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BROADCAST ON WNYC TODAY IN…
1958: New York City celebrates Van Cliburn Day with the return of the Texas piano virtuoso from the Soviet Union.
1964: Dr. Samuel B. Gould, President of Channel 13, talks about educational television.
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The Upcoming 7th Radio World's Fair at Madison Square Garden
According to the Hartford Courant of September 21, 1930: "The City of New York will have an exhibit at the fair for the purpose of acquainting visitors to the fair with the physical evidence of the widespread use of radio by the city. One of the displays will be a full-size replica of the welcome steamer Macom's wireless room from which many outstanding broadcasting events were brought to a listening world by a relay to station WNYC for rebroadcasting and distribution to networks." (Photo of the Macom's actual radio room, June 18, 1930 by Eugene de Salignac, NYC Municipal Archives Collection).
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Rod Serling's First Writing Gig: WNYC
"Serling got his first experience as a scriptwriter when he worked at New York public rado station WNYC in the fall of 1946 as an Antioch [College] intern. 'There's no question about [it], as soon as he got that job at WNYC,' remembered John Kittross, 'he was in seventh heaven, particularly since he was allowed to write scripts...'
"Fittingly, Serling's first scriptwriting assignment was to conjure up a fifteen-minute squib to commemorate... Veterans Day. The assignment gave the injured veteran an opportunity to provide his own post-traumatic definition of courage.*
"Not all battles are fought, not all victories are won on a battlefield. And not all courage is found only in actual combat. As an aftermath to this war, there are many men fighting new battles...personal struggles that must be fought and won ...and these need as much if not more courage. They are conflicts which thousands of disabled veterans are facing with themselves...veterans come back confronted with readjustments to a life without an arm or a leg...It's a tough fight which requires a certain requisite of courage."
Source: Sander, Gordon F., Serling: The Rise and Twilight of Television's Last Angry Man, Plume Penguin Group, 1992, pgs. 56-57.
*Editor's note: During World War II, Rod Serling was paratrooper in the Pacific. For more on Rod Serling at WNYC see: SERLING, and you can listen to some of Serling's work and his youthful radio acting in the WNYC series: Toward a Return to Society.
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