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New Orleans TV: The Golden Age

New Orleans TV: The Golden Age

Trace the history of local television from 1948, the year the city’s first station – WDSU-TV – signed on the air, to 1972, when the station was sold to an out-of-town owner and another station, WWL-TV, became dominant. Narrated by Angela Hill.

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New Orleans TV: The Golden Age is a local public television program presented by WYES

New Orleans TV: The Golden Age

New Orleans TV: The Golden Age

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Special | 57m 45s | Trace the history of New Orleans' local television from 1948. (57m 45s)

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