Topic: Live Broadcast

The host introduces the program Tell Democracy number 477 on ACTV, noting that a friend named Linda is operating the control room for the first time. Viewers are encouraged to call in with comments as the host adjusts to being in front of the camera rather than in the control booth.

The hosts address visual static on the broadcast and invite listeners to call in and disagree with their findings. They mock the comfort people find in identifying with the Democratic or Republican establishments, characterizing such affiliations as part of a manufactured reality.

Staff members are actively answering phone lines and working to process archival tapes for online publication. Viewers are encouraged to call the provided 830-area-code phone number to participate in the broadcast or support the archival project.