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For as long as I can remember, I've been fascinated by the history of American broadcasting. I don't know that I could tell you precisely why. I think it has something to do with the bygone ubiquity of broadcast media, lost in my lifetime's era of infinitely diverse on-demand content. There's something charming about such simple programming ingraining itself into individuals' lives, and into collective cultural conscience at scale.

In 2018, as a 15-year-old with an evident excess of free time, I turned one facet of this fascination into a YouTube documentary. I chronicled the history of UPN, the ill-fated American broadcast network, which had lacked a comprehensive online retrospective. In assessing its failure, I also investigated the similarly ill-fated 1999 Viacom/CBS merger, whose managerial choices contributed to UPN's closure.

Later, I made similar long-form retrospectives on Wheel of Fortune's Pat Sajak, long-running game show Family Feud, and a regretfully-obscure morning show called Breakfast Time. For the lattermost, I had the opportunity to interview Tom Bergeron and Laurie Gelman, which I still regard as one of the coolest experiences of my life.

Recently, I have prioritized other endeavors in my life, so I have not released a new video since late 2022. However, I have not retired, and I do hope to tell more stories in the future.