Sessions at West 54th was an American television program that featured music performances, and was in some ways a pop music variation on the theme set by the long-lived Austin City Limits, though the featured musicians represented a number of musical genres. It was produced for American Program Service (APS), a "second" public television network in the U.S., and was carried on many Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member stations. It first aired in most places on July 5, 1997, when it was included in the Saturday late-night lineup of stations covering 85% of the country. After the program ended, a modified version also aired on the commercial Trio cable television network. A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Music Look up Music in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikisource, as part of the 1911 Encyclopedia Wikiproject, has original text related to this article: Music Wikicities has a wiki about Music: Music Music City : a collaborative music database All Music Guide... This article mainly describes pop as used in its more recent sense, as a subgenre of popular music, but a list of popular music performers since the 1920s is included. ... Austin City Limits is a music program on American television. ... Musical genres are categories which contain music which share a certain style or which have certain elements in common. ... American Public Television (APT) is the largest of the television syndication distributors of programming for public television stations in the United States. ... Public broadcasting (also known as public service broadcasting or PSB) is the dominant form of broadcasting around the world, where radio, television, and potentially other electronic media outlets receive funding from the public. ... PBS logo The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a non-profit public broadcasting television service with 349 member TV stations in the United States. ... July 5 is the 186th day of the year (187th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 179 days remaining. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Saturday is the day of the week between Friday and Sunday. ... Commercial broadcasting - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Trio (or TRIO) is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by NBC Universal. ... Coaxial Cable is often used to transmit cable television into the house Cable television or Community Antenna Television (CATV) (and often shortened to cable) is a system of providing television, FM radio programming and other services to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted directly to people’s televisions through fixed...

It was first hosted by radio disc jockey Chris Douridas of KCRW in Santa Monica, California, while former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne later took over hosting duties. The series was named for the street in Manhattan where the television studio was located (the former CBS newsmagazine West 57th was once recorded nearby). For other meanings of DJ, see DJ (disambiguation). ... KCRW (89. ... Santa Monica Pier Santa Monica is a coastal city located in Los Angeles County, California, USA, by the Pacific Ocean, south of Pacific Palisades and Brentwood, west of Westwood, Los Angeles, and north of Venice. ... Talking Heads was a new wave rock band existing between 1974 and 1991, and composed of David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison. ... David Byrne performing at the Leicester Summer Sundae, in 2002 David Byrne (born May 14, 1952 in Dumbarton, Scotland) is a musician best known as a founding member and the principal songwriter of the New Wave band Talking Heads. ... Manhattan is an island bordering the lower Hudson River. ... A television studio is an installation in which television or video productions take place, either for live television, for recording live on tape, or for the acquisition of raw footage for postproduction. ... CBSs first color logo, which debuted in the fall of 1965. ... A newsmagazine, sometimes called news magazine, is a usually weekly magazine featuring articles on current events. ...

DVDs

• The Best of Sessions at West 54th Volume 1 - Columbia Music Video
• The Best of Sessions at West 54th Volume 2 - Columbia Music Video
• Ben Folds Five - Live at Sessions at West 54th - Epic Music Video
• John Prine - Live from Sessions at West 54th
• Keb' Mo': Sessions at West 54th - Recorded Live in New York
• Neil Finn - Sessions at West 54th

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External links

• Sessions at West 54th at the Internet Movie Database

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References

• Steve Behrens (June 23, 1997). With public TV's new Saturday night concerts, younger viewers can 'eavesdrop' on diverse musicians at work. Current.