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WOOK-TV

  • ... that in the 1960s, Washington's WOOK-TV produced commercials using African American talent for national advertisers including Budweiser and Safeway? Source (PDF page 79)
    • ALT1:... that upon the demise of Washington, D.C. TV station WFAN-TV, its owner took out a full-page newspaper ad declaring that the station had been "choked to death" by an inability to upgrade its signal? Source (p27)
    • ALT2:... that Washington's D.C. WOOK-TV was the first television station in the United States to orient its programming toward an African American audience? Source (p1, PDF page 9)

Created by Raymie (talk). Self-nominated at 18:41, 6 December 2019 (UTC).