Radio - November 2

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Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Today is All Souls Day, Cookie Monster Birthday, Election Day, and National  Broadcast Traffic Professionals Day.

November is National Peanut Butter Lovers Month, National Family Literacy Month, National Novel Writing Month, Picture Book Month, Native American  Heritage Month, Manatee Awareness Month, and Historic Bridge Awareness Month.

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  Radio
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ON THIS DATE

• 1889 - North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th states.
• 1920 - KDKA of Pittsburgh begins broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. 
• 1959 - Quiz show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance on the game show Twenty-One.
• 1983 - President Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
• 2016 - The Chicago Cubs defeat the Cleveland Indians in the World Series ending a 108-year drought.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1734 - Frontiersman and politician Daniel Boone
• 1755 - French queen Marie Antoinette
• 1795 - 11th president of the U.S. James K. Polk
• 1865 - 29th president of the U.S. Warren G. Harding
• 1879 - Tennis player Marion Jones Farquhar
• 1961 - Canadian singer-songwriter k.d. lang
• 1974 - Rapper Nelly

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star - LISTEN
• Joni Mitchell - You Turn Me On I'm A Radio - LISTEN
• Rush - The Spirit Of Radio  - LISTEN
• Queen - Radio Ga Ga -LISTEN
• Elvis Costello  - Radio Radio - LISTEN
• REM - Radio Free Europe - LISTEN

THEME: RADIO

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Martians Radio (2:25) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - KidVision - Radio Station Field Trip (8:19) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Country Music - The Impact of Radio (3:17) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NASA - Tour of the Electromagnetic Spectrum: Radio Waves (3:38) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LerningMedia - The Roosevelts - Radio During World War II: Pacific Front (4:02) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LerningMedia - MacArthur Fellows Program - Jad Abumrad, Radio Host and Producer (3:25) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Ken Burns: Empire of the Air - The Power of Sound (1:05) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Genius by Stephen Hawking - Are We Alone? : Listening for Extraterrestrial Life (9:08) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Theater of the Mind Radio Drama Collection -VIEW and LISTEN
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Career Connections - Radio Host (6:08) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (1:51:56) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Soundbreaking - AM Radio and the Hit Single (1:26) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Soundbreaking - Bob Dylan and the Transition to FM Radio (2:23) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - ReadWriteThink - Audio Broadcasts and Podcasts: Oral Storytelling and Dramatization Lesson Plan - DO
• Grades 9-12 - EDSITEment - FDR's Fireside Chats: The Power of Words Lesson Plan - DO

Watch 

NHPBS  - 11.1   Comcast (802)   Live Stream   More Options

• 6-6:30 am NHPBS - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - I Am Ibn Batutta/I Am Beulah Louise Henry
• 6:30-7 am NHPBS - Arthur - George Scraps His Sculpture/Arthurs Big Meltdown
• 7-7:30 am NHPBS - Molly of Denali
• 7:30-8 am NHPBS - Wild Kratts - Caracal-Minton
• 8-8:30 am NHPBS - Hero Elementary - What You Don't See / Super Purple Pop-Up Plants
• 8:30-9 am NHPBS - Alma's Way - Beatbox Big Time/Super Sisters
• 2:30-3 pm NHPBS - Let's Go Luna! - Lost And Found/Time Of Goodbye
• 3-3:30 pm NHPBS - Nature Cat - Wild Batts!/No Bird Left Behind!
• 9-10 pm NHPBS - American Veteran - The Mission
• 10-11 pm NHPBS - Frontline - The Power Of The Fed

NHPBS EXPLORE  - 11.2   Comcast (801)   More Options

• 2:30-3 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Elinor Wonders Why - Backyard Soup/Colorful And Tasty
• 3-3:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Hero Elementary - What You Don't See / Super Purple Pop-Up Plants
• 3:30-4 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Pinkalicious & Peterrific - Don't Wake Norman/Pinkasaurus
• 4-4:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Let's Go Luna! - Blue Orleans/Bonjour, Au Revoir, Adios
• 4:30-5 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Odd Squad - Teach A Man To Ice Fish
• 5-5:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE -  Wild Kratts - Mystery Of The Mini Monkey Models
• 5:30-6 pm NHPBS EXPLORE -  Molly of Denali

NH WORLD - 11.3   Comcast (965)  More Options

• 11 am-12 pm - NH WORLD - Secrets of the Dead - The Woman In The Iron Coffin
• 8-9 pm NH WORLD - America ReFramed - On A Knife Edge

NH KIDS - 11.5  Schedule   Live Stream   More Options

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