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Frank MorrowAlternative Views #549: THE MAGIC DAY (1996)

A snapshot of May 9, 1951 is shown, revealing how different the world is
today from what it was over four decades ago. The medium though which this
is presented is "Central Day" on KVOO, the annual day during which the Tulsa
Central high school students took over all the production duties of the most
powerful radio station in town. Because this was during the last days of
the "Golden Days of Radio" when stations had large staffs which produce
their own local programs of a wide variety of types, the students performed
all the announcing, news and sportscasting, and writing, as well as
performing in all the programs emphasizing music, drama, comedy, and
variety. Each news and sports story and every commercial indicate how the
world has changed in retrospect. It also shows how very talented the
students were.

Audio recorded May 9, 1951
Copyright May, 1996

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This movie is part of the collection: Alternative Views

Producer: Frank Morrow
Production Company: Alternative Information Network
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Language: English
Keywords: progressive media; alternative media; public access television; Frank Morrow; Doug Kellner; Austin Community Television; radio; 1950s; KVOO; Golden Days of Radio; local programing; students

Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States

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Co-hosts: Frank Morrow and Doug Kellner
Researcher: Mike Jankowski
Technical adviser: Brian Koenigsdorf