Do you want to see Headwaters in your community? We Need Your Help!

Please contact the Program Director at your local PBS station to encourage him/her to download the Headwaters series and schedule it for broadcast. Headwaters is available to PBS stations on PBS Ch. 513 on Fridays 1700-1800 hours starting on 2/28/03, with a re-feed of the entire nine-hour series starting 5/2/03.

You can find contact information at the PBS Station Finder or write us at headwaters@appalshop.org for assistance.

Talking Points

• Although rural America covers a vast amount of territory and contains 52
  million citizens, television rarely shows the reality of life in the
  heartland.
• The recent controversy over CBS plans for a Beverly Hillbillies reality TV
  series, and a Kellogg Foundation survey showing more than 75 percent of
  rural TV news coverage focusing on crime, are dramatic illustrations of why
  the viewing public needs programs presenting a rounded picture of rural
  realities.
• Headwaters gives you a unique opportunity to expand the dialogue on rural
  issues while drawing connections between urban and rural concerns about
  poverty and entrepreneurship, education and labor, economy and environment,
  culture and heritage.
• Headwaters features topics as diverse as Bluegrass music greats Ralph
  Stanley and Hazel Dickens, girls high school basketball, environmental
  activism, domestic violence, community development throughout rural America,
  and the relationship between media makers and the communities they portray
  (the award-winning “Stranger with a Camera”).

Feel free to pass this message on to others you know. Thank you for supporting Headwaters!