Nichelle Nichols: Next on TVC

Actress, singer, voice artist and author Nichelle Nichols will join us this weekend on TV CONFIDENTIAL, airing Aug. 25-28 at the following times and venues:

Share-a-Vision Radio
San Francisco Bay Area
Friday 8/25
7pm ET, 4pm PT
10pm ET, 7pm PT
Click on the Listen Live button at KSAV.org
Use the TuneIn app on your smartphone and type in KSAV
Hear us on the KSAV channel on CX Radio Brazil
Hear us on your cell phone or landline number by dialing 712-432-4235

Indiana Talks
Marion, IN
Saturday 8/26
8pm ET, 5pm PT
Sunday 8/27
10am ET, 7am PT
Click on the player at IndianaTalks.com
or use the TuneIn app on your smartphone and type in Indiana Talks

WON 920 The Apple
Brooklyn, NY
Saturday 8/26
10pm ET, 7pm PT
Streaming at www.920won.caster.fm

KSCO AM-1080 and FM-104.1
San Jose, Santa Cruz and Salinas, CA
KOMY AM-1340
La Selva Beach and Watsonville, CA
Sunday 8/27
9am ET, 6am PT
Also streaming at KSCO.com
or use the TuneIn app on your smartphone and type in KSCO

CROC Radio
Kimberley, British Columbia, Canada
Sunday 8/27
1pm ET, 10am PT
Streaming at CROCRadio.com
or use the TuneIn app on your smartphone and type in CROC

KHMB AM-1710
KHMV-LP 100.9 FM
Half Moon Bay, CA
Sunday 8/27
9pm PT
Monday 8/28
Midnight ET
Click on the Listen Live button at KHMBRadio.com

RadioSlot.com
San Francisco, CA
Monday 8/28
10pm ET, 7pm PT
with replays Tuesday thru Friday at 10pm ET, 7pm PT
Click on the Talk Slot button at RadioSlot.com

PWRNetwork
A member of the Truli Media Group
Ann Arbor, MI ~ Boston, MA ~ Chicago, IL ~ Melrose, FL ~ Los Angeles, CA
Various times throughout the week
on the Entertainment Channel on PWRNetwork.com
and the PWR channel on TuneIn

Known around the world as Lieutenant Uhura, communications officer of the Starship Enterprise on the original Star Trek and the first six Star Trek movies, Nichelle Nichols is not only the first African-American woman to have a continuing role on a prime time network television series, but a vital role model and inspiration to three generations of African-American girls and African-American women.

What you may not know about Nichelle Nichols is that, long before Star Trek, she was an accomplished singer and dancer who toured the U.S., Canada and Europe with both the Duke Ellington and the Lionel Hampton bands, while her accomplishments beyond Star Trek include a recruitment effort on behalf of NASA that resulted in more than 8,000 applicants in just six months, including more than 1,600 female applicants and more than 1,000 applicants from minorities. Among Nichelle’s most notable recruits: Guion Bluford, the first African-American astronaut; Sally Ride, the first female American astronaut; Judith Resnik, one of the original set of female astronauts, who tragically died during the launch of the Challenger on January 28, 1986; and Ronald McNair, the second African-American astronaut, and who also perished in the Challenger accident.

We will talk about Nichelle’s life and career before, during and after Star Trek when she joins us during our second hour.

For our listeners in the San Francisco Bay Area, Nichelle Nichols will be appearing at Comic Con San Francisco, Friday, Sept. 1 through Sunday, Sept. 3 at the Moscone Center West, 800 Howard St. in San Francisco. Nichelle is scheduled to appear all three days. For tickets and more information, go to SanFranComicCon.com. You can also follow Nichelle Nichols on Facebook and on Twitter.

And speaking of Space: The Final Frontier, Phil Gries will join us in our first hour for a look back at how network TV news covered the Mercury Friendship 7 mission, the 4-hour, 52-minute flight by John Glenn on Feb. 20, 1962 that made him the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth, and just the fifth person overall to navigate space successfully. Some of you may remember watching coverage of the Friendship 7 mission on television while you were in school—a rare occurrence, indeed, but at the same time an early indication of how the powers of television can unify the country through a single event.

But the Friendship 7 mission, not to mention the coverage of the event by CBS News, was not without its challenges. We’ll talk about that with Phil, plus we’ll play rarely heard audio highlights of the coverage itself, during our first hour.

TV CONFIDENTIAL: A radio talk show about television
Fri 7pm ET and PT on Share-a-Vision Radio, KSAV.org and CX Radio Brazil
Sat 8pm ET, 5pm PT and Sun 6pm ET, 3pm PT on Indiana Talks (Marion, IN)
Sat 10pm ET, 7pm PT on WON 920 The Apple (Brooklyn, NY)
Sun 9am ET, 6am PT KSCO-AM 1080 (San Jose, Santa Cruz and Salinas, CA)
Sun 9am ET, 6am PT KOMY-AM 1340 (La Selva Beach and Watsonville, CA)
Sun 1pm ET, 10am PT CROC Radio (British Columbia, Canada)
Sun 9pm PT, Mon Mid ET on KHMB-AM and FM (Half Moon Bay, CA)
Mon 10pm ET, 7pm PT on The Radio Slot Network (San Francisco, CA)
Replays various times throughout the week on the Entertainment Channel at PWRNetwork
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