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InnerVIEWS with Ernie Manouse is Back for it's 10 Season
Forget David Letterman, at 10:30 p.m., Thursday, January 12, the 10th season of the Houston PBS nationally syndicated award-winning series, InnerVIEWS with Ernie Manouse, launches with an all-new lineup. Did you know Houston's own Ernie is NATIONWIDE?? InnerVIEWS currently airing on more than 100 PBS stations throughout the country! Emmy award-winning host Ernie Manouse continues his conversations with guests from across the pop landscape this season including actors Kate Walsh and Marsha Mason, Rocker Gene Simmons and PBS luminaries Jim Lehrer and Bill Moyers to name a few.
“It’s amazing how time flies,” said Manouse. “It seems like just yesterday we sat down with Anne Rice, Patti LuPone and Frankie Avalon to launch our first season, and in little over a month, we will air our 150th episode. As with our other seasons, we continue talking to some of Houston and the nation’s most intriguing cultural icons - from arts to entertainment, from literature to politics – in a season of InnerVIEWS there is always something for everyone!”
Other guests this season include: best-selling author Charlaine Harris (True Blood); Soap Star Kim Zimmer; and legendary photographer Greg Gorman.
InnerVIEWS with Ernie Manouse airs at 10:30pm every Thursday night on Houston PBS, with re-broadcasts at 2:30pm on Sundays. For national airdates and times, check with your local PBS stations.
For more information on InnerVIEWS with Ernie Manouse, visit www.houstonpbs.org.
Complete List of Season #10 Guests
1/12/12 - KISS’ Gene Simmons
1/19/12 – PBS NewsHours’ Jim Lehrer
1/26/12 – Actress Kate Walsh (Private Practice & Grey’s Anatomy)
2/2/12 - Photographer Greg Gorman
2/9/12 – Trumpeter Chris Botti (Repeat from past season)
2/16/12 –Actress Loretta Divine (Dreamgirls, What Women Want & Eli Stone)
2/23/12 - PBS’ Bill Moyers (InnerVIEWS... 150th Episode)
3/1/12 – Activist, Actress and Film Maker Alana Stewart (Farrah’s Story)
3/22/12 - Soap Star Kim Zimmer (Guiding Light)
3/29/12 - Gospel Singer Yolanda Adams
4/5/12 – Actor/director Martin Sheen (West Wing) and Emilio Estevez (Breakfast Club, Young Guns & The Outsiders)
4/12/12 - Actress Marsha Mason (The Goodbye Girl, The Middle)
4/19/12 – Broadway composer Jerry Herman (Hello Dolly!, Mame, & La Cage aux Folles) (from past season)
4/26/12 - Publisher Larry Flynt
5/3/12 - Author Charlaine Harris (The Southern Vampire Mysteries- inspiration for HBO’s True Blood)
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DISHIES! PBS Needs YOUR Help!
DISHIES! This is an open letter to all of Houston from one of our favorite DISHIES Ernie Manouse.
We all know the economy has been really hard on everyone for more than a year now. Local businesses are going as lean as they can and a lot are unfortunately having to close their doors. Well a bad economy also means cut back in our donation habits and while this is understood there are still certain places where our money really is needed because it means education and jobs...one of these places is your public television! Here is Ernie's Letter:
This year marks my 15thyear with HoustonPBS – what a ride it has been! Working for Channel 8 has given me the opportunity to share Houston’s stories with you…from the opening of the Hobby Center to the farewell performance of Houston Ballet’s Lauren Anderson; from NASA’s final Shuttle Mission to the brutal murder and aftermath of the James Byrd, Jr. killing. We have cried together, been moved together, learned together and at times laughed together.
Time and again, Channel 8 proves its ability to touch lives, educate children, and broaden horizons – and thanks to your generosity, I’ve been able to continue to share our community’s stories.
But today, the very real economic, political and intellectual challenges we face as a country are directly impacting our ability to serve the community. Local production – the cornerstone of Channel 8 since the station’s inception – is facing its toughest challenges to date as funding from corporations, foundations, and state and federal governments grows increasingly scarce.
Today, I ask for your help.
You are familiar with me asking for support during our pledge drives, but today at my station’s request I am writing to you personally – something I’ve never done before – to ask you to contribute $100 to HoustonPBS. My goal is to raise $20,000 and your help is truly necessary for us to reach it.
Your gift will go directly to help in the production of local programs like InnerVIEWS, allowing us to continue presenting fresh and varied points of view, to offer a platform for all voices to be heard, and to tell the stories of Houston’s communities with honor, respect and pride.
I value your trust in me and my work here at Channel 8. I also know that you might not wish to be included in the mailings and messages that the station sends to members. Unless you elect to receive them (or if you already are a member), I assure you that the only mail Channel 8 will send you is the letter acknowledging your gift.
Please give. The sooner we receive your contribution, the sooner its impact will be felt! Making your online donation is simple and secure. Just click here, or copy and paste the following URL: https://secure2.convio.net/kuht/site/Donation2?4081.donation=form1&df_id=4081
Thank you for standing with me and making the future bright for intelligent, quality local programming.
P.S.
– If you prefer to send a check, please make it payable to KUHT-TV (subject line: “Friends of Ernie”) and mail it to:
Friends of Ernie
c/o Brad Blunt
HoustonPBS
4343 Elgin
Houston, TX 77204-0008
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Marty Ambrose, Dean of Traffic...and Everything Else
Houston is full of amazing history and that includes radio and television history. The man that actually started the act of traffic reporting anywhere started it right here in Houston and his name is Marty Ambrose. No doubt you've heard his peaceful, joyful voice over the air waves while you were stuck in traffic somewhere and instead of feeling road rage, you felt a smile break across your face because of the smile you heard in his voice. Marty has recently retired from the job he loves because he has been diagnosed with ALS. If you would like to learn more about the disease or help to raise money for research please CLICK HERE.
DISH Publisher Lori Freese spent a lot of time in radio in Houston and was honored enough to be included in the Roast and Toast of Marty Ambrose that took place on June 18th at the KUHF studios. When we say it was an honor to be included, the room was filled with the who's who of the Texas Radio Hall of Fame Inductees, former and some up for nominanation currently. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, Radio Hall of Fame Inductees, Emmy winners, Edward R Murrow winners and so much more. To say were were in awe is an understatement.
We are going to publish Brent Clanton of CNN 650's speech to Marty because it was so beautiful and made all of the points we could ever consider making.
Thank you to Scott Arthur for putting this amazing event together!
No matter where you are in Houston (or most major Radio markets), Marty's the guy who created the network of observers, reporters, and "traffic personalities" that now provide you with up to the minute commuter intel each morning and afternoon.
It's incurable, and he knows it, and so do we.
It's rare that you get the chance to tell someone how much they've meant to you over the years, but on Friday night (6/18) a few of Marty's closest, longest, oldest, bestest friends converged on the Channel-8 TV Studios to pay tribute and roast The Dean of Traffic Reporting.
Some of the comments were hilarious...a few were scandalous...but all were heartfelt. There wasn't a dry eye in the house.
Here is my homage:
Ed Shane hired me to work for him at KODA-AM (1010) in 1975, and one day he called me at home and asked whether I’d have time to do traffic reports for his morning show as I commuted from Spring Branch to the University of Houston.
I was estatic…and a little intimidated. (For all you young-pups in the room, this was before cell-phones; to do a traffic report, you either had to have a two-way radio, or a pocketfull of quarters and a working knowledge of the locations of a thing we used to call a “pay-phone.”)
Marty Ambrose was running Houston Traffic Central in those days, out of a one-room efficiency apartment in the 2016-Main high rise, overlooking the Pierce Elevated. He invited me to come have a look at their Operation, and I was amazed: scanners and two-way radios packed onto every shelf-surface they could arrange…phones and cords stretched all over the room, and giant, dry-erase boards covered the walls that didn’t hold shelves, for near-instantaneous posting of the latest traffic conditions…as heard on the radios and scanners.
Reports were performed live, eyeballing the dry-erase boards, and a huge, analog clock with a sweep-second hand. I was mesmerized.
I learned a lot from Marty…never worked for him…and in fact, he fed traffic reports to me in later years when I was a Radio morning show host.
I am still learning from Marty Ambrose as he addresses his struggle with ALS with grace, good humor and humility…and a sense of purpose. And one other thing: Marty’s not a Bible-thumping evangelical firebrand. But the sermons he’s preached as he has lived his life are more resounding and profound than anything you’d hear from the pulpit on Sunday.
Marty—I thank you for your kindness…I salute you for your courage…and I am proud to count you as a friend.
KTRK News Anchor Dave Ward has more below.
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