WNYC (820
AM) is a
nonprofit
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,
non-commercial
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,
public
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radio station
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licensed
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to
New York City
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. The station is owned by
New York Public Radio
New York Public Radio (NYPR) is the owner of WNYC (AM), WNYC-FM, WNYC Studios, WQXR-FM, New Jersey Public Radio, and the Jerome L. Greene Performance Space. Combined, New York Public Radio owns WNYC (AM), WNYC-FM, WQXR-FM, WQXW, WNJT-FM, WNJP ...
along with sister stations
WNYC-FM
WNYC-FM (93.9 MHz) is a non-profit, non-commercial, public radio station licensed to New York City. It is owned by New York Public Radio along with WNYC (AM), Newark, New Jersey-licensed classical music outlet WQXR-FM (105.9 MHz), Ne ...
and
Newark, New Jersey
Newark ( , ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey and the seat of Essex County and the second largest city within the New York metropolitan area.[classical music
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outlet
WQXR-FM
WQXR-FM (105.9 FM) is an American non-commercial classical radio station, licensed to Newark, New Jersey and serving the North Jersey and New York City area. It is owned by the nonprofit organization New York Public Radio, which also operates ...
(105.9 MHz). It is a member of
NPR
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and carries local and national news/talk programs. Some programming is
simulcast
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on WNYC-FM and at other times different programming airs on each station. WNYC broadcasts from studios and offices located in the
Hudson Square
Hudson Square is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan in New York City. It is bounded approximately by Clarkson Street to the north, Canal Street to the south, Varick Street to the east, and the Hudson River to the west. To the north of the neig ...
neighborhood in
lower Manhattan
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, and its transmitter is located in
Kearny, New Jersey
Kearny ( ) is a town in the western part of Hudson County, New Jersey, United States and a suburb of Newark. As of the 2010 United States Census, the town's population was 40,684,[New York City Board of Estimate
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and Apportionment. WNYC made its first official broadcast two years later on July 8, 1924, at 570 AM from the
Manhattan Municipal Building
The David N. Dinkins Municipal Building (originally the Municipal Building and later known as the Manhattan Municipal Building) is a 40-story, building at 1 Centre Street, east of Chambers Street, in the Civic Center neighborhood of Manhatt ...
using a second-hand transmitter shipped from
Brazil
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. With the commencement of WNYC's operations, the City of New York became one of the first American municipalities to be directly involved in broadcasting.
In 1928 WNYC was forced into a time-sharing arrangement on 570 with
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, another pioneering New York radio outlet. This situation lasted until 1931, when the
Federal Radio Commission
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(a forerunner to today's
FCC
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) moved WNYC to 810 AM. The frequency move did not help WNYC from an operational standpoint as it now had to share its frequency with the more-powerful
WCCO in
Minneapolis
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, limiting WNYC to daytime-only operations, broadcasting from sunrise to sunset. (AM radio waves travel farther at night and WNYC had to protect WCCO from interference.)
Great Depression and World War II
WNYC's transmitter was moved in 1937 from the
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to city-owned land at 10 Kent Street in
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
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, as part of a
Works Progress Administration
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project. In 1938 the Municipal Broadcasting System was established by the City of New York to run the station. For its first 14 years, WNYC had been run by the New York City Commissioner for Bridges, Plant and Structures. Now, under an agency devoted singularly to its function and with the leadership of new director
Morris S. Novik, appointed by Mayor LaGuardia, WNYC became a model public broadcaster. Among its many landmark programs was the annual ''American Music Festival''.
In 1941 the
North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement shifted WNYC's frequency a second time, to 830. WCCO was moved to 830 as well, and was given
clear-channel
A clear-channel station is an AM broadcasting, AM radio station in North America that has the highest protection from Interference (communication), interference from other stations, particularly concerning night-time skywave propagation. The syste ...
authority. WNYC would remain a 1,000-watt outlet for the next 48 years. Later that year, on December 7, WNYC was the first radio station in the United States to announce the Japanese
attack on Pearl Harbor
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. Beginning during
World War II
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, the FCC allowed WNYC to stay on the air a few extra hours in the evening due to the public service it was providing.
The Municipal Broadcasting System (which was renamed the WNYC Communications Group in 1989) helped to form
National Public Radio
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in 1971 and the WNYC stations were among the 90 stations that carried the inaugural broadcast of ''
All Things Considered
''All Things Considered'' (''ATC'') is the flagship news program on the American network National Public Radio (NPR). It was the first news program on NPR, premiering on May 3, 1971. It is broadcast live on NPR affiliated stations in the United ...
'' later that year.
In 1990, as a result of continued interference with WCCO (and a court ruling in WCCO's favor rescinding the WWII-era approval for nighttime operation by WNYC), WNYC moved from 830 kHz to 820 kHz, commenced around-the-clock operations and increased its daytime power to 10,000 watts, while maintaining 1,000 watts at night, to protect
WBAP in
Fort Worth, Texas
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; WBAP is also a clear-channel 50,000-watt station but is farther from New York City than Minneapolis. The AM transmitter was moved to Belleville Turnpike in
Kearny, New Jersey
Kearny ( ) is a town in the western part of Hudson County, New Jersey, United States and a suburb of Newark. As of the 2010 United States Census, the town's population was 40,684,[WNYC Transmitter Park
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.
The station's ownership by the City meant that it was occasionally subject to the whims of
various mayors. As part of a crackdown on prostitution in 1979, then-Mayor
Ed Koch
Edward Irving Koch ( ; December 12, 1924February 1, 2013) was an American politician, lawyer, political commentator, film critic, and television personality. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1969 to 1977 and was may ...
tried to use the three WNYC radio and television stations to broadcast the names of "
johns" arrested for soliciting. Announcers threatened a walkout over what was casually called the ''
John Hour
The John Hour refers to the public naming of "johns" (male customers of female prostitutes).
In October 1979, New York City mayor Ed Koch instructed WNYC, the city's public radio station, to read the names of convicted "johns". Koch intended to u ...
'' and station management refused to comply with the idea; after one forced broadcast with city employees reading off the names, it was discontinued.
Independence from the City
Move to new studios
Shortly after assuming the mayoralty in 1994,
Rudolph W. Giuliani
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announced he was considering selling the WNYC stations. Giuliani believed that broadcasting was no longer essential as a municipal service, and that the financial compensation from selling the stations could be used to help the City cover budget shortfalls. The final decision was made in March 1995: while the City opted to divest WNYC-TV (now
WPXN-TV
WPXN-TV (channel 31) is a television station in New York City, airing programming from the Ion Television network. Owned and operated by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E.W. Scripps Company, the station maintains offices on Seventh Avenue in ...
) through a
blind auction
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to commercial buyers, WNYC-AM-FM was sold to the WNYC Foundation for
$20 million over a six-year period, far less than what the stations could have been sold for if they were placed on the open market. While the sale put an end to the occasional political intrusions of the past, it required the WNYC Foundation to embark on a major appeal towards listeners, other foundations, and private benefactors. The station's audience and budget have continued to grow since the split from the City.
The
terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001
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destroyed WNYC-FM's transmitter at the
World Trade Center
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. WNYC's studios, in the nearby
Manhattan Municipal Building
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, had to be evacuated and station staff was unable to return to its offices for three weeks. The FM signal was knocked off the air for a time. WNYC temporarily moved to studios at National Public Radio's New York bureau in midtown Manhattan, where it broadcast on its still operating AM signal transmitting from towers in Kearny, New Jersey and by a live Internet stream. The stations eventually returned to the Municipal Building.
On June 16, 2008 WNYC moved from its of rent-free space scattered on eight floors of the Manhattan Municipal Building to a new location at 160 Varick Street, near the
Holland Tunnel
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. The station now occupies three and a half floors of a 12-story former printing building.
The offices have ceilings and of space. The number of recording studios and booths doubled, to 31.. There is a 140-seat, street-level studio for live broadcasts, concerts and public forums and an expansion of the newsroom of over 60 journalists.
Renovation, construction, rent and operating costs for the Varick Street location amounted to $45 million. In addition to raising these funds, WNYC raised money for a one-time fund of $12.5 million to cover the cost of creating 40 more hours of new programming and three new shows. The total cost of $57.5 million for both the move and programming is nearly three times the $20 million the station had to raise over seven years to buy its licenses from the City in 1997.
Past personalities
Past WNYC radio personalities include
H. V. Kaltenborn
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, who hosted radio's first quiz program on WNYC in 1926, the ''
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
:''This article covers both the historical newspaper (1841–1955, 1960–1963), as well as an unrelated new Brooklyn Daily Eagle starting 1996 published currently''
The ''Brooklyn Eagle'' (originally joint name ''The Brooklyn Eagle'' and ''King ...
s "Current Events Bee", a forerunner to shows like National Public Radio's ''
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!'' In its early years the station lacked funds for a record library and would borrow albums from record stores around the
Manhattan Municipal Building
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, where its studios were located. Legend has it, a listener began lending classical records to the station and in 1929, WNYC began broadcast of ''Masterwork Hour'', radio's first program of recorded classical music.
Following the U.S. entry into
World War II
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, then-mayor
Fiorello H. La Guardia
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made use of the station every Sunday in his ''Talk to the People'' program. During a lengthy newspaper workers strike, La Guardia also used the WNYC airwaves to read the latest
comic strip
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s to local youngsters while they were not available in New York.
Margaret Juntwait
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, an announcer and classical music host at WNYC for 15 years, left for the
Metropolitan Opera
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in September 2006. Prior to her death in 2015, Juntwait served as announcer for the Met's Saturday afternoon radio broadcasts, the first woman to hold the position and only the third regular announcer of the long-standing broadcast series, which was launched in 1931. John Schaefer, a music show host at WNYC for 20 years, has written liner notes for more than 100 albums, for everyone from
Yo-Yo Ma
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to
Terry Riley
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and was named a "New York influential" by ''New York Magazine''.
Programming
WNYC produces 100 hours a week of its own programming, including nationally syndicated shows such as ''
Studio 360
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'', ''
On the Media'', ''Selected Shorts'' and ''
Radiolab
''Radiolab'' is a radio program produced by WNYC, a public radio station in New York City, and broadcast on public radio stations in the United States. The show is nationally syndicated and is available as a podcast. Live shows were first off ...
'', as well as local news and interview shows that include ''The Leonard Lopate Show'', ''Soundcheck'' and ''The Brian Lehrer Show''. The entire schedule is streamed live over the internet and several shows also air over
Sirius
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and
XM Satellite Radio
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. As a result, the station receives listener calls from far-flung states and even has international listeners.
WNYC-AM-FM has a local news team of 18 journalists, as well as dozens of producers and other broadcasting professionals.
''
On the Media'' is a nationally syndicated, weekly one-hour program hosted by
Brooke Gladstone
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Career
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and
Bob Garfield
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, formerly of
Advertising Age
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, covering the media and its effect on American culture and society. Many stories investigate how events of the past week were covered by the press. Stories also regularly cover such topics as
video news releases
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,
net neutrality
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, media consolidation, censorship, freedom of the press, spin, and how the media is changing with technology. It won a
Peabody Award
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in 2004.
''The
Brian Lehrer
Brian Lehrer (born October 5, 1952) is an American radio talk show host on New York City's public radio station WNYC. His daily two-hour 2007 Peabody Award-winning program, Show'' is a two-hour weekday talk show covering local and national current events and social issues hosted by Brian Lehrer, a former anchor and reporter for NBC Radio Network. It won a
Peabody Award
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in 2007 "for facilitating reasoned conversation about critical issues and opening it up to everyone within earshot."
WNYC broadcasts the major daily news programs produced by NPR, including ''
Morning Edition
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'' and ''
All Things Considered
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'', as well as the
BBC World Service
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and selected programs from
Public Radio Exchange
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including ''
This American Life
''This American Life'' (''TAL'') is an American monthly hour-long radio program produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media and hosted by Ira Glass. It is broadcast on numerous public radio stations in the United States and internation ...
'' and ''
A Prairie Home Companion
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''.
The
PBS NewsHour
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is a syndicated news program anchored by
Judy Woodruff
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that airs on more than 350 TV stations and many
NPR
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affiliates. Interviews, documentary reports and national headlines are analyzed. Since its launch in 1975, at least 20 of its headlines have been
Peabody Awards
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recipients, two have become finalists for the
Pulitzer Prize
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for Explanatory Reading, and 21 have received nominations for the
News & Documentary Emmy Awards
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.
Listenership and new media
WNYC has been an early adopter of new technologies including
HD radio
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, live
audio streaming
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, and
podcast
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ing.
RSS
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feeds and email newsletters link to archived audio of individual program segments. WNYC also makes some of its programming available on
Sirius XM
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satellite radio.
See also
*
WNYC-FM
WNYC-FM (93.9 MHz) is a non-profit, non-commercial, public radio station licensed to New York City. It is owned by New York Public Radio along with WNYC (AM), Newark, New Jersey-licensed classical music outlet WQXR-FM (105.9 MHz), Ne ...
(93.9), WNYC's sister station
*
WPXN-TV
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(channel 31, formerly WNYC-TV)
*
Media in New York City
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References
External links
*
FCC History Cards for WNYC
New York Public radio websiteBroadcast Schedule (New York Public Radio)WNYC historical profile (1978)a
NY Radio NewsPorter Anderson announces Challenge Grant for WQXR's Q2 Music2011) by
Victoria Mixon
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