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UMTV After Dark
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Arts & Literature
UMTV offers viewers a wide range of cultural programming that spans the worlds of music, art, cinema and literature. Programs include:
- Arts Unlimited. Germany's Deutsche Welle television company produces this weekly review of the European arts scene.
- The Writing Life. HoCoPoLitSo, the Howard County (Md.) Poetry & Literary Society, produces this program featuring interviews of and readings by authors.
- Signature. Funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Annenberg Foundation, this show profiles authors.
- American Cinema. Using clips from more than 300 of the greatest movies ever made, this series explores film history and American culture through the eyes of over 150 Hollywood insiders, including Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg and Michael Eisner.
The PBS Adult Learning Service program presents film as a powerful economic force, potent twentieth-century art form, and viable career options. It also connects subjects such as history, business, and English with other studies.
- CineMaryland. An exploration of movie projects around Maryland.
- Voices and Visions (CPB). The lives and works of 13 renowned American poets are interpreted through dramatic readings, archival photographs, dance, performances, and interviews in this inspiring series. Illustrative poems in each program are accompanied by insights into their historical and cultural connections. The series covers the terminology of poetry and the larger role of poets in American and world literature studies. Poets include Langston Hughes, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, and Elizabeth Bishop.
- Literary Visions (CPB). Noted critics, authors, scholars, and actors enliven this exploration of literature and literary analysis. Dramatizations, readings, and discussions build skills in critical thinking and writing. Illuminating excerpts of short fiction, poetry, plays, and essays — both classic and contemporary — highlight standard literary forms and devices including plot, myth, setting, and character.
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Business
UMTV viewers can watch new daily shows on business, financial and legal issues in the United States and beyond. Featured shows on UMTV include:
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International Programs
UMTV offers viewers a wide range of international programs. They include:
- International Programming.
Documentaries on global issues provided by Link TV.
- France Feelings. A weekly series on current event, travel, cuisine and contemporary life in France.
- Cultural programming provided by the Taiwan Embassy.
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Media
UMTV is run by the Philip Merrill College of Journalism, one of the leading schools of journalism and mass communication in the nation. Programs that analyze media and free-press issues play a key role in UMTV. Media-related programs include:
- A Moment With…This UMTV-produced program features in-depth conversations with Washington journalists about journalism — the practice, the issues, the ethics and the politics. Lee Thornton, the Richard Eaton Professor of Broadcast Journalism at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism, serves as host. Lee Thornton previously hosted Front and Center and Changing Media for UMTV.
- The Constitution (CPB). Constitutional issues come to life in this Emmy Award-winning series. Key political, legal, and media professionals engage in spontaneous and heated debates on controversial issues such as campaign spending, the right to die, school prayer, and immigration reform. This series will deepen understanding of the life and power of this enduring document and its impact on history and current affairs, while bringing biases and misconceptions to light.
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News
High-quality global and local news programming is a mainstay of UMTV. News programs include:
- Maryland Newsline. Maryland Newsline is produced, reported and anchored by student staff members of Capital News Service Television at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism. It brings UMTV viewers the latest news and public affairs from around the state. The show was named the nation's best college-produced newscast by the Society of Professional Journalists.
- BBC World News. The highly acclaimed international news show
airs live three times each weekday night on UMTV. The 30-minute news show
provides in-depth coverage and analysis of global events from more than
250 BBC correspondents in 50 international bureaus. BBC World News comes
to UMTV viewers courtesy of WLIW, the Long Island-based PBS station that
distributes the service. The show is produced at BBC Television Centre in
London.
- DW Journal. A 30-minute, English-language newscast produced by Germany's Deutsche Welle, giving American viewers a European perspective on the day's events around the globe.
- European Journal. A weekly feature newsmagazine from Deutsche Welle.
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Public Affairs
UMTV devotes much of its air time to the Washington area's biggest industries - politics and public policy. Public affairs programming includes:
- Policy Watch with Doug Besharov (Brody Forum) The Norman and Florence Brody Family Foundation Public Policy Forum from the University of Maryland's School of Public Affairs.
- The Western Tradition (CPB). Covering the ancient world through the age of technology, this illustrated lecture by Eugen Weber presents a tapestry of political and social events woven with many strands — religion, industry, agriculture, demography, government, economics, and art. A visual feast of over 2,700 images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art portrays key events that shaped the development of Western thought, culture, and tradition.
- Rural Communities (CPB). Explore how and why national and global economic trends affect rural communities. By focusing on 15 towns across America, this series examines why some rural areas are thriving while others are in decline. The social, political, and economic issues that these communities face have far-reaching implications for individuals and the country as a whole.
- A Biography of America (CPB). A Biography of America presents history not simply as a series of irrefutable facts to be memorized, but as a living narrative. Prominent historians — Donald L. Miller, Pauline Maier, Louis P. Masur, Waldo E. Martin, Jr., Douglas Brinkley, and Virginia Scharff — present America's story as something that is best understood from a variety of perspectives. Thought-provoking debates and lectures encourage critical analysis of the forces that have shaped America. First-person narratives, photos, film footage, and documents reveal the human side of American history — how historical figures affected events, and the impact of these events on citizens' lives.
- Out of the Past (CPB). Use this humanistic approach to archaeology and anthropology to make connections between past civilizations and modern societies, looking at how societies function and change. This series helps bring cultural ecology to light using physical evidence and scientific detective work. On-site filming at the spectacular Mayan center of Copán, Honduras, shows archaeologists reconstructing this ancient society. In addition, past and present cultures in Central and North America, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East are explored.
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Science
The University of Maryland, one of the nation's leading research institutions, is filled with cutting-edge research. One of the missions of UMTV is to bring those scientific advancements to our viewers. Science and research-related programs include:
- ResearchChannel. The University of Maryland has joined with Princeton, Stanford, Duke, MIT, Penn and other top-flight research institutions in a new consortium called ResearchChannel. TV stations from the participating schools and research centers exchange programs, allowing UMTV to present cutting-edge research from some of the best institutions around the country. Originally produced UMTV shows also air on the DISH Network, the nation's fastest growing home satellite service with more than 4 million households, via ResearchChannel.
- Maryland Health Today. Produced in conjunction with the University of Maryland Medical System, this program explores the most prevalent issues in health and medicine and examines the latest medical breakthroughs and state-of-the-art treatments.
- Unseen Life on Earth: An Introduction to Microbiology. This PBS program is presented through the perspective of people all over the world who work with many different kinds of microorganisms.
- The Power of Place: World Regional Geography. This new geography show embraces the challenge of exploring the major distinctions between domestic and international geography. It provides a creative and insightful examination of the geographic forces currently at work in shaping the complex features of the world's civilizations and environments.
- Planet Earth (CPB). This series presents visually spectacular tours of the seven continents as it makes connections between our solar system and Earth’s oceans, climate, and mineral and energy sources. It unifies Earth science, astronomy, and comparative planetology into an integrated discipline that relies on common scientific methods.
- The World of Chemistry (CPB). Join with experts to observe chemistry in action and learn the laws and principles of this dynamic field. Computer technology and special effects place students in a front-row seat to observe many processes, even those that are too dangerous or impractical to experience directly. Working industrial and research chemists of all backgrounds serve as role models.
- The Mechanical Universe (CPB). Field trips to hot-air balloon events, symphony concerts, bicycle shops, and other locales make complex concepts more accessible, in this series intended to demystify physics. Inventive computer graphics illustrate abstract concepts such as time, force, and capacitance, while historical reenactments of the studies of Newton, Leibniz, Maxwell, and others trace the evolution of theories.
- Earth Revealed (CPB). This series shows the physical processes and human activities that shape our planet. From earthquakes and volcanoes to the creation of sea-floor crusts and shifting river courses, Earth Revealed offers stunning visuals that explain plate tectonics and other geologic concepts and principles. Follow geologists in the field as they explore the primal forces of the Earth.
- Penn College & You. Monthly 30-minute television show features Penn College faculty and staff discussing timely topics. Past topics have included: financial planning, landscaping, fitness, tax preparation and childcare. A nationally honored television series, Penn College & You earned the 1997 Gold Award from Admissions Marketing Report and the APEX ’98 Award for Publication Excellence.
- NASA: Destination Tomorrow. Destination Tomorrow is a 30-minute instructional program that communicates knowledge resulting from NASA's aeronautics and space technology programs. Destination Tomorrow will not only seek to increase scientific literacy but will also provide educators, parents, and lifelong (adult) learners with the understanding and ways of thinking that are essential for all citizens to function in a world shaped by mathematics, science, and technology.
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UMTV After Dark
Smart Television for collegiate minds begins with UMTV programs specially tailored for students. They include:
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