Horizon is a current events television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 program produced by KAET

KAET

KAET is a full-service television station in Phoenix, Arizona, owned by the Arizona Board of Regents and operated by Arizona State University as a PBS member station. It broadcasts in digital on VHF channel 8 in the Phoenix metropolitan area from its transmitter on South Mountain...

 in Phoenix, Arizona

Phoenix, Arizona

Phoenix is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the sixth most populated city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,445,632 people according to the official 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data...

. It is one of the two locally produced news program for KAET, the other being its sister program, Horizonte.

Format

Horizon has two formats: a normal, in-depth news discussion and interviews on current hot-button issues from Monday to Thursday, with a special "Journalists' Roundtable" every Friday that features a panel of local radio and print journalists, who will discuss the issues of the work week that has passed by.

Production

The show is produced at KAET's studios in the Cronkite Building on Arizona State University

Arizona State University

Arizona State University is a public research university located in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area of the State of Arizona...

's downtown Phoenix campus. Student employees are involved in production aspects of the show and work under the guidance of trained journalists with experience in the area.

Present day

In January 2007, long time host Michael Grant

Michael Grant (television)

Michael Murray Grant is an attorney and former host of the long-running Arizona Public Television program Horizon...

 departed from the show after 25 years of service. A search for a new host began immediately. This ended in November, when local television/radio personality Ted Simons was chosen as host.