The more things change,...

When CET went on the air on July 26, 1954, only 500 television sets could even receive the signal. The first program was a 30-minute program called Tel-A-Story and it featured an adult sharing a story with several children. Closely tied to Cincinnati Public Schools in those early days, CET’s primary mission was to provide high quality educational programming for classroom use. As the first licensed educational television station in the nation, CET became a valuable resource to schools across Greater Cincinnati.

On Friday, May 1, at 12:01am, CET will turn off our analog broadcast signal after nearly 55 years of service to the educational community. However, CET will continue to provide instructional television to schools and homes in many ways. There will be over 20 hours of instructional television broadcast via our digital signal and over 600 hours cablecast on selected Time Warner Cable channels every month September through May. Around 50 new video segments, created in conjunction with area in-service teachers, will be available for 24/7 streaming from CETconnect.org. CET will provide on-demand scheduling and duplication of licensed instructional programming for schools and home schools. CET will continue to collaborate with community partners to create standards-based multimedia curriculum kits for use in PreK-12 classrooms.

So while one era comes to an end, another continues. CET will continue to be the first choice of educational programming and instructional media in Greater Cincinnati.



-Diane

Drumroll please….

CET is pleased to announce the local winners of the 15th Annual Reading Rainbow Young Writers’ & Illustrators Contest. Nearly 120 children in kindergarten through third grades from all across Greater Cincinnati submitted their original stories and illustrations this year. We received stories about aliens and best friends, sports and weather, holidays and summer vacations. After carefully considering the many creative and entertaining original stories and illustrations, winners and honorable mentions were selected at all four grade levels and are now listed online.

The four local 1st Place winning stories will be featured in a video on CETconnect.org in June and will also go on to compete at the national level. CET thanks The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation for their generous support of this year’s contest.

CET congratulates these budding young local authors!

We would like to thank teachers for bringing us into your schools and making the 15th Annual Reading Rainbow Young Writers’ & Illustrators Contest a part of classroom assignments.

- Diane