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Now that Spring Is in the Air...
"Unprecedented is the word most often employed to describe the snowfall of Friday, December 26, 1947. Unprecedented, too, was the job that faced New York City's municipal agencies in digging the snowbound City back to normality. From the first indication of the magnitude of the storm, WNYC became the focal clearing point for the City's superb efforts to extricate itself from the dangerous paralysis resulting from the 25-inch precipitation.
"Serving as radio representative on the Mayor's committee on Planning and Operations, Seymour N. Siegel, Director of the Municipal Broadcasting System, placed the full staff of the City Station on a special basis, and channeling all activity through the Newsroom, kept all radio stations in the city advised of all important decisions of the Mayor's Committee, and key municipal departments. An indication of the indispensability of the City Station's snowstorm coverage was the permission granted by the Federal Communications Commission for WNYC to remain on the air past the 10 P.M. sign-offf time for the duration of the emergency..."
Source: Excerpt from "The Blizzard of '47 ," WNYC Annual Report for 1947, pg. 10.
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