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BROADCAST ON WNYC TODAY IN…
1926: John B. Foster talks about the latest in baseball. (see below)
1930: Grover A. Whalen, New York City's official greeter, introduces the 80-year-old Sir Thomas Lipton. Lipton has just arrived aboard the ocean liner Leviathan on his way to a fifth attempt at the America’s Cup trophy.
1958: Music Director Herman Neuman presents music from Holland in this episode of Hands Across the Sea.
2000: John Schaefer presents music for guitar by Leo Kottke, Davey Graham, John Fahey, and others on this edition of New Sounds.
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Leading Sports Writer on WNYC in 20s
On January 18, 1926, John B. Foster (1863-1941) provided a moment-to-moment word picture of the Metropolitan Indoor Ice Skating Championship from Madison Square Garden. It was the first of at least a dozen broadcast sport remotes and talks he made for WNYC between 1926 and 1929.
Foster was the editor of The Spalding Baseball Guide (since 1908) and the former secretary and business manager of the New York Giants. He wrote for the New York Evening Telegram The New York Sun and The Herald as well as the Consolidated Press Association syndicate.
(Photo: John B. Foster (circa 1910-1915) Bain News Service, Library of Congress)
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LITTLE-KNOWN FACTS
Online Courses? Try Wireless from WNYC!
"With the ether as its campus and hundreds of thousands of private residences as its lecture hall, the college of the air...has proved to be an immense success, according to reports from listeners. Dr. Frederick B. Robinson, the President of the City College in an interview, highly lauded the results of broadcasting educational features...'It is entirely proper that the faculty of the college should bring the advantages of their researches and studies to as many as possible. In fact, there is no compensation offered our faculty, for the radio lectures over WNYC, but they are nevertheless, given freely and willingly as a good will offering to the community...
"WNYC presents two lectures by C.C.N.Y. faculty members every day excepting Saturday and Sunday. Each department of the college has designated a 'Professor of the Air College,' Topics include languages, history, hygiene, government, physics, chemistry and literature...direct from the faculty room of the City college."
Source: Excerpts from Samuel Kaufman writing in "Many College Courses Broadcast Over Radio," The Pittsburgh Press, December 4, 1927.
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