Are you a fan of “Britcoms” like As Time Goes By or Keeping Up Appearances? Do you love the travel adventure program, Globe Trekker? Can’t wait to settle in every Sunday night for Masterpiece’s Downton Abbey? These PBS programs, unlike the CSIs and the NCISs of network TV, are brought to you by a station that depends on public support – KAET-TV (Channel 8). And in March, Channel 8 needs folks like you to help man the phones during its pledge drive.
During breaks in programming, volunteers answer phone calls from viewers pledging their financial support and then enter the information into a computer. Training is provided for each shift, as well as meals and refreshments. You also get the chance to make friends with people who love some of the same public television programs that you do.
Volunteers must be at least 16 and able to work five hours per shift. They should have a pleasant phone personality and light computer skills.
To learn which shifts are available, visit http://www.azpbs.org/support/volunteer.php online. For more information, you can also contact Caryl Jonas, volunteer program manager for KAET-TV, at (602) 496-9685 or caryl.jonas@asu.edu.
KAET-TV is operated by Arizona State University and has been broadcasting since 1961.
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Leon Ceniceros posted at 12:16 pm on Sun, Feb 26, 2012.
If you pay taxes, Federal or State, then you already "contribute" to KAET - Channel 8, through the Public Broadcasting System and through you support to Arizona State University's share of the Arizona Budget.
What I and other Conservative Arizona residents and Federal Tax-payer object to is that the Public Broadcasting System and it's TV Channels and Radio Stations are not just.....Liberal...but.....Ultra-Liberal almost to the point of being.....Socialist.
I don't want my tax monies to be used by either Conservative or Liberal-Socialist to push their viewpoints. Just look at KAET's ,,,,"Horizon" and "Horizonte" TV programs. They are both ....PRO-ILLEGAL ALIEN AMNESTY...ANTI-SB 1070...ANTI-REPUBLICAN...ANTI-CAPITALIST...ALMOST....ANTI-WHITEY AND ANTI-AMERICAN.
There is no ...."BALANCE"....in most of the PBS news coverage or documentaries. We all know that all of Arizona's TV Stations and newspapers are ....LIBERAL.....but most are free or we buy them only for the Sunday food coupons so we don't give a rat's patootie......"mox nix" as we used to say in GI-German in the Army (actually it's ....machs nichs in real German....lol).
Masterpiece Theater = love it...have watched it since the late 1960's in L.A. I have seen many great documentaries too...but not lately. Now every documentary has to have a left-wing edge to it. That's why so many of us no longer give a donation.