"The famous streets of New York town are to be dramatized in a new WPA series called “Streets of New York,†and very appropriately broadcast over the Municipal Station, WNYC, starting Friday at 5:30-6 p.m., under the sponsorship of the Department of Sanitation.
"The first dramatization will be 'Broadway,' the high-road to success for many, but a street of broken dreams for others. A cast of players from the New York WPA radio unit will re-enact historical and modern scenes on Broadway, from the days when Governor Peter Stuyvesant stumped up and down the one time cow-patch, to the present days of bright lights, theaters and restaurants."
Source: Radio Daily, January 10, 1938 page 3.
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'High' Culture vs. 'Pig' Culture
May 22, 1959
The New York Herald Tribune reports, "the sovereign State of Minnesota charged that WNYC's 'cultural' radio programs [AM] beamed from New York City are jamming news vital to farmers in the Mid-West. In a long-awaited argument before the full Federal Communications Commission, the Minnesota Attorney General's office backed the claim of WCCO, a Minneapolis radio station, that New York's municipal station is hogging the airwaves, so to speak...
"The vision of Mid-Western farmers glued to their radio sets in anticipation of the latest livestock prices and getting Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 instead was conjured up by Ralph H. Lee, Assistant Attorney General of Minnesota. The farm news provided by WCCO, a 50,000-watt CBS affiliate, is more important to Minnesota 'than a steady diet of (WNYC) culture,' Mr. Lee said....He particularly stressed the importance of quotations on 'feeder pigs'...."