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BROADCAST ON WNYC TODAY IN…
1949: Northwest Airlines invites WNYC to ride on the Boeing Stratocruiser flight from Idlewild Airport. A WNYC reporter describes the ride.
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World War I flying ace and President of Eastern Airlines, Captain Eddie Rickenbacker at the WNYC microphones, December 22, 1940. (PM Photo/WNYC Archive Collections)
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Some Early Jersey 'Coverage'
June 29, 1925
"Asbury Hour Over Radio from WNYC in Charming Girl Contest."
"The beauties and advantages of Asbury Park will be advertised the length and breadth of the nation tonight from station WNYC, the great broadcasting plant operated by the City of New York atop the Municipal Building...
"Asbury Hour will be opened by Christie Bohnsack, general manager of WNYC, who will inform the radio world that he has arranged a most unique feature. 'A Phantom Trip to Asbury Park, the Playground of the East.' This will deal with the journey here of 300 charming girls who will arrive Monday, July 6, and remain one week as guests of Asbury Park and The New York Daily Mirror.
"Mr. Bohnsack will give a mental picture of the triumphant parade of the girls down Broadway to the Battery, where they will board a floating palace and start on the pleasure cruise here. He will tell how they are going up the gangway. Then his talk will be broken by the cheers of as many girls who can crowd in the broadcasting studio, the shrill whistles of steamboats and harbor tugs, the firing of salutes from the harbor forts and the 1,001 other noises with which New York will send 300 of her most charming girls away.
"The announcer will then give way to the 'Original Charlestown Orchestra' and occasionally above the sobbing saxophones will be heard the scraping of feet of the happy girl dancers. After this, such of the 300 as can entertain, will sing and then Asbury's Mayor will tell the world just why Asbury Park has become the 'Deauville of America.'..."
Excerpts from: "Broadcast City's Charms Tonight," Asbury Park Press, June 29, 1925, pg. 2.
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Editor's Note: This news item is, no doubt, creepy but also somewhat reflective of the zeitgeist. Bohnsack, a newspaper and public relations man, was close to station founder, Grover Whalen. The following day's Asbury Park Press reported a less-than stellar broadcast:
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"Static on the ether waves last night caused by thunderstorms spoiled the reception from WNYC of the 'Asbury Hour' through which broadcasting station Mayor Charles E.F. Hetrick had been introduced as the speaker...
"A word picture of the parade of 300 girls down Broadway to the Battery, where they will board a boat for the cruise and sounds denoting the pleasure and excitement that accompanies the trip of the 300 girls, was evidently described, but heard very poorly."
Excerpts from: "Asbury Hour is Marred by Static," Asbury Park Press, June 30, 1925, pg. 4.
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