100 Years of 100 Things: Radio
Continuing our centennial series 100 Years of 100 Things, Matthew Barton, curator of recorded sound at the Library of Congress, walks us through the history of radio.100 Years of 100 Things is part of...
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Going Public: The Story of WNYC’s Journey to Independence
In November 1993, Rudolph Giuliani was elected mayor of New York City in a narrow victory over the incumbent David Dinkins. As a victorious Republican in a city of Democrats and fierce independents,...
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75 Years of WNYC-FM
On February 24, 1943, WNYC began broadcasting an experimental 1,000-watt frequency modulation (FM) signal at 43.9 megacycles [1] using the call letters W39NY. At that time, only a handful of stations...
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WNYC's Vintage Microphones
"This microphone is not an ordinary instrument,For it looks out on vistas wide indeed:My voice commingles now with northern lights and asteroids and Alexander's skeleton,With dead volcanoes and with...
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V-J Day at WNYC: A Behind the Scenes Look
WNYC Program Director Nathan M. Rudich in the 1940s courtesy of Glynn Rudich.Seventy-two years ago today WNYC program director Nathan M. Rudich arrived at the studio at 6:15 a.m. just before the AM...
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New York Mayor John F. Hylan on WNYC's Opening Night
Some ContextMayor John F. Hylan made the remarks reprinted below when radio was still very much in its formative stages. KDKA Pittsburgh, with which WNYC was frequently compared because our transmitter...
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WNYC: 20 Years of Independence!
Today marks 20 years since the official celebration of WNYC's independence from the City of New York. The first payment of $3.3 million was made against an agreed-upon $20 million for the WNYC...
View ArticleRothko and Gottlieb discuss, "The Portrait and the Modern Artist," on WNYC's...
From a photocopy of the original broadcast transcript of WNYC's Art in New York airing on October 13, 1943. The program aired from 5:45 to 6:00 PM 'Eastern War Time.' WNYC - New York's Own Station,...
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Clifford Burdette: African-American Radio Pioneer
ANNOUNCER: Your city station presents Those Who Have Made Good...a series of programs organized by Clifford Burdette presenting famous Negro personalities to tell about their lives and entertain us...
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The WNYC American Music Festival
The WNYC American Music Festival played a significant role in promoting American music of every genre and provided a forum for new American composers to get their works heard. Conceived in 1939, the...
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Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Lilian Supove Blake
In the mid-1940s, a woman leading the news and special events department of a broadcaster in the nation's biggest radio market was pretty unusual. But that's exactly the position held by Lily Supove...
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The 'Founding Father' of Arab-American Literature
Ameen Rihani (1876 – 1940), was a Lebanese Arab-American writer, intellectual and political activist. He was also a major figure in the mahjar (Arab diaspora) literary movement developed by Arab...
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A WNYC Scene Sampler Circa 1939 by Laszlo Matulay
The ArtThe figures and scenes, all drawn from life by artist Laszlo Matulay, capture the essence of New York's public radio station in 1939. Fiorello H. La Guardia ran for mayor in 1933 promising to...
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Radio's First Record Review Program - Around the Disc with Peter Hugh Reed
From April 1929 through January 1931 music commentator and critic Peter Hugh Reed hosted Around the Disc, a forty-minute weekly record review program on WNYC.Reed was the founder and editor of the...
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Post Post, A Sampling and Tribute to Some Classic Live Morning Music Moments
Steve Post was the antidote to an industry riddled with chronic cheerfulness. With the world going to hell in a hand basket, how could we possibly listen to a morning radio personality who sounds like...
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WNYC and the NYPD: In Search of Criminals
WNYC, the city-owned and operated station, maintained a good relationship with the New York City Police Department, serving early on as part of its communications apparatus for locating both criminals...
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WNYC and the NYPD Agree, Don’t Run Away from Home!
Captain John H. Ayres, first Chief of the NYPD Missing Persons Bureau.(WNYC Archive Collections)It should come as no surprise that as a city-owned and operated station, WNYC maintained a good...
View ArticleThose Dusty Archives
It's true, we do occasionally find valuable things in less than wholesome places like damp basements, forgotten crawl spaces, and blistering hot attic corners. But I would venture a guess that 96% of...
View ArticleReady or Not, Listeners Hear John Cage Composition Over WNYC in 1945
In 1945, America was still at war, and WNYC’s annual American Music Festival wasn’t just a celebration of American composers of all stripes; it also took on unavoidable and perhaps inadvertent...
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The Poet Laureate of Radio: Norman Corwin on WNYC and WQXR
There is little doubt that Norman Corwin is the most celebrated writer, director, and producer of radio drama ever. At a time when radio was the dominant medium, his works helped to ramp-up the...
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