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8-October-1999 
99332 
 
    Creative Parenting Show Moves to Odyssey Television Network 
 
    Award-winning "Donna's Day" broadcast every morning 
 
    by Jerry L. Van Marter 
 
LOUISVILLE, Ky.-"Donna's Day," an award-winning television program that 
helps parents and other adult caregivers take full advantage of the limited 
time they have to spend with the children in their lives, is now being 
produced by the Jim Henson Company ("Sesame Street" and "Muppets") and is 
airing on the Odyssey Channel. 
 
    The half-hour show airs Monday-Friday at 7:30 Eastern and Pacific Time. 
 
    The Odyssey Channel is a cooperative partnership between the Henson 
company, Hallmark Entertainment, Liberty Media (a subsidiary of AT&T) and 
the National Interfaith Cable Coalition, a consortium of 80 Protestant, 
Jewish, Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Evangelical and Pentecostal faith 
groups and tradition.  The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is a charter member 
of the coalition and coordinator for media services Ann Gillies serves on 
the Odyssey board of directors. 
 
    "Donna's Day," created and hosted by award-winning author and columnist 
Donna Erickson (who is also its executive producer), originally appeared on 
PBS.  Erickson is also a contributing editor for "Parents" magazine and a 
syndicated newspaper columnist for King Features Syndicate. 
 
    In each episode of "Donna's Day," Erickson uses innovative, easy-to-do 
and fun activities, recipes and strategies to strengthen relationships 
between adults and children and to build family traditions.  The cooking 
segments feature popular Muppets character the Swedish Chef. 
 
    Erickson says her philosophy is simple: "Children are our priority. 
They're what we care about most.  And it is possible to find fun activities 
to make the time we spend with them yeild big results." 
 
    For more information about "Donna's Day" or the Odyssey Channel, call 
818-755-2400 or your local cable company. 

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