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 Arizona
Wildlife Views began airing on
Phoenix PBS station KAET TV 8
in the late sixties with host
Bill Sizer, then Chief of Information
& Education at the Arizona Game
& Fish Department. He worked with
co-hosts Bob Hirsch, Ross Manes,
Ned Smith and others until 1971
when Wes Keyes joined the agency
and appeared with Bill on the
air.
Drought back in the early seventies
put the agency in a budget crunch
and Arizona Wildlife Views was
one of the casualties in September
1972. For the next two decades,
the Department did TV specials
on several stations in the valley
and produced a series of films
on Arizona's wildlife and fishing
opportunities. (We even had the
honor of working with "the Duke"
himself, John Wayne, on the firearm
safety film, "This Little Bullet".)
During the late eighties, we had
the opportunity to do a half hour
show once a month for Arizona
Outdoors, a weekly program airing
on KUTP, Ch. 45 in Phoenix that
was produced and hosted by Ned
Smith and Reed Peterson. This
run lasted about two years before
Arizona Outdoors went off the
air. Then the opportunity arose
with Ch. 45 to produce our own
program. Arizona Wildlife Views
once again began airing in October
of 1991 as a 13-week series.
We were on Ch. 45 for three years
when discussions with the PBS
affiliates in Phoenix and Tucson
began. In January of 1995 the
show started airing on PBS stations
KAET TV 8, Phoenix and KUAT
TV
6, Tucson. Arizona Wildlife Views
completed its eighth season
on
PBS during the summer of 2002.
Wes hosted the show until July
of 2002, when he retired after
31 years of service with the
Arizona
Game and Fish Department. Chuck
Emmert, a twenty-five year veteran
Phoenix TV photojournalist, has
taken over the reins and is
the
new host of the show.
 Chuck
and producers Gary Schafer and
Carol Lynde put together the 13
new shows for the upcoming season.
These shows aired at 7:30 PM Tuesday
nights on PBS station KAET
TV 8
Phoenix. The shows also aired
at 4:30 PM Sunday afternoons on
KUAT TV 6 Tucson. In addition,
Arizona Wildlife Views airs year
round on many other stations across
Arizona and 1 in Laughlin, Nevada.
Check the "Channels"
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