Five councils - Valley Forge, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Reading, and San Francisco - run their own local television programs that are aired on local cable stations or in some cases PBS. Most of the shows are in a 30-minute question and answer format. Local television stations annually cover over 600 world affairs council programs.

San Francisco - Our World This Week - on BAYTV, channel 35.
Milwaukee - International Focus - on WTVT, channel 36.
Southeastern, PA - The World Affairs Council of Valley Forge Presents - on channel 2.
Cincinnati and N. Kentucky - (Window on Our World, channel A18 on Intermedia Cable in Northern Kentucky,channel 23 on Time Warner Cable in Cincinnati, channels 4 and 24 on Cincinnati Community Video in Hamilton County)
Reading, PA - What in the World in Berks - on BCTV, channel 28.

GREAT DECISIONS PBS SERIES

The Foreign Policy Association  produces a series of 13 tapes on the eight discussion topics from the Great Decisions book. The tapes include interviews with heads of state, and prominent policy makers hosted by Dean Emeritus of Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service, Peter Krogh.

Local PBS stations air the series primarily in the spring but sometimes throughout the year. Ask your local PBS station when Great Decisions will be airing in your area. Better still call your local PBS station manager or program director and ask them to carry the series.

Participants in the Great Decisions discussion and teaching programs often incorporate the filmed material into their discussions or courses. The Foreign Policy Association sends world affairs councils a set of the Great Decisions videotapes every year for any local programming use the council might wish to make of the material.

ANNUAL REPORTS: PBS SERIES

Each year the Southern Center for International Studies in Atlanta produces two or three national television programs, which are aired on PBS. These programs bring together the former Secretaries of State, Defense, Education, Treasury, and US Ambassadors to the UN, Foreign Ministers, or World Leaders to discuss the current issues of the day in their area.

The Report of the Secretaries of State discussing current US foreign policy and international affairs has been running for over fifteen years and the flagship of Atlanta’s programming. These shows regularly run in more than 100 major PBS markets around the country each year. Excerpts from these discussions also appear in the Southern Center’s multimedia curriculum series World in Transition.

There have been ten programs to date in the Secretaries of Defense series and smaller numbers with the Secretaries of Education and of the Treasury. Other SCIS programs on PBS include former US Ambassadors to the United Nations discussing UN issues, the life and times of Dean Rusk as interviewed by NBC newsman Edwin Newman, and a five-tape program series entitled UN Peace and Conflict Issues.

These materials are available for purchase, classroom, or media use through consultation with the Southern Center in Atlanta.

LOCAL COUNCIL RADIO PROGRAMS

Councils in Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Richmond and San Francisco have radio programs.

“It’s Your World” is a radio production of the World Affairs Council of Northern California and KQED 88.5FM in San Francisco, CA. It is a Flagship Program of the council system. The weekly one-hour broadcast on Monday nights, hosted by council president, Jane Wales. Although based in San Francisco, the program covers a broad range of national and global issues.

The Pittsburgh Council's "Global Press Conference" has been on the air every week for nearly 15 years on KQV-AM 1410 in Pittsburgh. Its current time slots are Saturdays at 8:30 p.m. and Sundays at 10:30 a.m.

The Richmond Council's Executive Director Ambassador Bell provides a weekly foreign-affairs commentary at 8:35 am each Tuesday morning on Virginia’s NPR station, WCVE FM (88.9 Mhz). WCVE also carries World Affairs Council related programming each Sunday evening at 6:00 pm.