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Broadcast Wars Ep 1: Just the Facts

Season 1

Stanley Hubbard's venerable KSTP-TV is challenged by Dave Moore and upstart WCCO in the late 1960s.

Stanley E. Hubbard is an early pioneer in radio and television, and KSTP is the top local TV news for decades. That is, until a fresh-faced Dave Moore and his team launch a new kind of newscast at WCCO that ignites a fierce war for ratings which still rages today. Women and people of color fight their way into smoky, insular newsrooms, proving themselves to everyone, and paving the way for others.

AIR DATE 11/26/24

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About Broadcast Wars

There was a time when people would stop what they were doing and watch the local evening news. Twin Cities PBS’ Broadcast Wars, co-produced with Cathy Wurzer, takes us back a half century to the era when ratings battles were fierce, women and people of color were making their presence known, technology was rapidly evolving, and local TV news was as vital as it was entertaining.

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