We Interrupt This Broadcast

By: Brian Williams
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  • Summary

  • From six-time New York Times bestselling author Joe Garner, and based on his groundbreaking multimedia book, “We Interrupt This Broadcast,” comes a 12-episode, audio docu-series hosted by broadcast legend Bill Kurtis, and narrated by NBC’s Brian Williams. Each episode unfolds with the brisk pace and tone of a thriller while presenting an in-depth look into the reporting of, and reaction to, the extraordinary events that became the benchmarks of the American story. It is said that “breaking news” is the first draft of history. “We Interrupt This Broadcast” marks the first time the stories of these historical broadcast news events are told exclusively by the broadcasters and TV journalists whose work created those drafts in real-time.

    Credits

    Hosted by Bill Kurtis & Narrated by Brian Williams

    Created, produced and directed by Joe Garner

    Written by Mark Rowland, Brian Williams, Colin Madine, and Joe Garner

    Sound engineering and design by Paul Bahr, Peachtree Sound

    Additional audio engineering provided by Beowulf Rochlen, Two Squared Media Productions

    Website and graphics designed by George Vasilopoulos, 921 Associates

    Executive Producers are Brian Williams, Ron Hartenbaum, Scott Calka, and Joe Garner

    A very special thank you to Donna LaPietra and Diane Anello

    A Production of i4 Media Ventures, LLC

    www.weinterruptthisbroadcast.org
    © i4 Media Ventures
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    Trailer
    Jun 18 2021

    Coming July 20th, 2021

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    2 mins
  • The Hindenburg explosion – “Oh, the Humanity!” – (May 6, 1937)

    The Hindenburg explosion – “Oh, the Humanity!” – (May 6, 1937)
    Jul 20 2021

    The Hindenburg was an engineering masterpiece, an airship as large and as grand as the Titanic - and as doomed. On May 6, 1937, a young radio reporter named Herbert Morrison was on hand to record the Hindenburg’s arrival at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Instead, Morrison helped radio to broadcast one of modern history’s great disasters, as it suddenly unfolded in all its terrible glory. But even as Morrison’s eyewitness report chronicled the end of one era, it signaled the beginning of another - an age in which electronic media would routinely report shocking events in the moment that they occurred. In addition to the story of the Hindenburg, this serves as a preview of Season 1.

    Broadcast audio courtesy of Marc Garabedian, Mark 56 Records

    Contributors:

    • Herbert Morrison
    • Dr. Michael Biel, renowned broadcast historian.
    • Mike Freedman, President of National Press Club, Professor at GWU –
    • Don Hewitt, former CBS News producer (Garner Audio Archive)
    • Aaron Brown, former CNN anchor(Garner Audio Archive)
    • John Montone, former reporter for 1010 WINS Radio, New York


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    32 mins
  • D-Day Invasion “…about to embark up on a great crusade” – (June 6, 1944)

    D-Day Invasion “…about to embark up on a great crusade” – (June 6, 1944)
    Jul 20 2021

    It was the biggest overseas military operation in the biggest war in world history - and its best kept secret as well. D Day demonstrated radio’s ability to carry news with clarity and immediacy. And while reporters like Robert Trout, Edward R. Murrow, and Richard C. Hottelet became household names, it was the ingenuity of an NBC stringer reporter named Wright Bryan, who finagled his way aboard a flight of paratroopers and became the first to report the landing. 

    Contributors:

    • Howard K. Smith, correspondent, anchor, and original member of “Murrow’s boys”
    • Daniel Schorr, three-time Emmy winning correspondent, Senior News Analyst for National Public Radio, and part of the later generation of “Murrow's Boys.”
    • Michael Freedman, Former General Manager of CBS Radio Network News. Professorial Lecturer, GWU School of Media and Public Affairs; Immediate Past President of The National Press Club
    • Dr. Michael Biel, Renowned broadcast historian.


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    33 mins

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