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Searchable Title (Creator) |
Marj Halperin |
Episode Title |
88 archive #1 -- side 1 |
Synopsis |
Public TV vs Cable: how cable competition from "new" Bravo, Aetworks & E and others impact PBS. Interviews with small stations in LA, A & E president, others. Steppenwolf Theatre feature, with performance clips and interviews with John Mahoney, legendary Chicago Sun-Times critic Glenna Syse, as company plans to move to a new/larger space on Halstead. Black Vaudville: feature on production about 1920s "Theater Owners' Booking Association Tour" or TOBA (also called "tough on black asses"), playing to black crowds. interviews with performers and clips from touring production, "Rollin" with Ronald Stevens and Jay Stewart. Outsider art feature on folk artist Bill Traylor (wish I'd bought some of his art then!). Man-on-the-street interviews about the push to add lights to Wrigley Field. [See GREEN tape #2 for raw interview tape) |
Collection |
Marj Halperin Collection |
Series Title |
Marj Halperin Interviews |
Program Type |
RADIO:Interview |
Running Time |
00:28:12 |
Airdate |
1988 |
People |
Mahoney, John Stevens, Ronald Stewart, Jay Syse, Glenna Traylor, Bill |
Subjects |
"Rollin" "Theater Owners' Booking Association Tour" (TOBA) A & E Black Vaudville Bravo Cable TV Chicago Sun-Times Folk Artist Man-on-the-street Interviews PBS Public TV Steppenwolf Theatre Wrigley Field |
Notes |
T011.1.wav |
RA Number |
DG_temp_00004 |
Other Number |
5 (purple) |