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  • 3 weeks ago | goodjustbarelymorning.substack.com | Dan McCue

    Chapter 14"Boy, I'm gonna tell you ... I'm going to teach you radio ... You are a star!"— The words of Scott Muni’s first boss in radio, a “big, fat, balding, cigar-smoking” station owner the disc jockey would never forget. Arde Bulova filed the papers finalizing the sale of WNEW on December 8, 1949.

  • 3 weeks ago | goodjustbarelymorning.substack.com | Dan McCue

    Chapter 13“We have witnessed this morning ... the severe bombing of Pearl Harbor by enemy planes, undoubtedly Japanese. ... It is no joke. It is a real war.”— Harry B. Soria Sr., broadcasting the only eye witness account of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor as it happened over the NBC Red Network, Dec. 7, 1941.

  • 1 month ago | goodjustbarelymorning.substack.com | Dan McCue

    Chapter 12"[A true broadcaster is] concerned about sales and income and ratings, … but at that same time, they are also concerned with something more than that."— Bernice Judis, speaking to a WNEW employee in the late 1940s. The idea of incorporating more news into WNEW's programming had been around for some time, but by early 1940, with the threat of a new world war encroaching on Europe, the decision to make a move in that direction became inevitable.

  • 1 month ago | goodjustbarelymorning.substack.com | Dan McCue

    Chapter 11"I hope you enjoyed that as much as I did."— W.C. Handy, the composer of "St. Louis Blues," at the conclusion of WNEW's broadcast of the "Carnival of Swing" from Randall's Island Stadium in New York on May 29, 1938. Amid all the controversy caused by Bulova and litigation, the station pulled off a major coup: Presenting the “Carnival of Swing,” the largest outdoor concert held in New York up to that time.

  • 1 month ago | goodjustbarelymorning.substack.com | Dan McCue

    Chapter 10“Copyright in any form, whether statutory or at common law, is a monopoly,” Hand wrote, his words filling one page after another. “It consists only of the power to prevent others from reproducing the copyrighted work ...”— U.S. 2nd Circuit Judge Learned Hand affirming WNEW's right to play records on the air, July 1940.

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