TV Transmitter Status
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Tues 1/19: KTEH Over the Air restored
KTEH Over-the-Air transmissions restored to normal apx 10:50am, operating at 98-100% power. 100% power = 290 kW. Fiber feeds to Comcast Cable, DirecTV and Dish Network normal.
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Tues 1/19: KTEH Over the Air signal down
KTEH’s transmitter on Monument Peak is off the air. Engineers are working on the problem. Time needed for repairs not known at this time.
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KQED-DT9 (San Francisco)
Fiber feeds to Comcast Cable, Astound Cable and AT&T U-verse normal. Over-the-Air transmissions normal, operating at 98-100% power. 100% power = 710 kW.
TV Transmitter Status
KQED DTV Channels
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KQED 9HD
Comcast 9 and 709
Digital 9.1, 54.2 or 25.1All widescreen and HD programs
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KTEH 54
Comcast 10
Digital 9.2, 54.1 or 25.2KTEH TV from San Jose in Silicon Valley
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KQED Life
Comcast 189
Digital 54.3Arts, food, how-to, gardening, travel
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KQED World
Comcast 190
Digital 9.3History, world events, news, science, nature
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V-Me
Comcast 191 & 621
Digital 54.5 or 25.324-hour national Spanish-language network
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KQED Kids
Comcast 192
Digital 54.4Quality children's programming parents love too
More from KQED
Cameras capture tales of family heirlooms, yard sale bargains and long-lost items salvaged from attics and basements, while experts reveal the fascinating truths about these finds.
Upcoming Broadcasts:
Atlantic City, Nj - Hour Three (#1406#)
Duration:
56:46 Stereo TVG
Where better for AR and appraiser Kevin Zavian to dive into the subject of pearls than at Dock's Oyster House in Atlantic City, New Jersey? Highlights include a fanciful circa 1900 folk art sculpture; a 1934 New York Yankees team-signed baseball; and an early 20th century landscape painting by George Bellows, one of America's greatest artists, passed down in the Bellows family and valued at $ 150,000.
Channels and Airdates:
Tue, Feb 9, 2010 -- 2:00 am
Tue, Feb 9, 2010 -- 7:00 pm
Wed, Feb 10, 2010 -- 1:00 am
Raleigh, Nc - Hour One (#1401H)
Duration:
56:46 Stereo TVG
AR's 2010 season kicks off from Raleigh, NC, amid a forest of giant "comic weathervanes," where appraiser Ken Farmer talks about smaller examples of vintage whirligigs. Highlights include a 1920 Arts & Crafts desk and lamp - both of which light up; a rare circa 1960 Gibson Double 12 Electric Guitar; and a set of four Chinese Quianlong Period (1736-1795) carved jade objects whose auction estimate of $710, 000 to $1,070,000 makes it the highest value appraisal in AR history.
Channels and Airdates:
Raleigh, Nc - Hour Two (#1402H)
Duration:
56:46 Stereo TVG
AR visits the North Carolina Museum of History with appraiser J. Michael Flanigan to look at the work of Thomas Day, a free man of color who became the most famous North Carolina furniture maker of the 19th century. Highlights include a circa 1800 eastern North Carolina bottle case on stand; an 1812 needlework sampler; and a 1985 Andrew Wyeth watercolor, whose owner benefited from a tug-of-war between art dealers, valued at $450,000.
Channels and Airdates:
Atlantic City, Nj - Hour One (#1404)
Duration:
56:46 Stereo TVG
AR touches down in Atlantic City, then detours to the Wheaton Arts Center in Millville, New Jersey, where appraiser Arlie Sulka looks at some beautiful old American paperweights and host Mark L. Walberg tries his hand at glass blowing. Highlights include a Walt Whitman memoir inscribed by the author to a group of firefighters; a late 19th-century bronze and marble statue by the acclaimed French sculptor Albert Ernest Carrier Belleuse; and an oil painting by acclaimed 19th-century Canadian artist Cornelius Krieghoff, noted for portraying narrative-like scenes, valued at $200,000 to $350,000.
Channels and Airdates:
Madison, Wi - Hour One (#1407H)
Duration:
56:46 Stereo TVG
AR's visit to Madison, Wisconsin, includes a detour with appraiser Wes Cowan to the Wisconsin Dells to discuss the late 19th-century stereoscopic photography of H.H. Bennett that made the Dells famous. Highlights include an heirloom Art Deco charm bracelet with a possible connection to John D. Rockefeller; an heirloom 1938 Martin D-18 guitar, highly coveted by folk and bluegrass musicians; and an angry 1976 letter from Frank Sinatra to Chicago Daily News columnist Mike Royko, auctioned off for charity by Royko and now worth $15,000.
Channels and Airdates:
Mon, Feb 15, 2010 -- 8:00 pm email reminder
Tue, Feb 16, 2010 -- 2:00 am email reminder
Sat, Mar 27, 2010 -- 3:00 pm email reminder
Wed, Mar 24, 2010 -- 7:00 pm email reminder
Thu, Mar 25, 2010 -- 1:00 am email reminder
Sun, Mar 28, 2010 -- 5:00 pm email reminder
Raleigh, Nc - Hour Three (#1403)
Duration:
56:46 CC Stereo TVG
AR visits North Carolina's Museum of the Cape Fear in Fayetteville, once the site of a US arsenal seized by the Confederacy, to look at some of the weapons made in North Carolina during the Civil War. Highlights include an archive of items related to Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1966 visit to St. Mark's AME Zion Church in Durham; a circa 1800 heirloom Virginia-made table, purported to have ties to Thomas Jefferson; and a pair of circa 1725 chairs, made by New England furniture maker John Gaines, whose value - much diminished because the pieces are refinished - is estimated to be $30,000 to $50,000.
Channels and Airdates:
Atlantic City, Nj - Hour Two (#1405#)
Duration:
56:46 Stereo TVG
In Atlantic City, New Jersey, AR and appraiser Andy Ourant dip into a discussion of the market for swimsuit-clad, early 20th-century bisque figurines, known as bathing beauties. Highlights include: a collection of Enrico Caruso memorabilia brought by his grandson; a dress by noted Italian designer Fortuny, purported to have been worn by American modern dance legend Isadora Duncan; and a pair of heirloom boxwood and ivory figurines estimated to be worth $50,000 to $75,000, but if confirmed to be 18th-century originals by sculptor Simon Troger, could be worth $400,000.
Channels and Airdates:
Madison, Wi - Hour Two (#1408#)
Duration:
56:46 Stereo TVG
In Madison, Wisconsin, AR investigates the shocking heist of artifacts from the archives of the Wisconsin Historical Society. Highlights include photos of the owner's family taken by noted American photographer Edward Weston in the late 1930s or early 1940s; a table crafted for the owner's parents circa 1956 by mid-century-modern master furniture maker George Nakashima; and an ornate silver, enamel and turquoise-studded exhibition piece, crafted by Tiffany for the 1893 Columbian Exhibition in Chicago.
Channels and Airdates:
Madison, Wi - Hour Three (#1409)
Duration:
56:46 CC Stereo TVG
In Madison, AR visits a one-of-a-kind Wisconsin wonder with appraiser Noel Barrett: The House on the Rock, built on and around a chimney rock and filled to the rafters by its eccentric owner with antiques and collectibles. Highlights include an intricately carved turn-of-the-century Japanese bamboo sculpture; the happy marriage of Edwardian natural pearl earrings elongated with Art Deco pendants; and a massive oil painting by noted 19th-century California painter Thomas Hill, purchased at a church rummage sale for $25 and valued at $60,000 to $80,000.
Channels and Airdates:
Sat, Mar 27, 2010 -- 8:00 pm email reminder
Sun, Mar 28, 2010 -- 2:00 am email reminder
Sun, Mar 28, 2010 -- 6:00 pm email reminder
Denver, Co - Hour One (#1410#)
Duration:
56:46 Stereo TVG
Host Mark L. Walberg meets appraiser Kathleen Bailey at Denver's Kirkland Art Museum to view its collection of wild-looking Art Deco glassware known as Ruba Rombic. Highlights include a poster of the famous Wright Flyer airplane, made by the owner's great-grandfather, marking the Wright Brothers' triumphant return to Dayton, Ohio, in 1909; a first edition copy of William Faulkner's Sartoris, inscribed to the owner's father, one of Faulkner's cousins; and an heirloom collection of jewelry that includes a fabulous diamond ring, crafted by "Jeweler to the Stars" Paul Flato, and valued at $215,000 to $270, 000.
Channels and Airdates:
Tucson, Az - Hour 1 (#1107)
Duration:
55:14 CC Stereo TVG
Mark Walberg gets a taste of Tucson, Arizona, history from the seat of an antique buggy, part of the impressive stable of horse-drawn conveyances housed at the Tucson Rodeo Parade Museum and proudly mobilized for the annual Tucson Rodeo Parade. At the Tucson Convention Center, it's a pageant of prized possessions, including two Picasso-designed vases bought in France; a court affidavit submitted by Jimmy Carter to the state of Maine on the eve of the 1976 election appealing their decision list him on the ballot as James Earl Carter; and an ornate saddle - purchased for the owner as a child and ridden just once when she competed for the title of Coolidge Cotton Days Rodeo Queen in Coolidge, Arizona - a cinch to bring $6000 to $8000.
