Quarterly Program Topic Report July 1-15, 2012 Category ... - WYES

Length:
Airdate:
60 minutes
7/23/2012 8:00:00 PM
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Service:
Format:
PBS
Event Coverage
Segment Length: 00:51:40
This week on MARKET WARRIORS, pickers Miller, John, Bob and Kevin are in the City of
Brotherly Love, working in close quarters at the 60-vendor Phila Flea Market. The challenge is
to find costume jewelry — within their fixed budgets — with an eye to selling their finds for profit
at auction. As off-screen host Fred Willard explains, one picker will make a fatal mistake.
Notable picks include a set by French jeweler Marcel Boucher and items such as a Playboy
ice bucket and a Japanese mixed metal vase. It becomes clear whose strategy is working best
when the items are auctioned at A.N. Abell Auction Company in Los Angeles.
Category:
Business/Industry
NOLA: FRON 002804
Series Title:
Frontline
Episode Title: Alaska Gold
Length:
Airdate:
60 minutes
7/24/2012 9:00:00 PM
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Service:
Format:
PBS
Documentary
Segment Length: 00:00:00
The Bristol Bay region of southwest Alaska is home to the last great wild Sockeye salmon
fishery in the world. It's also home to enormous mineral deposits-copper, gold, molybdenumestimated
to be worth over $300 billion. Now, two foreign mining companies are proposing to
extract this mineral wealth by digging one of North America's largest open-pit mines, the
"Pebble Mine," at the headwaters of Bristol Bay. FRONTLINE travels to Alaska to probe the
fault lines of a growing battle between those who depend on this extraordinary fishery for a