On March 8th, Mr. Walter Blenko appeared on the Iowa Public Television station to promote Blenko Glass during the airing of Blenko: The Spirit of American Stained Glass. The program will be the first IPTV presentation to feature Walter Blenko and will focus heavily on the influence and importance that Blenko Glass has had on the design and artistry of American Stained Glass. Iowa Public Television is extremely proud to produce a program featuring Mr. Walter Blenko and to be the exclusive public television network presenting Blenko Glass thank-you gifts this March.
Viewers in Iowa and all over the world are aware of the value and uniqueness of Blenko's hand crafted glass. Therefore, to equally ensure everyone the opportunity to view this special presentation, Iowa Public Television is also offering online streaming of the broadcast of Blenko: The Spirit of American Stained Glass. As was mentioned earlier, during the presentation Mr. Walter Blenko will be IPTV's live in-studio guest, and he will be presenting unique and beautiful pieces from the Blenko collection as thank-you gifts for supporters of Iowa Public Television. With calls or online pledges of support, viewers enjoying the program online can also receive these elegant Blenko thank-you gifts, including an exclusive piece. All of the Blenko thank-you gifts, including the exclusive pledge piece, can be viewed by visiting the IPTV website at the link shown here, www.iptv.org
*NOTE: This program will be shown throughout the month, with the next showing scheduled for tomorrow, March 13th, at 11:30a. The full episode can also be viewed online at http://www.iptv.org/video/detail.cfm/6866/bsa_20100308_blenko_live at any time.*
12 comments:
Blenko man _ impeccable dressed man. Excellent representation of a fine English family and product.
So good to learn Blenko now values PBS.
PBS could be a consistent source of PR for Blenko.
3 cheers to Mr. Walter Blenko.
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Hilary
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Cheers to Blenko for this bold action.
Note for Hilary:
Your photo and bio no longer show on my page with the blog.
If you haven't watch this.
Great job.
Beautiful man, to give of his time for this cause.
same man that wont pay the gas bill they owe!says a lot for his charecter doesnt it?
I printed this for the bulletin board at our clinics.
Cheers to all invovled.
I am sorry I can't say much for a man who would turn his back on lifetime employees who devoted their life to Blenko glass and let some kid come in and fire them just because she doesn't like them.
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