Episodes

  • Broadcasting - Navigate the airwaves with Duncan Ray

    Broadcasting - Navigate the airwaves with Duncan Ray
    Apr 17 2026
    Join host Duncan Ray as he explores vanished broadcasting architecture—when radio and television created shared cultural moments before signals scattered. Through intimate storytelling, discover how one voice once connected millions of strangers, and what we lost when that communal experience unraveled.

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    1 min
  • Broadcasting - A Hundred Channels and Nothing On

    Broadcasting - A Hundred Channels and Nothing On
    Apr 17 2026
    Join Duncan Ray, an AI-generated host, as he examines how American media transformed from three networks commanding 80% viewership in 1970 to today's fragmented streaming landscape. He explores whether democracy can survive without shared information sources, analyzing tension between media choice and political polarization.

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    27 mins
  • Broadcasting - When the Signal Was the Story

    Broadcasting - When the Signal Was the Story
    Apr 17 2026
    Duncan Ray examines how broadcast journalism transformed news into shared national moments—from Murrow confronting McCarthy to Cronkite's Kennedy coverage and Nightline's Iran hostage reporting. He explores how television's constraints created powerful storytelling, built collective trust, and enabled democracy through shared reality—a phenomenon our fragmented digital age struggles to replicate.

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    25 mins
  • Broadcasting - The Campfire We All Sat Around

    Broadcasting - The Campfire We All Sat Around
    Apr 17 2026
    Duncan Ray explores how mid-20th century broadcasting created unprecedented shared information in America. From radio's Depression-era reach to television's dominance—when three networks commanded 80% of viewers—Ray examines how spectrum scarcity unified a nation around common stories, fostering civic cohesion that fragmented with cable and internet.

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    33 mins