Goes By; Member 


9:30 Yes, Minister; Member Favorites 

2/14, 2/28 

10:00 The Red Green Show; Member 


10:30 Dave & Dave’s Excellent 

Adventures; Member Favorites 2/14, 2/28 

11:00 Roadtrip Nation; Member 


11:30 Rare Visions and Roadside 

Revelations; Member Favorites 2/14, 2/28 

SUNDAYS 

Midnight Member Favorites 

2:00 am Member Favorites 

4:00 Member Favorites 

6:00 Sesame Street; Member Favorites 

2/15 

7:00 Big Comfy Couch; Member 

Favorites 2/15 

7:30 Mama Mirabelle’s Home Movies; 

Member Favorites 2/15 

8:00 Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood; 


8:30 Bob the Builder; Member 


9:00 Thomas & Friends; Member 


9:30 Make Way for Noddy; Member 


10:00 Lomax: The Hound of Music; 


10:30 Animalia; Member Favorites 2/15 

11:00 NOVA “Butterfly” 2/1; Nature 

“Prince of the Alps” 2/8; Member 

Favorites 2/15; Nature “Why We Love 

Dogs and Cats” 2/22 

Noon Sandwiches That You Will Like 2/1; 

Wylie Avenue Days 2/8; 2/15 Member 

Favorites; Things That are Still Here 2/22 

1:00 pm Dave & Dave’s Excellent; 


1:30 OnQ; Member Favorites 2/15 

2:00 Black Horizons; Member 


2:30 Enough is Enough: The Death of 

Jonny Gammage with Panel Discussion 

2/1; Foreign Exchange 2/8, 2/22; 


3:00 Fly Boys: Western Pennsylvania’s 

Tuskegee Airmen 2/8; Member Favorites 

2/15; FAUBOURG TREME: The Untold 

Story of Black New Orleans 2/22 

4:00 African American Lives #2 2/1,


2/8; Member Favorites 2/15; The Story 

of Oscar Brown Jr. 2/22 

5:00 Jim Crow Pennsylvania 2/22 

6:00 Keystone Chronicles; Member 


6:30 From the Top at Carnegie Hall; 


7:00 Design Squad; Member 


7:30 Biz Kid$; Member Favorites 2/15 

8:00 Nature “Prince of the Alps” 2/1; 

Nature “Drakensberg: Barrier of Spears” 2/8; 

Nature: 

“Why We 

Love Dogs 

and Cats” 

2/15 

Nature “In the Valley of the Wolves” 2/22 

9:00 Masterpiece Classic: Sense and 

Sensibility 2/1, 2/8; 

Masterpiece 

Classic: 

Oliver Twist 

2/15, 2/22 

2-part series! 

10:30 OnQ Presents: Pittsburgh & The 

Salk Vaccine 2/1; Getting Ready for the 

Digital Television Conversion: An OnQ 

Special Report 2/8; American Stamps 

2/15; Signpost to Freedom: The 1953 

Baton Rouge Bus Boycott 2/22 

11:00 Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge 

11:30 Burt Wolf: Travels and Traditions 

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NEIGHBORHOOD CHANNEL 

ON WQED-TV 13.3 

(13.3 OVER-THE-AIR-BROADCAST 

SIGNAL) STARTING AT MIDNIGHT 

ON SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1. 

The WQED Neighborhood Channel features 

monthly “themed” programming 

24-hours-a-day—and this month it is 

“Black History Month.” 

Featuring all month long: Fly Boys: Western Pennsylvania’s 

Tuskegee Airmen, Torch Bearers, Jim Crow Pennsylvania, 

Wylie Avenue Days, Barbershops: Pennsylvania Stylin’, OnQ, 

Black Horizons, Dave and Dave, and OnQ Specials. 

To watch the entire line-up when it’s most convenient for you, just tune in the same time 

every day and you will have watched the entire month-long line-up in one week! 

How do you find The WQED Neighborhood Channel 

1. Call your local cable company and ask where it is on the digital cable line-up. 

2. Pick us up over-the-air by tuning your digital receiver to 13.3. 

Coming to The WQED Neighborhood Channel in March: “Award Winners.” If you like what 

you see, write to Chris Fennimore, program director, at The WQED Neighborhood Channel, 

c/o WQED, 4802 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 or e-mail cfennimore@wqed.org. 

Sit and be Fit 

Monday-Friday at noon on 

WQED: The Create Channel 

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your cable company and ask where it is in the line-up) 

*Programming subject to schedule changes. 

Go to wqed.org for updated listings. 

*OnQ is funded in part with a grant from the 

Allegheny County Regional Asset District (RAD). 

Charlie Rose 

Monday-Friday at 11 pm 

on WQED-TV, 13.1 digital 

Monday-Friday at 1 pm on 

WQED: The Create Channel, 13.2 digital 

(call your cable company and ask where it is in the line-up) 



Letter from 

Susan Johnson 

WQED-FM 89.3 

& WQEJ-FM 89.7 

Executive Director 

For the Love of Classical Music 

I try to avoid writing two months in a row 

about giving. But this time, I must. 

I must somehow get through to more listeners, 

about how important this month’s on-air 

membership drive is for Classical WQED-FM 89.3 

and WQEJ-FM 89.7. 

We’ve tightened our belt on spending, and 

applied every economy of scale possible. 

There is no fat to cut. 

I am proud of our lean operation that produce 

more than 4500 hours a year of locally-hosted 

classical music for you, on a shoestring budget. 

I am proud of all the QED Morning Show’s 

regional arts coverage. Of the community 

concerts we broadcast and promote. Of our 

Carolyn M. Byham Cultural District Studio in 

the heart of Downtown. 

In 22 years in the business, I’ve never known 

such a small team to create so much meaningful 

programming for the community it serves. We 

are truly fortunate! 

But we cannot do it alone. Two-thirds of the 

costs of running Classical WQED-FM and 

WQEJ-FM are paid by listeners making voluntary 

contributions in whatever amount they can. 

So I’m asking you, personally, if you can give. 

If you will give. If you will give just a tiny 

little bit more in this month’s campaign. 

Mail your check payable to WQED-FM at 4802 

Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213. 

Give online at www.WQED.org . 

Or call 888-621-6900 during the on-air 

membership drive. 

We all thank you—with great classical music! 

PROGRAMMING HIGHLIGHTS 

WQED-FM 89.3 and WQEJ-FM 89.7 

PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY RADIO 

8 pm SUNDAYS 

February 1 

Yan Pascal Tortelier conducts Corigliano’s 

Tournaments Overture and Elgar’s Enigma 

Variations. Leonidas Kovakos performs 

Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2. 

February 8 

Chee-Yun performs Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3. 

Andres Cardenes conducts Hindemith’s Concert 

Music for Strings and Bass, and Schumann’s 

Symphony No. 3. 

February 15 

Lorin Maazel conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 7 

and Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances. 

February 22 

Horacio Gutierrez performs Beethoven’s Emperor 

Piano Concerto. Yan Pascal Tortelier conducts 

the Symphony No. 4 by Vaughan Williams. 

METROPOLITAN OPERA 

SATURDAY AFTERNOONS 

February 7 

Gaetano Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor.” 1pm 

start time. 

February 14 

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin.” 1pm 

start time. 

February 21 

Francesco Cilea’s “Adriana Lecouvreur.” 1pm 

start time. 

February 28 

Giuseppi Verdi’s “Il Trovatore.” 1pm start time. 

HARMONIA 

7 am SUNDAYS 

February 8 

Food and drink in music of the baroque. Plus, 

a new release by organist Jonathan Dimmock. 

February 15 

Music by some of the finest composers of the 

Portuguese Renaissance. 

February 22 

A look at the Renaissance lament known as the 

déploration, a musical setting of a poem written 

in memory of someone who passed away. 

PERFORMANCE IN PITTSBURGH 

7 pm FRIDAYS 

February 6 

Rebel plays Christmas concerti, from December’s 

Renaissance & Baroque concert. 

February 13 

Music for Valentines, including Brahms’ 

Liebeslieder Waltzes and Tchaikovsky’s Romeo 

& Juliet. 

February 20 

Harpsichordist Richard Egarr plays Bach’s 

"Well-Tempered Clavier," Book 1. 

February 27 

The Jupiter String Quartet’s Pittsburgh debut in 

works by Haydn, Shostakovich, and Beethoven. 

EXPLORING MUSIC 

10 pm WEEKNIGHTS 

Week of February 2nd 

Works of Mendelssohn, in celebration of his 

200th birthday. 

Week of February 9th 

Composers influenced by the great elixir of love. 

Week of February 16th 

Music of a European golden period from 

1885 to 1914—an era in which both art and 

science flourished. 

Week of February 23rd 

Music from one of Europe’s greatest golden 

periods, 1885 to 1914. 

SUNDAY BAROQUE 

8 am SUNDAYS 

February 1 

Great American musical ensembles demonstrate 

their prowess playing baroque favorites in the 

Super Baroque Bowl. 

February 8 

Birdsongs found in classical music, in honor of 

National Birdfeeding Month. 

February 15 

For Valentine’s Day weekend, you’ll hear baroque 

composers make beautiful music on the subject 

of love. 

February 22 

A birthday party for George Frideric Handel (born 

February 23, 1685)—with as much music by 

Handel as you can handle. 

WQED-FM 89.3 AND WQEJ-FM 89.7 CELEBRATE BLACK HISTORY MONTH 

The U.S. composer and arranger William Grant Still blended jazz and the Blues into his emblematic 

Afro-American Symphony. Hear Still’s Symphony and other black musicians and composers daily 

throughout the month of February, as WQED-FM 89.3 honors Black History Month. You’ll hear 

music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Duke Ellington, Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges, and others, plus 

performances by Branford and Wynton Marsalis, Andre Watts, and the Imani Winds. 

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A.M. 

WQED-FM 89.3 & WQEJ-FM 89.7 Programming at a Glance 

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Mon Tue Wed Thur Fri Sat Sun 

THE WQED MORNING SHOW 

JIM CUNNINGHAM, Live from Oakland with Local Arts, 

NPR News, Traffic, Weather and Morning Favorites 

ANNA SINGER, Live from the Carolyn M. Byham 

Cultural District Studio, Downtown 

Essential Classics, NPR News and Weather 

Gillian Martin 

Jim 

Sweenie: 

Live from 

Oakland 

Gillian Martin 

Harmonia 

Sunday 

Baroque 

with 

Suzanne Bona 

P.M. 

A.M. 

2:00 

3:00 

4:00 

5:00 

6:00 

7:00 

8:00 

9:00 

10:00 

11:00 

12:00 

6:00 

TED SOHIER, Live from the Carolyn M. Byham 

Cultural District Studio, Downtown 

Peaceful Classics for a Calmer Commute, 

Relaxing Dinner and Quiet Evening 

Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin 

Scott Blankenship, Alison Young 

Bob Christiansen and Ward Jacobson 

Performance 

in Pittsburgh: 

Stephen 

Baum Live 

from the 

Cultural 

District 

Saturday at 

the Opera 

Ken Meltzer 

May - December 

Met Opera 

December - May 

From the Top 

A Prairie Home 

Companion 

with Garrison Keillor 

Saturday Night 

Requests 

with Jim Sweenie 

Mindy 

Ratner 

Bob 

Christianson 

Pittsburgh 

Symphony 

with 

Jim Cunningham 

Pipedreams 

with 

Michael Barone 

Although every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of this program guide, early publishing deadlines may result in incorrect program listings. 

If there are questions, please call 412/622-1436. Radio listings are subject to change. Go to wqed.org for the most up-to-date information. 

Jim’s Picks 

February is for the birds! It’s National Bird Feeding Month, so check 

out WQED bird expert Kate St John’s Bird Blog on our website at wqed.org 

and listen to her interview in our audio on demand section. You’ll hear 

Respighi’s “The Birds” on the QED Morning Show played by our own 

Pittsburgh Symphony Chamber Orchestra, as well as Vivaldi’s Goldfinch 

Concerto for flute. 

Every Sunday night at 8, you can hear new broadcasts of the Pittsburgh 

Symphony made possible by Bayer Corporation, Pittsburgh Symphony 

Trustee Richard E. Rauh and the Musicians of the Pittsburgh Symphony. 

February 1st, Yan Pascal Tortelier conducts Corigliano’s Tournaments 

Overture and Elgar’s Enigma Variations. The Greek born super hero of 

the violin, Leonidas Kovakos, plays Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2. 

Chee-Yun returns February 8th with Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3. 

Pittsburgh Symphony concertmaster Andres Cardenes conducts 

Hindemith’s Concert Music for Strings and Bass, and Schumann’s 

Symphony No. 3, the “Rhenish.” 

One of the most memorable tour concerts ever reappears February 15th 

with Lorin Maazel conducting Mahler’s Symphony No. 7 and Dvorak’s 

Slavonic Dances from the home of the Warsaw Philharmonic in Poland 

in 1989. That was the year the Communists lost power, and American 

orchestra visits were rare. The hall was packed with students sitting in 

the aisle, way beyond any fire departments worst nightmare, but the 

atmosphere was crackling with excitement. 

Horacio Gutierrez returns on February 22nd with Beethoven’s Emperor 

Piano Concerto. Yan Pascal Tortelier conducts the Symphony No. 4 by 

Vaughan Williams. 



128 

April 1968 was 

a turbulent month in a 

turbulent year. Martin Luther 

King, Jr. was assassinated, 

the Vietnam War was at its 

height, and the assassination 

of Robert Kennedy and the 

riots at the Chicago Democratic 

Convention were on the horizon. 

In April, a new program called Black Horizons premiered on WQED. There were no 

black producers at the station to make the program, so WQED instituted a training 

program that ultimately resulted in turning out many successful African 

American journalists, producers, executives and academics. Chris Moore 

became host in 1980 and is the longest-serving host of Black Horizons. 

Black Horizons celebrated its fortieth anniversary with a special look back in 

January, which will rebroadcast on February 4 at 8pm and several times this 

month. The special includes scenes from the last forty years and highlights its 

contributions to Pittsburgh’s African American community. 

Black Horizons has produced award-winning specials like Torchbearers, about local 

civil rights pioneers; The House, the story of Westinghouse High School; Fly Boys: 

Western Pennsylvania’s Tuskegee Airmen, about the Tuskegee Experiment during 

World War II; In Country: A Vietnam Story, about a group of veterans who return 

to Vietnam; Jim Crow Pennsylvania, the history of segregation laws in our own 

state; and Wylie Avenue Days, about the glory days of the Hill District. 

No other station has this history of service to the African American community. 

Black Horizons was a first, just as WQED was the first community-supported 

television station in the country. 

Yours in progress, 

Yours in 

Progress 

A note from 

George L. Miles, Jr. 

President and Chief Executive 

Officer, WQED Pittsburgh 

George L. Miles, Jr. 

WQEX-TV PROGRAMMING FOR YOUR KIDS 

The start of the week is where you can find programs that 

educate and entertain young minds. Tune in to WQEX Monday 

& Tuesday mornings for great kids’ shows! 

Mondays 

7:00 and 7:30 A.M. “Big Comfy Couch” 

Loonette, a young, energetic clown, and her best friend, Molly, have fun learning about 

sharing and caring through games, reading stories, songs and imaginative activities. 

Tuesdays 

7:00 A.M. “Jane’s Sew & So” 

“Jane’s Sew & So” is an educational series for teens that sparks their creativity and helps 

them discover their independence by creating their own unique fashions. 

7:30 AM “What’s Up! ¿Que Pasa” 

What’s Up! ¿Que Pasa is a fast-paced bilingual, multicultural show with an emphasis on 

language development, cross-cultural awareness and positive health choices. 

8:00 & 8:30 A.M. “My Bedbugs” 

The Bedbugs are three siblings, Gooby, Toofy and Woozy, who share playful adventures through 

imagination and song. 

ShopNBC is one of the nation’s leading home shopping channels, broadcasting live every day 

of the year. ShopNBC airs on WQEX-TV 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with the exception of 

Monday mornings from 6 am - 8 am and Tuesday mornings from 7 am - 9 am. Log on to wqex.org 

and click on “TV Schedules” to find the most current ShopNBC program schedule. 

PITTSBURGH FEBRUARY 2009 

on WQEX 

wqed.org 

4802 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213 

On Air is a supplement of PITTSBURGH MAGAZINE, a publication of WQED Pittsburgh 

Officers of WQED Pittsburgh 

Chair Richard L. Stover 

Vice-Chair Debra Caplan 

President & CEO George L. Miles, Jr. 

Executive Vice President & General Manager 

Deborah L. Acklin 

Secretary Jacquelyn Thomas 

Treasurer Steven A. Reubi 

WQED Pittsburgh Board of Directors 

Fiscal Year 2009 

Richard L. Stover (Chair), Debra Caplan (Vice Chair), Carole A. Bailey, 

Neil Barclay, Lidia Bastianich, Gregg Behr, Theodore M. Bovard, 

Michael A. Bryson, R. Yvonne Campos, Daria C. Crawley, 

Representative Dan Frankel, Dr. Peter Gerszten, Mark Hornak, 

Alex Johnson, Clyde Jones, James Maher, Dana E. Malin, Eric K. Mann, 

Kevin McMahon, Mickey McManus, George L. Miles, Jr., Kathleen Mulcahy, 

Dee Jay Oshry, Donna C. Peterman, Joseph Platt, Tom R. Tabor, 

Raul Valdes-Perez, Christine Ward, Lara Washington Thomas, 

Sylvia C. Wilson, Ellen L. Donley (Leadership on Board) 

Community Advisory Board (CAB) 

Daria Crawley (Chair), David Jamison, Nusrath Ainapore, Vann Jennings, 

Heather Arnet, McCrae Martino, N. Catherine Bazan-Arias, La’Tasha D. Mayes, 

Demeatria Gibson Boccella, Julianne McAdoo, Delphina Briscoe, 

Evans Moore, Jr., J. Bracken Burns, Sr., Father Terry O’Connor, 

Kate Callahan-Gordon, Ruth Purcell, Cynthia Carrow, Rev. Kyoki Roberts, 

Yu Ling Cheng, Sylvia Rhor Samaniego, Anju S. Chopra, Katherine Seelman, 

Bridgette Driver, Anne Blose Sekula, Angela A. Ford, Ambassador Dan Simpson, 

John Graf, Jack Shea, Lisa Hoitsma, Jim Singer, David Hopkins, 

Mark Southers, Yugo Ikach, Leonard Stept 

BOARD MEETING DATES 

The public is invited to attend WQED Pittsburgh’s board meetings, 

held in the Hillman Conference Room 

at WQED, 4802 Fifth Avenue, Oakland: 

Thursday, March 26, 2009 – noon 

Thursday, July 23, 2009 – noon 

Thursday, September 24, 2009 – 6:00 p.m. – Annual meeting with CAB 

Programming on WQED is made possible in part by a grant from 

the Pennsylvania Public Television Network (PPTN) and RAD, 

The Allegheny Regional Asset District. 

You’ve Got Our Number! Listed below are 

telephone numbers to call with questions or 

comments on just about any aspect of WQED Pittsburgh: 

Toll-Free . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-888-622-1370 

Broadcast/Web Sales . . . . . .412-622-6421 

Member Services . . . . . . . . . .412-622-1370 

PITTSBURGH MAGAZINE . . . . . . . . .412-622-1360 

Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . .412-622-1370 

WQED-FM 89.3 . . . . . . . . . . .412-622-1436 

Volunteer Information . . . . . . .412-622-1506 

SHOP WQED . . . . . . . . . . . . . .412-622-1307 

Special-Events Line . . . . . . . . .412-622-1500 

Tour Information, Talent Appearances, 

Speakers Bureau . . . . . . . . . .412-622-1363 

ALTHOUGH EVERY EFFORT IS MADE TO ENSURE THE ACCURACY OF THIS PROGRAM 

GUIDE, EARLY PUBLISHING DEADLINES MAY RESULT IN INCORRECT PROGRAM LISTINGS. 

IF THERE ARE QUESTIONS, PLEASE CALL: 1-800-876-1316. 

Designer: Morgan Kelly 

WQED-TV and WQEX-TV file the required FCC Form 388 with 

the FCC on a quarterly basis to report on its digital TV consumer 

education efforts during the previous calendar quarter. The reports 

are available on the station website and at the station’s main 

studio located at 4802 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA.

40 YEARS OF BRINGING PEOPLE AND ISSUES TOGETHER - WQED

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