📺 PROGRAM GUIDE: Tuesday Nov 3, 2026 (PT)
🗳️ UNIVAC CALLS IT, EXPANDED ELECTION DAY EDITION: how Americans vote, the machines that count and predict, and what 1950s classrooms taught about freedom.
📡 8:00 AM PT AI Signal
🗳️ 8:08 AM PT Tuesday in November (1945): how an American election works
📊 8:26 AM PT 1950 Census public service spots
🏛️ 8:30 AM PT Meet Your Federal Government (1946), The Powers of Congress (1947), Our Community (1952), County Government (1951)
📻 9:29 AM PT You Are There: The Election of Thomas Jefferson (CBS radio, 1948)
🇺🇸 10:00 AM PT Service and Citizenship (1951), The Responsibilities of American Citizenship (1955)
🎰 10:23 AM PT Behind the Freedom Curtain (1957): the voting machine
🧮 10:42 AM PT The Big Count (1960): the Census and its machines
🖥️ 11:11 AM PT UNIVAC commercials (1956), Walter Cronkite: The Computer, The Information Machine (1958)
🔒 11:45 AM PT Security Is Your Responsibility (1957)
📡 12:00 PM PT AI Signal
☭ 12:06 PM PT Cold War classroom: Communism (1952), A Look at Communism (1955), Who Goes There? (1963)
📻 12:54 PM PT The Man Called X: Stalin Plus Seven (radio, 1951)
🔔 1:24 PM PT Crusade for Freedom (1956)
🗳️ 1:39 PM PT Free elections: France (1945) and Japan (1946)
😱 2:01 PM PT Red Nightmare (1962), then Secure the Blessings (1951)
🏫 2:55 PM PT Then and now: Freedom to Learn (1954), Practicing Democracy in the Classroom (1953)
📻 3:44 PM PT Cavalcade of America: Great Man Votes (radio, 1941)
⚖️ 4:14 PM PT Bill of Rights in Action: Due Process, Right to Privacy, Equal Opportunity
👩💻 5:24 PM PT Women in Computing (1985)
☭ 5:54 PM PT What Can We Do About It? (1960)
🕵️ 6:08 PM PT Evening feature: The Thief (1952)
📡 7:37 PM PT The AI Signal: Evening Edition
📻 7:54 PM PT Network Start: radio night begins
🐕 8:00 PM PT Tonight: Laika's Orbit, a radio night of Sputnik, animal astronauts and good dogs until 8:00 AM PT.
✨ Imagination Builder: It's election night, 1952. In a CBS studio, a room-sized machine called UNIVAC looks at a sliver of early returns and calls a landslide for Eisenhower. Nobody in the studio believes it, so they hold the prediction back. By morning, the machine was right.
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