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The first Black owned and operated television
station in the United States was WGPR-TV in
Detroit, MIchigan.
Both African AMerican pioneers
Dr. William V. Banks and George
White wanted to communicate with the
African American community through
the screen. Jim Panagos helped
these wonderful gentleman with
the programming and sales departments.
For the first time African Americans
were behind the cameras, microphones,
and they made the stations programming
schedules. This is where most
Midwest African Americans got their
first job in the television field.
WGPR-TV created a new dance
show called "The scene", this happened
to be first African American dance show
aired. This station was the father
to Soul Train in Chicago.
They televised such events as James Brown's Detroit Concert the night the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, TN. This may have saved the city of Detroit from mass destruction.
All information found on this site:
http://www.gibbsmagazine.com/WGPR-TV%20African%20American%20History.htm
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