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WMCA (AM)
WMCA (570 AM) is a radio station licensed to New York, New York. Founded in 1925, the station has programmed several formats over the decades; since 1989, it has offered a Christian radio format of teaching and talk programs.
The station shares its Lower Manhattan studios with WNYM (970 AM); both are owned by Salem Media Group. WMCA's transmitter sits along Belleville Turnpike in Kearny, New Jersey; its programming is simulcast on a 250-watt translator, W272DX (102.3 MHz), from a tower in Clifton, New Jersey.
In the 1960s, the station was a Top 40 outlet featuring a lineup of disc jockeys known as the "Good Guys". It is credited with having been the first New York radio station to broadcast a recording by The Beatles. During the 1970s and 1980s, WMCA was a talk radio station.
After first testing as station 2XH, WMCA began regular transmission on February 22, 1925, broadcasting on 428.6 meters wavelength (700 kHz) with a power of 500 watts. It was the 13th radio station to begin operations in New York City and was owned by broadcasting pioneer Donald Flamm. The station's original studios and antenna were located at the Hotel McAlpin, located on Herald Square and from which the WMCA call sign derives.
In 1928 it moved to the 570 kHz frequency, sharing time for the next three years with municipally owned WNYC. On April 19, 1932, the Federal Radio Commission approved WMCA's application to broadcast full-time on 570 kHz.
In December 1940, Flamm had to surrender the station to industrialist Edward J. Noble, who had just resigned as Undersecretary of Commerce, in a transaction involving prominent political figures including Thomas Corcoran. Flamm's subsequent legal battle against Noble resulted in a congressional investigation and eventually ended in a financial settlement, though not the return of the station.
Through its early decades, WMCA had a varied programming history, playing music, hosting dramas, and broadcasting New York Giants baseball games. Beginning in the 1930s, WMCA carried the daily Morning Cheer religious program of George A. Palmer, originating in Philadelphia. In 1943, the station was acquired by the Straus family when Edward J. Noble acquired the Blue Network and its owned-and-operated stations from NBC, including WJZ in New York; the Blue Network would later be renamed the American Broadcasting Company (ABC).
WMCA broadcast the first Negro-oriented anthology series New World A'Coming, written by Roi Ottley in 1944. And in 1945, host Barry Gray began dropping music and adding talk with celebrities and later call-ins from listeners. Gray is sometimes considered "The Father of Talk Radio", and his show on WMCA lasted through several decades and format changes.[citation needed]
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WMCA (AM)
WMCA (570 AM) is a radio station licensed to New York, New York. Founded in 1925, the station has programmed several formats over the decades; since 1989, it has offered a Christian radio format of teaching and talk programs.
The station shares its Lower Manhattan studios with WNYM (970 AM); both are owned by Salem Media Group. WMCA's transmitter sits along Belleville Turnpike in Kearny, New Jersey; its programming is simulcast on a 250-watt translator, W272DX (102.3 MHz), from a tower in Clifton, New Jersey.
In the 1960s, the station was a Top 40 outlet featuring a lineup of disc jockeys known as the "Good Guys". It is credited with having been the first New York radio station to broadcast a recording by The Beatles. During the 1970s and 1980s, WMCA was a talk radio station.
After first testing as station 2XH, WMCA began regular transmission on February 22, 1925, broadcasting on 428.6 meters wavelength (700 kHz) with a power of 500 watts. It was the 13th radio station to begin operations in New York City and was owned by broadcasting pioneer Donald Flamm. The station's original studios and antenna were located at the Hotel McAlpin, located on Herald Square and from which the WMCA call sign derives.
In 1928 it moved to the 570 kHz frequency, sharing time for the next three years with municipally owned WNYC. On April 19, 1932, the Federal Radio Commission approved WMCA's application to broadcast full-time on 570 kHz.
In December 1940, Flamm had to surrender the station to industrialist Edward J. Noble, who had just resigned as Undersecretary of Commerce, in a transaction involving prominent political figures including Thomas Corcoran. Flamm's subsequent legal battle against Noble resulted in a congressional investigation and eventually ended in a financial settlement, though not the return of the station.
Through its early decades, WMCA had a varied programming history, playing music, hosting dramas, and broadcasting New York Giants baseball games. Beginning in the 1930s, WMCA carried the daily Morning Cheer religious program of George A. Palmer, originating in Philadelphia. In 1943, the station was acquired by the Straus family when Edward J. Noble acquired the Blue Network and its owned-and-operated stations from NBC, including WJZ in New York; the Blue Network would later be renamed the American Broadcasting Company (ABC).
WMCA broadcast the first Negro-oriented anthology series New World A'Coming, written by Roi Ottley in 1944. And in 1945, host Barry Gray began dropping music and adding talk with celebrities and later call-ins from listeners. Gray is sometimes considered "The Father of Talk Radio", and his show on WMCA lasted through several decades and format changes.[citation needed]