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Thursday, May 21, 2026

Notes from around town

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 Downtown Troy is starting to experience a rebirth. In recent weeks, we've seen the Denim Library open in the former First Class Laundro...

On The Air: Pop Culture Jeopardy! (2024)

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 This was inevitable. As Sony continues to expand the Jeopardy!  franchise, the newest spinoff is available for online streaming. Pop Cultur...
Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Videos of Summer: The River of Dreams (1993)

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 "The River of Dreams" is the title track from Billy Joel's 1993 CD. Look quick, and you'll see Billy's then-wife, Ch...
Tuesday, May 19, 2026

An era soon to end: CBS Radio News (1927-2026)

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 CBS owners Paramount-Skydance claim that they needed to terminate the radio news department because of how today's society receives the...

Forgotten TV: Bobby Vinton's Rock 'n' Rollers (1978)

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  The Bobby Vinton Show  had ended its 3 year run. "The Polish Prince", whose half hour variety show had been packaged by Chuck Ba...
Monday, May 18, 2026

Classic TV: Alcoa Premiere, aka Fred Astaire's Premiere Theatre (1961)

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  Alcoa Premiere  was an anthology series in the truest sense of the word. The series gave birth to a trio of series, McHale's Navy, Cha...

When life makes art a reality. Yes, Virginia, there really is a WKRP

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 Eight years after his passing, Hugh Wilson's vision, if you will, of a rock station in Cincinnati has come to life. Wilson created WKRP...
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I have an appreciation for the "classics" of my youth, particularly Saturday morning cartoons, and reruns of old time radio that made a sort-of comeback in the 70's.
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