From: tflavell@pbs.org
Newsgroups: alt.education.distance,k12.ed.special,k12.ed.tech,misc.misc
Subject: GED ON TV Early Alert
Date: 27 Jan 93 17:32:56 EST
Organization: PBS:Public Broadcasting Service, Alexandria, VA

    TO:	  ITV Directors, School Media Specialists, Education Liasons
    FR:	  PBS Elementary/Secondary Service
    RE:	  GED ON TV SERIES -- Free for '93-'94		DACS #29059
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           Special Notice for Those Planning 93-94 ITV Schedules Now
                KET Offers "GED ON TV" Free for Sept 93-Dec 94!
    
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    KET, the Kentucky Network, is graciously providing a 16-month FREE 
    license to any PBS station desiring to broadcast their GED ON TV series 
    (43 30-minute programs), either in English, Spanish, or both if stations 
    schedules permit.  The series has been highly successful in Kentucky and 
    in other markets around the country in helping viewers who did not 
    finish high school prepare for and obtain their General Education 
    Development Diploma (equivalent to a high school diploma).
    
    KET is making this one-time offer for a number of reasons:
    
    
    o	To complement this year's Public Television Outreach Alliance 
        theme, "Take Action for Education;" (KET is producing a 
        primetime special for air next fall designed to encourage 
        individuals to take the GED exam.  The GED ON TV series is one 
        way in which stations can provide an ongoing and sustained 
        follow-up to viewers reached by the special.)
    
    o	To help stations capitalize on the fact that people across the 
        nation are "talking about education" and to provide them with a 
        means to do something about it;
    
    o	To inform and educate people in communities nationwide and to 
        help those who have not completed high school prepare for the 
        GED.
    
    We wanted to provide ITV Directors with this "early alert" because we 
    know that many of you are planning your 93-94 ITV Schedules now and may 
    want to include GED ON TV (16-month school off-air record rights, 
    September 1993 to December 1994). 
    
    Specific details regarding summer block feeds of the GED ON TV series, 
    utilization packets, a summer videoconference on effective utilization 
    of GED ON TV, and plans for the primetime program (GED CALL-IN, working 
    title) now in production for Back-to-School Week in September 93, will 
    be forthcoming.  The 16-month licensing period for GED ON TV will begin 
    during the week of September 6 (on the day following the GED CALL-IN 
    special, airdate TBA).
    
    Please consult with the Education Services Director at your local PBS 
    station see if this will be a part of the ITV schedule.  Feel free to 
    call Tom Flavell at the PBS Elementary/Secondary Service at (703) 
    739-5402 or E-mail him at TFLAVELL@PBS.ORG to find out the name and 
    phone number of your local PBS station Education Services Director.
    
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