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 2009/02/05 - Mayor A C Wharton Featured Subject on Nationally Televised Program

 

OFFICE OF THE MAYOR OF SHELBY COUNTY, TENNESSEE
160 North Main Street, Memphis, TN 38103

For Immediate Release:
Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009		  
 


 Mayor A C Wharton Featured Subject
on Nationally Televised Program

NOW on PBS profiles Memphis and Shelby County plans to sue national mortgage lenders
Friday, Feb. 6 and Sunday, Feb. 8

Press to view program

 

Memphis, TN. -  The nationally-televised PBS weekly newsmagazine NOW on PBS will document the catastrophic impact home foreclosures are having on Memphis and Shelby County communities. The program will profile the joint Shelby County Board of Commissioners and Memphis City Council resolution authorizing litigation targeted at mortgage lending institutions who have participated in unlawful, deceptive and discriminatory practices. Mayor Wharton candidly discusses the necessity and implication of such a lawsuit during a one-on-one interview with award-winning journalist David Brancaccio.

NOW on PBS will present an eye-opening tour of the Frayser community - the Shelby County neighborhood most impacted by foreclosures in 2008. County and city officials will highlight the resulting blight and devastation inflicted on the area.

Locally, this featured segment will air Friday, Feb. 6 at 7:30 p.m. on WKNO2 and then again on Sunday, Feb. 8 at 8:30 a.m. on WKNO/Channel 10.

NOW on PBS airs across the U.S. with documentary segments and insightful interviews that probe the vital issues facing democracy.
 

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For more information, contact:
Rhonda Turner
901-545-4588
rhonda.turner@shelbycountytn.gov		    

 
 
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