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proval of teeners. The reason is that these performers do it naturally, with no hesitation or "talking down."
3. Progiams in which teen-agers participate whether it be of the variety or informative type. If it's the variety type it is well to let teen-agers handle the whole show— the selection of material, music and participants. An example would be Junior Junction on ABC. It reflects the enthusiasm of the teen-agers who appear on it and plan each broadcast.
In its format. Junior Junction includes orchestral and vocal music, drama, interviews, audience participation stunts, fashion hints, advice to the lovelorn, celebrity interviews and just about every other kind of feature except weather reports, that are to be found in adult programs.
Variety program creates interest
While the theme of the various programs has been principally on the lighter side, many broadcasts have been devoted to such topics as racial and religious intolerance, reckless driving and accidents, ju\ enile delinquency and other problems of youth. A part of each broadcast is the "glammer drammer" in which the various cast members participate. They have presented such classic plays as 07ie of My Cuspidors is Missi?ig or Who Defies Gravity with a Cavity?
No professional script writer hacks out the Junior Junction scripts. Rather, the youngsters themselves are responsible for the planning of the show and writing of the script. About a week in advance, the cast consults with Harold Stokes, ABC's central di\ision program manager, the only adult who is connected with the show, who merely acts as critic, never dictating to them.
Informative programs fill a need
On the serious side, the Jutiior Town Meeting of the Air or Youth Asks the Government are two excellent examples. In this type of program it is necessary to have an adult who understands teenagers handle the organization of the program.
The Junior Toiun Meeting grew out of the first all-student broadcast oi America's Town Meeting of the Air which originated in Toledo, Ohio, in 1942. The student speakers were chosen for Town Hall by Our Times, a national senior high school current events paper. That broadcast has become an annual event.
Shortly after that first network broadcast, the Toledo schools and WTOL started a series of weekly Junior Town Meetings in which foiu' high school students gave brief statements on a problem and answered questions from a student audience. Other radio stations started
A 25-voice teen-age chorus and three star teen-age vocalists, with plenty of audience participation is the successful formula developed for Abbotts Dairies over WFIL, Philadelphia, Pa. For ten weeks during the summer months the series was piped to WFPG, Atlantic City, N.J., with benefit to vacationers. (For complete story, see Radio Showmanship, June, 1946, p. 196.)
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