(The Discovery Times Channel issued the following news release on April 5.)
WHO: Discovery Times Channel, a joint venture between Discovery
Communications, Inc. and The New York Times
WHAT: As announced today, reporter Walt Bogdanich received the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his work on The New York Times enterprise series about the state of the railroad industry in the U.S. This is Bogdanich’s second Pulitzer Prize. To showcase this work, Discovery Times Channel presents an encore presentation of TROUBLE ON THE TRACKS, the companion documentary based on this Pulitzer Prize-winning print series by Bogdanich.
WHEN: Tuesday, April 5 at 10 PM (ET) Additional Airing: Monday, April 11 at 6 PM (ET)
TROUBLE ON THE TRACKS — Tuesday, April 5 at 10 PM (ET) and Monday, April 11 at 6 PM (ET)
Based on the exclusive, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative series for The New York Times by journalist Walt Bogdanich, TROUBLE ON THE TRACKS tells a disturbing story about how some of the nation’s largest railroad corporations have allegedly tried to sidestep blame and avoid liability for hundreds of deadly accidents at railroad crossings.
TROUBLE ON THE TRACKS, a Discovery Times Channel original documentary, encores on Tuesday, April 5 at 10 PM (ET) and Monday, April 11 at 6 PM (ET). An intricate web of railroad tracks crisscrosses America for nearly 200,000 miles, carrying hundreds of thousands of passengers and 40 percent of all the freight in the United States. But on average, one person is killed each day at a railroad crossing — more than 1,600 in the last four years, or twice the number killed in commercial airplane crashes. While deaths are sometimes caused by reckless or negligent pedestrians and motorists, TROUBLE ON THE TRACKS explores the responsibility of the railroads in these fatal accidents.
CONTACT: Reenie Kuhlman of Discovery Times Channel, +1-240-662-2937, or reenie_kuhlmandiscovery.com, or Denise Arrigali, +1-678-580-1245, or darrigalicomcast.net, for Discovery Times Channel. SOURCE Discovery Times Channel