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Oklahoma Gardening, a television program produced by the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service, Departments of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture and Agricultural Communications, is tied for the longest running consecutively taped gardening program in the nation. The program airs weekly on Oklahoma's PBS affiliate and ranks as the top locally produced program in the viewing region, with a dedicated weekly audience of 150,000 gardening enthusiasts. As an Extension constituent, Oklahoma Gardening is successful at program identification, development, and evaluation—a new twist for most television programs. In addition to television programming, educational opportunities are available through tours of the 5-acre studio gardens located in the Oklahoma Botanical Gardens and Arboretum on the Oklahoma State Univ. campus where most of the shows are taped. Visitors touring the gardens increased 204% from the previous year. Extension fundamentals of l) program development and coordination, 2) volunteer training and activities, and 3) community and business involvement and support can be implemented effectively into television programming as shown by Oklahoma Gardening's productive 20-year history!