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Endowment for Kentucky Productions

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KET produces more original programs about the life and times of Kentucky than all of the state’s commercial stations combined. In addition to weekly series like Kentucky Life and Comment on Kentucky, compelling biographies have preserved the life lessons of the late Sally Brown; W.T. Young, Sr.; Thomas D. Clark; Senator Wendell Ford and other icons, while long-form documentary topics ranging from WWII veterans to basketball, Louisville to Northern Kentucky, united us as Kentuckians. Yet there are many more stories to tell.

Announced in 2007 and now topping $5 million thanks to major funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels, Keeneland, Alltech and more, this endowment enables KET to capture and celebrate stories about the people, places and heritage of the Commonwealth.

  • Alltech
  • American Electric Power Foundation/ Kentucky Power
  • The late Mr. Hilary J. Boone, Jr.
  • The late Mrs. W.L. Lyons Brown
  • Brown-Forman
  • The late Mr. and Mrs. Alex G. Campbell, Jr.
  • Mrs. Carrie Cinnamond-Rose
  • Mr. Walter D. Clare
  • The Cralle Foundation
  • The late Mr. Thomas P. and Clara Dupree, Sr.
  • The late Oakley and Eva Farris
  • Mrs. Virginia and the late Victor Fox
  • The late Mr. Owsley Brown Frazier
  • Mrs. Donna and the late John R. Hall
  • Harper Industries, Inc.
  • The late Ms. Laura E. Heddleson
  • Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Heuser
  • Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels
  • Humana Foundation
  • Keeneland Association
  • Marshall Charitable Foundation
  • National Endowment for the Humanities
  • Mrs. Ellen and the late Dr. George Rieveschl
  • Warren Rosenthal Foundation
  • The late Mr. Allen R. Carter Strickler
  • Marilyn & William Young Charitable Foundation
  • Titles funded in part by KET’s Endowment for Kentucky Productions (since 2007):
  • 10 Buildings that Changed Louisville
  • Actors Theatre of Louisville: 50th Anniversary
  • The Alice and Wade Houston Story
  • Angels on Horseback
  • Becoming bell hooks
  • Big Family: The Story of Bluegrass Music (broadcast nationally on PBS)
  • Forgotten Fame: The Marion Miley Story
  • A Grand Night for Singing: 25th Anniversary
  • The Hilltoppers
  • A History of Kentucky in 25 Objects
  • In Their Own Words: Kentucky Veterans of the Korean War
  • Jim Host: Game Changer
  • John Hall: A Kentucky Commodore
  • Kentucky Collectibles
  • Kentucky Seasons
  • Kentucky’s Capitol
  • The Legacy of Black Horsemen
  • Lexington: 250 Years
  • Rick Steves with the Louisville Orchestra
  • Ted Bassett: A Kentucky Gentleman
  • Thoroughbred (broadcast nationally on PBS)
  • Vietnam War Veterans: In Their Own Words