"When I bring a guy home, he has to measure up to Kai Ryssdal," said the brunette. "The only guy close on NPR is Jad from Radiolab." "When Kai Ryssdal talks about money--oh, Jesus!" said the blonde, of the host of Marketplace. She mimed a swoon. "Kai's gotten me through a lot," said the brunette. "I work in the fashion industry, I spend all day with women, and at 6:30 when I get home, I need... MORE >
WNYC's politics web site is... MORE >
WNYC has a great story about blind technology specialist Chancey Fleet: Her house, in Sunset Park, is filled with gadgets. One of them intones, in perfect, soothing fembot, the color of any garment she runs it over. Another reads out the latest articles from The Atlantic--don't expect to understand a word, however, because most of the time Chancey speeds it up to 380 words per... MORE >
"What? How do I introduce? Do I say something?" — Christopher Walken, whispering to someone as he comes back from a break. He is actually doing an excellent job subbing in for Leonard Lopate on WNYC right... MORE >
July 8, what a magical day! Today in 1924 America's most-listened-to public radio station went on the air, and in 1889 the Wall Street Journal, by some counts America's highest circulating paper, printed its first issue. Pizza party is at the Chuck E Cheese in Long Island City. You know when it starts if you were... MORE >
Today, the New York Times sold its radio station WQXR in a three-way deal that will bring the cash-starved news organization $45,000,000. From the release: The New York Times Company has entered into an agreement with subsidiaries of Univision Radio Inc. and with WNYC Radio for the sale of WQXR-FM, its New York City radio station for a total of $45 million. The transaction will enable WQXR-FM to continue its 73-year legacy of providing classical music... MORE >
Last Thursday, at the Audit Bureau of Circulations’ annual conference, Mayor Michael Bloomberg dropped by the Waldorf-Astoria to deliver brief remarks to a ballroom about two-thirds full. Having just finished with a press conference on the fiscal crisis, he targeted his opening joke at The New York Times with a quip that seemed to capture the newspaper industry’s woes. “Now it costs a $1.50, and it’s about an inch-and-a-half narrower,” Mr. Bloomberg said of... MORE >
Last weekend The Guardian published an interview with Philip Roth in which he suggested that Marcus Messner, the narrator from his new novel, Indignation, is not dead while he's telling his story—as pretty much every critic thought—but rather hallucinating as a result of a morphine high. In a radio interview set to air tomorrow at noon on WNYC, Philip Roth tells Leonard Lopate the same thing in no uncertain terms. Here's the transcript: LL: There is... MORE >
Call it a rich stash of New York radio history. Or call it a bunch of old office crud. In either case, on Thursday, June 12, from 11 in the morning until 2 in the afternoon, WNYC employees will be holding a "stoop sale" in anticipation of their imminent move to new headquarters. ... MORE >
