![]() WNYC's transmitter was moved in 1937 from the Municipal Building to city-owned land at 10 Kent Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, as part of a Works Progress Administration project. (AM radio waves travel farther at night and WNYC had to protect WCCO from interference.) The frequency move did not help WNYC from an operational standpoint as it now had to share its frequency with the more-powerful WCCO in Minneapolis, limiting WNYC to daytime-only operations, broadcasting from sunrise to sunset. This situation lasted until 1931, when the Federal Radio Commission (a forerunner to today's FCC) moved WNYC to 810 AM. In 1928 WNYC was forced into a time-sharing arrangement on 570 with WMCA, another pioneering New York radio outlet. With the commencement of WNYC's operations, the City of New York became one of the first American municipalities to be directly involved in broadcasting. WNYC made its first official broadcast two years later on July 8, 1924, at 570 AM from the Manhattan Municipal Building using a second-hand transmitter shipped from Brazil. Funds for the establishment of the station were approved on Jby the New York City Board of Estimate and Apportionment. WNYC is one of the oldest radio stations in New York. ![]() La Guardia on his Talk to the People program on WNYC.
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