PBS Hawaii Makes Local TV History!

     Remember "the little engine who could"?  The old children's story comes to mind as I tell you with pride that this small public television station is claiming a Hawaii TV "first."

     Starting Tuesday at 7:30pm, LONG STORY SHORT becomes the first weekly local television program to be shot, edited and aired in high definition. There've been "one of" local shows that have gone all HD, but PBS Hawaii is making LONG STORY SHORT a true HD show every week.

      To see it in HD, you'll need a high-def television set, of course, and you'll either need to tune into channel 1010, PBS Hawaii's HD channel on Oceanic Time Warner Cable or catch us over the broadcast airwaves. Look for our vibrant clarity.

      This piece of TV history  is made possible by a partnership with Sony, which is providing the high-def technology. Thanks, Sony, for being a leader in the technology and for choosing to make a community investment in us!

      The show's guest will be as memorable as the milestone-- Walter Dods Jr.  started life as one of seven kids in a quonset hut in Kuliouou and now can afford as many beautiful houses as he wants. The retired First Hawaiian/BancWest banker distinguished himself as a community and business leader and a fierce advocate for Hawaii. He remains influential. He's a great storyteller who uses his sense of humor and a knack for timing.

      You'll hear about opportunities he had and choices he made along the way after being installed in the lowliest job his bank employer could give him--dead-files clerk.  Now retired, after ascending to a high-rise office suite in a hugely successful career , he says, "I can be a little more brutally frank."

      His interview will run in two parts on the all-HD LONG STORY SHORT, Feb. 19 and 26 at 7:30pm. (The show will also be carried in standard definition on our regular PBS Hawaii channel.)

     Yup, we at PBS Hawaii feel like "the little TV station that CAN" as we move forward in an uphill media landscape. It's because of intriguing people like Walter Dods, generous community partners like Sony, and other supporters who believe in television for the public good.

Comments

[Peter Kay]

Congratulations! I've really been enjoying the Lehrer news hour in HD (amazing clarity!) and I'll be looking forward to catching LSS now.

Excellent work! Very cool.

[Emily Bott]

I'd like to have known something about his wife. And, Leslie, stick with bright colors. You're gorgeous in red, washed out in green.

[Helen Felsing]

Thank you for Long Story Short--it's wonderful!--and all the other changes you are inspiring on PBS Hawaii. How about an LSS interview with Ah Quon McElrath? We're seeing her tonight on Island Insights and the Jack Hall special, and it would be fascinating to hear more of her personal story. What a woman!