Category: Broadcast
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Live in Three States, The Story of WCFC TV-38 Chicago
Here is my latest documentary. Live in Three States, The Story of WCFC TV-38 Chicago The summer of 1983, I was a 22 year old college intern standing behind an RCA TK-760 plumbicon three tube color broadcast studio camera in a tiny studio (known as the two-car garage) on the 44th floor of Chicago’s Kemper…
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How About Some Gospel Music!
What A Fellowship – Rev. Clay Evans & the AARC Mass Choir from Tim Frakes on Vimeo. How about some Gospel music! The Rev. Dr. Clay Evans, Pastor of the Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church was a major Gosple recording artist in the 1970’s and 80’s. Evans bought airtime on TV-38 and made regular appearances during…
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Sheldon Peck, An Ordinary Man in Extraordinary Times
Here is a promo for the Greater Chicago Broadcast Ministries airing of our new documentary, Sheldon Peck, And Ordinary Man in Extraordinary Times. The half hour broadcast version will air every Sunday at noon in December (beginning this Sunday) on ABC 7.2 Live Well Network Chicago. A longer version will be offered on DVD this…
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WCFC TV-38 Teen Challenge Temporary Move
Dipping into the wayback machine, I dug up the last story I produced at WCFC TV38 in late 1989. TV-38 was in the process of purchasing land and building a new facility at 38 South Peoria on Chicago’s near West side. At the same time, their rented facilities at 1 North Wacker Drive were slated…
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Peace Arms and a Test of Faith
With all the talk this week relating to the summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, I decided to dig up Peace, Arms and a Test of Faith, a 1992 documentary I produced for Jean Martensen and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, through the ELCA Department for…
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Sanctuary, Lutheran Child and Family Services
Sanctuary LCFS Promo from Tim Frakes on Vimeo. Lutheran Child and Family Services traces its roots to 1873 when several Lutheran churches in northern Illinois established the German Evangelical Lutheran Orphan Home in Addison, Illinois. Opening its doors that year to six young children, the orphan home grew quickly and expanded its services. Today, Lutheran…
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Rick Steves’ Luther and the Reformation
In 2015 Rick Steves, Simon Griffith, Peter Rummel and I went back to Germany to record a 1-hour PBS broadcast version of our original 2001 production for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, “Opening the Door to Luther with Rick Steves.” The program aired nationally on PBS stations in celebration of the 500th anniversary of…
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Where Cross The Crowded Ways of Life, The Story of The Chicago Temple
Where Cross The Crowded Ways of Life, The Story of The Chicago Temple The First United Methodist Church, Chicago Temple is the oldest church in Chicago. From the cities earliest, pioneer days, through the Great Chicago fire, the 1893 World’s Fair, Prohibition, World War’s 1 and 2, Civil Rights and today’s issues related to gun…
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Modern Christian Martyrs
Kidnapped, tortured, their priest murdered, a Syrian family is forced to flee, finding asylum here in the United States. In this edition of Sanctuary I produced for Greater Chicago Broadcast Ministries, we meet the Alkhoury family, and take a closer look at growing evidence of widespread persecution of religious minorities, as well as efforts by…
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How’s this for a selfie?
How’s this for a selfie? Working on a documentary on the history of WCFC TV38, I unearthed these vintage 1980’s stand-up’s featuring your’s truly as a cub reporter on the weekly news magazine, Page Two. We covered all kinds of stories, often with a conservative bent that makes me cringe these days. Thanks to Wade…