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...first time I heard Bob Dylan," Bruce Springsteen said at the Dylan induction ceremony at the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame in 1998, "I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody had kicked open the door to your mind...
...rental agency and a florist business. Asked eleven years ago to invest in a radio station, he decided instead to learn more about the business from the inside and began doing a local "ombudsman's show" in New Jersey. After a stint at New York City's WMCA, in 1981 he joined NBC's newly created Talknet, a nightly package of talk shows now heard on 238 stations...
...more tasteful symbols of protest are free. A New York City radio station, WMCA, is giving away white arm bands bearing the words UNITY is STRENGTH, a paraphrase of remarks President Carter made at a news conference last month. The station handed out 300,000 in six days, including several that were requested by the White House press office...
...York, has put out a book indexing what number to dial for what complaint, ranging from noisy jackhammers to flooded basements (it runs to 134 pages). By happy chance, the group's founder, Mrs. Ellen Straus, is the wife of the owner of a local radio station (WMCA) and gets added clout by airing the group's most poignant complaints on her husband's radio station. The essence of the group's service is that it follows up on a complaint, calls back the city department concerned to see if anything has been done. Says...
...technical problems, high costs of production and, most important, audience ennui. Now bolder, brassier talk jockeys and new approaches have not only revived the shows but often make them the most important part of a station's programming. By switching to an all-talk format, Manhattan's WMCA has jumped from 20th to seventh among AM stations. "Just in the past few months," says Robert Henabery, director of program development for ABC-owned radio stations, "the potentialities of talk have begun to be realized. I can see new programs centering on specific interests like food, sex, sports-anything...