Saturn’s Favorite Music

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Seeking radio stardom in the small market in 1992 as analog systems are taken over by automation.

Saturns Favorite Music

It is the summer of 1992. Clara Jane is an alternative music-loving graduate from a broadcast school in Detroit. She lands her first job at a small market station in northern Michigan in a one stoplight town called Saturn. The hyper-local programming (featuring lost farm animal reports and radio obits) and its mix of light hits and great oldies is a far cry from the rock star glamour she hoped to achieve with a radio career. But Clara finds a home with an eccentric cast of characters, especially the recently-divorced morning man Seth Jones. As Clara and Seth bond over their shared sense of humor and a mutual love of different genres of music, they start to become something more than friends. But just as Clara starts to become comfortable operating the board, the station is sold and staff members start to be replaced by automation. Will she find the radio stardom she craves before the station goes completely robotic?