LEGENDS OF AIRPOWER DISTRIBUTION HITS MILESTONE

LEGENDS OF AIRPOWER, the award-winning thirteen part biographical documentary series, has reached a new public television distribution milestone this week: the series has been broadcast more than fifteen hundred times on more than 100 stations across the U.S.

Already, LEGENDS has appeared on at least one public television station in seven of the top ten markets. In San Francisco, two public television stations are airing the series simultaneously. And several markets, including Tampa, Nashville, and Orlando, are airing episodes more than once.

Among the high profile stations to have aired LEGENDS is WGBH. Boston, and its sister station, WGBX, which aired LEGENDS a combined forty times during Christmas week. Each episode of LEGENDS has also aired several times on WEDU in Tampa, as well as WPBT in Miami, and WPBA in Atlanta.

"LEGENDS just keeps getting stronger and stronger," said Russ Hodge, Executive Producer of the series. "Stations are finding that its a hit with viewers in every daypart, from Friday nights at 9:00 pm on SCETV to Sunday afternoons."

The series, which details the exploits of legendary air power figures such as Chuck Yeager, John Glenn, and Jimmy Doolittle, also focuses on the enormous contributions of others, including Tuskeegee Airmen founder Benjamin Davis, Gabby Gabreski, America's greatest living Ace, and actor/aviator Jimmy Stewart.

LEGENDS has received carriage commitments from more than 150 stations covering in excess of seventy-five percent of the U.S., including at least one station in each of the top twenty markets.

LEGENDS is underwritten in part by a grant from the Aerospace Education Foundation, and is presented by South Carolina Educational Television.

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