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A special edition of Southern Arizona's news magazine airs Friday night at 9 p.m. and features leading economic advisors; viewers invited to send in questions about the future of Arizona's economy.

TUCSON, Ariz. (January 27, 2010) - Arizona Illustrated, Southern Arizona's news magazine, is airing a special program featuring two leading economic advisors and their assessments of the current financial condition of one of the fastest growing states in the union.

"Arizona Illustrated: The State of Arizona's Economy" will air Friday, January 29 at 9 p.m. on PBS-HD Channel 6 from Arizona Public Media. Guests for this special are University of Arizona economists Marshall J. Vest and Gerald Swanson. Vest is director of the Economic and Business Research Center at the University of Arizona, and is a leading authority on Arizona’s economy. He has consulted both the governor and Arizona lawmakers on economic issues. Swanson is professor of economics for the Thomas R. Brown Chair in Economic Education at the UA Eller College of Management.


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Viewers are encouraged to submit questions about the state of Arizona's economy -- where it has been historically and where it is today -- to azillustrated@azpublicmedia.org Deadline for submitting questions for "The State of Arizona's Economy" special is noon on Thursday, January 28.

Arizona Illustrated host Bill Buckmaster is joined by Jim Nintzel of the Tucson Weekly, Mark Evans of TucsonCitizen.com and Linda Valdez of the Arizona Republic for the special episode, which airs at 9 p.m.

Arizona Illustrated, Southern Arizona’s news magazine, airs weeknights at 6:30 p.m. on PBS-HD Channel 6 and again at 9 p.m. on PBS World Channel 27.3 (Cox 83 and Comcast 203). More information -- including streaming videos of past segments and guests -- can be found on the Arizona Illustrated web page at http://tv.azpm.org/kuat/arizonaillustrated

About Arizona Public Media

Arizona Public Media® is a member-supported non-profit media organization of The University of Arizona and is a registered trademark of the Arizona Board of Regents. Arizona Public Media (AZPM) station KUAT Channel 6 offers Channel 6-1 PBS-HD; 6-2 V-me (en español); 6-3 Create; and station KUAS Channel 27 offers Channel 27-1 PBS-HD; 27-2 PBS Kids; 27-3 PBS World. AZPM offers the UA Channel (Cox 116/Comcast 76), classical music station KUAT-FM 90.5/89.7; NPR affiliate KUAZ 1550AM/89.1 FM; and the Ahora channel (en español) on KUAZ-HD2. AZPM also produces award-winning original local programming from its digital studios on the campus of the University of Arizona in Tucson, Ariz.

More information on programming, community events and other AZPM offerings can be found at www.AZPM.org

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