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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. Watch a video preview of this program online.

     
  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.
   
  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.
   
 

A monthly health newsmagazine show, Smart Medicine, premiered on WKNO-TV Channel 10 in May 2004. Hosted by former news anchor Kim Hindrew, 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

   
 

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 website

   
 

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; and WKNO – The First Fifty Years.

Videos from our Memphis Memoirs series

     
   

 

   

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