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CONTACT:  Linda Green	517(10-71B){329}
	     Nashville, Tenn. (615) 742-5470	Sept. 17, 1997

'News Odyssey' moves
into classrooms

by Nancye M. Willis*
	NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) -- Beginning in October, "News Odyssey," the weekly
TV program produced by United Methodist Communications (UMCom) here, moves
into school classrooms, thanks to its new designation as a "Cable in the
Classroom" program.
	"News Odyssey," a half-hour program that explores world news through a
religious and values perspective, recently was added to "Cable in the
Classroom," an effort by the cable TV industry to provide quality,
commercial-free programming to educators to tape and replay for use in study
settings.
	The series, which debuted in February, will be included in the official
"Cable in the Classroom" guide for air times of commercial-free versions of
programs from a variety of networks. It airs weekly on the Odyssey interfaith
network. 
	Odyssey officials said the "Cable in the Classroom" designation allows the
network to offer a unique tool for instruction about current events,
associated with the moral impact on the world and on themselves.
	"News Odyssey" features incisive reporting, interviews with news makers and
religion-and-culture segments, along with commentary on timely issues by
individuals particularly well-equipped to speak.  It has aired reports and
interviews on wide-ranging subjects including abortion, cloning, ordination of
women, homelessness, religious persecution, clergy sexual abuse and racism.
	As of October, "News Odyssey" airs on Odyssey Thursdays at 9 p.m., repeats
Thursdays at midnight, Sundays at 9 p.m. and Mondays at 12:30 a.m. (all times
ET).  The "Cable in the Classroom" version airs on Thursdays at 2:30 a.m.
(ET).  
	A weekly leaders' guide, which links subjects covered by on-air personalities
to biblical and other discussion starters; transcripts of each show and other
related information are accessible from Thursdays through the rest of the week
at www.umc.org/newsodyssey on the Internet.
	The Odyssey channel, which reaches almost 30 million households on nearly
1,500 cable systems, is jointly owned by subsidiaries of the National
Interfaith Cable Coalition Inc. (NICC) and of Tele-Communications Inc.  NICC
is a consortium of 64 Protestant, Jewish, Catholic and Eastern Orthodox faith
groups, including the United Methodist Church.
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	* Willis is marketing information specialist at United Methodist
Communications.

 

 

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