Such is the case with a new print ad campaign from perhaps what many may consider an unlikely source: a public television station.

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Six years later, Howser joined forces with KCET, a public television station, to produce a program known as "Videolog" showcasing the stories of all types of people.

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Then watch The Race to Mackinac, a 2002 documentary produced by Chicago public television station WTTW. The station put cameras on two boats and zoomed in on such passing scenery as Sleeping Bear Dunes (a national park on the Michigan coast) and Beaver Island, where a rogue Mormon leader once declared himself king.

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Gayle Scarbrough, a spokeswoman for the Department of Public Safety in Waco, told television station KWTX that DPS troopers have been transporting the injured to hospitals in their patrol cars.

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If representatives of the two groups want to make a public point, the Qatari-owned satellite-television station, Al Jazeera, is at hand to air it.

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Back then we watched black and white television, satisfied with our three commercial channels and one public station.

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As part of this trend, in 2006 public TV station ZDF broadcast "Dresden: The Inferno, " the most expensive German television production at the time.

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