CPTV2/Create

Create Offers the Best of Public Television's
Lifestyle and How-to Programs - 24 Hours a Day



Create, a 24-hour resource for public television's groundbreaking, award-winning lifestyle and "how-to" programming, is carried on CPTV2, Connecticut Public Broadcasting's cable television service. Create is a digital programming service consists of series and specials on cooking, renovating, painting, crafts, travel, gardening and other lifestyle passions.

Saturday Cooking Marathons

Each week, Create features approximately 30 high-profile series and specials, including Saturday cooking marathons. Chefs and cooking experts include Lidia Bastianich (Lidia's Italian-American Kitchen), Chris Kimball (America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated), Daisy Martinez (Daisy Cooks!), Tina Nordström (New Scandinavian Cooking With Tina Nordström), Caprial and John Pence (Caprial and John's Kitchen), Jacques Pépin (Jacques Pépin: Fast Food My Way), Christina Pirello (Christina Cooks), Steven Raichlin (Barbecue University With Steven Raichlin), Ming Tsai (Simply Ming), Charlie Trotter (The Kitchen Sessions With Charlie Trotter), Joanne Weir (Weir Cooking in the City), Dede Wilson (Seasonings With Dede Wilson), and Martin Yan (Martin Yan: Quick & Easy), all offering episodes from their acclaimed cooking shows.

Traveling, Renovating, Gardening, Painting,
Quilting, Woodworking …and More

  • Travel programs include Rudy Maxa (Smart Travel: Europe With Rudy Maxa) and Rick Steves (Rick Steves' Europe Classics) escort viewers around the world.

  • P. Allen Smith (P. Allen Smith's Garden Home) and Michael Weishan and his team from The Victory Garden till the soil.

  • Donna Dewberry (One Stroke Painting With Donna Dewberry) and Bob Ross (The Best of the Joy of Painting) offer painting techniques.

  • Experts offer their unique perspectives on scrap booking (Scrapbook Memories). Sue Hausmann (America Sews With Sue Hausmann) and Nancy Zieman (Sewing With Nancy) inspire those with a love of sewing.

  • Janie Donaldson and Donna Wilder (Quilt Central) provide answers for quilting problems.

  • The stars of This Old House and Ask This Old House are on board, as is Norm Abram (The New Yankee Workshop), as well as Vicki Payne and her daughter Sloan Payne Rutter (For Your Home) - all sharing renovation and home improvement tips.
  • Vicki Payne (Glass With Vicki Payne) also presents her popular series
    about the art of glass working.

 

Watching Create in Connecticut


Comcast Digital Cable

  • Channel 185 on Comcast's digital cable franchises in Branford, Hartford, Lakeville, Plainville, Vernon, Clinton, Danbury, Groton, Middletown and
    New Haven

The Schedule


The Create program schedule is available at www.createtv.com.

About Create

The Create program service features four stacked, six-hour blocks of programs linked by Emmy-nominated interstitials. Each six-hour block features "best of" programming from public television distributors - predominantly titles from APT's extensive how-to/lifestyle library and other well-known titles from the National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).

"Public television is where 'how-to' programming began," said Cynthia Fenneman, president and chief executive officer of American Public Television (APT), the program distributor offering Create in collaboration with Thirteen/WNET New York and WGBH Boston, public television's two largest program suppliers. "With Create, we can showcase viewer favorites, build new audiences and continue the lifelong learning inspired by one of public television's signature programming initiatives."

Support and Funding

Support and funding for Create is provided, in part, by a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) through its Digital Services Fund, upon contract execution. Create, in addition to providing viewers with strong programming, is designed to help meet the digital multicast-generated demand for additional content across the public broadcasting system. It is the first public television digital channel to launch since the historic digital television carriage agreement with the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA). Create is produced and distributed by APT, Thirteen/WNET, and WGBH Boston in association with NETA and PBS.