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PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Keeping Kids Healthy is an innovative weekly half-hour TV program designed to provide parents and
caregivers of children with the knowledge and support they need to make well-informed decisions about
their children’s health. The series – produced by an award-winning editorial team that includes recipients of
Pulitzer, Peabody, Emmy and Ace Awards – airs on Thirteen/WNET New York, in the nation’s largest
television market, and is available on hundreds of television stations around the country and the world.
Shot live on location from the lobby of the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in New York City, Keeping
Kids Healthy is hosted by Winnie King, MD, a practicing board-certified emergency-room physician and
an engaging and experienced television host.
The series is produced by Rich Sabreen Enterprises, LLC for Montefiore Medical Center in association with
Thirteen/WNET New York. The series is now entering its sixth season. Keeping Kids Healthy brings
viewers the kind of health care information that has an impact on their children’s daily lives. Each medical
issue is personalized as viewers meet the parents and children who are living with medical, health safety and
parenting issues every day. Nationally recognized experts join the kids and families giving insights and
crucial information for making kids’ lives better. This “team” approach ensures that viewers see the human
side of each issue, and that parents’ real concerns are addressed in a conversational, comprehensible, and
down-to-earth manner.
Each half-hour episode of Keeping Kids Healthy covers one or two health care issues, drawn from a broad
range of physical and psycho-social issues. Segments have addressed topics ranging from heart defects,
breastfeeding, teens on kidney dialysis, and the obesity/diabetes connection, to teen suicide, toddler
behavior guidelines, eating disorders, and disaster preparedness for children.
Dr. King moderates live in-studio discussions with the families and medical experts, enhanced by video
packages that bring the program out of the studio and directly into the lives of the families affected by each
issue. A resource list at the end of each topic directs viewers to relevant books, organizations, websites, and
phone numbers, providing additional actionable information in each show.
Keeping Kids Healthy maintains a website, www.keepingkidsheatlthy.org, which offers more detailed
background information on guests, expanded resource lists mentioned during the show, and tips for parents
related to each program topic. Selected episodes are also streamed on the web at
www.keepingkidshealthytv.com.
The series has won four Emmy Awards and has been nominated for nine Emmys. It has also won a Parent’s
Choice Award and a Tele Award.
Keeping Kids Healthy is distributed nationally by American Public Television (APT). For 42 years, APT
has been a prime source of programming for the nation’s public television stations. APT has more than
10,000 hours of available programming including Discovering the Real World of Harry Potter, Globe
Trekker, Muhammad Ali: Through the Eyes of the World, Nightly Business Report, Rick Steves’ Europe,
Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home, Ballykissangel, Brian Jacques’ Redwall and Sinatra: The Classic
Duets. APT is known for identifying innovative programs and developing creative distribution techniques
for producers. In more than four decades, it has established a tradition of providing public television
stations nationwide with program choices that enable them to strengthen and customize their schedules.
Press should contact Donna Hardwick at 617-338-4455 ext. 129 or via email to
donna_hardwick@aptonline.org. For more information about APT's programs and services, log on to
aptonline.org.