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.

This show is no longer airing on WNYC, where it began in 1999 and transmitted its last episode in January, 2006.

On the Media began in 1995 on WNYC as a local call-in show, hosted by Alex Jones.

WNYC ( AM ) broadcasts on the AM band at 820 kHz, and WNYC-FM is at 93. 9 MHz.

WNYC broadcasts the major daily news programs produced by NPR, including Morning Edition and All Things Considered, as well as the BBC World Service and selected programs from Public Radio International like This American Life and A Prairie Home Companion.

WNYC in New York City broadcasts a locally programmed, all-classical music service called Q2, on 93. 9 HD2.

1967 ), host of the public radio talk show The Leonard Lopate Show, broadcast on WNYC

* Radio interview with Moog from 2004 on WNYC ( RealAudio ) ( Moog portion begins 30 minutes into program.

The programs are broadcast on radio and available on websites through Public Radio International, National Public Radio and WNYC radio.

* WNYC Radiolab interview with Ann Druyan on her role in the making of the Voyager Record, May 12, 2006

* Fiorello La Guardia reads Little Orphan Annie on WNYC during the 1945 newspaper strike

After a year of test broadcasting the station became a full-time operation on November 5, 1962, with new call letters WNYC-TV to match its sister radio stations WNYC ( then at 830 AM and now at 820 AM ) and WNYC-FM ( 93. 9 MHz ).

WNYC also owns and operates New Jersey Public Radio, a group of four northern New Jersey noncommercial FM stations acquired by WNYC from the New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority on July 1, 2011.

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

WNYC made its first official broadcast two years later on July 8, 1924, at 570 AM with a second-hand transmitter shipped from Brazil.

In 1928 WNYC was forced into a time-sharing arrangement on 570 AM with WMCA, another pioneering New York radio outlet.

Later that year, on December 7, WNYC was the first radio station in the United States to announce the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Past WNYC radio personalities include H. V. Kaltenborn, who hosted radio's first quiz program on WNYC in 1926, the Brooklyn Daily Eagles " Current Events Bee ", a forerunner to shows like National Public Radio's Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!

As part of a crackdown on prostitution in 1979, then-Mayor Ed Koch tried to use WNYC to broadcast the names of " johns " arrested for soliciting.

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 towers in Kearny, New Jersey and by a live Internet stream.

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 ( aka 10 Hudson Square ) near the Holland Tunnel.

WNYC also makes some of its programming available on satellite radio.

* Interview on WNYC Leonard Lopate Show May 14, 2012

* The Place We Began ( 2009 )-appears on 2009's Best ( Mostly ) ' New Music ', from WNYC

APR is composed of PRI, Chicago Public Radio, WGBH ( FM ) in Boston, and WNYC in New York City.

WNYC also purchased the 105. 9 FM frequency of Univision's WCAA ( now WXNY-FM ), and moved WQXR-FM there.

It is owned by the nonprofit New York Public Radio, which also operates WNYC ( 820 AM and 93. 9 FM ) and the four-station New Jersey Public Radio group.

At 8: 00 p. m. on October 8, 2009, Univision's WCAA moved to the 96. 3 FM frequency while WQXR-FM moved to 105. 9 FM becoming a non-commercial radio station run by WNYC.

WNYC then paid the New York Times Company $ 11. 5 million for 105. 9 FM ’ s license, equipment and the WQXR call letters.

In March 2007, PRI announced its intention to co-produce a new morning program, involving WNYC New York, WGBH Boston, the BBC World Service, and New York Times Radio.

* Lewis, Sam, " Many Travelers Not Deterred by Deadly Bus Crashes ", WNYC news, New York City, Tuesday, March 15, 2011

* The New York Public Radio WNYC Archives maintains a Twitter feed that features " tweets " from transcripts of LaGuardia's Talk to the People radio program at twitter. com.

To solve this problem, he volunteered at WNYC in New York as an actor and writer in the summer of 1946.

In 1990 WNYC ( AM ) 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, which is much farther from New York City than Minneapolis.

Margaret Juntwait, an announcer and classical music host at WNYC for 15 years who left for the Metropolitan Opera in September 2006, 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.

She has been a guest speaker at numerous panels and journalism classes and a commentator for television and radio news shows on CNN, MSNBC, BBC, WNYC, PBS and National Public Radio.

The Next Big Think was a radio series produced at WNYC in New York City, and syndicated nationally in the U. S. by Public Radio International.

* WCBN's alumni include Ted Oberg ( reporter for KTRK-TV, Houston, Texas ), Fanchon Stinger ( former morning anchorwoman at WJBK-TV ), and Beth Fertig ( education reporter for WNYC, New York ).

Sheila Chandra's Interview with John Schaefer at WNYC 1993: Weaving My Ancestors ' Voices.

Sheila Chandra's Interview with John Schaefer at WNYC 1996: ABoneCroneDrone.