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HD Productions

WETA has always been at the forefront of digital television. In 1992, the world's first digital HDTV broadcast originated from WETA's studios and was seen on Capitol Hill.

In 1997, WETA partnered with NHK to cover President Clinton's inauguration ceremonies, parade and galas in high definition. Subsequent WETA high-definition productions focused on preserving national art exhibits on television, such as the Emmy-award winning Impressionists on the Seine and Van Gogh's Van Goghs. Below is a partial list of WETA's high definition programs.

Today, most of WETA's national television productions,co-productions and presentations are produced in high definition, including the nightly broadcasts of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.

  • A Capitol Fourth
  • America at a Crossroads: Kansas to Kandahar: Citizen Soldiers at War
  • Another Day in Paradise
  • Billy Crystal: The Tenth Annual Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize
  • Carrier
  • Cézanne in Provence
  • Everyday Baking from Everyday Food
  • Everyday Food
  • Great Performances in America: Dance in America: "Swan Lake" with American Ballet Theatre
  • Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
  • Impressionists on the Seine
  • In Performance at the White House: The Singer and the Song
  • John Singer Sargent: Outside the Frame
  • Mary Cassatt: A Brush with Independence
  • National Memorial Day Concert
  • Paul Simon: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song
  • Renoir to Rothko: The Eye of Duncan Phillips
  • The Blues: In Performance at the White House
  • The Kennedy Center Presents: A Tribute to Muddy Waters, King of the Blues
  • The Kennedy Center Presents: The 2006 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor: Neil Simon
  • The Legacy of Generations: Pottery by American Indian Women
  • The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo
  • The Mysterious Human Heart
  • The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
  • THE WAR
  • Through Deaf Eyes
  • Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
  • Van Gogh's Van Goghs
  • WETA HD Showcase
  • Woven by the Grandmothers: Navajo Textiles from the 19th Century

Children at St. Rita's School for the Deaf, Cincinnati, Ohio, sign the "Star Spangled Banner," 1918.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Chestnut Trees at the Jas de Bouffan" by Paul Cézanne/Minneapolis Institute of Arts
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo