'Airplay: The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio,' Documentary [View all]

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- Trailer, 1-hour film airing on PBS Channels & the World Channel (worlchannel.org).*Check schedules.
https://worldchannel.org/schedule/2021-11-27/

The full film covers the popularity and rise of new rock music beginning in the mid- 1950s: Elvis to Chuck Berry and many others; early opposition in the conservative post-war Eisenhower era and the Red Scare and McCarthy period to the new 'kids music,' R & B and Black music which many considered decadent.

The zenith years of rock radio and its personalities, mid- 1950s through the 1970s. Well known colorful DJ's- disc jockeys on stations across the US played records and promoted new music by artists that people never would have known about otherwise.

The 80s, impacts of the Reagan administration's changes in media regulation led to corporate consolidation of radio stations, mainly on the right.
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