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science and popular culture Also in January the program will allot time to local stations each Friday KCPT will use its segment to spotlight -area kids who do volunteer work says Cynthia Smith Channel vice president of content and community affairs Meanwhile KCPT will expand its lineup of public affairs programs with a single-issue news program 31st which will air every other month beginning Oct 10 Former KCTV reporter Stan Carmack will reappear on local television minus his familiar toupee along with former CNN and Fox news reporter Joan West-carr The first program with Nick as host will compare the school districts of Kansas City and Kansas City Kan Once the Masterman fund is fully endowed more new programs will follow What excites Smith about the Masterman fund is the potential to finance that may be stuck on the drawing board because an underwriter be found And then there is probably the least-watched yet most influential show in town is for adults who take time off to attend college KCPT airs a video curriculum in the middle of the night five days a week students tape them and watch them at their convenience or take on-line courses started in 1999 with five area colleges Now 10 schools offer courses including the University of Missouri-Kansas City and more than 6700 area adults are enrolled Reed envisions using the new digital-TV technology for a separate channel that would air distance learning all day Another channel could be devoted to KCPT productions like Kansas and 31st Street" while a third channel might show PBS programs KCPT is not alone in broadening its horizons Across the country Reed says public television stations are taking a hard look at their futures and realizing that they subsist on PBS and a weekly roundtable show a challenge trying to fill time with local programs but Reed thinks KCPT and most other public stations have no choice new localism is coming to the fore in public television" Reed says adding 1b reach Aaron Barnhart phone (816) 234-4790 or visit the TV Bam Web site at unvwtvbamcom Continued from E-l years at the station Since arriving in Kansas City nine years ago Reed has pushed for KCPT to broaden its local programming beyond public affairs Under Masterman Channel 19 had estab-lished a reputation for strong local coverage At one point his signature program City Illustrated" tdied weekly and employed six reporters But the show was expensive and Reed thought there was a need for programs that were more than talking heads He courted Kansas City Star columnist Charles Gusewelle become a fixture on the station and funded the popular award-winning folk-art travelogue Visions and Roadside As a PBS executive in the 1980s Reed developed the PBS Video line so he knew that specials like these could make money in their afterlife Home-video sales of KCPT programs helped underwrite the cost of making them and a cottage industry was bom As general manager of the public TV station in Redding Calif in the 1960s Reed remembered the excitement of seeing the first images of Street" But many PBS mainstays British mysteries and dramas nature programs documentaries have since been copied in profusion by cable TV The PBS prime-time lineup now consists of warhorses that have been on the air for two or three decades But cable? copy local programs The combination of PBS resources and local content would seem a natural yet rarely happened Unlike National Public Things which offers time for local news no such accommodation has ever been made by With Jim That may change with the arrival of a new PBS president Pat Mitchell Mitchell a former top executive in Ted cable empire has been trotting around the country to visit stations and explore collaborative projects between the stations and PBS She will attend 40th anniversary celebration a Saturday concert with Jim Brirkman at Starlight Theatre are very supportive of the plan Pat Mitchell has laid Reed says Key parts of the plan: A Friday night series called 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