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MY CET | SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS |
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Don't Miss Celtic Woman, live in Concert
You've seen Celtic Woman's enchanting specials on CET, now experience the music live when they visit Cincinnati in June. For information on how you can obtain tickets to Celtic Woman's Isle of Hope Tour 2009 call 1-800-808-0445 or 513-651-4800. You may also
click here
to get your tickets today. Buy your tickets now and beat the box office!
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Celebrate New Year's Eve with the CSO
Get "in the mood" for a festive evening of fabulous music by your Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, featuring your favorite hits from the big band and Sinatra songbook. After the concert, ring in the New Year in the Music Hall Ballroom with a delectable seated dinner, open bar and live music and dancing to Julie Spangler and Randomonium. Cap off the evening with magnificent silent auction prizes and midnight champagne toast. Black tie optional. For more information on the concert and the ball, or to purchase tickets, call 513-381-3300 or visit the CSO website. |
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CET Create Returns to Over-the-Air Broadcast
Beginning Monday, January 5, CET Create will return to over-the-air broadcast. This means you can now watch your favorite how-to and educational programming on channel 48.2 and Insight Cable channel 219. CET World, which currently airs on Insight 219 will be replaced by Create at approximately 10 a.m. that day. Time Warner Cable customers will not be affected by this change, and can still view Create on digital cable channel 949 and World on digital cable channel 950. For more information on CET's channels, visit the CET website. |
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MY CET | ONLINE HIGHLIGHTS |
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On the
Fifth Third Business Beat,
hear which jobs have the best chance of surviving through a recession. Also, hear how Kroger is benefiting from in-store brands and which emerging markets Procter and Gamble is looking to in 2009. |
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In
Teachers and Students, Alberta, our science guide, shows us how breakfast cereal supplies the needed metals in our diet and then how to separate those elements out.
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MY CET | PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS |
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Antiques Roadshow: Wild Things
Monday, December 29 at 8pm
Things are getting wild on this episode of Antiques Roadshow as the appraisers revisit some animal-themed collectibles. Items include a "kangaroo bird" sculpture created by Dr. Suess, a bronze Egyptian mummy sarcophagus and a painting of kittens that carries a hefty price tag.
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Nova: Is There Life on Mars?
Tuesday, December 30 at 8pm
More than four years ago, Nasa's twin robot explorers, Spirit and Opportunity landed on Mars to explore the terrain of this neighboring planet. Then, in May 2008, a probe named Phoenix joined them, bringing back new evidence that suggests water exists on the red planet. This episode of Nova highlights some of the evidence the rovers and Phoenix have collected during their stay on Mars. |
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Frontline: The War Briefing
Tuesday, December 30 at 9pm
The next president of the United States will inherit some of the greatest foreign policy challenges in American history -- an overstretched military, frayed alliances and wars on two fronts. Frontline gives viewers a hard, inside look at the real policy choices the next president will face. |
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Independent Lens: Operation Filmmaker
Tuesday, December 30 at 10pm & Sunday, January 4 at 11pm
In this surprising allegory of America's involvement in Iraq, an Iraqi film student, Muthana Mohmed -- whose school was destroyed by American bombs -- lands a dream job working on a Hollywood movie. On set, idealistic expectations and cultural misunderstandings collide, launching Muthana on a journey more complicated than either he or his American benefactors ever anticipated. |
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Focus
Thursday, January 1 at 7:30pm
On this episode of Focus, Kathy Lehr talks with President & CEO, Harold F. Dates, about what services the SPCA provides and how to care for animals that may be received as holiday gifts. Furthermore, we are planning for a SPCA volunteer to join us so that we may gain a better understanding of what they must do in order to care for the animals. And yes... there will be cute and fuzzy things in the studio. |
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Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood
Thursday, January 1 at 9:30pm
When Adolf Hitler came into power in 1933, one of his first actions was to ban Jews from working in Germany's film industry. In turn, more than 800 Jewish actors and actresses fled to Hollywood, including Felix Bressart, Hedy Lamarr and Peter Lorre. Cinema's Exiles traces the experiences of those who fled and what impact they had on German and American cinema. |
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Daniel O'Donnell at Home in Ireland
Saturday, January 3 at 5:30pm
For Daniel O'Donnell, there's no place like home. In this special, O'Donnell, with his longtime singing partner Mary Duff, performs for the people at home in Ireland at a new concert hall in Letterkenny, located in his home county of Donegal. The program presents a combination of familiar Irish tunes and American favorites. Throughout the special, O'Donnell sings at some of his favorite locations in Ireland. |
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That's Amore: Italian-American Favorites
Saturday, January 3 at 9:30pm
This special brings together archival performances from some of America's most loved Italian-American singers and classic Italian-American pop songs from the 1950s and 60s. The program features original recordings from Perry Como, Julius LaRosa, Frankie Laine, Eddie Fisher, and more. |
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My Music: Doo Wop Love Songs
Saturday, January 3 at 11pm
The 1950s and doo wop love songs go hand-in-hand, like two straws and a shake. And now America's favorite malt shop memories are back with this doo wop collection for lovers only. Hosts Jerry Butler and Cousin Brucie Morrow bring back the backseat ballads in this all new PBS celebration of great vocal groups. |
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Nature: The Gorilla King
Sunday, January 4 at 8pm
King among the mountain gorillas of Rwanda, Titus is one of only 700 of his kind alive today. Dian Fossey, the famed primatologist, was his first human contact, meeting and naming him in August of 1974, when he was just two days old. In the decades that followed, his surroundings have changed beyond recognition, and he has been orphaned, abandoned, surrounded by civil war, poachers, farmers, scientists, disease and new technology. Conservationist Ian Redmond shares his memories of Titus and his extraordinary life and times, from his early days to his rise to power as a silverback.
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Masterpiece: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Sunday, January 4 at 9pm
Violated by one man, forsaken by another, Tess Durbeyfield is the magnificent and spirited heroine of Thomas Hardy's heartbreaking novel. Set in England's West Country in the late 1800s, the two part miniseries stars Gemma Arterton (James Bond: Quantum of Solace) as Tess, joined by Hans Matheson (Dr. Zhivago) as her seducer, Alec, and Eddie Redmayne (Elizabeth: The Golden Age) as Angel, the idealistic and self-deserving man she loves.
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