End of Year Pitch-A-Thon

HISTORY This Week

The HISTORY® Channel

History, Education, Society & Culture

4.6 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

December 26, 2022. For the first time, a behind-the-scenes look at a key part of the History This Week episode-making process. Today, we’re inviting our listeners to pull up a chair and join one of our pitch sessions. Usually, an editor consults with the team to choose which story we'll be telling in a given episode. But this time… you'll decide! So listen, vote, and maybe win some History This Week swag. Tune in to learn how we make history.

All voting should be sent to our email, [email protected]. Remember, your options are Julia (Henry Ward Beecher), Emma (Axis Sally), Corinne (Jane Fonda), and Ben (CD-ROM). Please only include the producer's name in the subject line. We do not accept any unsolicited ideas or pitch material. Thanks for a great year of listening!

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0:00.0	The History Channel, original podcast.
0:04.0	My push for this next week is January 22nd, 1973.
0:09.6	So, yeah, the date is January 3rd, 1924.
0:12.8	January 2nd, 1920.
0:14.0	January 13th, 19...
0:16.0	January 7th, 19...
0:17.0	January 11th, 1922.
0:19.0	It's history this week. I'm Sally Helm.
0:22.0	You've started a lot of dates thrown at you.
0:25.0	And you will hear two of those dates again
0:28.0	and listen to our episodes next month.
0:30.0	But the rest of those dates are tied to stories
0:34.0	that you will not hear on history this week.
0:37.0	They were pitched by our producers
0:39.0	to become episodes of the show, but didn't win out.
0:42.0	To bring you behind the scenes a little,
0:44.0	here is roughly how we pick our topics for the show.
0:47.0	Every couple of weeks, our producers get together
0:49.0	for a pitch session.
0:51.0	They tell each other stories that they think
0:53.0	could make good episodes.
0:55.0	It's when radar signals bounced off the moon.
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