The Icons That Built America Season 1 Episode 3 - Shock Jocks

Airdate: 2024-Jul-07

Episode summary:

For decades, the radio world has been dominated by top-40 music, while the DJ is expected to simply shut up and play the next track. But in the 1970s, two maverick broadcasters take a different approach, challenging their bosses, the rules and polite society to help create a new genre: talk radio. One will launch an all-out war with his own station as he goes to shocking lengths in a bid to for the top spot in New York, while the other will launch a political revolution on the airwaves in an effort to save AM radio from extinction.

About The Icons That Built America series:

The Icons That Built America celebrates the innovators, trailblazers, and risk-takers who pushed boundaries and redefined what it means to be a per...Show more >