The two hundred and seventeenth TV show: #11 American Bandstand
I've covered Top of the Pops before and it's safe to say that built on this formula. Quite simply, they play popular contemporary music and the audience of the show dances to it. What's probably most notable is that almost all of these are recordings, rather than being performed (or at least mimed) live. I can see the appeal of being in the club without having to go out, but aside from how much feels dated, it just doesn't have as much to actually watch. I would have been almost as good as a radio show, and indeed that's how it's shaped, with the visuals not doing much. There might be a wider point here of how in these days, people are more connected and don't need this parasocial connection, but that'd just be a lot more speculation.