Radio and Cookie Monster - November 2

Thursday, November 2, 2023

Today is All Souls Day, Cookie Monster's Birthday, Broadcast Traffic Professionals Day, Look For Circles Day, Deviled Egg Day, Men Make Dinner Day, and Plan Your Epitaph Day.

Native American Heritage Month Resource of the Day - Native American Heritage Collection 
Drum Month Resource of the Day -  Sesame Street: M is for Musician with Questlove

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
• k.d. lang - Constant Craving - LISTEN
• Cookie Monster - C is for Cookie - 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 - 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

THEME: COOKIE MONSTER

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Cookie Monster's Back to School Snack Compilation (39:58) -VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Cookie Monster Thinks the Moon is a Cookie (54:53) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - The Spy Who Loves Cookies (5:15) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - The Mysterious Cookie Thief (52:51) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Jurrasic Cookies (5:09) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Jurrasic Cookies of the Caribbean (5:15) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-Adult - Sesame Street - Cookie Monster Song Compilation (1:56:19)  - VIEW
• Grades 8-Adult - W-ORD Channel 7 News with John Oliver and Cookie Monster (5:17) - VIEW
• Grades 8-Adult - Cookie Monster and John Oliver Outakes (4:54) - VIEW
• GRades 8-Adult - Jimmy Kimmel Live - Cookie Monster Writes Jokes for Jimmy Kimmel (4:24) - VIEW

Watch 

NHPBS - 11.1 Comcast (802) Live Stream More Options

BASEBALL - Home
Thursday, 11/02 from 3-5 pm NHPBS
The ninth and final inning covers the most recent history of baseball and explores the future of the game. Game Six of the 1975 World Series -- thought by many to be the greatest game ever played -- miraculously reawakens the whole country's love for the game. But in the 1980s, the rising influence of television and the coming of free agency, with its enormous salaries and dislocations, threatens that affection. BASEBALL - Streaming Video

NHPBS EXPLORE - 11.2 Comcast (801) More Options

SECRETS OF THE DEAD - The End of the Romans
Thursday, 11/02 from 3-4 pm NHPBS EXPLORE
Is history repeating Itself? Follow an in-depth investigation into the real causes of the decline of the Roman Empire, three deadly epidemics and climate change could have caused its collapse-drawing frightening parallels to today. SECRETS OF THE DEAD Streaming Video

NH WORLD - 11.3 Comcast (965) More Options

AMERICA REFRAMED - Town Destroyer
Thursday, 11/02 from 8-9:30 pm NHPBS WORLD
TOWN DESTROYER probes a passionate dispute over historic murals at a public high school depicting the life of George Washington: slave-owner, General, land speculator, President, and a man Seneca leaders called town destroyer. The controversy becomes a touchstone for a national debate over public art and historic memory in a time of racial reckoning. AMERICA REFRAMED Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
(603) 868-4339