"LIVE FROM ANTARCTICA"

["Iris R. Wingert" <iwingert@UMD5.UMD.EDU>]

                                       FACT SHEET
                                "LIVE FROM ANTARCTICA"
                     Electronic Field Trip to the Ends of the Earth

                     A co-production of MARYLAND PUBLIC TELEVISION
         and GEOFF HAINES-PRODUCTIONS in association with WTTW/Chicago

TITLE:

LIVE FROM ANTARCTICA: Electronic Field Trips to the Ends of the Earth
(part of PASSPORT TO KNOWLEDGE series)

BROADCAST DATES and TIMES

Episode #1:  THE COLDEST, WINDIEST, ICIEST PLACE ON EARTH
             December 13, 1994 at 2:00 p.m. EST

Episode #2:  LIFE IN ANTARCTICA:  "THEN" AND "NOW"
             December 15, 1994 at 2:00 p.m. EST

Episode #3:  SPACESHIP SOUTH POLE
             January 10, 1995 at 5:30 p.m. EST (*Featuring the first
             ever live telecast from South Pole)
             Re-Feed on January 12, 1995 at 2:00 p.m. EST
             Backcontingency date of January 12, 5:30 p.m. if there
             are weather problems.

Episode #4:  ANTARCTICA:  FROM POLE TO PLANET
             January 19, 1995 at 1:00 p.m. EST

DESCRIPTION

LIVE FROM ANTARCTICA is a series of four live interactive two-way
distance learning telecasts.  These interdisciplinary electronic field
trips to the ends of the earth offer classroom students in the United
States the chance to interact with scientists in the Antarctica via live
television and on-line services.  Included is the first ever live
telecast from the South Pole showing the repositioning of the earth's
geographical South Pole marker.

Each program will be 40 minutes in length with a break at 20 minutes.
Targeted at middle and high school students, LIVE FROM ANTARCTICA will be
linked to two live interactive teaching sites where students will ask
questions of scientists via real time audio/video linkages.  This series
will be a landmark example of the educational potential of new
technologies -- to create a classroom without walls where students can
interact with any part of the globe, anytime, anywhere.  Students will
participate live from Texas; Barrow, Alaska; Charlottesville, Virginia
and Chicago, Illinois.  Telecasts will be downlinked through Maryland
Public Television in Baltimore, which will coordinate links between
scientists and researchers at McMurdo station, the main U.S. base in
Antarctic, co-hosts anchoring from MPT's Maryland Teleplex and students
and teachers at the interactive classroom sites.  All viewing students
can interact on-line through PBS ONLINE's Learning Link and NASA Spacelink.

SCHEDULING NOTE  TELSTAR 401 TRANSPONDER 7U

Teachers can use the LIVE FROM ANTARCTICA telecasts either by watching
them live or taping them for later use.  Schools may be able to receive
the programs from broadcasts on their local public TV station, or by
downloading them directly from TELSTAR 401, or from other regional
satellites, cable or closed-circuit networks.

PROGRAM RIGHTS

One year broadcast rights
One year off-air educational re-record rights

PRODUCER

LIVE FROM ANTARCTICA is a co-production of Maryland Public Television and
Geoff Haines Productions in association with WTTW/Chicago.

LIVE FROM ANTARCTICA is made possible, in part, by support from the
National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, PBS K-12 Learning Services and the U.S. Department of
Energy.  "The New Explorers, "a co-production of WTTW and Kurtis
Productions, Ltd. underwritten by AMOCO Corp. and Duracell International,
Inc., joins MPT and GHSP in presenting the "Spaceship South Pole" episode.

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

To register for the free Teacher's Guide, and to hear pre-recorded
messages about satellite coordinates, broadcast times, program content,
"How to get Online" and other information, call 1-800-626-LIVE
(1-800-626-5483)

To request printed material by mail, write to:

LIVE FROM ANTARCTICA, P.O. Box 1502; Summit, New Jersey 07902-1502

To ensure the speediest delivery of materials via 1st class mail, please
include a 9 x 12, self-addressed envelope, pre-stamped with $2.90 in
postage (Guide available November 18, 1994)

For information about PBS ONLINE's Learning Link, contact Customer
service at 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314 or call (703)739-8464

For information about NASA's K-12 Internet Project, contact
(415)604-0766, Mon.-Fri. 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (PST), Saturdays
9:00-12:00 noon, fax (415)604-3445

For information about NASA Spacelink call (205)961-1225