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| Wednesday, October 25th, 2006 | |
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| 3:00 pm | Courage of our Convictions: A Special Featuring Amy Goodman and Robert Scheer Oct. 25 — Link TV will broadcast a four-hour special, Courage of Our Convictions, tonight and Saturday, Oct. 28 beginning at 5p.m. PST and 8 p.m. EST. Part of a gripping collection of programs you must see before you vote in November, the special highlights a politician who had the courage to run on the power of belief and features a sit down with Democracy Now! host and journalist Amy Goodman and journalist and author Robert Scheer. George McGovern had a true moral vision at home and abroad. At a time when we were embroiled in an increasingly futile war, McGovern tried to lead this country in a different direction. Thirty years later, his beliefs and values take on a heightened significance. Link TV’s special features a broadcast of One Bright Shining Moment, a film that retraces George McGovern’s bold grassroots presidential campaign of 1972 — a campaign that fought to the bitter end for peace and justice, a campaign that positioned ideas and people first, and, a campaign crushed in workmanlike fashion by the Butcher from Whittier, Richard Nixon. The tragedy of the ‘72 campaign is this: George McGovern might have been the only candidate. The film features interviews with a patchwork of historians, activists, the candidate himself, foot soldiers from his campaign, and others, including Gore Vidal, Gloria Steinem, Warren Beatty, Dick Gregory, Gary Hart, Frank Mankiewicz, Howard Zinn, Jim Bouton, Sen. Jim Abourezk, Rev. Malcolm Boyd, and Ron Kovic. Peter Coyote sits down with Amy Goodman in our studio to discuss politics and politicians; finding similarities between the early 1970’s Vietnam era and our current situation in Iraq. Coyote and Robert Scheer, who is an author and former LA Times columnist that was fired for his liberal-leaning perspective, also join to discuss McGovern’s film. The author of “Playing President: My Relationships with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan, and Clinton-and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush,” Scheer is now the editor-in-chief of truthdig.com, a website that drills beneath the headlines. |
| Thursday, September 21st, 2006 | |
| 1:46 pm | Link TV premieres Ramadan Primetime Sept. 23  Tune in this weekend to Ramadan Primetime Program premieres Saturday at 5 p.m. PT/ 8 p.m. ET. and Sunday, Sept 24, 8:30 p.m PT/11:30 pm ET Ramadan Primetime explores the unique television programs that people across the Muslim world watch during the month of Ramadan, which begins this year around September 23rd. In contrast to the typical images the West has come to associate with the Middle East, this 30-minute documentary showcases the specially crafted Ramadan primetime programming shown on dozens of Arabic television channels — entertaining their audiences with a mix of drama, music, game shows, and comedy. During Ramadan, which falls in the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, more than a billion Muslims around the world mark their “month of blessing” with prayer, fasting and charity. Each evening at sundown, families gather to break their fasts with a lavish “Iftar” feast, followed by a large dose of bonding time, often spent in front of the television. It is in this season of high TV viewership that Arabic-language networks premiere their most exciting primetime programs — from lighthearted game shows, racy soaps and Friends-inspired comedies to religious talk shows and epics like Hoor Al Ayn (Beautiful Virgins), a 30-part miniseries that delves into a terrorist cell in Saudi Arabia. In Ramadan Primetime, leading Muslim experts, scholars and regular viewers at home in the Middle East and the U.S. share their insight into Ramadan television, and address how the satellite programming affects and unites the global Arabic community. Link TV’s documentary gives the rest of the world a glimpse into life through Muslim eyes, illustrating what daily life is really like in the Arab world. What do thirty nights of special TV programming tell us about the tastes, preoccupations, preferences and politics of the 280 million people in the Middle East? Tune in to this retrospective of last year’s Ramadan programs and find out. Produced for Link TV by Jennifer Maytorena Taylor, whose productions have aired on PBS and The Sundance Channel. **Ramadan Primetime Related Websites:**Islamicity — Ramadan Around the WorldThe Institute of Islamic Information & Education — _Jihad Explained_Al-Ahram Weekly — _Amr Khaled: A Preacher's Puzzle_The Independent — _Amr Khaled: Islam's Billy Graham_NPR — Seeking Hakawati Storytellers in Damascus |
| Sunday, July 23rd, 2006 | |
| 10:57 pm | Mosaic Special Report: Insight into the Middle East July 20, 2006  Link TV's team of journalists and Middle East experts answered call-in questions and e-mails about what's really happening in the current crisis. Drawing on reports from 28 Middle Eastern news broadcasts, Link TV provides context, analysis and a behind the scenes look at the story you never see on American TV.Moderator Mr. Cheifet has been a broadcast journalist for nearly forty years. Co-host Jamal Dajani is an award-winning producer and the Director of Middle Eastern Programming at Link TV. Guest Michael Jacobs is an attorney and an officer for the Jewish Community Federation. Guest George Bisharat is a professor of law at Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco.Included are reports from: IBA TV, Israel; Future TV, Lebanon; Abu Dhabi TV, UAE; Oman TV, Oman; LBC TV, Lebanon; Al Jazeera TV, Quatar; IRIB TV, Iran; Palestine TV, Gaza |
| 10:51 pm | Mosaic Special Report: Insight into the Middle East July 20, 2006 As part of an ongoing effort to provide diverse perspectives on the conflict in the Middle East, Link TV’s journalists and Middle East experts are hosting a series of shows answering viewer questions and e-mails about what’s really happening in Lebanon, Israel and Gaza and sharing their insight on the future of the war torn regions. The specials are an extension of the Peabody Award-winning program Mosaic: World News from the Middle East, which draws on reports from 28 Middle Eastern news broadcasts to provide daily context, analysis and a look at the stories you never see on American TV. This clip was taken from a program moderated by Stewart Cheifet, who has been a broadcast journalist for nearly forty years. His work on the Middle East includes a PBS documentary, A Wife From My Enemies, profiling Arab-Israeli marriages, and a two-part PBS special on the high-tech industry in the Middle East. He has also written about the Middle East conflict, covering both Israel and Lebanon. Co-host Jamal Dajani is an award-winning producer and the Director of Middle Eastern Programming at Link TV. He had produced more than 1,000 installments of the Peabody Award-winning program Mosaic: World News from the Middle East and in 2005, completed Occupied Minds, a documentary on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and Who Speaks for Islam. Guests include Michael Jacobs, an attorney and officer for the Jewish Community Federation and George Bisharat, a Professor of law at Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. |
| Wednesday, July 19th, 2006 | |
| 9:09 am | Town Hall Discussion with Warren Buffett  Link TV will broadcast “Town Hall Discussion with Warren Buffett,” a conversation on philanthropy and giving with American investor Warren Buffett and Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and his wife Melinda, on Thursday, July 27 at 6 p.m. PT and 9 pm ET. In this candid discussion, which was held at the New York Public Library, Buffett and the Gateses share their hopes for the future of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and their insights on the importance of giving. Buffett also presents all five of the recipient philanthropies with their gifts and provides his suggestions for their success. In June 2006, Warren Buffett, chairman of insurance company Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and second-richest man in the world, donated approximately $31-billion dollars of his worth to five charitable funds: the philanthropies established by him and his late wife, their three children, and friends Bill and Melinda Gates. Buffett’s donation to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has donated billions of dollars to help reduce inequities in the United States and promote global health and development, was the largest act of charitable giving in United States history. Buffett, 75, has said he hopes the donations will trigger a windfall for charities as other prosperous individuals are inspired by his example. “We are awed by our friend Warren Buffett’s decision to use his fortune to address the world’s most challenging inequities, and we are humbled that he has chosen to direct a large portion of it to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,” said Bill Gates. “The impact of Warren’s generosity will not be fully understood for decades. As we move forward with the work, we do so with a profound sense of responsibility. Working with Warren and with our partners around the world, we have a tremendous opportunity to make a positive difference in people’s lives.”GET INFORMED! GET INVOLVED!Town Hall Related Websites:Bill and Melinda Gates FoundationWarren Buffett’s letter regarding his donation Fortune: William Buffett gives away his fortuneBill Gates’ Homepage |
| Monday, July 17th, 2006 | |
| 3:47 pm | Mosaic: World News from the Middle East The New York Times published images of the wreckage in the town at the southern edge of Beirut after an Israeli air strike today, while nearly 6,000 miles away Lebanon’s New TV showed bloody scenes of Israeli planes hitting civilian targets and Iraq’s Baghdadia TV featured Iraqi reaction to the rape and murder of a young Iraqi girl. What does the war zone really look like and what is really going on in the Middle East? Peabody award-winning Mosaic: World News from the Middle East, a daily compilation of translated television news reports from throughout the Arab world including, Lebanon, Israel, Syria, the Palestinian Authority, Egypt and Iran, offers American viewers an unedited window into what 280 million people across the Middle East are watching as tensions, weapons and causalities rise in their homelands. Since 9/11, Jamal Dajani, who is the groundbreaking show’s producer and director of Link TV’s Middle East Programming, has monitored bulletins from around the Arab world and shared his expertise with The New York Times, CNN, BBC News, Air America, CBS News, NPR and NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. “We hope to give people views and perspectives from all angles of conflicts like this one,” said Mosaic producer Jamal Dajani and director of Link TV’s Middle East Programming. “You don’t get the same images watching news in America as you do when you see the news as the Middle East sees it. The west gets a sensitized version of of war. We’ve been trained to thin war is clean. We hear numbers, how many people have died, what areas have been bombed — we don’t see the real wreckage.” Daily episodes of Mosaic, including an archive from the last four years each with text summaries of key stories and sources, are available at no cost online. Mosaic is broadcast on Link TV, a non-commercial, independent television network available in more than 27 million U.S. homes on DIRECTV channel 375 and DISH Network channel 9410. |
| 9:48 am | Bill Clinton: The Power of Philanthropy Bill Clinton: The Power of PhilanthropyLink TV will broadcast an exclusive premiere of former President Clinton’s speech on “The Power of Philanthropy,” encouraging ordinary citizens to acknowledge America’s interdependence on other nations, establish integrated communities and do their part to make the world a better place on Wednesday, July 26 at 6 p.m. PT and 9 p.m. ET. The speech, which Clinton recently made to the Global Philanthropy Forum, highlights the necessity to “build a world with more partners and fewer enemies” and stresses the resilience of integrated communities fueled by shared opportunities, shared responsibilities and a shared sense of belonging. “Whenever someone always says, ‘How do you stand on this bill in Congress, or this issue?’ I ask myself the question, I say, ‘Will this contribute to moving toward shared benefits, responsibilities, and communities? Will this move us from this wonderful but unstable moment in our history toward a more integrated set of communities?’ And I evaluate everything on that filter. Now, you don’t have to agree with that filter, but you need one. If you don’t like mine, you need one of your own, because otherwise if you pick up the paper every day or look at the evening news at night, it looks like the political equivalent of chaos theory in physics.” — Former President Bill Clinton The broadcast was made possible by Link TV and Fora TV. Link TV is available to more than 27 million U.S. homes on DIRECTV channel 375 and DISH Network channel 9410. It is also available in San Francisco on KRCB (Channel 22) from 1-5 a.m Monday thru Friday and San Francisco’s eaTV (Channel 27)from midnight on Fridays to 7 a.m. on Mondays.For showtimes click here. |
| Wednesday, July 12th, 2006 | |
| 11:12 am | Howard Dean addresses citizen participation and the netroots community What does the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee Howard Dean think of citizen participation and how the netroots community is influencing political interaction? Find out by watching footage of the YearlyKos Convention 2006 Keynote Speech by Howard Dean available on the Link TV and ForaTV websites.“When I was running for Chairman last year, I said that we would take our country back, state-by-state, precinct-by-precinct, block-by-block. I also said that we would build up our party’s strength, from the grassroots up, through the Internet and person-to-person outreach. The netroots have been an important part of this process.” -Governor Howard DeanVisit http://www.linktv.org/yearlykos/ and http://www.fora.tv/ for footage.About Link TVLink TV is a non-commercial, independent television network available in more than 27 million U.S. homes on DIRECTV channel 375 and DISH Network channel 9410. The 24-hour programming is a mix of documentaries, international news, foreign films and the best of World Music. The network recently received the first satellite-only Peabody Award for MOSAIC: World News from the Middle East, a daily news show featuring English translations of national television reports from more than 24 countries in the Middle East. Select Link TV programs are streamed on the Internet at www.linktv.org. Link TV is operated by Link Media, Inc., a California non-profit organization, with production studios in San Francisco, New York and Washington, DC. |