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2010

  • Prairie Public hosted the new PBS Kids Go! Writers Contest, formerly known as the Reading Rainbow Young Writers and Illustrators Contest.
  • In February, Prairie Public hosted a free public screening of “A Considered View: The Photography of Wayne Gudmundson” at the Plains Art Museum.
  • In March, television premiered “Golfing Gems: The Best Small Town Courses.”
  • Prairie Public set up a facebook page and began making friends.
  • In April, “Homesteading” premiered—a Prairie Public television documentary that blends interviews with historians, stories told by descendants of homesteaders, and dramatic readings from pioneer diaries.
  • Radio teamed up with the NDSU Dakota Memories Oral History Project to present a new collection in its German-Russian narrative series—”The Dirty Thirties: German Russians Remember.”
  • In March, longtime classical music voice at Prairie Public Duane Lee retired after nearly 25 years.
  • Prairie Public hosted a Prairie Region Teacher Training Institute to help strengthen curriculum through the innovative use of video and other technologies.
  • In June, Prairie Public premiered “Bill Guy: The Charisma of Competence” at theatres in Fargo and Bismarck.
  • In July, a camera crew from “Ask This Old House” spent time in Fargo filming a segment for the show. Prairie Public hosted a BBQ in front of the downtown studios.
  • In August, the StoryCorps mobile recording booth spent four weeks in Fargo recording conversations.
  • In September, Prairie Public welcomed “A Prairie Home Companion” to the Trollwood Theatre for a live performance.
  • Scott Prebys is hired as the new classical music host.
  • Prairie Public partnered to co-present “Eric Sevareid: A Public Humantities Symposium,” a four-day event with guests Bob Scheiffer and Dan Rather.

2011

  • In January, Prairie Public followed Senator Byron Dorgan through his day to film “Byron Dorgan in the Halls of Congress.”
  • The television programs Water: “The Lifeblood of Energy” and “Wetlands: The Drain Game” premiered.
  • In October, Minot State University hosted a reception to premiere “Walter Piehl: Sweetheart of the Rodeo.”
  • Television continued its partnership with the Energy and Environmental  Research Center to produce “Fish, Mercury and Nutrition: The Net Effects,” “Wetlands: The Drain Game,” and “Hydrogen: Nature’s Fuel.”
  • Television’s Salt of the “Earth” was produced with support from the North Dakota Department of Health, Natural Resources Conservation Service.
  • Television premiered season twelve of “Painting with Paulson,” season nine of “Prairie Pulse,” and season two of “Prairie Mosaic” and “Prairie Musicians.”
  • Television and radio partnered to present “Minot: When the Waters Recede.”
  • Television premiered the documentary “Chuck Suchy: Sure Am Glad to be Around” and “Fargo-Moorhead Symphony’s Young People’s Concert: Meet the Orchestra.”
  • Share A Story Family Literacy Events were held in Fargo, Killdeer, Mandan, Fargo, Jamestown, Bottineau, Greenbush MN, Fertile, Thief River Falls MN, and Frazee MN.
  • The television documentary “Steamboats on the Red” premiered.
  • Radio aired new German Russian narratives titled “German Russian Food Traditions” and “German Russian School Memories.”
  • In September, radio celebrated 30 years of great broadcasting with a reception in the Bismarck studio, and a tree was planted to commemorate the beginning of the next 30 years.