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Dear WEDU: Please broadcast Craft in America
When it first aired in 2007, I loved PBS's Craft in America, a three-part exploration of the fine craft tradition in the United States that won a Peabody Award and was nominated for several Emmys.
So I was thrilled when PBS announced it was reprising the series beginning June 3 and would air on local PBS stations from 8 to 11 p.m.
Except not T
HIS local station.
WEDU WILL be airing it but only (and this is according to an online schedule) on one of its high-definition channels beginning June 4 at 1 a.m.
Yes, 1 a.m.
Yawn.
It will show the series at a much more respectable time of 7 p.m. beginning June 6, irrelevant to me since I don't have high-def programming.
So I ask -- nay, IMPLORE -- our beloved WEDU to air Craft in America on its more accessible Channel 3.
And also, would you please schedule the two new segments due this fall?
I would be really grateful and I promise I won't switch channels when the fundraising pitches start.
(Image from Craft in America)
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