Note to Over-the-Air Viewers: WNMU-TV has experienced the failure of a major component at our transmitter. We have been off the air for several days while our transmitter is being repaired. This does not affect Charter Cable viewers, but it may affect customers of other cable providers who receive our signal via antenna. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope to be back on the air Saturday.

Friday

NOW on PBS
What role did the credit rating agencies play in the current economic crisis? A former managing director at Standard & Poor's speaks out on U.S. television for the first time about how he was pressured to compromise standards in a push for profits. Frank Raiter reveals what was really going on behind closed doors at the credit rating agencies the public relies on to evaluate the safety of their investments. Who was watching the watchers? Surprising new revelations in the economic debacle, this week on NOW.
Friday, November 21 at 8:30 pm
Repeats 11:30 am 11/23

Bill Moyers Journal
This week, Bill Moyers Journal and Exposé: America’s Investigative Reports present an investigative story into tragic accidents resulting from natural gas explosions. The report is part of Blueprint America, a PBS-wide series on the nation’s infrastructure. “Beneath the North Texas Dirt” follows Brett Shipp, a television reporter from WFAA in Dallas, who discovered that aging equipment connecting homeowners’ gaslines to their gas meters was failing, causing horrific explosions. Shipp found evidence suggesting that for decades state regulators and local power companies ignored this fatal problem in the vital infrastructure that brings natural gas into hundreds of thousands of Dallas area homes.
Friday, November 21 at 9 pm ET

Saturday

Media Meet
“Diabetes & Native Americans”
As of last year, 23.6 million people suffered from diabetes with 1.6 million new cases diagnosed. Trends show there’s a prevalence among Native Americans developing diabetes. We’ll hear why and what’s being done.
Saturday, November 22 at 6:30 pm ET
Repeats 11/23 at 1:30 pm ET

High School Bowl
“Manistique vs Republic Michigamme;
Newberry vs Rudyard”
Join host GG Gordon as she presents the “best and brightest” from area high schools competing for scholarships and prestige in a battle of speed and knowledge. Cheer on your favorite team or test yourself against contestants from 50 Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin schools in the 31st season of High School Bowl.
Saturday, November 22 at 8 pm ET
Repeats 11/24 at Noon ET

Austin City Limits
“Gnarls Barkley/Thievery Corporation”
Gnarls Barkley brings its eccentric hip-hop and R&B sounds to ACL in support of its latest, The Odd Couple. Thievery Corporation follows with psychedelic worldbeat electronica from its new album, Radio Retaliation.
Saturday, November 22 at 10 pm ET
Repeats 11/23 at Midnight ET

Jubilee
“Foghorn String Band”
Foghorn String Band’s sound hearkens back to the 1950s, when the traditional sounds of rural America were on the minds of young musicians as they adapted old-time, bluegrass, and other folk music to the modern age.
Saturday, November 22 at Midnight ET

Sunday

The Piano Guy
Now in it’s tenth season, The Piano Guy is a highly entertaining how-to show that appeals to anyone who wants to sit down at a piano and have fun playing their favorite tunes. Host Scott Houston shows you how the pros play - in a stlye enormously simpler than traditional classical piano lessons. This week, Scott Houston and guest Bradley Sowash provide their instruction and thoughts on playing Antonio Carlos Jobim’s One Note Samba. Guest Dave Powers performs Fats Waller’s Your Feet’s Too Big.
Sundays at 3:30 pm ET, begins November 23

Live from Lincoln Center
“Gil Shaham and Orpheus at the Penthouse”
Celebrated violinist Gil Shaham’s performs music by composer Pablo de Sarasate, broadcast from Lincoln Center’s intimate Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse. A composer best known for infusing Spanish themes into the classical music of the Romantic period, Sarasate was an accomplished violinist who wrote grandiose pieces for his instrument. Shaham will perform Sarasate’s works with New York City’s highly respected and widely acclaimed Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
Sunday, November 23 at 4 pm ET

Nature
“The Wolf That Changed America”
In the fall of 1893, an adventurous young man rode out from the salons of New York to the wilds of New Mexico. He went to kill a wolf. Not just any wolf, but an outlaw, the leader of a marauding, cattle killing pack. But by the time Ernest Thompson Seton finally met the renegade Lobo, the wolf had become a hero in his eyes. He would write a tale of that encounter that captured the essence of the vanishing wilderness and led both to the establishment of the national park system and the Boy Scout movement in America. In this vivid retelling of the story, the confrontation between Seton and Lobo comes alive, and viewers discover how, together, one man and one wolf set in motion a change in American hearts and minds that is still unfolding.
Sunday, November 23 at 8 pm ET
Repeats 11/27 at Noon ET

Masterpiece Special
“The Unseen Alistair Cooke”
Marking the November centenary of the birth of longtime MASTERPIECE THEATRE host Alistair Cooke, this program is a revealing portrait of one of the most celebrated broadcasters of the 20th century. Extraordinary 8mm home movies shot by Cooke from 1933 onwards, chart his discovery of America, his passions and his relationships with stars such as Paulette Goddard and Charlie Chaplin. Told in his own voice and in interviews with family and close friends, the program is a chance to see America as Cooke first saw it: the raw material for a lifetime of journalism.
Sunday, November 23 at 9 pm ET

Brulé, Live at Mt. Rushmore:
A Concert for Reconciliation of the Cultures
Filmed in front an audience of 11,000 people at Mt. Rushmore National Memorial in July of 2007, this concert was produced by one of the top-selling Native American recording artists worldwide, Brulé. Combines beautiful music with breathtaking Native American rhythms and dance, while delivering the unmistakable message of peace, hope, and reconciliation.
Sunday, November 23 at 10 pm ET
Repeats 11/24 at 2 pm ET

NEW! Stupak Announces TV13 Awarded Digital Studio Grant
A $633,231 federal digital television grant has been awarded to Northern Michigan University by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development program. Read more...

TV13 Staff & Students Win State Awards
Staff and Students earn awards at Michigan Association of Broadcasters Conference. Read more.

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