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2.
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State the average number of hours of Core Programming per week broadcast by the station. See 47 C.F.R. §73.671(c).
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3.00 hours
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3.
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(a)
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Does the Licensee provide information identifying each Core Program aired on its station, including an indication of the target child audience, to publishers of program guides as required by 47 C.F.R. §73.673?
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Y
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(b)
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Identify publishers who were sent information in 3(a).
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4.
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Complete the following for each program that you aired during the past three months that meets the definition of Core Programming. Complete chart below for each Core Program.
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Title of Analog Core Program #1
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Origin
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SABRINA
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SYNDICATED
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Regular Schedule
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Total Times Aired at Regularly Scheduled Time
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Number of Pre-emptions
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M, T,W; 7-7:30 a.m.
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39
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0
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Length of Program
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Age of Target Audience
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E/I Symbol Used As Required
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30 minutes
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From
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To
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7 years
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12 years
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Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming
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Sabrina at 14, half mortal , half witch, struggling to master both roles as she enters the confusing world of junior high school. Sabrina's lessons in how to be a good witch are demanding but no more thn what she must learn in order to be a good human. Witching lessons in levitation, incantaion and prestidigitation are tough, but learning such human attributes as loyalty, honestly self-efficacy, tolerance, perserverance, independence...these are true challenges. Each week, as Sabrina confronts her two sides she discovers that the magic of becoming human iis even more demanding and more powerful than the magic of the Netherworld. Sabrina approaches school friendship and growing up with enthusiasm. No challenge is too big, but life can sometimes but life can sometimes be terribly confusing. As she struggles to understand and master her human side, she provides an excellent role model for the nine to twelve year old audidence. She is young, enthusiastic, cool and faces many of the same kinds of issues and problems that most contemporary tweens encounters. And she deals with these issues and problems in concrete ways that are releveant to the lives of today's kids. With the help,guidance and explicit comments fo Salem (an ancient wizard turned into a sardonic but insightful cat) and Hilda nd Zelda (four hundred year old "aunts" assigned to help Sabrina become a fully functioning witch. Both Sabrin and the viewing audience confront important information aboaut what it takes to become a positive human being.
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Title of Analog Core Program #2
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Origin
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LIBERTY'S KIDS
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SYNDICATED
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Regular Schedule
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Total Times Aired at Regularly Scheduled Time
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Number of Pre-emptions
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Th, F; 7-7:30a.m.;Sun 10-10:30 a.m.
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39
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0
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Length of Program
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Age of Target Audience
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E/I Symbol Used As Required
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30 minutes
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From
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To
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7 years
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12 years
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Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming
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The American Revolutionary war is seen through the eyes of an American teenaged lad, a young English lady and a French boy, all three of whom work as reporters for Benjamin Franklin. Ben Franklin enlists the help of young people to record the happenings leading up to and during the Revolution for his newspaper, the Pennsylvania Gazette, First, there is a James Hiller, a patriot who tends to act before he thinks and is at times too quick a judge in his search for American heroes. Next is Henri, a French orphan whose only quest is for food. Lastly, a young woman named Sarah Phillips joins the team; the daughter of an ex-English general with strong views opposing slavery. Together they travel the colonies witnessing the sacrifices made for freedom. Liberty's Kids uses powerful storytelling address three primary educational goals: 1) To introduce young people to an extensive cast of remarkable historicl figures, from Ben Franklin to Phyllis Wheatley and to enable them to understand the incredible sacrifices these individuals made to help found the United States.
2) To guide young people through the entire sequence of amazing events that led to the creation of a new nation from the homes of ordinary Americans and the meeting halls from Virginia to Massachusettes to the numerous battlefields in the colonies and the royal courts of France and England.
3) To help young people understand the importance of key philosophical, social and political issues at the heat of the American Revolution by setting these issues in actual historical contexts by having individuals such as Jefferson and Paine explain these issues on the lives of ordinary citizens.
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Non-Core Educational and Informational Programming
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7.
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(a)
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State the average number of hours of Core Programming per week broadcast by the station on its main program stream.
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(b)
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Did the Licensee broadcast on its main digital program stream the same Children's Core Programming provided on its analog channel?
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(c)
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If Yes to 7(b), the Licensee certifies that the representations and children's program information provided with respect to its analog channel apply equally with respect to its main digital program stream.
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If No to 7(c), submit as an Exhibit a Statement of Explanation.
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8.
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(a)
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State the average number of hours per week of free over-the-air digital video programming broadcast by the station on other than its main program stream.
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(b)
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State the average number of hours per week of Core Programming broadcast by the station on other than its main program stream. See 47 C.F.R. §73.671.
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9.
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(a)
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Does the Licensee provide information identifying each Core Program aired on its station, including an indication of the target child audience, to publishers of program guides as required by 47 C.F.R. §73.673?
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(b)
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Identify publishers who were sent information in 9(a).
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10.
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Complete the following for each program that you aired during the past three months that meets the definition of Core Programming. Complete chart below for each Core Program.
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[There are no digital core program reports.]
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11.
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(a)
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Does the Licensee certify that at least 50% of the Core Programming counted toward
meeting the additional programming guideline (applied to free video programming
aired on other than the main program stream) did not consist of program episodes
that had already aired within the previous seven days either on the station's main
program stream or on another of the station's free digital program streams?
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(b)
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If No, submit as an Exhibit a Statement of Explanation setting forth the number of
repeats in excess of the repeat limit and the times and dates the episodes involved
were aired.
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Non-Core Educational and Informational Programming
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14.
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Complete the following for each analog and digital program that you plan to air for the next quarter that meets the definition of Core Programming.
Complete chart below for each Core Program, identifying whether it is to be broadcast on the station's analog or digital channel or both channels.
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Title of Planned Core Program #1
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Origin
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SABRINA'S SECRET LIFE
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SYNDICATED
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Regular Schedule
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Total Times to be Aired
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M-W 7-7:30 a.m.
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39
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Length of Program
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Age of Target Audience
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30 minutes
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From
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To
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7 years
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12 years
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Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming
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Sabrina at 14, half mortal , half witch, struggling to master both roles as she enters the confusing world of junior high school. Sabrina's lessons in how to be a good witch are demanding but no more thn what she must learn in order to be a good human. Witching lessons in levitation, incantaion and prestidigitation are tough, but learning such human attributes as loyalty, honestly self-efficacy, tolerance, perserverance, independence...these are true challenges. Each week, as Sabrina confronts her two sides she discovers that the magic of becoming human iis even more demanding and more powerful than the magic of the Netherworld. Sabrina approaches school friendship and growing up with enthusiasm. No challenge is too big, but life can sometimes but life can sometimes be terribly confusing. As she struggles to understand and master her human side, she provides an excellent role model for the nine to twelve year old audidence. She is young, enthusiastic, cool and faces many of the same kinds of issues and problems that most contemporary tweens encounters. And she deals with these issues and problems in concrete ways that are releveant to the lives of today's kids. With the help,guidance and explicit comments fo Salem (an ancient wizard turned into a sardonic but insightful cat) and Hilda nd Zelda (four hundred year old "aunts" assigned to help Sabrina become a fully functioning witch. Both Sabrin and the viewing audience confront important information aboaut what it takes to become a positive human being.
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Title of Planned Core Program #2
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Origin
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LIBERTY'S KIDS
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SYNDICATED
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Regular Schedule
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Total Times to be Aired
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Th & Fri 7-7:30 a.m.; Sun 10-10:30
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39
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Length of Program
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Age of Target Audience
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30 minutes
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From
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To
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7 years
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12 years
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Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming
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The American Revolutionary war is seen through the eyes of an American teenaged lad, a young English lady and a French boy, all three of whom work as reporters for Benjamin Franklin. Ben Franklin enlists the help of young people to record the happenings leading up to and during the Revolution for his newspaper, the Pennsylvania Gazette, First, there is a James Hiller, a patriot who tends to act before he thinks and is at times too quick a judge in his search for American heroes. Next is Henri, a French orphan whose only quest is for food. Lastly, a young woman named Sarah Phillips joins the team; the daughter of an ex-English general with strong views opposing slavery. Together they travel the colonies witnessing the sacrifices made for freedom. Liberty's Kids uses powerful storytelling address three primary educational goals: 1) To introduce young people to an extensive cast of remarkable historicl figures, from Ben Franklin to Phyllis Wheatley and to enable them to understand the incredible sacrifices these individuals made to help found the United States.
2) To guide young people through the entire sequence of amazing events that led to the creation of a new nation from the homes of ordinary Americans and the meeting halls from Virginia to Massachusettes to the numerous battlefields in the colonies and the royal courts of France and England.
3) To help young people understand the importance of key philosophical, social and political issues at the heat of the American Revolution by setting these issues in actual historical contexts by having individuals such as Jefferson and Paine explain these issues on the lives of ordinary citizens.
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15.
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Does the Licensee publicize the existence and location of the station's Children's Television Programming Reports (FCC 398) as required by 47 C.F.R. §73.3526(e)(11)(iii)?
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Y
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16.
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Identify the licensee's children's programming liaison.
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Name
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Telephone Number
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Trenetta Horton
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314-447-1111
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Address
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E-mail Address
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2250 Ball Drive
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commrel@wb11tv.com
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City
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State
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ZIP Code
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St.Louis
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MO
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Include any other comments or information you want the Commission to consider in evaluating your compliance with the Children's Television Act (or use this space for supplemental explanations). This may include information on any other non-core educational and informational programming that you aired this quarter or plan to air during the next quarter, or any existing or proposed non-broadcast efforts that will enhance the educational and informational value of such programming to children. See 47 C.F.R. §73.671, NOTES 2 and 3.
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ON-AIR:
KIDS CLUB VIGNETTES: Thirty second segments, shot on location with the Kids Clubs host, air in children's program M-F (5x/day) and on weekends as available. Each series of vignettes is designed to give children information and/or insight into the world around them. Ancedotal evidence suggests that these informative vignettes are highly effective. Parents tell us that their children repeat to them the interesting acts they've learned from the vignettes.
Vignettes series during the fourth quarter 2004:
"Recycling Heroes": Present fun facts on the power and benefits of recycling plastic and paper.
"City Museum: Behind the Scenes": WB11 Kids Club host goes behind the scenes at the St.Louis City Museum discovering the fun and frollicking that goes on behind the scenes at the spectacular City Museum.
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS:
PSAs targeted to children include informational messages about fire safety, nutrition, dental health, importance of education plus a very heavy rotation of anti-drug spots.
WB11 KIDS WEB PAGE:
Online kids can do puzzles and games, enter contests, link to the Science Center,the Zoo, St. Louis Public Library and other educational sites.
BROADCAST/NON-BROADCAST SERVICES TO CHILDREN:
WEATHERNET:
*ALL WEATHER STATION (AWS): WB11 weather stations have been placed at St. Louis Science Center and area schools in MO & IL. The system includes hardware and modem or intenet site for reporting weather from these schools: Belleville West, H.S.; Ramsey Elem/Jr. High, Lincolnwood Jr High/H.S.; and Gillespie Middle school in Illnois. In Missouri, schools are Lutheran High, Herzog Elementary, Nottingham Elementary, McKelvey School, L'Ouverture Middle Schools, Wentzville & St. Charles.
*Weather information gathered by the schools and submitted to the station are used during Meterologist Garry Seith's weeknight weathercasts with visual credit to the submitting schools. Additionally,AWS weather system can be viewed interactively on the internet at school or at home. teachers can use the data to work with any of the 25 lessons posted (Weather Net Online Classroom) for K-12 curricula.
*WEATHER VISITS in conjunction with the AWS, Meterologist Garry Seith visits area classrooms to meet the students, instruct and answer their weather questions.
WB11 WEATHER NET ONLINE CLASSROOM:Every student and teacher from any area school can visit a home page for their school. The page will have weather observations, camera images, news stories and more. All the information will be unique to each school because teachers and students of the school input it. Additionally, each student and teacher can customize his or her own personal web page. The web pages can be set up for students to input their own weather observations, stories and pictures. Teachers can post lessons and projectsthat parents and students can view from home. Each month new weather themes will be posted-plus, students can submit daily weather trivia questions and keep score all year.
ST.LOUIS AREA REGIONAL ABDUCTION ALETT (SARAA)
St. Louis area Media and Law enforcement formed a partnership to rescue abducted children if/when it may happen. As the initial 4 hours following a child's abduction are most crtical, WB11's commitment, like all other participating stations, is to interrupt programming with the alert message encouraging the public to be on the lookout for the child and to call police immediately if they have any information that could lead to the child's safe return. Any tips received directly at the station will immediately be relayed to police. The alert message will air every half hour for the first four hours and once an hour for the next 20 hours unless cancelled by the lead station,KMOX radio, because the child is located or the case is closed.
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT:
General Manager sits on the board. WB11 employees volunteer five weeks to teach children in grades k-5 lessons about family, community, government and business, how they all work together and how they effect each of us.
MAJOR FUNDRAISERS, TOURS DONATIONS:
*KPLR-TV offers and conducts stations tours for many groups of scouts, school classes, home-schoolers, etc. The tours (approx one hour each) give visitors eyewitness knowledge of and insight into the business of broadcasting. In each department they learn the types of personnel and skills required and how that department contributes to the whole. Q & A sessions follow each department presentation. The tours become interactive on the news set when guests are allowed to read from the teleprompter and to see themselves on studio monitors. In graphics, small groups often not only watch the artist in action, but actually participate, hands on in the creation of a simple animation. At tour's end each child receives a bag of station logo items. According to many of our guests, WB11 is the only St. Louis television station still providing this service.
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WILLFUL FALSE STATEMENTS MADE ON THIS FORM ARE PUNISHABLE BY FINE AND/OR IMPRISONMENT (U.S. CODE, TITLE 18, SECTION 1001), AND/OR REVOCATION OF ANY STATION LICENSE OR CONSTRUCTION PERMIT (U.S. CODE, TITLE 47, SECTION 312(a)(1)), AND/OR FORFEITURE (U.S. CODE, TITLE 47, SECTION 503).
I certify that the statements in this application are true, complete, and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief, and are made in good faith.
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Name of Licensee
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Signature
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KPLR, Inc.
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Date
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1/10/05
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