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In collaboration with the monthly publication, The Best Times is magazine-style program featuring informative segments on health, finance, technology, and living tailored specifically for WKNO’s viewers aged 50+. Host Cris Hardaway interviews area personalities, explores issues, and conducts handy how-to segments. The Best Times web site |
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Citizens Not Subjects! Reawakening Democracy in Memphis (first aired April 2010) is a look back at the end of "Boss" E.H. Crump's control of Memphis, with the emergence of viable opposition candidates, culminating in the 1956 election of mayoral candidate Edmund Orgill. Produced and directed by Rob and Pam Cooper of Verissima Productions. More information online |
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Beyond Babyland is a documentary by award-winning local filmmakers David Appleby and Craig Leake. Three years in the making, the film explores the problem of high infant mortality in Memphis' poorest communities and looks at many of the people and organizations working to turn around this tide and make a positive impact in our community. More information online. |
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The Least Among Us: The Paws Prison Project goes inside the Mark H. Luttrell Correctional Center for Women in Memphis to explore a program that gives dogs, and inmates, a chance to change their lives for the better. The show looks at similar programs in Kentucky and Virginia. Pierre Kimsey is the award-winning producer of past WKNO documentaries, including Stax Academy: From Soulsville to Italy and Joe Scott: Memories of the Negro Leagues. The Least Among Us airs Sunday morning, November 2 at 9:00 a.m. Watch a video preview of this program online. |
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Hello
Mr. Chuck! is a WKNO production for preschool kids and
their parents and caregivers. Featuring the beloved personality
Mr. Chuck, this series has become a huge hit in the area. |
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Through a grant from The Assisi
Foundation, WKNO began producing the public affairs series
It Matters in 2003 with a town hall meeting on Memphis City
Schools. Since then It Matters has presented panel discussions
and public meetings on subjects such as county structure,
urban sprawl, health care, and the Safety Net Collaborative. |
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Through a series of interviews and historical film footage and photographs,WKNO's first HD documentary tells the story of Shelby Farms Park from its beginnings to what the park offers today’s residents, to the transition from a government-controlled entity into the hands of the nonprofit Shelby Farms Park Conservancy. |
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A
monthly health newsmagazine show, Smart Medicine,
premiered on WKNO-TV Channel 10 in May 2004. Hosted by Joe Birch, the news program features
various Mid-South medical and health experts discussing
the latest health news and services available in the
area. Smart
Medicine website |
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Hit
the road with Channel 10 as Southern Routes travels
across the Mid-South to celebrate the flavor of the area.
Each month, we'll take an eclectic and entertaining look
at life in the Mid-South, while highlighting fascinating
people and local events as well as some of those places
that lie just off the beaten path. Southern
Routes web site |
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Hosted by Reggie Williams, 86-year-old ball
player Joe Scott talks about the early days of the Negro Leagues in
Memphis. He also reminisces about his long association with Baseball
Legend Satchel Paige and takes a memory-filled journey to the Negro
League Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri. More information about Joe Scott: Memories of the Negro Leagues |
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What makes the WKNO Memphis
Memoirs series so special? It’s more than a local
documentary series, more than a history series. It’s
a nostalgia series, and its community appeal goes deeper
than the love of learning a city’s history.
The popularity of nostalgia programs has created a phenomenon
called “a shared memory experience.” Nostalgia
programs become a city’s scrapbook, of sorts. The
phenomenon in Memphis began in 1995, when WKNO called upon
the city to send in its memories of fun places and events
from Memphis in the 1930s, ‘40s, and ‘50s.
Those memories became Memphis Memoirs: Remember When?,
which premiered on Channel 10 in August, 1996. Since then,
there have been seventeen Memphis Memoirs in all: Memphis
Memoirs Visits the Peabody; The Cotton Carnival Years;
The Kennedy Hospital—The City That Cared; All Aboard;
At the Fair; Overton Park, A Century of Change; Beyond
the Parkways; Sacred Spaces; Elmwood - Reflections of Memphis;
At The Movies; Playing for a Piece of the Door; Lost Memphis;
Linked By Inspiration - The FedEx St. Jude Classic; When
TV Came to Town; High School, My School; WKNO – The
First Fifty Years; and the most recent production from 2009: Memphis Memoirs: Downtown.
Videos from our
Memphis Memoirs series |
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