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BROADCAST ON WNYC TODAY IN…
1924: Sigmund Kempner performs on the xylophone.
1930: Nita Novi performs on the accordion.
1941: Coverage of the Metropolitan championship swimming finals and aquacade.
1957: Police Commissioner Kennedy responds briefly to a series of questions about receiving no additional funding to the NYPD, and speaks about juvenile crime and delinquency.
1970: Artist in the City interviews Jason Crum and Alan D'Arcangelo on this edition of the Public Art Fund series
1990: Jennifer Preston, author of Queen Bess: The Bittersweet Life of Bess Myerson, talks with Leonard Lopate.
2002: Jonathan Kuhn, Director of Arts and Antiquities at the New York City Parks Department, and Laura Hansen, Co-Director for Place Matters, a project of City Lore and the Municipal Arts Society, tell the story of New York’s monumental WPA swimming pools on this edition of the Brian Lehrer Show.
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Breaking Ground for Triborough Bridge
Mayor James J. Walker in Astoria Park, Queens before a crowd of 10,000 on October 25, 1929. The mayor told the assembled and those listening over WNYC, "I have no message to bring you but one of happiness...We see on every side evidences of the great wealth of our city. It is shown by our traffic congestion which, to put it mildly, causes great inconvenience..." Four days later the stock market crashed. (Photo: WNYC Archive Collections)
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LITTLE-KNOWN FACTS
WNYC at the 1939-40 World's Fair
"The Queens studios of the Municipal Broadcasting System will be located on the mezzanine of the New York City Building. Mr. Morris S. Novik, Station Manager of WNYC, in describing the layout, stressed its ultra-modern note and flexibility.
"WNYC will have two large studios, the third being for announcing and transcription. The large Master Control where all switching will be done, will be equipped with power light indicators, three loudspeakers and television receiver. The announcers' booth will provide a bird's-eye view of the vast auditorium where exhibits will be on display.
"A portable sound truck will make possible the recording of special effects and programs throughout the site for subsequent instantaneous reproduction as desired on the studios' transcription equipment. Broadcasts will also originate from the theatre in the New York City Building.
"The Queens studios will remain a permanent adjunct of the Municipal Broadcasting System after the conclusion of the Fair."
(Source: 1939 Radio Annual, pg. 64).
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