Filmed over the course of 10 years, this documentary chronicles the journey of a trio of first time TV makers as they embark on the ultimate Hollywood adventure. The group creates, bootstraps, and films an activist focused docuseries ("Manifesto!") in the year 2005, with the ultimate goal of launching the first citizen's platform on network television. Cut from countless hours of behind the scenes footage and interviews with TV & Cultural insiders and outsiders, WE WANT THE AIRWAVES follows the turbulent making of Manifesto! all while exposing the harsh realities of the ethically challenged unscripted television world.