Spotlight On: Youth Financial Education

Underwriter: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

What you’re looking at…is the safest, most environmentally friendly, most efficient and most cost effective way we have of … moving things. Tugboats, towboats and barges!

Spotlight On: America’s Tugboats, Towboats and Barges Industry

Underwriter: American Waterways Operators

Aired in 2019

(Total Running Time: 5:28)

Spotlight On: Feeding Animals

Underwriter: Association of American Feed Control Officials

There aren’t many things that benefit our lives more than . . . SEEDS! A lot more things begin as seeds, than you’d think!

Spotlight On: Seed Innovation

Underwriter: American Seed Trade Association

Aired in 2023

(Total Running Time: 5:03)

You’d think fuel coming from corn - would be more environmentally friendly than the old fashioned way . . . burning oil, with all its pollutants! It’s just more natural! That’s what we thought we knew . . . But we’re wrong! In fact . . . Studies show that the production and consumption of ethanol DOUBLES total energy consumption when compared to pure gasoline.

Spotlight On: Rethink Biofuels

Underwriter: Rethink Ethanol

Aired in 2023

(Total Running Time: 2:21)

See 3rd paragraph on The Hill government website: https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/lobbying-contracts/218132-under-contract/

Spotlight On: Biosecurity for Birds

Underwriter: USDA / APHIS

Spotlight On: School Meals

Underwriter: Urban School Food Alliance

Spotlight On: Visual Impairment Professions

Underwriter: Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired (AERBVI)

https://www.aerbvi.org/visionprofessionals

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Spotlight On: Meningitis B

Underwriter: GlaxoSmithKline

Most of us don’t even begin to appreciate the Earth’s surface . . . or what’s under it! We just think it’s something you walk on to get where you’re going . . . and a place for the earthworms! That’s what the ground is! But actually there’s a lot more going on beneath the ground . . . than you might think.

Spotlight On: Geoscientists without Borders

Underwriter: Society of Exploration Geophysicists

Aired in 2021

(Total Running Time: 5:14)

See our work on their website:

https://wiresgroup.com/spotlight-on-electric-transmission/

The electric transmission grid powers the future.

Spotlight On: Wires

Underwriter: Wires Group

Spotlight On: Grizzly Bears

Underwriter: Education Alliance

Spotlight On: Saving an Ecosystem

Underwriter: Coral Restoration Foundation

Spotlight On: Therapy Dogs

Underwriter: Alliance of Therapy Dogs

There’re not many things in life we take for granted more than . . . hearing! Hearing is so much more than just sound . . . it’s feeling the very emotions of our lives . . . by hearing them! This show discusses many of the reasons we can loose our hearing at an early age.

Spotlight On: Sudden Hearing Loss

Underwriter: American Hearing Research Foundation

Aired in 2023

(Total Running Time: 5:19)

Spotlight On: Meniere's Disease

Underwriter: American Hearing Research Foundation

Spotlight On: Farm Fresh Celery

Underwriter: DUDA Farm Fresh Foods

Spotlight On: Designing Out Plastic Pollution

Underwriter: U.S. Plastics Pact

Spotlight On: Melanoma

Underwriter: Mollie Biggane Melanoma Foundation

Spotlight On: Forest Carbon Programs & Communities

Underwriter: Conservation International

Airing in 2024

Spotlight On: An Endless Summer

Underwriter: Tomato Products Wellness Council

Spotlight On: Connecting America Coast to Coast

Underwriter: AMTRAK

Spotlight On: Florida's Water and the Everglades

Underwriter: The Everglades Foundation

How technology can monitor us!

Spotlight On: Legal Technology

Underwriter: Education Alliance

Spotlight On: Smart Home Security

Underwriter: Consumer Technology Assoc

Spotlight On: Scientists Who Save the World

Underwriter: American Society for Clinical Pathology

Around the world, 9 out of 10 people breathe unhealthy air. (Source: World Health Organization). Air pollution is invisible, but it damages our health and can be deadly. Our trucks and cars contribute more to this than you would think. America needs clean, zero-emission trucks & buses.

Spotlight On: Making Invisible Air Pollution Visible

Underwriter: Environmental Defense Fund

Aired in 2021

(Total Running Time: 2:21)

Candles today - are used for making much more . . . than just light! They now create an entire atmosphere - by inviting the sense of ‘scent’ to join the candle! Today’s scented candle is a far cry from what started 3,000 years ago in China - where they made them from whale blubber and bees wax!

Spotlight On: The Scented Candle

Underwriter: Yankee Candle

Aired in 2014

(Total Running Time: 4:00)

Spotlight On: Transforming Lives Through Dogs

Underwriter: Guide Dogs of America