Watch El Paso History on the Texas Channel

From mural "Pass of the North" by Tom Lea

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El Paso history documentaries to air statewide on

Time Warner Cable for Texas history month

March 7, 2011 -- Capstone Productions Inc. announces that three of its El Paso TV documentaries will be shown on Time Warner Cable’s Texas Channel in March 2011 to mark Texas history month. The programs have a potential audience of more than one-million homes across Texas.

The broadcasts are part of Capstone Production’s just-released marketing campaign designed to bring attention to El Paso’s history and heritage: Texas History Begins in El Paso ™.

"Tom Lea’s El Paso" will air Monday, March 14 at 6 p.m. Mountain Time; Saturday, March 19 at 9 a.m. Mountain Time; and Wednesday, March 23 at 8 p.m. Mountain Time.

"El Paso Visitors TV" will air Tuesday, March 15 at 6 p.m. Mountain Time; Sunday, March 20 at 9:30 a.m. Mountain Time; and Monday, March 21 at 8 p.m. Mountain Time.

"Gunfights of the Old West" will air Thursday, March 17 at 6 p.m. Mountain Time; Saturday, March 19 at 10:30 a.m. Mountain Time; and Wednesday, March 23 at 7:30 p.m. Mountain Time.

The programs will be shown on Texas Channel, which is available to 1.1 million Time Warner Cable digital cable customers in these cities: Austin on Channel 888; Corpus Christi on Channel 100; Dallas on Channel 185; El Paso on Channel 24; Laredo on Channel 888; the Rio Grande Valley on Channel 888; San Antonio on Channel 888; and Waco-Temple-Killeen on Channel 888.

The documentaries are produced by El Paso’s Capstone Productions Inc., which specializes in El Paso history programs. The statewide cable casts are funded in part by grants from the Hunt Family Foundation, of El Paso; and Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

"Tom Lea’s El Paso" features an interview with the famous Texas artist and author recorded when he was 92 years old. Tom shared his memories of his boyhood El Paso when Pancho Villa was equipping his Mexican Revolution armies from El Paso. Tom tells how he was influenced by the Southwest as he became a world-famous artist. The one-hour program is illustrated with archival photographs and film of old El Paso.

"El Paso Visitors TV" is a one-hour program that takes the viewer all over the El Paso area to see the history and happenings a visitor might like to visit.　It is narrated and features fast-paced visits to museums and historic sites.

"Gunfights of the Old West" re-enacts five infamous Old West gunfights at their original locations in El Paso. The half-hour program is narrated by Texas author Leon Metz, with reenactments by Six Guns & Shady Ladies.

Capstone Productions Inc. is an El Paso-based broadcast production company that produces heritage TV and radio programs about the El Paso area. For details about the programs, visit www.ephistory.com.

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