Weekend TV: Rosen talks health care, Soto discusses gun control
In Orlando television’s public-affairs programming this weekend:
Harris Rosen talks Greg Warmoth on to
at 12:30 p.m. Sunday on WFTV-Channel 9. Rosen focuses on the Osceola County School District’s entering a medical service center agreement with RosenCare, the healthcare system owned and operated by Rosen for Rosen Hotels & Resorts. RosenCare will administer the school district’s Center for Employee Health starting in early October. The center serves Osceola schools employees and dependents enrolled in the county’s health-care plan. This agreement is the first of its kind for RosenCare. Other guests are Clarence Thacker, chairman of the Osceola County School Board, and Kenneth Aldridge and Ashley Bacot, Rosen’s two top members leading the healthcare initiative.
Jason Siegel, CEO of the Greater Orlando Sports Commission, talks to Ryan Elijah on
at 10 a.m. Saturday on WOFLChannel 35. Siegel explores the business side of sports, including renovating Camping World Stadium and pursuing NCAA football playoff games. (The Sentinel has a content-sharing agreement with WOFL.)
Congressman Darren Soto, D-Kissimmee, talks to Justin Warmoth on
at 8 a.m. Sunday on WKMGChannel 6. Soto discusses what he’d like to see happen with gun control legislation after mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. Other topics include the latest on Puerto Rico and how Florida farmers are being affected by the Trump administration’s tariffs on Mexico.
Congressman Michael Waltz, R-St. Augustine, will discuss election security in Florida on
at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. Sunday on Spectrum News 13. PolitiFact Truth-O-Meter will rate a claim made by presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., about income equality.
examines alternative education programs to diversify Florida’s workforce at 11:30 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. Sunday on Spectrum News 13. The guests are Florida Commissioner of Education Richard Corcoran and Ken Lawson, executive director of the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity.
explores disparities in maternal health and infant mortality rates in Florida at 8:30 p.m. Friday on WUCF TV. Host Nancy Alvarez of WFTV welcomes Naseem Miller of the Orlando Sentinel; Tammie Fields of Spectrum News 13; and Abe Aboraya of 90.7 WMFE. The panel discusses how Central Florida schools take into account the mental health of their students. The program looks into WMFE’s investigation of the suicide of a Transportation Security Administration officer in Orlando. The program will not repeat Sunday morning because WUCF is in its August pledge drive. But you can find the program at wucf.org/newsnight.