phati’tude Literary TV Show is a 1/2-hour literary television program that brings new and diverse literary voices into the public discourse through public access networks and college stations throughout the country.
Owned and produced by the Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc. (IAAS), a NY-based nonprofit organization, phati’tude Literary TV Show celebrates America’s cultural diversity through literature, which educates, informs and inspires people to read and write for themselves. Our program is an independently produced program that’s geared specifically toward public access and college audiences. Currently airing on approximately 50 stations across the United States and Canada, we believe your community will appreciate access to other cultures through creative quality programming that is inclusive and diverse.
- “phatLiterature is well produced. I also find the program content culturally diverse and believe it to be important to share with our community. . . . callers have expressed that they enjoyed this program.”
- — Access 13, Arizona
phati’tude Literary TV Show is not like any other literary program on the scene today. The guests and hosts don’t talk about literature in “academic-speak,” rather, they engage in discussions that draw viewers in and pique their interests, giving them a taste of what talented writers are doing in today’s contemporary literature. We provide a “place” where one discovers how writing, art, music, history and politics intersect, and where aficionados and artists undergo a needed exchange. There isn’t anything quite like phati’tude Literary TV Show, and it has a public already in need of it. Each day our list grows and we hope that your station will include us in your program line up. phati’tude Literary TV Show is available to your community, and its free!
phati’tude Literary TV Show is currently available on DVD-R. Three 1/2-hour episodes are available on each DVD; with 5 seconds of black at the beginning and at the end of each program. We also have episodes available on individual DVDs, including bars and tone.
If you would like to broadcast phati’tude Literary TV Show, please download and fill out our Download Broadcast Request Form, and email it to us at broadcast[at]phatitude.org. We will process your request as soon as possible and mail you the DVDs, free of charge. Since we mail out requests via media mail, it make take up to 3 weeks for delivery.
Please note that while the DVDs do not need to be returned and you may dispose of them at your discretion, we hope that you will broadcast the episodes often, and in fact, encourage you to keep them as part of your permanent library collection. We do ask, however, to not make copies of and/or distribute those copies of phati’tude Literary TV Show without permission from the Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc.
Thanks for your support, and we look forward to hearing from you!
