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Manhattan's independent radio station WNEW, convinced that listeners want mostly music and news, has placarded buses and taxis with the promise that there are "no sob stories. . . no horror stories" on WNEW...
This week, to show its listeners what they were missing, and how glad they should be, WNEW was punctuating its station breaks with burlesque versions of soap operas and crime thrillers. Sample: "And now . . .Chapter 2025 of Barbara Babbitt, Girl Ranger. Yesterday, you'll recall, we left Barbara pleading with the district attorney for the life of Cuddles, her Oriental leopard. Meanwhile,unknown to either Barbara or Cuddles, Wambly Townsend, the handsome young accountant, is at this very moment flying to the state capital to ask. . . for a reprieve. Will Wambly Townsend succeed in his desperate race against time...
Before a news-and-music-loving listener had time to switch to another station, the announcer broke in with: "Who cares? This is WNEW, our happy station. No sob stories . . . just plenty of good music and the latest news 24 hours...
Critics have often charged that radio aims at "twelve-year-old minds." Last month, New York City's independent station WNEW decided to go the whole hog by putting on the air a nine-year-old sportcaster named Charlie Hankinson. Last week another New York station, WNBC, continued the trend with Children Should Be Heard (Thurs. 7:30 p.m. E.D.T.). In the new show, youngsters from 7 to 14 talk over and diagnose the ills of the world...
This mild Shavian spoof (recorded 21 years ago when Shaw was only 71) was broadcast in Manhattan over WNEW's A Treasury of the Spoken Word (Wed. 9 p.m.). Sponsored by the New York Public Library and produced by WNEW's Jack Grogan, who calls it a "literary disk-jockey show," the Spoken Word has brought its listeners the voices of such diverse personalities as Gandhi, Coolidge, Teddy Roosevelt, Cardinal Spellman, Bing Crosby (who gave a reading of The Star-Spangled Banner...