Station founder Grover A. Whalen and engineers on WNYC's first day of broadcast, July 8th, 1924. (NYC Municipal Archives Collection)

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For more than 80 years, WNYC has been a witness to the news, politics and cultural events of New York City. Each month, we comb our archives to bring you some of the most notable highlights from our rich broadcast heritage. Hear the iconic as well as the ironic, the dramatic and the campy, the official and the unconventional. All together they make up an aural legacy that no other public radio station can match. Stop by and step back to a time when radio was king and what you heard found its way into an acetate groove.
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