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WTTW Digital Channel Highlights
These digital channels are available with digital cable or over the air with a digital receiver. For more information about digital television and for complete schedules, visit wttw.com/schedule.
WTTW Prime
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WTTW Prime is our “prime time all the time” channel. Free TV, over-the-air antenna viewers can tune to channel 11-2 to fi nd WTTW Prime. WTTW Prime is on Comcast digital cable channel 370 and on RCN channel 37.
The Warrior Tradition
Thursday, November 11 at 8:00 pm
Learn the heartbreaking, inspiring, and largely untold story of Native Americans in the United States military. This fi lm relates the stories of Native American warriors from their own points of view – stories of service, pain, courage, and fear.
Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules
Pictured: Lanny Asepermy
WTTW Prime
WTTW Prime is our “prime time all the time” channel. Free TV, over-the-air antenna viewers can tune to channel 11-2 to fi nd WTTW Prime. WTTW Prime is on Comcast digital cable channel 370 and on RCN channel 37.
WBCN and the American Revolution
Thursday, November 18 at 7:00 pm
Between 1968 and 1974, this radical underground radio station amplifi ed the social, political, and cultural happenings of the time. WBCN staff were instrumental in conveying what was going on in society on the airwaves by refl ecting the countercultural scene, militant anti-war activism, civil rights struggles, and the emerging women’s and LGBTQ liberation movements.
Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules
Pictured: WBCN staff ers
WTTW Create
WTTW Create is our how-to and lifestyle programming channel. Free TV, over-the-air antenna viewers tune to channel 11-3. WTTW Create is on Comcast digital cable channel 369 and on RCN channel 38. WTTW Create programming airs from 6:00 am to 6:00 pm.
WTTW World
WTTW World features public media’s signature documentary, science, and news programming complemented by original content from emerging producers. Free TV, over-the-air antenna viewers tune to channel 11-3. WTTW World is on Comcast digital cable channel 369 and on RCN channel 38. WTTW World airs from 6:00 pm to 6:00 am.
WTTW PBS Kids 24/7
Free TV, over-the-air antenna viewers can tune to channel 11-4. The WTTW PBS Kids 24/7 is on Comcast digital channels 368 and on RCN channel 39.
Best of Scandinavia (Marathon)
Saturday, November 6 at 10:00 am
New Scandinavian Cooking hosts Andreas Viestad, Tina Nordstrom, Claus Meyer, and Sara La Fountain create tantalizing dishes using locally sourced ingredients against the scenic backdrops of Northern Europe. Join us for this WTTW Create marathon.
Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules
Pictured: Andreas Viestad
America Reframed: On a Knife Edge
Tuesday, November 2 at 8:00 pm
On a Knife Edge is the coming-of-age story of George Dull Knife, a Lakota teenager growing up on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation. Filmed over four years, the documentary follows George as he learns to defi ne the concepts of warrior, tradition, and duty in new ways.
Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules
Pictured: George Dull Knife
An Arthur Thanksgiving
Friday, November 19 at 5:00 pm
Arthur and his family are getting ready for Thanksgiving! But when Pal disappears to go on his own adventure…family, friends, and the rest of Elwood City try to get Pal home. Will they be able to celebrate the best Thanksgiving yet?
Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules
Pictured: Arthur
8:00 Downton Abbey Season 5 on Masterpiece (Part 3 of 9)
Mary and Lord Gillingham put their relationship to the test. Cora makes a new friend, and Violet is reunited with an old one.
9:15 Downton Abbey Season 5 on Masterpiece (Part 4
of 9) Lord Merton delivers a bombshell to Isobel, and Mary does likewise to Tony. Robert and Sarah lock horns.
10:30 Happy Holidays with Bing
& Frank Originally aired on December 20, 1957, this early color television special features Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby teaming up on Christmas carols, songs, and stories.
11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company
Friday 5
EARLY MORNING 12:30 NOVA Universe Revealed:
Milky Way (Part 2 of 5) See Wed. Nov. 3 at 9:00 pm. [R]
1:30 Secrets of the Dead: The First Circle
of Stonehenge See Wed. Nov. 3 at 10:00 pm. [R]
2:30 Finding Your Roots:
In the Spotlight
NOVA: Universe Revealed
Every night above our heads, a drama of epic proportions is playing out. The cast of characters is extraordinary, and each one has its own incredible story to tell. In this five-part series, with the help of breath-taking CGI, NOVA delves into the vastness of space to uncover the moments of sheer drama when the universe as we know it changed forever.
Wednesdays 9:00 pm
Laughing on the Inside [R]
3:30 American Veteran: The
Mission (Part 2 of 4) [R] 4:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING-AFTERNOON 5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids 5:30 BBC World News America
EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review 7:30 Washington Week 8:00 The Indian Doctor: The Diary (Season 1, Part 2 of 5)
Colliery manager Richard Sharpe is desperate to obtain a diary left behind by Prem’s predecessor, and hires local street urchin Dan Griffiths to steal it.
9:00 For the Left Hand 10:30 The Oratorio: A Documentary
with Martin Scorsese Martin Scorsese reveals the story of a single performance in 1826 that introduced Italian opera to New York City. Taking place in Scorsese’s childhood church, the ‘lost oratorio” is being restaged.
11:30 BBC World News
Saturday 6
EARLY MORNING 12:00 Amanpour and Company 1:00 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 1:30 The Chavis Chronicles 2:00 Nature: The Elephant
and the Termite See Wed. Nov. 3 at 8:00 pm. [R] 3:00 Animals Reunited [R]
4:00 NOVA Universe Revealed:
Milky Way (Part 2 of 5) [R]
5:00 Chicago Tonight: The
Week in Review [R]
5:30 Happy Yoga with Sarah Starr: Beautiful Lake Sunrise
MORNING 6:00-9:00 WTTW Kids 9:00 Conscious Living: Vegan Mexican Fiesta 9:30 Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan: Bianca Valenti 10:00 This Old House: Concord, Tree Doctor House Call 10:30 Ask This Old House: Easier Plumbing, Roofing 101 11:00 Lidia’s Kitchen 11:30 Flavor of Poland: Torun
AFTERNOON 12:00 Cook’s Country 12:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire: Brisket 24/7 1:00 Simply Ming: Ming Tsai with Andrew Zimmern 1:30 Sara’s Weeknight Meals 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Pork and Potatoes 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Indian Feast 3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television 3:30 Pati’s Mexican Table: The Heart of Tequila 4:00 A Chef’s Life: Gettin’ Figgy With It 4:30 Check, Please! Most Memorable Guests 5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Egypt’s Nile, Alexandria, and Luxor 5:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend
EVENING 6:00 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices 6:30 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices 7:00 Midsomer Murders: The Incident at Cooper
Hill (Part 1 of 2) When a local forest ranger suffers a strange death, visiting UFO spotters are convinced aliens are responsible.
7:50 Midsomer Murders: The Incident at Cooper Hill (Part 2 of 2) 8:40 Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators – The
Sticking Place Frank and Lu come to the aid of a community of allotment holders who are being threatened with eviction. 9:30 Death in Paradise A death in the Saint Marie Heritage Society suggests that the group could be less amicable than it seems.
10:30 The Indian Doctor: The Diary
(Season 1, Part 2 of 5) See Fri. Nov. 5 at 8:00 pm. [R]
11:30 Call the Midwife (Season
10, Part 5 of 8) [R]
Sunday 7
EARLY MORNING 12:30 Finding Your Roots:
Laughing on the Inside [R] 1:30 POV: North by Current [R]
2:00 American Veteran: The
Mission (Part 2 of 4) [R]
3:00 Secrets of the Dead: The First Circle
of Stonehenge [R]
4:00 Antiques Roadshow:
Treasures on the Move [R]
5:00 Antiques Roadshow:
Body of Work [R]
MORNING 6:00-10:00 WTTW Kids
10:00 Almost an Island Meet the Goodwins, an Inupiat family living above the Arctic Circle in Kotzebue, Alaska. This film explores what it means to be indigenous in the dramatically changing Arctic.
11:00 Pritzker Military Presents:
Explore the history and future of the military and higher education through the career of RADM Richard W. Schneider in both the U.S.
In the Spotlight
Photo: Courtesy of Barney Rowe, TomosTV
Mike Parker Pearson at Stonehenge
Secrets of the Dead: The First Circle of Stonehenge
A decade-long archaeological quest reveals that the oldest stones of Stonehenge originally belonged to a much earlier sacred site – a stone circle built on a rugged, remote hillside in west Wales.
Wednesday, November 3 10:00 pm
Photo: Courtesy of Kartemquin Films
Norman Malone
For the Left Hand
At age 10, aspiring pianist Norman Malone is paralyzed on his right side after being attacked by his father. Over the next several decades he masters the left-hand repertoire in secret before a chance discovery of his talent leads him toward making his concert debut. Aged 78, he will perform the greatest work in the canon: Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand.
