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Ten O'Clock News; Provincetown, USA

07/01/1990

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Series

Ten O'Clock News

Program

Provincetown, USA

Series Description

NIGHTLY NEWS WITH CHRISTOPHER LYDON AND CARMEN FIELDS Began January 1976. Replaced evening news show EVENING COMPASS. Original host: Steve Nevas. Other anchors, Christopher Lydon (1977-91) and Gail Harris (1983). In 1980 - hour long. Ended in 1991.

(PREDECESSORS: Louis Lyons began news operations at WGBH in 1952. The News at 10 began in 1966. The Reporters premiered in 1970. The Evening Compass started in 1974.) Series release date: 1/1976

Program Description

Filmmaker Seth Rolbein (Vietnam Present Tense ) spent a year in Provincetown tracing the lives of four residents as the seasons changed - a fourth-generation Portuguese-American, an AIDS activist, a conceptual artist, and a Provincetown High School student. This documentary follows them through a year's varied events in the lively Cape village...from the blessing of the fleet to an ACT-UP march.

Duration

00:57:33

Asset Type

Broadcast program

Media Type

Video

Genres

News Report

Topics

News

Citation

Chicago: “Ten O'Clock News; Provincetown, USA,” 07/01/1990, GBH Archives, accessed February 27, 2021, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_EADBF082D03E4B02A2F38AFF1A8DB28A.

MLA: “Ten O'Clock News; Provincetown, USA.” 07/01/1990. GBH Archives. Web. February 27, 2021. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_EADBF082D03E4B02A2F38AFF1A8DB28A>.

APA: Ten O'Clock News; Provincetown, USA. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_EADBF082D03E4B02A2F38AFF1A8DB28A