WNYC
Broadcast area	New York City
Branding	New York Public Radio
First air date	1924
Frequency	FM 93.9 MHz AM 820 kHz Also on HD Radio 93.9-2 FM for Classical Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... FreQuency is a music video game developed by Harmonix and published by SCEI. It was released in November 2001. ... MegaHertz (MHz) is the name given to one million (106) Hertz, a measure of frequency. ... A kilohertz (kHz) is a unit of frequency equal to 1,000 hertz (1,000 cycles per second). ... HD Radio is an in-band on-channel (IBOC) digital radio system created by iBiquity for broadcasting via existing FM and AM radio stations. ... 93.9-3 FM for 820 AM Simulcast
Format	Public Radio
ERP	FM: 6,000 watts AM: 10,000 watts (day), A radio format or programming format describes the overall content broadcast on a radio station. ... Public broadcasting (also known as public service broadcasting or PSB) is the dominant form of broadcasting around the world, where radio, television, and potentially other electronic media outlets receive funding from the public. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The watt (symbol: W) is the SI derived unit of power, equal to one joule per second. ... The watt (symbol: W) is the SI derived unit of power, equal to one joule per second. ... 1,000 watts (night)
Class	FM: B AM: B
Callsign meaning	W New York City
Owner	WNYC Radio
Website	http://www.wnyc.org

WNYC (93.9 FM and 820 AM) is a public radio station in New York City. Broadcasting from lower Manhattan, it is the flagship station of National Public Radio in the region and carries a mixed news and freeform music format on two radio frequencies. The station is known for its nationally-syndicated news and culture programming and its Internet radio broadcasts. WNYC reaches more than one million listeners each week and has the largest public radio audience in the United States. The watt (symbol: W) is the SI derived unit of power, equal to one joule per second. ... This is the list of broadcast station classes. ... Call sign can refer to different types of call signs: Airline call sign Aviator call sign Cosmonaut call sign Radio and television call signs Tactical call sign, also known as a tactical designator See also: International Callsign Allocations, Maritime Mobile Service Identity This is a disambiguation page — a navigational... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... Public broadcasting is a form of public service broadcasting (PSB) intended to serve the diverse needs of the listening public. ... A radio station is an audio (sound) broadcasting service, traditionally broadcast through the air as radio waves (a form of electromagnetic radiation) from a transmitter to an antenna and a thus to a receiving device. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... “NPR” redirects here. ...

Programming

WNYC produces 100 hours a week of its own programming, including nationally-syndicated shows like Studio 360, On the Media and Radio Lab, as well as local news and interview shows like The Leonard Lopate Show, Soundcheck and The Brian Lehrer Show. Because the entire schedule is streamed on the internet, the local shows can be heard almost live throughout the nation and those shows have received calls from far flung states. It has a local news team of 18 journalists. Studio 360 is a national American public weekly radio program about arts and culture hosted by Kurt Andersen and produced by Public Radio International and WNYC in New York City. ... On the Media is an hour-long weekly radio program produced by New York Public Radio WNYC. It is broadcast on Sunday morning in New York City, and syndicated nationwide on other public radio stations. ... Radio Lab is a radio show airing on National Public Radio, hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich. ...

Studio 360 is a weekly one hour program about arts and culture hosted by Kurt Andersen, the former editor of Spy Magazine. Taking current issues and trends as jumping-off points, the show explores a broad range of cultural ideas. Each program begins with a topical section of stories about the arts and culture from around the United States and around the world. Studio 360 is a national American public weekly radio program about arts and culture hosted by Kurt Andersen and produced by Public Radio International and WNYC in New York City. ... Kurt Andersen Kurt Andersen (born 1954- in Omaha, Nebraska), co-founded Spy magazine with E. Graydon Carter. ... Spy magazine was founded in 1986 by Kurt Andersen and E. Graydon Carter. ...

On The Media is a weekly one hour program hosted by Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield of Advertising Age covering the media and its effect on American culture and society. Many stories investigate how events of the past week were covered. Stories also regularly cover such topics as video news releases, net neutrality, media consolidation, censorship, freedom of the press, spin, and how the media is changing with technology. On the Media is an hour-long weekly radio program produced by New York Public Radio WNYC. It is broadcast on Sunday morning in New York City, and syndicated nationwide on other public radio stations. ... Brooke Gladstone is co-host of National Public Radios weekend show, On the Media. ... Bob Garfield writes the Ad Review TV-commercial criticism feature in Advertising Age. ... Advertising Age is a magazine, chronicling trends in advertisement. ... Public relations person, using a ficticious name, appears in U.S. Government Transportation Security Administration video news release on airport security (screenshot) A video news release (VNR) is a public relations or a propaganda technique whereby a video or radio program is produced, edited and distributed to various media outlets... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Network neutrality. ...

The Brian Lehrer 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. WNYC radio host Brian Lehrer. ... WNYC radio host Brian Lehrer. ...

The Leonard Lopate Show is a two-hour weekday talk show hosted by Leonard Lopate, a painter who studied with Ad Reinhardt and Mark Rothko and the brother of writer Phillip Lopate. The show covers a broad range of topics including jazz and gospel music, literature, science and history. Leonard Lopate is host of the public radio talk show The Leonard Lopate Show, broadcast on WNYC[1]. He first broadcast on WKCR, the college radio station of Columbia University, where he was a student, then, later, at WBAI, before ultimately moving to WNYC. [citation needed] References ↑ WNYC - Lopate - Staff... Leonard Lopate is host of the public radio talk show The Leonard Lopate Show, broadcast on WNYC[1]. He first broadcast on WKCR, the college radio station of Columbia University, where he was a student, then, later, at WBAI, before ultimately moving to WNYC. [citation needed] References ^ WNYC - Lopate - Staff... Adolph Dietmar Friedrich Reinhardt (Ad Reinhardt) (December 24, 1913 – August 30, 1967) was a painter, writer, and pioneer of conceptual and minimal art. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Phillip Lopate is an American essayist, fiction writer, poet, and teacher who was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1943. ...

Soundcheck is a one-hour weekday talk show hosted by John Schaefer about music and the arts. The show features interviews with musicians, critics, journalists, authors and others. It also features live musical performances in mix of genres, including indie rock, jazz, classical, and world music.

WNYC broadcasts the major daily news programs produced by National Public Radio, including Morning Edition and All Things Considered, as well as the BBC World Service and programs from Public Radio International like This American Life and A Prairie Home Companion. Other NPR, PRI and public radio programming not broadcast on WNYC is often broadcast on WNYE, and on the net. Morning Edition is an American radio news program produced and distributed by National Public Radio (NPR). ... All Things Considered (ATC), is a news radio program in the United States, broadcast on the National Public Radio network. ... The BBC World Service is one of the most widely recognised international broadcasters of radio programming, transmitting in 33 languages to many parts of the world. ... PRI logo Public Radio International, or PRI, is a Minneapolis-based American public radio organization. ... This American Life (TAL) is a weekly hour-long radio program produced by Chicago Public Radio. ... This article is about the radio show. ... WNYE may refer to: WNYE-FM WNYE-TV This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

The station airs many long-running cultural and music programs, including Folksong Festival on Saturday nights that has survived battles with mayors and blacklists. Hosted by Oscar Brand, who debuted the show on December 10, 1945, and who was blacklisted in the McCarthy era, the show was one of the first radio programs in the United States to focus on issues of homosexuality and continues to shake up audiences with anti-American Revolution programs, "bad daddy" shows for Father's Day, "Evil Mothers" for Mother's Day, and more. Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Huddie Ledbetter, and Pete Seeger all made their debuts on the show. McCarthyism, named after Joseph McCarthy, was a period of intense anticommunism, also (popularly) known as the (second) Red Scare, which occurred in the United States from 1948 to about 1956 (or later), when the government of the United States was actively engaged in suppression of the Communist Party USA, its... Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, musician, and poet who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. ... Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. ... Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (July 14, 1912–October 3, 1967) was a prolific American folk musician. ... Arlo Guthrie (born July 10, 1947) is an American folk singer. ... Leadbelly (January 29, 1885 - December 6, 1949) was an influential blues singer and guitarist. ... Peter Seeger (born May 3, 1919), almost universally known as Pete Seeger, is a folk singer, political activist, and author. ...

In 2006 the station began WNYC2, an all-classical music channel broadcast on High Definition radio and the internet. The station's AM and FM channels carry primarily news and information programming on weekdays but maintain different broadcast schedules. The FM signal broadcasts musical programming after 7pm.

Locally-produced programs include:

• Big Band Sounds - music from the 1920s to the 1950s
• Concerts from the Frick Collection - New York debuts of nationally and internationally acclaimed classical musicians in partnership with the Frick Collection
• Evening Music with David Garland - draws from the full history of classical music, sometimes emphasizing a particular composer, instrument, or compositional approach
• Folksong Festival - devoted to the traditional and contemporary folksong
• The Infinite Mind - examines scientific, existential, and social issues concerning the human mind with brain researcher Dr. Fred Goodwin
• Jonathan Schwartz - American Popular Standards, classical music, rock, and jazz
• Mad About Music - explores the emotional power of music on the lives of celebrities through interviews and hand-picked recordings
• New Sounds - guest musicians from David Byrne to Meredith Monk to Ravi Shankar, presents performances and premieres new works from the classic and operatic to folk and jazz
• The No Show - features music, satire, news commentary and comedy with Steve Post
• Radio Lab - each episode is a patchwork of people, sounds, stories and experiences centered around one idea
• Selected Shorts - actors read contemporary and classic short fiction, ranging from Chekhov, Maupassant, Malamud, and Singer, to Jhumpa Lahiri and Jonathan Franzen
• Soundcheck - daily talk show about music covering all musical genres, the show focuses on the musical passions of performers, composers, and critics as well as the public radio audience
• Spinning On Air - specializes in unusual, uncategorizeable music, with an emphasis on in-studio performances

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Listenership and New Media

WNYC, comprising WNYC 93.9 FM, WNYC AM 820 and WNYC2, is the most-listened to commercial or non-commercial radio station in Manhattan. It ranks 13th citywide, however, in competition with salsa, hip-hop and light FM, according to the radio ratings service Arbitron. WNYC had 99,378 paying members in 2006, up from 78,866 in 2001. With more than than one million unique listeners each week, WNYC has the largest audience of any public radio station in the United States. In 2005, the station won an award for recording the highest audience growth among non-commercial stations in the previous five years. Manhattan is a borough of New York City, New York, USA, coterminous with New York County. ...

WNYC has been an early adopter of new technologies including HD radio, live audio streaming, and podcasting. RSS feeds and email newsletters link to archived audio of individual program segments. WNYC2 is a 24 hour a day classical station that is delivered only via Internet and HD radio. WNYC also makes some of its programming available on satellite radio. HD Radio is an in-band on-channel (IBOC) digital radio system created by iBiquity for broadcasting via existing FM and AM radio stations. ... Streaming media is multimedia that is continuously received by, and normally displayed to, the end-user whilst it is being delivered by the provider. ... An orange square with waves indicates that an RSS feed is present on a web page. ... For RSS feeds from Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Syndication. ...

History

Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia on his Talk to the People program on WNYC.

Established on June 2, 1922, the AM station is one of the oldest in the United States. It first began broadcasting on 570 AM with a second-hand transmitter shipped from Brazil. The FM station was added in 1943. In 1989 WNYC AM switched from 830 on the dial at 1,000 watts to 820 with 10,000 watts. Both stations were established and owned by the City of New York until 1997, when they were bought by private citizens through the newly-formed independent WNYC Foundation to continue the public radio mission of the stations. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (2171x2716, 552 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Fiorello H. LaGuardia ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (2171x2716, 552 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Fiorello H. LaGuardia ... LaGuardia redirects here. ... Public broadcasting (also known as public service broadcasting or PSB) is the dominant form of broadcasting around the world, where radio, television, and potentially other electronic media outlets receive funding from the public. ...

WNYC radio personalities include Margaret Juntwait, an announcer and classical music host at WNYC for 15 years who left for the Metropolitan Opera in September 2006. She is now the announcer for the Met's Saturday Afternoon Radio Broadcasts and is only the third regular announcer of the long-standing broadcast series launched in 1931, and is also the first woman to hold the position. 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 to Terry Riley and was named a "New York influential" by New York Magazine. Margaret Juntwait (born circa 1957) is an American radio broadcaster who is the voice of the Metropolitan Operas Saturday afternoon broadcasts. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, the lead section of this article may need to be expanded. ... This is a Chinese name; the family name is Ma Yo-Yo Ma (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: ; Pinyin: ) (b. ... Terry Riley – (Portrait by Betty Freeman) Terry Riley (born 24 June 1935) is an American composer associated with the minimalist school. ...

Early years

WNYC's history has been pioneering. H. V. Kaltenborn hosted radio's first quiz program on WNYC in 1926, The 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 Municipal Building, where its studios were located. A listener began loaning classical records to the station and in 1929, WNYC began broadcast of Masterwork Hour, radio's first program of recorded classical music. Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia made use of the station every Sunday in his Talk to the People program. Sam Bermans caricature of HV Kaltenborn for NBCs 1947 promotional book Hans von Kaltenborn (July 9, 1878 - June 14, 1965) was an American radio commentator. ... Wait Wait. ... The Municipal Building from down Chambers Street. ... Fiorello Henry LaGuardia (December 11, 1882–September 20, 1947) was the Mayor of New York from 1934 to 1945. ...

Great Depression and World War II

The station's transmitter was moved in 1936 as part of a WPA project and the next year the Municipal Broadcasting System was created. Under the leadership of its director, Morris Novik, WNYC became a model public broadcaster. Among its many landmark programs was The American Music Festival. On December 7th, 1941 WNYC was the first radio station in the United States to announce the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. WPA Graphic The Works Progress Administration (later Work Projects Administration, abbreviated WPA), was created on May 6, 1935 by Presidential order (Congress funded it annually but did not set it up). ... Combatants United States Empire of Japan Commanders Husband Kimmel Walter Short others Chuichi Nagumo Tamon Yamaguchi Chuichi Hara Gunichi Mikawa Sentaro Omori others Strength 8 battleships, 8 cruisers, 29 destroyers, 9 submarines, ~50 other ships, ~390 aircraft 6 aircraft carriers, 9 destroyers, 2 battleships, 2 heavy cruisers, 1 light cruiser...

Independence from the City

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 the 1980s, Mayor Ed Koch tried to use WNYC to broadcast the names of "johns" arrested for soliciting. Announcers threatened a walkout and station management refused to comply with the idea; after one broadcast the idea was abandoned. Edward Irving Koch (born December 12, 1924; pronounced to rhyme with Scotch) was a United States Congressman from 1969 to 1977 and the Mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989. ... The slang terms john (North America) or punter (British Isles) are used among both prostitutes and law enforcement for persons who solicit prostitutes. ...

In 1997 the City of New York sold WNYC to the nonprofit WNYC Foundation. This put an end to the occasional political intrusions of the past. The station's listenership and budget have continued to grow rapidly in recent years.

WNYC's studios have been in the Manhattan Municipal Building, which also houses city agencies, since 1922.

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September 11, 2001

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 destroyed WNYC's FM transmitter atop the World Trade Center. The station's studios, in the nearby Municipal Building, had to be evacuated and station staff could not return to their offices for three weeks. The FM signal was knocked off the air for a time. WNYC temporarily moved its offices to the studios at National Public Radio's New York bureau in midtown Manhattan, where it broadcast on its still operating AM signal transmitting from a tower in New Jersey and by a live Internet stream. The station eventually returned to the Municipal Building. The World Trade Center on fire The September 11, 2001 attacks were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001. ... “WTC” redirects here. ...

Move to new studios

In 2007 WNYC will move from its 51,400 square feet 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. The station will occupy two and a half floors of a 12-story former printing building. The Municipal Building from down Chambers Street. ... Clifford Milburn Holland, 1919 Traveling through the Holland Tunnel, from Manhattan to New Jersey. ...

The new offices will have 12-foot ceilings and 71,900 square feet of space. The number of recording studios and booths will double, to 31. There will be a new 140-seat, street-level studio for live broadcasts, concerts and public forums and an expansion of the newsroom for a capacity of up to 40 journalists.

Renovation, construction, rent and operating costs for the new Varick Street location will amount to $45 million. In addition to raising these funds, WNYC will be raising 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. [1]

See also

• WPXN-TV (Formerly WNYC-TV)
• Media of New York City

WPXN-TV, which broadcasts on channel 31 in New York City, is the flagship station of the ION Television network, formerly known as Pax TV and i. ... The media of New York City is internationally influential, with some of the most important newspapers, largest publishing houses, most prolific television studios, and biggest record companies in the world. ...

External links

• WNYC web site
• WNYC Flickr photo page
• Short WNYC News Historical Profile (1978)
• Publicradiofan.com listing of all public radio station including WNYC
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WNYC
• Radio Locator Information on WNYC
• Query the FCC's AM station database for WNYC
• Radio Locator Information on WNYC
• WNYC (New York Public Radio) Broadcast Schedule
• WNYC 80^th Anniversary Timeline (2004)