15 Facts About WNYC

WNYC is owned by New York Public Radio, a nonprofit organization that did business as "WNYC RADIO" until March 2013.

WNYC reaches more than one million listeners each week and has the largest public radio audience in the United States.

WNYC's AM transmitter is located in Kearny, New Jersey; WNYC-FM's transmitter is located at the Empire State Building in New York City.

WNYC began as WNYC, one of the oldest radio stations in New York.

In 1928 WNYC was forced into a time-sharing arrangement on 570 AM with WMCA, another pioneering New York radio outlet.

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For its first 14 years, WNYC had been run by the New York City Commissioner for Bridges, Plant and Structures.

Later that year, WNYC was the first radio station in New York City to announce the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Municipal Broadcasting System helped to form National Public Radio in 1971, and the WNYC stations were among the 90 stations that carried the inaugural broadcast of All Things Considered later that year.

Various WNYC programs moved into studios loaned by the NPR's New York bureau, WKCR-FM of Columbia University, and WNET.

Legend has it a listener began lending classical records to the station and in 1929, WNYC began broadcast of Masterwork Hour, radio's first program of recorded classical music.

WNYC produces and broadcasts programming for a local audience, including news and interview shows The Brian Lehrer Show and All of It with Alison Stewart, along with a roster of nationally syndicated WNYC Studios produced including Radiolab, On the Media, and The New Yorker Radio Hour.

WNYC is a leading member station of NPR, broadcasting NPR's major daily news programs including Morning Edition and All Things Considered.

WNYC-AM-FM has a local news team of approximately 60 journalists, producers, editors, and other broadcasting professionals.

WNYC has been an early adopter of new technologies including HD radio, live audio streaming, and podcasting.

WNYC makes some of its programming available on Sirius XM satellite radio.