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Detroit History Podcast: 'The Scene,' A Dance Show on a Pioneering Black-Owned TV Station

October 03, 2021, 9:37 PM
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The Scene, a low-budget upstart and on a pioneering African-American-owned TV station WGPR, Channel 62, put a screenful of Detroit teenagers on the air every day. To some, it was a shocking dance show.

If you were of an age in the 1970s, you watched. Today's podcast gives the back story of a most unlikely -- and important -- piece of the city's cultural history.

-- Tim Kiska, host of "The Detroit History Podcast"


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