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New This is Us Blog Coming Soon!
In the future, I'll be bringing you the inside scoop on a new This Is Us blog located on KQED.org. Look for it in early October. I'll take you behind the scenes, bring you sneak previews of future stories and updates on past profiles so be sure to check out the new blog in its new home. The TIU blog will have some fun new features we hope you'll like, such as a place for you to suggest people you'd like us to profile. All the past TiU stories will be archived on the new blog so you'll easily be able to find any story you're looking for. The new stories will be a lot easier to find, too.
Continue reading...Will SETI Get to Tell Us if We Alone in the Universe?"
10. May 2011
SETI Director, Dr. Jill Tarter Wonders, too. For many years she has been listening to the cosmos for evidence of other beings. Her listening tour may come to an end if government funding is discontinued. We profiled Dr. Tarter on This is Us. Here's her story:
Continue reading...21 Emmy Nominations
10. May 2011
KQED and KTEH, together, received 21 nominations for the 2011 Northern California Emmy® Awards for our local programs. The stations are recognized for quality programming, which includes QUEST, a local series concentrating on science, nature, and the environment; This is Us, a series profiling the remarkable people of the South Bay; This Week in [...]
Continue reading...The Brilliantly British Mayhem Continues Tomorrow
5. May 2011
Eighty-three episodes have aired, and we're working our way through all of them! The international hit Midsomer Murders returns for a third season tomorrow—Midsomer is a fictional English county that averages three deaths per episode! It's classic British television mystery, with quirky characters and countless twists and turns. Investigations are presided over by the incredibly [...]
Continue reading...KTEH Finds Kihnship at KFOX
19. October 2010
Recently producer, Trinh Banh and the This is Us crew dropped in on Syndicated Radio host Greg Kihn at KFOX. The former rock star turned DJ was in rare form. Kihn's last album, Horror Show, hit the airwaves in 1996 but you can still hear him every morning on KFOX….chatin' up his listeners. He was kind enough [...]
Continue reading...A Word With The Dalai Lama
18. October 2010
This is Us senior producer, John Gregg, attended a press conference held by the Dalai Lama last week. Gregg has been working on a profile of local monk, Ven. Thupen Danyo, who is spearheading the development of the Gyuto Vajrayana Center and monastery located in San Jose. Gregg was hoping to get a comment from [...]
Continue reading...Off the Top of Their Heads….
2. September 2010
Here's a clip from our shoot at Long Marine Lab in Santa Cruz. Dolphin, Puka, and his trainer, Traci Kendall, demonstrate how dolphins create sounds.
Continue reading...Breakfast with The Cat in the Hat!
19. May 2010
This morning KQED launched the new Cat in the Hat series at the PBS Annual Meeting in Austin, TX. The series will begin on KTEH September 6th and teaches science as only The Cat ( Martin Short) can. His Zany assistants Things 1 and 2 add to the fun. I had the fun of escorting Thing [...]
Continue reading...Antiques Road Show in San Jose
6. May 2010
Last night KTEH hosted a party for the volunteers who worked on the Antique Roadshow episodes that were taped here in San Jose. Many arrived for the party dressed in their "Antiques Roadshow Staff" shirts covered in autographs. We loved it!
Continue reading...Join us for a Cosmic Conversation with Dr. Tyson
9. April 2010
Neil deGrasse Tyson, host of Nova scienceNOW, will share his thoughts on the cosmos with our members on April 21. Join us at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco at 8pm. Click here for more info!
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22. September 2011
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