Detroit´s New Dance Show
The New Dance Show was a television show in Detroit which ran in the late-1980s to mid-1990s on WGPR-TV 62 (now a CBS affiliate known as WWJ-TV). The first Black owned and operated television station in the United States WGPR-TV in Detroit. WGPR –TV Detroit, Michigan is the Black grandfather or grandmother of all other African American Network programming in America.
African Americans watch television literally each and everyday. Each one of us has their own favorite show, favorite network, favorite actress and actor.
Hosted by R.J. Watkins, The New Dance Show was a low-budget local version of Soul Train and featured regular dancers including a man who dressed like a vampire and wore a cape and a woman who dressed as a boxer. The show was the successor to The Scene which aired during the late-1970s and early-1980s on the same station
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