HAPPY BIRTHDAY SESAME STREET!

Today – November 10th 2009  SESAME STREET celebrates its 40th Birthday!!  Many of us grew up with Sesame Street and now have children or grandchildren doing the same.

Sesame Street is an important part of WVPT’s programming efforts on PBS KIDS.

PBS Dominates Daytime Emmy Nominations!

The nominees for the 36^th Annual Daytime Emmy^® Awards were recently announced by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

PBS came in FIRST in total nominations with an outstanding 56 nominations. PBS programs received more nominations than ABC, CBS, NBC and all cable networks. PBS swept the nominations in the category of “Outstanding Writing In A Children’s Series.”

Additionally, SESAME STREET will receive the Daytime Emmys’ Lifetime Achievement Award for 40 years of educational television.

Once again, SESAME STREET was the most nominated children’s show with 13 nominations. Other PBS programs with multiple nominations include: FROM THE TOP AT CARNEGIE HALL (5); FETCH! WITH RUFF RUFFMAN (3); THIS OLD HOUSE (3); BETWEEN THE LIONS (2); CURIOUS GEORGE (2); DRAGONFLYTV (2); LANDSCAPES THROUGH TIME WITH DAVID DUNLOP (2); SID THE SCIENCE KID (2); and WORD WORLD (2). ANIMALIA, ARTHUR, BARNEY & FRIENDS, CYBERCHASE, DESIGN SQUAD, MAMA MIRABELLE’S HOME MOVIES, POSTCARDS FROM BUSTER and WORDGIRL all received nominations. Last year PBS had 44 nominations and 10 wins.

This year’s Daytime Emmy Awards will be broadcast live on the CW on Sunday, August 30^th, 2009 from the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, CA. Vanessa Williams (an Emmy nominee for the PBS program MAMA MIRABELLE’S HOME MOVIES) will host the ceremony.

WVPT and PBS   -   YOUR SOURCE for the BEST in Children’s Television that Educates AND Entertains!

WVPT Partners to Bring RAGGS Live Show to Charlottesville

 Every so often WVPT has the great opportunity to partner with the producers of a live stage show that is an outgrowth of one of our popular children’s programs.  RAGGS is relatively new to the WVPT children’s schedule – and we are thrilled to sponsor and promote the upcoming “RAGGS Live Dance Party”  on Tuesday, September 16th , at the beautiful The Paramount Theater in Charlottesville http://www.theparamount.net/calendar_shows_Raggs.aspx

This partnership is another way for WVPT to educate and enlighten the lives of our children in a very entertaining way.  It is our mission to provide this kind of service to our communities – both on the air and through special events. 

And you can watch RAGGS weekend mornings on WVPT – YOUR SOURCE for children’s programs that entertain, educate and inspire.

WVPT’s New Children’s Program Line-up

This week is the premiere of two new children’s programs to the WVPT schedule:

MARTHA SPEAKS and SID THE SCIENCE KID

MARTHA SPEAKS will air weekdays at 7:30am and 3:30pm and on Sundays at 10am. Take a look at this clip.

SID THE SCIENCE KID will air weekdays at 8:30am and 12:30pm and also on Sunday at 8:30am.  Take a look.

Both of these programs are part of the great PBS KIDS line-up that you can see on WVPT throughout the week.  We provide more than 60 hours each week devoted to educate and entertain our children.  WVPT is YOUR SOURCE for the best in children’s programming.  Thanks for watching!  And let us know what you think of these new programs and al the other great children’s shows.

WVPT’s Children’s Programming

We are excited about the new additions to our line-up of THE BEST children’s programming on television. Beginning in September MARTHA SPEAKS! and SID THE SCIENCE KID will join the popular schedule of SESAME STREET, CURIOUS GEORGE, WORDGIRL and all of the other great children’s programs. Each week we dedicate more than 60 hours of programming for our kids. And this year PBS won 10 Daytime Emmy Awards and, for the 11th consecutive year, PBS won more Emmy’s for children’s programming than any of the commercial networks. WVPT and PBS is YOUR SOURCE for programming that positively impacts our children! AND visit the Cubby’s Kids Club page at http://www.wvpt.net/kids/kids_index.html for some terrific online games and educational content.