Become a KCPT Sustainer

Help ensure that your station will continue to deliver the quality television programs that almost a million viewers like you depend on each week to enhance their lives and strengthen our community with KCPT’s Monthly Sustainer Plan.

HOW?
Make an ongoing monthly automatic bank transfer or credit or debit charge.

WHY?
No checks to write, no payments to mail:

Automatic renewal of your annual membership, No more renewal notices
Receive KC Studio Magazine without interruption
Receive less mail from KCPT
Provide KCPT with a reliable income in these uncertain times

WHEN?
NOW! Download the form now and mail it back to KCPT to get started. We’ll do the rest!

Chris Botti M&G

KCPT members enjoyed a pre-show Meet & Greet then a fantastic concert performed by jazz trumpeter Chris Botti on Friday, May 11, 2012 at The Midland by AMC.

Trumpeter Chris Botti and a band of very talented musicians performed a fantastic concert of jazz, pop and classical music.

Watch Anthony’s drum solo for Nessun Dorma

View photos from Meet & Greet and concert.

Tags: Concerts, Music

The tallies are in for the 2012 KCPT PBS Kids GO! Writers Contest! This year there were a total of 45 stories entered.

The contest, presented locally by KCPT with national funding support from Studentpublishing.com, encourages children in grades K-3 in the Kansas City region and in communities across the country to celebrate the power of language and creativity by creating and submitting original stories and illustrations. KCPT was one of sixty-three public television stations across the country that participated in this year’s contest.

All first place winners from KCPT’s contest will be entered into the national PBS KIDS GO! Writers Contest, where they will compete against area winners from across the county.

KCPT’s 2012 PBS Kids GO! Writers Contest First Place Winners
Kindergarten – Furry Cat Has a Birthday Party by Alex Beeman
1st Grade – My Baby Sister by Estelle May
2nd Grade – The Cat Who Wanted to Fly by Keagan Iris Bailey
3rd Grade – The Waterfall by Amelia Kline

Second Place Winners
Kindergarten – The Butterfly at the Farm by EmmaLyn Burnett
1st Grade – The 3 Pigs Return by Maureen Tuohey
2nd Grade – The Pet Shop by Jillian Staver
3rd Grade – Farmer Boys by Daniel Sliker

Third Place Winners
Kindergarten – The Owl by Autumn Ferrante
1st Grade – If I Was by Gracelynn Xia
2nd Grade – The Soap Story of Natalie Soap by Natalie Thompson
3rd Grade – The Storm by Tanner McDaniel

Honorable Mention
Kindergartern – Pluto Got Sad by Aubrey Pritchett
1st Grade – Boomer and the Cave Mystery – Elizabeth Place
2nd Grade – The Alien by Akerth Jain
3rd Grade – The Mean Mirror by Makayla McClenahan

The PBS KIDS GO! Writers Contest is produced annually by PBS KIDS and managed and created by WNED-TV Buffalo/Toronto, and is a part of PBS KIDS Raising Readers, a national initiative that uses the power of public media to build the reading skills of children ages two to eight. More information on PBS KIDS Raising Readers and the PBS KIDS GO! Writers Contest can be found at pbskids.org/read.

Fiscal Year End Gift

A Fiscal Year end gift to KCPT helps keep the programming you enjoy and depend on coming to your screen.

Tags: Documentary, Drama, How-To, Music, Nature

Explore My KC: The Book

Become a member and receive your own copy of the book! Watch Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 8pm for more details.

KCPT wants to be your hometown guide – to help you explore and enjoy your community. This book helps shine a light on Kansas City and will for years to come.

Looking through the pages of this book brings to light how beautiful and engaging our city is. It has been a wonderful opportunity to work with the community to create a book of photographs that gets right to the heart of our great city.

Your support of KCPT, through this book, helps us continue all the great programming, educational services, and local storytelling – to be a big stage and a guide for our community.

Thank you to the chamber Centurions, and the contributors, for partnering with us on Explore My KC. It’s been a successful and fun project to share with the community.

Kliff Kuehl
President & CEO
KCPT

Downton Abbey Season 2 Marathon

Spend the weekend with the Crawley family and their servants at Downton Abbey on Saturday May 19 and Sunday May 20, 2012. All the episodes from Season 2 will run, in order, 6-10 pm on Saturday, and Sunday, 1-8 pm.

Support Downton Abbey and Masterpiece with a membership to KCPT.

Tags: Downton Abbey, Drama, Masterpiece