When Grandma Had A Show
 

"Mary Julian Glover will present the first of her new series of radio shows, The Grandmother's Club of the Air,  over station WNYC, New York City, Thursday afternoon at 4:30…Mrs. Glover, who is known professionally as Mary Julian, took her idea to WNYC, a non-profit municipal station, and it was approved…The opening show on the night of December 5 will be a presentation of the Negro Grandmother's Gospel Choir, consisting of eight voices under Mary's direction…The second program will be an interview of Jewish grandmothers, December 12. Irish and German grandmothers will appear on the program December 19, and Jewish, gentile, Japanese and Negro grandmothers will sing Christmas carols December 26. The best show of all, Mrs. Glover says will be January 2, when grandmothers will bring their wedding gowns to the radio station and wear them for the program. Another show planned for late January will feature grandmothers and their pets."

Source: Unidentified newspaper clipping from December 4, 1946.
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On March 3, 1953, the City of New York requests permission from the FCC to use a barely audible WNYC 'beep' tone for radio-controlled street lighting. Engineers say such a system would save the city half-a-million dollars annually. But the FCC turns the city down on July 23rd, saying such a radio signal would "seriously hamper" operation of the national system for radio alerts in time of enemy air attack.