Guam
PBS Guam Channel 12 provided the production services for a short film titled Traditional Fishing on Guam that aired September 13, 2011. The 30-minute film, produced by Judy Amesbury of the Micronesian Archaeological Research Services in cooperation with the Guam Fishermen’s Cooperative Association, was also featured at the 2012 Guam International Film Festival. The film focused on the preservation and perpetuation of Chamoru cultural and traditional fishing on Guam.
After PBS provided the main infrastructure for a satellite dish in August 2011, PBS Guam began receiving programs from PBS via satellite feed, which enabled viewers to watch the shows at the same time they are available in the US mainland. Before the satellite feed, DVD programs were received through the postal system, causing the station to air its national programs two weeks later.
Produced in conjunction with KGTF-TV, Academic Challenge Bowl is coordinated and funded in part by the Gifted and Talented Education division of the Department of Education. It began in the 1977–1978 school year and is now Guam public television’s longest-running local program. During the show’s season, a selected group of high school moderators are trained and coached to moderate a weekly in-studio production of trivia matches in the middle and high school grade levels. The topics vary from mathematics and science to the arts, music and culture. At the end of each season, an all-star team is selected from the high school category to participate in a national competition with other schools in the U.S. mainland. The Academic Challenge Bowl airs each Monday at 7:30 p.m. and repeats on Saturday at 1 p.m.
KGTF-TV also provides nonbroadcast services of videotaping and editing immunization PSAs for Guam’s Department of Public Health & Social Services, Bureau of Communicable Disease Control.
KPRG Public Radio Guam assists the University of Guam in serving the educational and intellectual needs of the students, faculty and staff of the university as well as other residents of Guam. As a public service vehicle, KPRG-FM also aids the university in reaching out and making itself available to the community. An example is Beyond the Fence,a weekly program hosted by university faculty and staff that focuses on issues about the military buildup on Guam. It airs Friday at noon. Past and current episodes of Beyond the Fence are available as podcasts via iTunes or at http://kprg.podbean.com.