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Soul Train archive (television)

CTL-E-0631 · Archive · other · 1970–2006

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Soul Train began in Chicago in 1970 on WCIU-TV before moving to Los Angeles in 1971; its archive is the definitive televisual record of Black popular music performance. The show's Chicago roots — Don Cornelius's WVON background — tie it directly to the constellation's radio node.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MUSIC-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MUSIC-001:music-001-node-088; source research type(s): archive. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass.

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Record CTL-E-0631 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: PROVISIONAL · 2 sources · CTL research: MUSIC-001.
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