Sputnik Satellite Radio Show. Season 1
Storytelling
A 1950's Fiction based on facts story.
Follow the backstory and timeline of three main characters from the musical dramedy; Radio Girl and how they converge to create the Sputnik Satellite Radio Show on WNYK NICK 1150 Radio in 1957. Nick Nickolas is the unabashed bygone era big band singer turned radio DJ and station Manager of WNYK 1150 Radio. He is a redeemed anti-hero who struggles his whole life just to win. Daryl Lane designs and builds WNYK 1150 Radio. He is a wounded WW1 veteran and former addict who becomes a multi-millionaire with his patented radio components and transistors. Tracy Albright suffers a head injury at a young age and struggles as a neurodivergent. She is a prodigy of radio wizard and compassionate elder Daryl and is the young creator of the wildly popular Sputnik Satellite Radio Show.
Radio Girl starts as national celebrity in season 1. She morphs into an International Super Star in season 2.
Location:
Canada
Genres:
Storytelling
Description:
A 1950's Fiction based on facts story. Follow the backstory and timeline of three main characters from the musical dramedy; Radio Girl and how they converge to create the Sputnik Satellite Radio Show on WNYK NICK 1150 Radio in 1957. Nick Nickolas is the unabashed bygone era big band singer turned radio DJ and station Manager of WNYK 1150 Radio. He is a redeemed anti-hero who struggles his whole life just to win. Daryl Lane designs and builds WNYK 1150 Radio. He is a wounded WW1 veteran and former addict who becomes a multi-millionaire with his patented radio components and transistors. Tracy Albright suffers a head injury at a young age and struggles as a neurodivergent. She is a prodigy of radio wizard and compassionate elder Daryl and is the young creator of the wildly popular Sputnik Satellite Radio Show. Radio Girl starts as national celebrity in season 1. She morphs into an International Super Star in season 2.
Language:
English
Contact:
7789917971
Email:
blairsongs@gmail.com
Episodes
Story Synopsis
3/13/2023
Sputnik Satellite Radio Show. Story Synopsis:
Take a spin with us to the mid 1950’s. WNYK 1150 AM Radio, is a small-town station co-owned by Nick Nicolas and Daryl Lane, features a swing music format from the bygone era. It is now in a spiraling demise as it’s advertising ratings tank. A major competitor has emerged as a prefered new radio format. Rock N Roll.
See the transcript for detail.
Sputnik Satellite Radio Show. Season One
Duration:00:05:23
Nick Nicolas. Big Band Singer and Radio DJ - Backstory and Timeline.
3/11/2023
Nick Nickolas 3rd. Born September 9, 1910, Nick was named after his father and grandfather. It was an odd moniker to grow up with during his school years, and became his trademark as a singer in the 1930’s. Follow Nick through his formative years in the 20's, His singing career during the 30's and his radio career in the late 40's and 50's. A complex somewhat shallow character on air, Nick is capable of emotional depth and personal understanding when standing alone . He is capable of going with the flow, and is open to opportunity when it presents itself. Even if comes in the form of a young female wanna-be news anchor with ASD named Tracy Albright.
Sputnik Satellite Radio Show. Season One
Duration:00:10:32
Tracy Albright - Backstory and Timeline.
3/10/2023
Follow the rise of RADIO GIRL aka; Tracy Albright as she transforms from shy adolescent and misfit teenager to Talk Radio Celebrity and the savior of WNYK 1150 AM Radio. When she arrives at WNYK 1150 she is a young, awkward rookie wannabe news reporter with ASD who will work for free if she gets to read the hourly news.
Sputnik Satellite Radio Show. Season One
Duration:00:16:31
Daryl Lane; Backstory and Timeline, Part 1.
3/9/2023
Daryl Lane is the quintessential tragic hero of the story who transforms himself from a wounded warrior into the benevolent elder, loved by all. As a young man, he becomes well acquainted with suffering and sorrow from past mistakes and hazardous decisions. He develops an addiction to heroin and alcohol after a harrowing brush with death during the first world war and eventually recovers in New Orleans in the 1920's. Daryl is a brilliant radio and telecommunications engineer and contributes to the advancement of radio in the 1930's and eventually owns and operates an AM radio station with his partner Nick Nicolas in the 40's and 50's. He is the mentor and surrogate uncle of the brilliant Tracy Albright.
Sputnik Satellite Radio Show. Season One
Duration:00:19:59
Daryl Lane; Backstory and Timeline, Part 2.
3/2/2023
Daryl meets Storyville Madame, Countess Willie Piazza . Even though Storyville prostitution was stopped by city ordinance in 1917, Madams like the countess continued to live in their brothel mansions well into the 1920's. Daryl is invited to stay a la maison and receive treatment for his heroin and alcohol addiction. He recovers, and starts a new lease on life. Daryl becomes wealthy selling his patented radio components to large radio manufacturers in the 1930's. He meets Nick Nicolas 3rd. while on a business trip riding the 20th Century Express from New York to Chicago.
Sputnik Satellite Radio Show. Season One
Duration:00:20:49
WNYK 1150 AM Radio
2/15/2023
Daryl Lane, master of deal making, becomes a multi-millionaire in the 1940's with his radio patents and sets out to develop a radio station of 50,000 watts. He provides solace to the Albright family for the loss of their husband and father in WW 2 and becomes the surrogate uncle and radio mentor of Tracy Albright and later in life, the lover of Tracy's mother Odette. Daryl finances and builds a radio station in the town of Niagara Falls and is the senior director of WNYK 1150 AM Radio. Daryl, master of convergence, links the talent of Tracy with the Brash approach of DJ station manager Nick Nickolas 3rd. and the story continues...
Sputnik Satellite Radio Show. Season One
Duration:00:20:04
Sputnik Satellite Radio Show. STAGE MUSICAL Story Outline Act 1
2/6/2023
Act One. WNYK 1150 AM Radio. Take a trip back to the height of US/Soviet cold war and dawn of the space race. Sputnik Satellite Radio Show is an all original Musical Dramedy (partially fictitious) checking the pulse of the Sputnik event in late 1950's USA. The story spins a feel good dramedy around The Sputnik Moment (that did nothing. yet changed everything) and the unlikely friendship which developed between Nick Nicolas 3rd. Bygone era big band singer turned radio DJ and the rookie news anchor Tracy Albright . The story morphs from Nicks financial failure through the Sputnik world changing event into the rising star of Tracy Albright. Celebrity talk show host of WNYK 1150 AM Radio.
Sputnik Satellite Radio Show. Season One
Duration:00:10:30
Sputnik Satellite Radio Show. STAGE MUSICAL Story Outline Act 2
1/1/2023
Tracy without consulting Nick, brands her talk show, The Sputnik Satellite Radio Show - News. This irks Nick to no end, but he realizes Tracy's on air time has gone viral and she is bringing in much needed revenue through advertising. This all happens so fast Nick has no choice but to go with it. This creates a tremendous shift with positive results. Nick relinquishes his status as the Alpha front man of WNYK 1150 Radio and becomes the support person for the wildly popular talk show. Nick gets a sense of humor goes with the flow. A bond of friendship develops between Nick and Tracy. Comedy, music and surprises ensue and ends with a satisfying conclusion. Everybody wins.
Sputnik Satellite Radio Show. Season One
Duration:00:08:45