Detroit Female GM Auto Dealer to Be Featured on PBS 'Small Business School'

    DETROIT, Aug. 16 Pamela Rodgers, owner of Rodgers
Chevrolet will be featured this fall on the PBS program "Small Business
School".  Rodgers, an African-American female auto dealer, has a successful
Chevrolet dealership, in Woodhaven, MI.  Rodgers grew up in Detroit and
continues to make the Metro-area her home.  She has been very successful in
the automotive industry as well as a dynamic role model to young people in the
community.
    The Los Angeles based host, Hattie Bryant of "Small Business School" and
her production crew are in Detroit, Thursday and Friday filming Rodgers in her
hometown and at the dealership as Rodgers discusses the commitments she has to
her business and her community.
    The PBS special "Small Business School" airs weekly on PBS stations across
the country.  It is ranked the number one small business broadcast across the
country.  Since 1994, with over 150 half-hour productions, today "Small
Business School" is the only weekly television series about "how-to" start,
run and grow a business as told by owners.  Small Business School: weekly,
half-hour TV show is seen on 200+ PBS-member stations and is an online school
for and about small business owners who " ... create jobs, create wealth, and
make the world a better place."  According to Bryant, they call these people
the New American Heroes, today's pioneers.  The Weekly TV Show on most PBS-
member stations globally every day at 1:30 p.m. or 4:30 p.m. on seven USIA
WorldNet satellites into every principal city of the world.  Check local
listings this fall on PBS for Pamela Rodgers of Rodgers Chevrolet on "Small
Business School".

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