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Say Brother; Candid Look at Boston’s Largest Black Radio Station, A
Part of Say Brother.
12/10/1976
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- Series
- Say Brother
- Program
- Candid Look at Boston’s Largest Black Radio Station, A
- Program Number
709
- Series Description
Say Brother is WGBH's longest running public affairs television program by, for and about African Americans, and is now known as Basic Black. Since its inception in 1968, Say Brother has featured the voices of both locally and nationally known African American artists, athletes, performers, politicians, professionals, and writers including: Muhammad Ali, Maya Angelou, Thomas Atkins, Amiri Baraka, Doris Bunte, Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, Louis Farrakhan, Nikki Giovanni, Odetta Gordon, Henry Hampton, Benjamin Hooks, Jesse Jackson, Hubie Jones, Mel King, Eartha Kitt, Elma Lewis, Haki Madhubuti, Wallace D. Muhammad, Charles Ogletree, Babatunde Olatunji, Byron Rushing, Owusu Sadaukai, and Sonia Sanchez. Series release date: 7/15/1968
- Program Description
Program focuses on Gretchen Wortham's recent appointment to Station Manager of WILD Radio, Boston. Host Barbara Barrow and Wortham discuss the personal and professional events that led to her appointment, equal employment and FCC regulations, listener/viewer feedback, women in the workplace, African American radio programming, advertising, and other issues related to WILD. Additional segments include the "Say Brother News" with anchors Eric Sampedro and Leah Fletcher, an excerpt from a film on early indigenous peoples in North America, and the "Community Calendar."
- Duration
00:30:00
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- WILD (Radio station : Boston, MA)
- Affirmative action programs
- Wortham, Gretchen
- Television broadcasting of news
- African Americans in television broadcasting
- African American radio stations
- Businesswomen
- African Americans in radio broadcasting
- African American women
- Sex discrimination against women
- Genres
- Magazine
- Topics
- Race and Ethnicity
- Creators
- Moore, Melvin (Associate Producer)
- Barbara Barrow (Producer)
- White, Conrad (Director)
- Contributors
- Sampedro, Eric (Reporter)
- Demers, Leo (Videotape Assembly)
- Johnson, Lenita (Intern)
- DeVitt, Doug (Videotape Assembly)
- Wilson, Bob (Stage Manager)
- Mahard, Fran (Scenic Design)
- Fletcher, Leah (Reporter)
- Balhatchet, Tom (Audio Editor)
- Buccheri, Ron (Switcher)
- Clarke, Brian (Assistant To The Producer)
- St. Onge, David (Videotape Recordist)
- Merhar, Milan (Videotape Recordist)
- Floyd, Michael (Camera)
- Stewart, Aubrey (Video)
- Yang, Eileen (Researcher)
- Johnson, Nat (Audio)
- Cross, June (Production Assistant)
- Valdes, Mario (Researcher)
- Wareham, Skip (Camera)
- Barrow-Murray, Barbara (Host)
- Lewis, Webster (Theme Music)
- MacDonald, Greg (Camera)
- Correia, Dennis (Video)
- Songai, Jahid (Intern)
- Smith, Kathy (Switcher)
- Horne, Danny (Intern)
- Hill, Rebecca (Fashion Consultant)
- Norton, Chas (Lighting)
- Mackles, Gene (Graphic Designer)
- Bordett, Bruce (Stage Manager)
- Marshall, Carolyn (Production Secretary)
- Plausse, John (Lighting)
- Holden, Dick (Camera)
- Citation
- Chicago: “Say Brother; Candid Look at Boston’s Largest Black Radio Station, A,” 12/10/1976, GBH Archives, accessed April 19, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_D68307661A0642559B54D419768A8FD7.
- MLA: “Say Brother; Candid Look at Boston’s Largest Black Radio Station, A.” 12/10/1976. GBH Archives. Web. April 19, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_D68307661A0642559B54D419768A8FD7>.
- APA: Say Brother; Candid Look at Boston’s Largest Black Radio Station, A. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_D68307661A0642559B54D419768A8FD7