Andy Lanset

Are you a DXer?

A transcript from our September, 11, 2001 airchecks.

Halloween, 1937: WNYC new WPA-built transmitter comes on line. It has a micro-ray system, the only one in use outside of the Vatican."

When life was tense in Berlin.

A long lost recording is found!

An opportunity to catch Vonnegut's keen observational skills as a reporter from a distant place, where neither before, nor since, WNYC has had a stringer.  

Dramatization of the news started long before television!

A Spanish garden of Moorish design at the Municipal Building

Surprise Yourself. Take the Test!

He was a regular guest on Lead Belly's show and sang the station's praises.

A reviewer's reviewer.

You could call them Lomax juniors.

His weekly show aired for 33 years on WNYC.

Mayor La Guardia said he could not find the words to thank her.

They were the most popular group of Irish entertainers in New York City between the early 1920's and the late 1930's. The WNYC studios were welcoming.  

Without him, the modern world wouldn't be the same.

Scripts but no shows.

Art and technology in harmony.

A lot of people think Mayor La Guardia saved WNYC, but it was really the Federal WPA.

He was an MIT grad who made all the difference.