Ted Simmon, the TV Host of KAET’s “Horizon” TV Program asks “What is wrong with Arizona?”

Democrat Richard Carmona said Wednesday he would not have supported the federal Affordable Care Act as pushed through by President Obama.

Democrat Richard Carmona said Wednesday he would not have supported the federal Affordable Care Act as pushed through by President Obama.

The outcome of next month’s race for the Arizona Corporation Commission will determine how much more solar and other renewable energy electric utility consumers will have to buy.

The outcome of next month's race for the Arizona Corporation Commission will determine how much more solar and other renewable energy electric utility consumers will have to buy.

Poet Terry Hummer reads prose and plays saxophone. Musician Billy Cioffi sings Hummer’s words and strums his guitar. Backup singers melodically chime in — all to create the soulful ambiance evident in the television episode “The AmeriCamera Project,” where Hummer and Cioffi fuse poetry with rock ‘n’ roll.

Illegal immigration and border security were a combined focus of a Thursday evening televised debate between the two leading Republican candidates for an open U.S. Senate seat from Arizona.

The East Valley Child Crisis Center, Girls on the Run and ASU’s KAET-TV (Channel 8) are among the groups that will receive a total of $406,600 in grants from the Fiesta Bowl.

Intel Arizona will be featured on the PBS series “America Revealed,” at 9 p.m. Wednesday, May 2 on KAET-TV Channel 8.

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.

Sun Devils new and old will come together Saturday for this year's big homecoming event.

Sun Devils new and old will come together Saturday for this year's big homecoming event.

Mas Inoshita’s experiences in a World War II relocation camp could help unlock the mystery of an old cane. Television viewers will have the opportunity to hear his story and the possible connection to the cane on the television series, “History Detectives,” which airs July 26 on KAET-TV, Channel 8. The 86-year-old Glendale resident taped the segment several months ago.

"Thousands in the media are poring through Sarah Palin's emails with a fine-tooth comb, yet the same ones didn't bother to do the same with the health care bill. And they think Palin's the one that has her priorities wrong?"

Professor Paul Bender, who teaches constitutional law at Arizona State University, will speak May 25 about Arizona’s current redistricting process at a meeting of the Sun City Grand Democrats.

Some tea party groups apparently do not believe the old adage, ``We're from the government and we're here to help you.''

Think you can identify every kind of Arizona license plate?

It seems like just when things couldn't get stickier for public broadcasting in America, something else happens to make you question whether there's any "PR" left in "NPR."

PBS was not yet a network when KAET-Channel 8 began broadcasting in 1961, and the high definition programs that you now expect from Eight - Arizona PBS are a far cry from those early days of black and white images and monaural sound.

"Pretty primitive" and "held together by baling wire" are terms founders of KAET-TV (Channel 8) use to describe getting the public TV station up and running from the Tempe campus of ASU.