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Explorer Dentist Worries Big Sugar
Dr. L. M. Waugh(Geni)On April 16, 1940, Leuman Maurice Waugh (1877-1972), a dentist, photographer, and professor of orthodontics at Columbia University, sat down in the WNYC studio for an interview....
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The McCarthys Step Out: A Police Safety Program
Some of WNYC's earliest radio drama came out of the police department safety bureau. When in the 1930s 30,000 people were falling victim to street and highway accidents each year, the story of a...
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Overcoming the Limitations of Time
From the January/February 1940 WNYC Masterwork Bulletin:A MATTER OF RECORD: Mighty useful gadgets are WNYC's four new recording machines. They were used in a variety of interesting ways during the past...
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Promoting Tidy Streets and Tidy Minds: The Junior Inspectors Club of the Air
Medallion given to members of the Junior Inspectors Club.(WNYC Archive Collections)Imagine, for a moment, the Boy Scouts run by the New York City Department of Sanitation with a regular radio program,...
View ArticleA 1939 Snapshot of WNYC
Two years after WNYC's new WPA-built studios came online, the author Mary Field Parton (1878-1969) wrote a 232-page guide to New York called, Metropolis: A Study of New York. Published by Longmans...
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A Shorthand Contest on the Radio?
It may be hard to imagine the listenership for a shorthand competition on the radio, beyond a handful of teenage secretary hopefuls. Yet, these broadcasts were not uncommon in the 1920s and 1930s with...
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Einstein Listened
Former WNYC director Seymour N. Siegel suggested that WNYC once received fan mail from Einstein. As I continue to look far and wide for evidence of this alleged bit of praise, I can’t help but wonder,...
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An Award for WNYC, a Concert, and the Raised Hackles of a Times Reviewer
On Feb 12, 1954 the National Institute of Arts and Letters, in cooperation with the National Orchestral Association, presented the opening concert of WNYC’s 15th annual American Music Festival. The...
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Novik Tours Postwar European Broadcasters
Members of the 1945 post-war European radio facilities tour by American broadcasters including WNYC's Morris Novik.(Photo courtesy of The La Guardia and Wagner Archives, La Guardia Community...
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WNYC's New Studios in 1937
WNYC celebrated the inauguration of its suite of new studios in the Municipal Building with a five-hour broadcast featuring the play WNYC: The Voice of the People, with Mayor La Guardia playing himself...
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WNYC: The Station That Dodged Bullets
Radio Digest, March 22, 1924, page 4.(WNYC Archive Collections)By most measures, WNYC should not exist. You might even call it a radio station with more than nine lives. Powerful forces fought to keep...
View ArticleNew Yorkers navigate the risks and realities of gas stoves
A new report on health risks associated with gas stoves has sparked a conversation about their use in the United States. The study from researchers and the energy organization RMI found about 13% of...
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In the Air, On the Air: A Radio Course in Flying Fundamentals
On May 25, 1934, WNYC took off into the wild blue yonder with a ten-part series of talks on the fundamentals of flying hosted by noted pilot and plane designer Jack B. Stinson from the famous Stinson...
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Christie R. Bohnsack: WNYC's First Director
Christie R. Bohnsack (1882-1964) oversaw the day-to-day running and programming of WNYC for its first fourteen years. He was a creature of the reigning political power at City Hall and Tammany Hall who...
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Early Radio Documentary and Recording at WNYC
In early May 1941, American broadcasters gathered in Columbus, Ohio, for the 12th Institute for Education by Radio. Although primarily made up of representatives of non-commercial educational stations...
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The WNYC-WNYE Connection
WNYC and WNYE were once very close. They exchanged equipment, time, talent, and programming in various ways. In early 1946 the following account of WNYE's history was written. Although not signed, I...
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The 'King of the Twelve-String Guitar' is a WNYC Regular Through the 1940s
George Harrison once remarked, "No Lead Belly, No Beatles,". This was not hyperbole. Inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame (1986) and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (1988), he's influenced...
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